Snoop Dogg was the lead act at the first-ever Crypto Inaugural Ball held in Washington on Friday evening MacKenzie Sigalos As the crypto industry celebrates the arrival of a new administration in Washington, D.C., nobody is taking quicker advantage of the coming changes than the person leading the charge: President Donald J. Trump. On Friday […]
Barry Silbert, founder and chief executive officer of Digital Currency Group Inc., speaks during the Skybridge Alternatives (SALT) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Thursday, May 9, 2019. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Digital Currency Group, the crypto firm founded by Barry Silbert, and the former executive of a defunct unit are paying […]
DLocal is one of Latin America’s most prominent payment players. It specializes in cross-border payments for emerging markets such as Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and its home country, Uruguay. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images LONDON — Uruguayan payments firm dLocal has secured a U.K. payment institution license, adding to the company’s growing portfolio of […]
Representations of cryptocurrency Bitcoin are seen in this illustration taken Nov. 25, 2024. Dado Ruvic | Reuters After a blistering rally in bitcoin this year, crypto investors and industry executives told CNBC they’re expecting the flagship cryptocurrency to hit new all-time highs in 2025. In December, the world’s largest cryptocurrency broke the highly anticipated $100,000, […]
Australian computer scientist Craig Wright arrives at the High Court in London on February 5, 2024. … [+] A court case starting in London will seek to determine whether Wright invented bitcoin, the world’s first and biggest cryptocurrency. Wright says he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of bitcoin’s creator and author of a white paper […]
Bitcoin cryptocurrency is displayed in Ankara, Turkey, on Nov. 23, 2024. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images The price of bitcoin retreated further from the psychologically important $100,000 milestone, as investors booked profits from the cryptocurrency’s post-U.S. election gains. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was last lower by more than 4% at $90,999.30, according […]
For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family. When she and her husband sold the house last year, they stowed away the proceeds, $282,153.87, in what they thought of as a safe place — an account at the savings startup Yotta held […]
Creative engineering, vintage illustration of the head of a man with an electronic circuit board for … [+] a brain, 1949. Screen print. (Illustration by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) Getty Images Good times are rolling in private credit: more flexible terms and fewer regulations have made it easier to access and underwrite businesses that have been left […]
U.S. Rep. John Curtis speaks during the Utah Senate primary debate for Republican contenders battling to win the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, June 10, 2024, in Salt Lake City. Rick Bowmer | AP SALT LAKE CITY — John Curtis, a Republican congressman from Utah, has become a favorite of the crypto industry […]
Marquee at the main entrance to BlackRock headquarters building in Manhattan. Erik Mcgregor | Lightrocket | Getty Images SALT LAKE CITY — A year ago, Samara Cohen believed there was so much pent-up demand for bitcoin that she and her team at BlackRock launched one of the first-ever spot bitcoin exchange-traded products in the U.S. […]
