All tulips must wilt| Jonathan Shieber
It’s a bad day in the world of cryptocurrency. After recovering some during the summer, the value of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are sharply down over the last several weeks. Looking back a month, bitcoin was worth around $8,500 a coin. Today it’s wort…
Trump Letter, F.B.I., Bitcoin: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing| Victoria Shannon and Hiroko Masuike
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Alchemy is secretly fixing blockchain’s node nightmare| Josh Constine
The top cryptocurrency companies have quietly begun to outsource their infrastructure problems to a tiny stealth startup. It’s called Alchemy. Today it’s making the big public reveal of it’s technology that could help developers finally build the killer use c…
Investors Want to Exhume Body of Crypto-CEO Who Had the Password to Millions In Bitcoin| Jennings Brown
It’s been about a year since users of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX were informed that the company’s CEO unexpectedly died, taking the password that accessed most the money from their accounts with him to the grave. And now, those clients want t…
Ring User Blocks $400K Bitcoin Extortion Attempt by Taking Out the Batteries| Jennings Brown
Tania Amador of Grand Prairie, Texas, awoke on Monday to an alarm and a sinister voice speaking to her through her Ring device. Read more...
5 Charged in New Jersey in $722 Million Cryptocurrency Ponzi Scheme| Michael Levenson
Federal prosecutors said the defendants operated BitClub Network, a bogus investment scheme that they promoted as “the most transparent company in the history of the world” and “too big to fail.”
No, bitcoin is not the new gold| Trista Kelley
Bitcoin bulls like to claim that bitcoin is a great haven investment, like gold, in times of geopolitical uncertainty. "These people ignore all the times that it moves inversely with sentiment," says Oanda's Craig Erlam. "Bitcoin is not gold and certainly not…
Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Cryptocurrency isn’t a sausage-fest? Study suggests 43% of Bitcoin investors are women’| Satoshi Nakaboto
Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Hannah Arendt used to say: Time to learn s…
Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘John McAfee refuses to eat his dick’| Satoshi Nakaboto
Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Satoshi Nakamoto used to say: We’re on the…
YouTube Restores Hundreds of Cryptocurrency Videos After Flagging Them as Harmful| Matt Novak
YouTube has restored hundreds of videos from dozens of channels that focus on crypotcurrency after they were removed earlier in the week. YouTubers like Chris Dunn report that their videos were flagged by YouTube for “harmful or dangerous content” and “sale o…
Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin price dives below $7,000’| Satoshi Nakaboto
Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Jane Didion used to say: Crack open this t…
