Bitfarm’s COO Geoffrey Morphy promoted to CEO

Bitcoin mining firm Bitfarm promoted Geoffrey Morphy to the position of CEO after Emiliano Grodzki resigned from the post. Morphy, who previously served as chief operating officer, will also rem...

Grayscale’s GBTC’s beating this year very likely to persist

Grayscale’s flagship product, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), grabbed headlines throughout the year — typically for the wrong reasons. Grayscale foresees a limited possibility of relief over...

Bitcoin, ether dip as crypto stocks trade higher

Crypto prices dipped after a week of relatively flat trading, while crypto-related stocks traded higher with Coinbase adding 2%. Bitcoin traded at around $16,700 at 9:30 a.m. ET, dropping about ...

Bitcoin plunged 65% in 2022 as Terra, FTX went up in flames

In case you missed it: Crypto prices plunged this year thanks to industry gaffes and the wider — and very damaging — macroeconomic environment. The global crypto market capitalization plunged to...

Sam Bankman-Fried criminal case assigned to new judge: Reuters

The criminal case against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was reassigned to U.S. Judge Lewis Kaplan after U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams recused herself on Friday, Reuters reported, citing a court...

The year in NFT charts

From the dizzying highs of the bull run, when NFT Google searches were up what felt like thousands of percentage points, to the dark corners of the bear market, it’s been a tumultuous year for N...

Biggest crypto c-suite departures of 2022

This was the year of exchange collapses, bankruptcies and the executives leaving their positions mid-scandal.   Trouble started in May when the TerraUSD stablecoin de-pegged from the dollar befo...

Changpeng Zhao Names Seven Reasons Why People Are Spreading FUD About Binance

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) is addressing what he calls FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) surrounding the world’s largest crypto exchange. In a lengthy thread on Twitter, CZ lists seven “non-exhau...

New Users Feel Confident With Oryen, Tron (TRX) Puts People Off. ORY Presale Live

Oryen Network is the new kid on the block in the cryptocurrency world, offering staking and trading options for users to earn rewards from within their own wallets. The automated staking system makes ...

IRS pauses rule requiring people to report PayPal, Venmo transactions over $600. Here’s what went wrong.

To avert taxpayer confusion in the upcoming tax season, the IRS is delaying a rule that would have required e-commerce sites and payment platforms like eBay EBAY, +0.12%, Etsy ETSY, -0.32% and PayPal ...

Jim Cramer Says People Who Own Litecoin Are Idiots

Alex Dovbnya CNBC’s superstar host said that he wouldn’t touch cryptocurrencies in “a million years” Earlier today, CNBC host Jim Cramer spoke out against cryptocurrencies, cal...

Caroline Ellison tells court she knowingly misled lenders: Bloomberg

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, told a federal court in New York that she knowingly misled lenders about how much the firm had been borrowing from the collapsed FTX crypto exchan...

Trump NFTs may prove the utility of utility

Donald Trump’s recent NFT drop was ridiculed. Bigly. But the former U.S. president seems to have had the last laugh and may have provided the digital asset community a valuable lesson if they can get ...

Why do people criticise CPI as a measure of inflation?

Are you sick of reading inflation articles yet? Perhaps. I’m nearly bored of writing them, anyway. The CPI, for the uninitiated, is the Consumer Price Index, which is the most commonly used metric in ...

Ellison and Wang guilty pleas unsealed as Bankman-Fried granted bail

U.S. prosecutors released more details on the criminal charges that former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder and former CTO Gary Wang pled guilty to earlier this week. The...

Democrats split on Gensler’s crypto approach post-FTX

As Congress weighs the FTX collapse, Democrats appear split on how much more the Securities and Exchange Commission and its chair, Gary Gensler, could have done to stave off what the agency now calls ...

Bankman-Fried extradition to U.S. approved: WSJ

Sam Bankman-Fried is headed back to the U.S. to face criminal charges over the collapse of FTX after a judge approved his extradition from the Bahamas, the Wall Street Journal said. Bankmnan-Fri...

Bitcoin, crypto prices little changed as Coinbase, Block trade higher pre-market

Crypto prices were little changed over the past day while Coinbase and Block shares traded higher in pre-market hours.  Bitcoin was trading at around $16,800 at 9 a.m. EST, up 0.2% over the past...

All Crypto People Are ‘Dimwits’

Alex Dovbnya Prominent mathematician claims that cryptocurrency proponents have ‘miswired’ brains Nassim Taleb, a renowned mathematician, recently took to Twitter to express his negative v...

Bitcoin, crypto prices higher, Grayscale’s GBTC discount to NAV narrows

Crypto prices rose marginally and most crypto-related stocks were lower shortly after the open.  Bitcoin was trading at around $16,800 at 9 a.m. EST, up 0.6% over the past 24 hours, according to...

Coinbase, Binance enjoy market share gains after FTX demise

The Block tracks spot market share for cryptocurrency exchanges with fiat support. Only the largest exchanges with trustworthy reporting of exchange volume metrics are included. Binance’s market...

If People Withdrew Everything from Binance US, We Would Still Have Millions in Assets, CEO Says

Binance US chief Brian Shroder assured his followers on Monday that his exchange is prepared to process every last withdraw customer withdrawal – unlike certain competitors.  He also expanded on his c...

Bankman-Fried will agree to extradition to U.S.: reports

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on Monday decided to agree to be extradited to the U.S. to face fraud charges, Reuters reported, citing his lawyers. The report came several hours after one of B...

Boris Johnson’s brother resigns as advisor of Binance subsidiary firm

Joseph Edmund Johnson, brother of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, resigned from his advisory role to a subsidiary company of the crypto exchange Binance, the Telegraph reported.  Joseph ...

a16z’s Chris Dixon is ‘really excited’ for next year’s web3 games

Chris Dixon, founder and general partner of a16z, is excited for where web3 gaming could go over the coming year.  “There’s a whole bunch of launches within the next 12 months that I...

Peter Brandt Calls Michael Saylor “A Fo*lish Man” For Asking People to Believe in Bitcoin

– Advertisement – Brandt slams Saylor for asking his followers to believe in Bitcoin. Veteran market analyst Peter Brandt has slammed MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor for calling on...

Great Leadership Means Giving People Autonomy—With 3 Limits

Giving people autonomy has positive effects on performance, retention and wellbeing. getty Great leadership is characterized by all kinds of activities and attributes, but providing employees with aut...

The 3 biggest crypto stories to look for this coming week

Liquidity issues and bankruptcy remain the biggest stories of this forthcoming week as failed crypto businesses and the remaining ones still standing deal with their various problems. The week w...

The Block: US prosecutors probing Bankman-Fried’s political donations: NY Times

U.S. federal prosecutors are seeking more information about political donations made to Democrat and Republican lawmakers by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and two executives he worked with, accordi...

The Block: Here are the top cryptocurrency stories from past week: SBF, Trump and more

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried dominated headlines once again as the one-time celebrated wunderkind was arrested in the Bahamas and formally charged with fraud. U.S. lawmakers then followed w...

Survey shows Metaverse will have an impact on how people travel

The tourism sector is one that has been particularly eager to embrace the Metaverse, and there is a solid reason for this. Virtual reality provides an efficient method for marketers to give consumers ...

The UN Is Sending War-Torn People In Ukraine Aid In Crypto

A growing number of human rights organizations from around the world are turning to crypto and blockchain technology as a remedy to challenges in underdeveloped or conflict-torn countries caused by a ...