Tag: Virtual Currency

Bitcoin Plummets Below $20,000 for First Time Since Late 2020

Square, another payments company, bought $50 million of Bitcoin and changed its…

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Tether: The Coin That Could Wreck Crypto

Even by crypto’s often-surreal standards, Tether has a peculiar history. The company…

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Inside Kraken’s Culture War Stoked by Its C.E.O.

Jesse Powell, a founder and the chief executive of Kraken, one of…

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Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall

SAN FRANCISCO — No one wanted to miss out on the cryptocurrency…

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Bitcoin Drops 18 Percent to Lowest Price Since 2020

The cryptocurrency market melted down again on Monday, as the price of…

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Fight Looms Over New York’s Bid to Slow Crypto-Mining Boom

ALBANY, N.Y. — Across the nation, some states are trying to entice…

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How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really?

In the same spirit, he wondered what treasures might be submersed in…

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Thefts, Fraud and Lawsuits at the World’s Biggest NFT Marketplace

Chris Chapman used to own one of the most valuable commodities in…

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They Did Their Own ‘Research.’ Now What?

“There’s this idea that the goal of science is consensus,” Professor Carrion…

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