2025-03-07

Trump's federal Bitcoin reserve order leaves the crypto market unenthused

With US stocks unstable, consumer confidence in the economy plunging and whispers of a potential recession growing less muted, the economy under President Donald Trump's second term has been abou [...]

2025-04-28

Russian regulators are trying to seize assets from the developers of World of Tanks

Top executives from Wargaming and Lesta Games, the joint developers of World of Tanks, could have their stakes in their respective companies seized by the Russian government, according to reports from [...]

2025-03-25

BlackRock’s first European Bitcoin product hailed as ‘landmark development’ for crypto

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has launched its first Bitcoin product in Europe, a move that industry experts say will help legitimise cryptocurrencies in mainstream finance.  “Thi [...]

2025-02-11

The guy who accidentally threw away $700 million in Bitcoin wants to buy a landfill to find it

James Howells, a British IT worker, mined over 7,500 Bitcoins back in 2009, when they were worth next to nothing. Now a single Bitcoin is worth nearly $100,000, valuing his stash at well over $700 mil [...]

2025-03-07

Bitcoin fell all the way to $84,000 as Trump's crypto reserve failed to impress

Just hours before the White House Crypto Summit, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve and a separate stockpile of other digital assets. The news pl [...]

2025-05-12

The Trump family's crypto company is going public

American Bitcoin, a new crypto mining operation started by Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and data-center operator Hut 8, is merging with Gryphon Digital Mining in a stock-for-stock transaction, placin [...]

2025-05-24

Bitcoin's new high, bonds go bananas, and Coinbase joins the S&P 500: Markets news roundup

The U.S. bond market sets the risk-free rate against which every other asset is measured, which is why Ray Dalio calls it “the backbone of all markets.” But this week it’s also become the bigges [...]

2025-05-31

Japan's warning, the trade war's next phase, and Trump Media's Bitcoin buy: Markets news roundup

Demand for Japan’s 40-year government bonds plunged Wednesday to its lowest level since last July, reinforcing fears that appetite for ultra-long Japanese debt is evaporating. Read more... [...]

2025-03-08

Russian fake news network floods western AI chatbots with millions of propaganda articles

A Moscow-based disinformation operation is systematically feeding Russian propaganda into Western AI systems through a vast network of fake news sites called "Pravda" (Russian for "trut [...]