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Crashing Crypto: Is This Time Different?
Last week TerraUSD, a stablecoin — a system that was supposed to perform a lot like a conventional bank account but was backed only by a ...
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Bitcoin Mining Is a Tax on Our Electrical Grid
The people behind Bitcoin, the No. 1 cryptocurrency by market value (and renown), are under heavy pressure to reduce its carbon footprint — the ...
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Ex-Party Producer Charged in $2.7 Million Bitcoin-Laundering Scheme
Dark-web drug dealers selling ketamine, MDMA and counterfeit Xanax in every state in America. An identity thief hacking into his targets ...
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This Is the Couple Charged With Laundering Billions in Stolen Bitcoin
Before they were charged on Tuesday with conspiring to launder $3.6 billion in Bitcoin stolen from one of the world’s largest virtual currency ...
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In Some Markets, Cooler Heads Are Prevailing
Credit...Ted Shaffrey/Associated PressMarket messages Stock markets took investors on another wild ride yesterday, plunging, recovering and then ...
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The Rise of the Crypto Mayors
Scott Conger, the mayor of Jackson, Tenn., campaigned on a modest promise to improve local infrastructure. He planned to build sidewalks, open a ...
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Tales From Crypto: A Billionaire Meme Feud Threatens Industry Unity
“You don’t own ‘web3.’ The VCs and their LPs do.” Jack Dorsey tweeted this esoteric salvo in late December, not long after he stepped down as the ...
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Banks Tried to Kill Crypto and Failed. Now They’re Embracing It (Slowly).
In 2014, as regulators in New York were exploring ways to control Bitcoin, executives at Wall Street’s biggest banks fretted that regulating ...
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Why This Billionaire Is Worried About Green Investing
Going green too fast is leading to an energy crunch, Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone warned.Credit...Gian Ehrenzeller/European Pressphoto ...
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China Cracks Down Harder on Cryptocurrency With New Ban
China intensified its crackdown on cryptocurrency on Friday, declaring all financial transactions involving cryptocurrencies illegal and issuing ...
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