cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin was close to nine-month highs on Monday and had its best week in four years as the global banking crisis drives some investors to turn to digital assets. The biggest cryptocurrency by market value hit its highest since June...

Crypto whale Ruja Ignatova, who allegedly steered one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency frauds and is on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) list of its ten most wanted fugitives, may be hiding in Greece. Ignatova disappeared without a trace...

Cryptocurrencies took a hammering on Thursday following the crash of Luna, the sister cryptocurrency of stablecoin TerraUSD, whose value tumbled dramatically on Wednesday. The cryptocurrency Terra (Luna) has collapsed, losing more than 99 percent of its value. The coin’s value...

A Greek student appeared in a Las Vegas court on Wednesday accused of stealing up to $500,000 in bitcoin from a novice cryptocurrency trader in Las Vegas. Filippos Liakounakos, 23, a Miami college student, researched the backgrounds of multimillionaires in...

Ukraine has raised $15 million through thousands of donations in cryptocurrencies since the start of the Russian invasion, cryptocurrency analysts said on Saturday. Researchers at Elliptic, a blockchain analysis company, say that the Ukrainian government, NGOs and volunteer groups have...

Cryptocurrency crime hit an all-time high in 2021, with an estimated $14 million going to illegal online addresses, according to a blockchain analysis just released by Chainalysis. The amount of illegally-obtained digital currencies represented a 79% increase over the  $7.8...

It is not a part of the official franchise, but a new cryptocurrency based on the television series "The Squid Game" is gaining rapidly on the market. The successful Korean show now has its very own brand of cryptocurrency,...

A one-word Tweet from Tesla magnate Elon Musk was enough to plunge the price of cryptocurrency Shiba to new depths on Sunday. Asked how many SHIB (Shiba Inu coins) he owns, the billionaire answered with the closest thing to...

A cute photograph of Elon Musk's new Shiba Inu puppy, Floki, posted on Twitter on Monday spurred a host of Dogecoin spinoff cryptocurrency coins to rise in value. Dogecoin, which first utilized the Shiba Inu dog as its logo in...

China’s central bank declared all transactions involving Bitcoin and other virtual currencies illegal on Friday, stepping up a campaign to block use of unofficial digital money. Chinese banks were banned from handling cryptocurrencies in 2013, but the government issued...