Cryptocurrency

Most recent stories in Cryptocurrency

• 

  Business Insider

  

  6 hours ago

  A crypto data leak led the FBI to America's most wanted sex trafficking fugitive. Now, the victims want his bitcoins.

  Business Insider - Laura Italiano

  Four days before Christmas in 2022, Michael James Pratt — a New Zealander accused of running the most prolific sex-trafficking ring in US history, with at least 400 young victims — was thrown to the floor of his Madrid hotel room and handcuffed by Spanish police. As Pratt awaits trial in a Southern …

• 

  Business Insider

  

  Read the pitch decks from media and entertainment startups that have raised millions to disrupt Hollywood

  Business Insider - Lucia Moses

  Technology is upending all facets of media and entertainment. New startups are raising capital to jump on audiences' shift to streaming, change hidebound production practices, and more. Business Insider talked with founders about the pitches they used to raise millions and innovate in content …

• 

  Business Insider

  

  Storyboard

  Why the stock market is freaking out again

  

  Curated byBusiness Insider

  We’re only six days into the month, but investors are probably already sick of August after another brutal trading day. Confused by what’s going on? Let’s break it down.

• 

  Business Insider

  

  5 days ago

  Bitcoin tumbles as risk assets plunge in global market rout

  Business Insider - Kelly Cloonan

  Bitcoin dropped on Monday amid the broad sell-off across financial markets that kicked off last week. The world's biggest cryptocurrency was down as much as 19% over the weekend, though it pared that loss to about 7% shortly after noon on Monday. The token was trading at $54,934 at 12:24 p.m. …

• 

  Business Insider

  

  Sanctions-hit Russia is rushing to set up payment systems, including crypto, to make trading easier

  Business Insider - Huileng Tan

  Russia is stepping up sanctions-evading measures to keep its international trade flowing. The country is passing new laws regulating cryptocurrency and a plan for the digital ruble. On Tuesday, Russia's State Duma — the lower house of Russia's federal assembly — passed a bill that would let …

• 

  Business Insider

  

  Bitcoin volatile after Trump says US will be 'crypto capital of the planet'

  Business Insider - Kelly Cloonan

  During remarks a weekend bitcoin conference, presidential hopeful Donald Trump pledged to make the US the "crypto capital of the planet, and the bitcoin superpower of the world" if elected in November. By Monday morning, Bitcoin climbed as much as 2.9%, reaching $69,998.26, its highest level since …