cryptocurrencies

How Trump’s election sent Bitcoin soaring again

Technological solutions to the problem of too much government is something that appeals to appeals to both Bitcoin advocates and Trump supporters. Both want to use AI and blockchain to leave messy problems like death, taxes and climate change behind

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

“I was responsible for FTX, and its collapse is on me,” crypto executive tells sentencing hearing

‘A danger to national security’ - the drive to ban TikTok in the US

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

US seeks up to 50-year sentence for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried

Prosecutors push back on convicted crypto kingpin’s pleas for leniency ahead of sentencing later this month

Bitcoin bulls are not the bigger fools

The most popular cryptocurrency is starting to look like more than a passing fad

Hypocrisy is everywhere with crypto and the banks

Capital flows from institutional investors are driving up the price of tokens such as bitcoin

Bitcoin’s real value is based on the greater fool theory

Anyone with a sense of financial history knows how the fever for the cryptocurrency will end. And it’s not pretty

Bitcoin investment passes $1 trillion mark

Cryptocurrency struggled in 2022 following monetary tightening by central banks and a number of high profile crypto failures

New bitcoin ETFs excite crypto bulls

US regulator’s approval seen as victory for industry despite warnings about ‘myriad risks’

European shares fall as stronger-than-expected US inflation hits rate-cut hopes

Pan-European Stoxx 600 suffers third consecutive day of losses

Central Bank authorises crypto firm Ripple

Decision brings payment and exchange under regulator’s supervision for purpose of anti-money laundering rules

Binance pleads guilty to US criminal charges, will pay $4.3bn fine

Deal is latest blow to crypto industry

Fraud gang led by Irishman, linked to Black Axe syndicate, is focus of major international investigation

Gardaí have seized largest sum of cryptocurrency ever taken from gang involved in text-based frauds and money laundering

Going Infinite: a rush job that’s already dated

More casual readers will find Going Infinite a bit of a slog because it goes into the weeds of the world of cryptocurrencies and presumes prior familiarity with it on the part of the reader

Tokens: the Future of Money in the Age of the Platform review: Timely reflections on value

Rachel O’Dwyer digs behind the medium of exchange and portrays cyptocurrency, blockchains, artworks and digital assets with a less than optimistic eye

Are fears over the cashless society exaggerated? Ciara O’Brien versus Conor Pope

Is cash a spent force or are we in danger of rushing headlong into the virtual alternatives with no thought to the consequences?

How is blockchain changing financial services?

Secure-transaction technology has yet to make significant inroads into traditional banking sector

Dethroning of a crypto king: ‘Sam Bankman-Fried’s brain couldn’t function doing one thing. It had become addicted to distraction’

Author Michael Lewis has written a revealing and sometimes very funny book about the young former billionaire facing a huge US federal fraud trial

Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial begins jury selection

New York court will weed through prospective jurors as case against founder of FTX crypto exchange gets under way

Former ‘crypto king’ Sam Bankman-Fried prepares for fight of his life in US trial

FTX founder and one-time poster child of cryptocurrency faces a legal reckoning in proceedings that will lay bare the collapse of his empire

If you’re going to buy crypto, here’s some advice

Speculate only with what you can afford to lose, and don’t forget about tax if you do make money

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