Bitcoin

Plus — Michael Saylor fails in his bid to get a tax evasion lawsuit dismissed.

The MicroStrategy chairman and Bitcoin evangelist is the first person targeted under a Washington, D.C., whistleblower program for income tax evaders.

While only 142,000 BTC ended up being recovered, a huge surge in its value means those owed money are still in line for a substantial windfall.

Are Bitcoin Ordinals the next big innovation in the Bitcoin space, or an attack on Bitcoin's fungibility?

The Bank for International Settlements published a paper saying half of small crypto investors lost money last year. But in poorer countries like India, Turkey and Pakistan, it was 80%.

The biggest cryptocurrency surged to its highest level since June as investors looked at good economic signs and ignored a growing SEC crackdown.

The site was a vital tool in helping emerging economies access Bitcoin, but had also become a prime destination for crypto stolen through hacks and scams.

The ruling came as part of a larger lawsuit in which the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto seeks to force 16 developers to rewrite the Bitcoin code to give him 111,000 BTC.

"If he was a business leader in South America or Africa or Asia and he spent 100 hours studying the problem, he would be more bullish on Bitcoin than I am," Michael Saylor says.

Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman said the U.S. should follow the example of China, which "wisely" banned all cryptocurrencies.

Also today, a judge is seriously unimpressed with Sam Bankman-Fried.

Bitcoin wasn't alone in rallying hard, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq index hitting its highest level since September 2022.

Hot off its best month ever, the latest Big Ideas report by ARK Invest predicts the market for Bitcoin, blockchain and the entire crypto industry will explode into a $10 trillion industry.

Is Bitcoin's current security model flawed? What could be done to the Bitcoin network to ensure it is sustainable? Read on to find out.

The bad news came in a largely positive earnings report in which the company reported record earnings and revenue up 37%, beating forecasts, even though its margins fell.

A thief using software that guessed obvious passwords robbed 10,000 crypto owners between 2015 and 2016, then disappeared. Now the stolen funds are on the move.

The 56 industry experts polled by Finder saw a slow return to 2021's exuberant bull market, with the all-time of $68,000 not beaten until late 2025.

"Maybe it's going to get to 21 million and Satoshi's picture's gonna come up and laugh at you all, and say 'na na!' And by then, Satoshi will have taken out billions of dollars."