Ben Armstrong,better known as BitBoy,was one of the most popular figures in the wild,scam-ridden world of crypto influencers. Then it all fell apart.
A spat is escalating in the US over the noises made by computers performing trillions of calculations per second mining for bitcoins.
The US regulator’s announcement will likely spur a wave of crypto ETFs locally,with Queensland fund Monochrome aiming to launch its own offering in 2024.
The Australian sharemarket traded higher on Thursday,tracking gains on Wall Street driven by gains in mega-cap stock such as Amazon,Microsoft and Nvidia.
Strangely,the only group that wasn’t donning party hats and blowing whistles was the US securities regulator itself.
A highly anticipated decision by the US market regulator on whether to approve a spot-Bitcoin exchange-traded fund quickly morphed into a major cybersecurity incident.
The dramatic downfall of two billionaires has created a power vacuum in the world of crypto.
Everything from shares to Bitcoin is booming as investors get increasingly confident about what the future holds. But things don’t always go to plan.
For sustainable Australian bitcoin miner Iris Energy,its move into artificial intelligence services is more than just a side hustle that hedges against the volatility of bitcoin.
Thousands of Australians will be under scrutiny as liquidators look to claw back money “won” in the Ponzi scheme that burned more than $2 billion in investment.
Sam Bankman-Fried may have been the best known name in crypto but Changpeng “CZ” Zhao was the wealthiest and most powerful. But it made him a big target.