Buying crypto was so much fun when it was going up. Now, many onetime fans are getting out. This year has brought crisis after crisis, raising questions about the industry’s long-term prospects. Two major lenders, Voyager Digital VYGVQ -1.52% and Celsius Network, filed for bankruptcy this summer. The price of bitcoin has plunged some 75% … Read more
Hong Kong CNN — Chinese leader Xi Jinping is visiting Saudi Arabia this week for the first time in nearly seven years, during which he signed a comprehensive strategic partnership with the world’s largest oil exporter and met leaders from across the Middle East. The visit is a sign that China and the Gulf region … Read more
Hong Kong CNN Business — China’s major stock indices and its currency have opened sharply lower Monday, as widespread protests against the country’s stringent Covid-19 restrictions over the weekend roiled investor sentiment. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng (HSI) Index fell as much as 4.2% in early trading. It has since pared some losses and last traded … Read more
A research paper published at Harvard University is advocating that central banks should buy bitcoin BTCUSD, +2.56% as a hedge against sanctions by other countries. The paper, titled “Hedging Sanctions Risk: Cryptocurrency in Central Bank Reserves,” was authored by Ph.D. candidate Matthew Ferranti from Harvard’s economics department, and likens central banks’ gold reserves to potential … Read more
Author Michael Lewis has been following former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried around for the past six months and will write a book about the crypto maven known as “SBF,” a new report says. News that the author who wrote “The Big Short” and “Moneyball” was writing about FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried was first reported by … Read more
The latest message from former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried left onlookers puzzled and alarmed after the swift decline into bankruptcy for the cryptocurrency exchange he founded. In successive tweets, Bankman-Fried merely stated, “What,” followed by the capital letter H. Bankman-Fried has been an active tweeter throughout FTX’s demise, earlier having written that he was … Read more
Customers pulled funds from Crypto.com over the weekend after the company’s chief executive said the cryptocurrency exchange mishandled a roughly $400 million transaction. Crypto.com Chief Executive Kris Marszalek said on Twitter that the transfer was sent to the wrong type of account on another exchange. The transfer of a large chunk of ether, a popular … Read more
Billionaire Dallas Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban recently offered his perspective on the implosion of crypto platform FTX late this week. “‘That’s somebody running a company that’s just dumb-as-fucking greedy.’” — Mark Cuban Cuban, speaking on Friday at a conference in Washington, D.C. hosted by Sports Business Journal, shared the view that avarice was at the … Read more
Slower, but higher rates and no pivot this side of Christmas. That was the message from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell after the central bank’s fourth-straight jumbo hike. Bruised investors look ready to keep selling stocks on Thursday as yields tear higher. Not everyone agrees with Powell. “The Fed is making a huge policy error, and they will manage to break … Read more
Bitcoin lost its gains, falling after today’s interest-rate decision and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference. The price of Bitcoin was sitting around $20,300 in late afternoon trading, down about 1% over the past 24 hours. The largest crypto looked vulnerable to a drop below the $20,000 level and back into the $19,000 to … Read more