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The Latest Breaking News from Bitcoin

Is crypto about to go extinct?

It will likely survive, but only after more firms and currencies crash and burn. Here’s why.

Al Jazeera

Bitcoin scammers made so much money they 'handed out £5,000 gift cards in the street'

The £22m crypto-currency gang bought cars for people they met in the pub during the 'staggering' scam

Manchester Evening News

Bitcoin scammers made so much cash they gave away £5k vouchers and bought cars for strangers

The fraudsters bought cars for random people they'd met in the pub and one of them attempted to purchase a villa from Russian gangsters with £1m stuffed inside a briefcase

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How to finally get a grip on your finances — from how much to save to why you should avoid ISAs

Author and Moneybox presenter Paul Lewis has the ultimate guide to being smarter with your hard-earned cash in 2023

Evening Standard

Bitcoin up after US inflation decline

Bitcoin jumped above US$19,000, its highest level since November 2022, as US inflation fell to 6.5%, raising analysts' expectations that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates by only 0.25% at its meeting later this month.

Bangkok Post

Bitcoin soars past $20,000. Here's what's behind the recent rally

Bitcoin has broken out again after months at $17,000. Here are some theories to explain the recent rally.

Fortune

Environmental group sues New York for approving crypto mining facility

Lawsuit argues move to allow energy-intensive cryptocurrency miner to take over power plant violates state’s 2019 climate law

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Illegal crypto activity hit all-time high of $20 billion in 2022

some crypto crooks may be shifting their focus to more vulnerable targets amid a Bitcoin bear market

Evening Standard

Commentary: What Croatia’s transition to the euro can teach us about the upside-down world of bitcoin

The transition of Croatia into the euro currency zone these days can teach us a lot about bitcoin in the U.S. According to the ideology of bitcoinism, the citizens of Croatia are making a huge mistake in obeying this transition and abandoning their legacy currency, the kuna. According to bitcoinism,…

Chicago Tribune

Bitcoin extends its longest winning streak since Covid days

A prolonged rally in Bitcoin is giving crypto enthusiasts a smidgen of something to be happy about during a dark period for the industry.

The Times of India

Commentary: We should celebrate, not bemoan, the swift collapse of FTX

If indeed all the reports are true— that the cryptocurrency exchange FTX lent out billions of dollars in customer deposits for risky bets without their consent — then the world should celebrate its swift demise. Markets are ruthless in rewarding success and punishing failure. And FTX’s fall from grace over…

Tribune News Service

Coinbase lays off almost 1,000 staff as crypto winter bites

The move is the latest in a string of successive job cuts at the firm as it seeks to weather turmoil in the crypto markets

Evening Standard

'A fraud and a bubble are two different things': Crypto is shocking to a financial historian who literally wrote the book on financial bubbles

Financial historian William Quinn says crypto is either the smartest “Ponzi” or the stupidest “bubble” in history: “And the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.”

Fortune

Crypto trading app Tap Global among London’s first public listings in 2023

Tap’s founders are hopeful for its prospects despite the turbulence in the crypto industry

Evening Standard

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Customers claim they were lured into foreign exchange trading and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars

Former customers of an Australian company claim they were lured into the high-risk world of foreign exchange trading under false pretences and subjected to high-pressure sales tactics which contributed to them losing huge sums.

Fortune

Bitcoin or gold? Beware the ‘malignant tumor,’ says ‘Black Swan’ guru Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Technology comes and goes, gold stays, at least physically. Once neglected for a brief period, Bitcoin would necessarily collapse.”

Fortune

The ‘everything bubble’ has popped and the experts on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley were spectacularly wrong about a ton of things

Morgan Stanley analysts were sure Carvana stock would hit $430 a share and the crypto faithful believed Bitcoin would top $1 million.

Fortune

Why the environmentalist critics of data centers are wrong

There is no path to lower carbon output that doesn’t depend heavily on adding more information technology to our infrastructure, writes EY's blockchain leader Paul Brody.

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Fortune

The Winklevoss twins are in another mess—and it has to do with crypto

“The idea in your head that you can quietly hide in your ivory tower and that this will all just magically go away, or that this is someone else’s problem, is pure fantasy,” Cameron Winklevoss wrote to former friend Barry Silbert.

Fortune

Crypto took such a beating in 2022 that U.S. regulators have teamed up for the first time to sound the alarm to banks

Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have all invested in crypto staffing divisions in recent years.

Tribune News Service

Will 2023 bring more crypto bankruptcies to weed out ‘the pumps and the frauds’?

The crypto industry had a rough go of it in 2022, with crashing cryptocurrency prices and a series of catastrophic bankruptcies.

Fortune

Cameron Winklevoss gives crypto baron one week to come up with a $1 billion solution to make his Gemini customers whole

Winklevoss and his identical twin brother first rose to prominence through their lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, who they claimed stole their idea for Facebook.

The Guardian - UK

Romantic Getaway review – Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan are brilliant in IVF heist caper

This romcom/thriller about a couple who steal from their work sees its two leads – and Johnny Vegas as their boss – form a killer trio. Expect daft fun

Fortune

The Crypto Winter will last through 2023 and maybe 2024, predicts PayPal and Meta alum David Marcus

“We won’t exit this 'crypto winter’ in 2023, and probably not in 2024 either,” Marcus wrote in a year-end blog post.

The Times of India

'Bitcoin at $200,000' projections flop as coin ends year down 60%

A year ago, crypto analysts, riding high from the successes of 2021, had big hopes for Bitcoin, with some of them seeing the token hitting $100,000 or more in 2022.

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