Tag: Bitcoin

After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin

Stripe, the fintech giant, continues to inch its way back into the cryptocurrency market. On Thursday the company announced that it would start...

Bitcoin's next 'halving' is right around the corner. Here's what you need to know

NEW YORK -- Sometime in the next few days or even hours, the “miners” who chisel bitcoins out of complex mathematics are going...

SBF’s prison sentence marks the end of the crypto grift era — so what’s next?

On Thursday, a federal judge sentenced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty on seven...

A timeline of the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried and the colossal failure of FTX

Sam Bankman-Fried went from cryptocurrency golden boy to the face of the industry's collapse. The founder and former CEO of the massive cryptocurrency...

Bitcoin hits new high, Solana price jumps as memecoins mania rises and Worldcoin faces heat in Spain

Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your...

Bitcoin hits new all-time high of $72,700 but one index warns we’re in ‘extreme greed’ territory

The crypto scene continues to remain so hot that bitcoin is hitting one new high after another. It surpassed $72,700 on Monday. This...