The past few months have been disastrous for cryptocurrencies. Even after bouncing back a bit on Friday, bitcoin is now down almost 50 percent from its all-time high in October, and other ...

In new research published today, crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis found that crypto-funded transactions for human trafficking—largely forced laborers trapped in compounds across Southeast Asia and ...

The crypto market is yet to recover from the Oct. 10 crash. The total digital asset market cap has fallen from $3.1 trillion a month ago to $2.3 trillion right now. The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin ...

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Bitcoin is down more than 21% so far this year, and nearly 50% from its peak in October. Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz said crypto's "age of speculation," where investors expected outsized returns, may be ...

Chill winds have been battering America’s eastern seaboard for weeks, driving temperatures in places to their lowest in decades. But that has nothing on the deep freeze into which investors have ...

Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The ...

Bitcoin just suffered its largest weekly decline in more than three years. But the worst part for some of crypto’s permabulls is that they aren’t sure what exactly caused the crash. The selloff left ...

It's official: Bitcoin, as well as other cryptocurrency markets, are crashing. On Thursday, Bitcoin plummeted below $68,000, blowing past a key level that crypto investors were hoping to hold. Bitcoin ...

Bitcoin is the world's largest cryptocurrency, but it isn't immune to the extreme volatility that plagues all crypto. The cryptocurrency has suffered two declines of more than 70% during the past ...

Like a hurricane that tears down even the sturdiest storm shelters, the Epstein files have cut a path through a vast swath of America’s intellectual, political, and financial elite. The latest tranche ...

Crypto has been in a full-blown winter since January 2025, even if much of the market has been reluctant to say it out loud, asset manager Bitwise said in a Monday blog post. Having lived through ...