Cryptocurrency

facebook July 16, 2019

The Senate Hates Facebook’s CryptocurrencyA show of bipartisan dislike characterized today’s Banking Committee hearings on Libra. Facebook might be okay with that.

By Max Read

the top line June 25, 2019

Stephen Moore’s New Crypto Start-up Is Dumb Even by Crypto Start-up StandardsThe conservative commentator and failed Fed nominee’s business partner describes the plan, such as it is.

By Josh Barro

life in pixels June 18, 2019

Facebook’s New Competition: The U.S. DollarFacebook just introduced Libra, a new cryptocurrency designed to blow up the global financial system.

By Max Read

bitcoin June 11, 2019

Rick Santorum Is Getting Into Bitcoin for CatholicsIt should have been called “Vaticoin,” if you ask me.

By Madison Malone Kircher

goatse Feb. 7, 2019

Goatse Is Now a Cryptocurrency StuntThe site cribs from the Million Dollar Homepage playbook to rake in Ethereum cryptocurrency.

By Brian Feldman

crypto Dec. 17, 2018

Bath Salts to Bitcoin: John McAfee’s Bizarre Crypto HustleHow the early internet guru turned international fugitive became crypto’s spokesman.

By Jeff Wise

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Bitcoin Criminal Escapes Prison, Flees on Plane With Prime MinisterHe managed to get out of prison and make it to Sweden.

By Brian Feldman

select all Feb. 7, 2018

How to Make $6,500 by Pretending to Be Elon Musk on TwitterIt pays to be @elonnmuusk.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Jan. 29, 2018

A Blockchain-for-Vegetables Start-up Website Was Replaced With the Word ‘Penis’This week’s weirdest cryptocurrency scam doesn’t even appear to have made money.

By Brian Feldman

select all Jan. 25, 2018

Katy Perry Is Into Cryptocurrency NowJust keep hodling.

By Brian Feldman

select all Jan. 17, 2018

The Rise and Fall of BitConnect, the Sketchiest Crypto ExchangeEven in the somewhat shady world of cryptocurrency, BitConnect stood out as being particularly sketchball.

By Jake Swearingen

Jan. 12, 2018

Kentucky Is the First State to Enact Medicaid Work RequirementsThe state estimates that the change will result in 95,000 fewer people on Medicaid.

By Adam K. Raymond

Jan. 11, 2018

Miami Bitcoin Conference No Longer Accepting Bitcoin PaymentThe cryptocurrency is too much of a pain.

By Adam K. Raymond

select all Jan. 4, 2018

The Pickax Sellers of the Bitcoin Gold RushThere’s money to be made in bitcoin, even if you don’t own any.

By Yiren Lu

select all Jan. 2, 2018

Google Chrome Extension ‘Archive Poster’ Secretly Mined CryptocurrencyA Chrome extension was covertly using users’ computers to mine for the cryptocurrency monero.

By Jake Swearingen

select all Dec. 28, 2017

What Does It Mean If I’m Hodling My Shitcoins? A Glossary of Bitcoin SlangFrom hodl to DYOR to shitcoin, every word you need to know to fake your way through a bitcoin conversation.

By Jeff Koyen

select all Dec. 28, 2017

How Bitcoin Got Here: A Mostly Complete Timeline of Bitcoin’s Highs and LowsFrom the infamous 10,000-bitcoin pizza delivery to the pre-Christmas roller-coaster ride.

By Joy Crane

select all Dec. 27, 2017

6 People on How They Spent Their Bitcoin FortunesRent, student loans, private-school tuition, designer furniture — and, yes, a special blue laser.

By Margaret Rhodes

select all Dec. 27, 2017

What It’s Like to (Almost) Become a Cryptocurrency MillionaireIn search of “brownstone money” on the cryptocurrency roller coaster.

By Jeff Koyen

select all Dec. 26, 2017

Where Can I Actually Spend Bitcoin in New York City?From bodegas to pizza joints to Montessori schools, here’s where you can actually spend your bitcoin (if you dare).

By Noah Hurowitz

select all Dec. 26, 2017