How Sam Bankman-Fried and other unscrupulous CEOs managed to swindle so many people

Digital currency enthusiasts can scream all they want about the Biden administration conspiring against them, but they brought this on themselves.

After years of unwarranted hype ballooned its value, the crypto market came crashing down in 2022, bankrupting billionaires and naïve investors alike. Has America learned its lesson?

Embracing the bitcoin industry’s regulatory agenda is not the answer to the crypto crash.

Cryptocurrency, climate, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are starting to intersect in strange ways.

For some crypto holders, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an opportunity⁠—and a validation of their increasingly radical beliefs.

Forget crypto. The currency that’s tanking right now is celebrity liberalism. Looking at you, Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon, and LeBron James.

Crypto’s attempts to foment a libertarian exit from mainstream politics and finance may be more difficult than its true believers assumed.

Bitcoin provides entreé to a wildcat market dominated by fraudsters. The ex-president clearly recognizes his milieu.

Hackers extorted millions from Colonial Pipeline, and now they’ve struck the meatpacking giant JBS. There’s one clear way to prevent future attacks.

As Bitcoin’s price fell by up to 30 percent, its partisans went on Clubhouse and Twitter to offer reassurances and advice to “go outside, go exercise—just don’t follow the swings.”

The Tesla executive’s reversal affirms that Bitcoin is an environmentally wasteful multilevel marketing scheme. But the true believers won’t hear it.

Countries are launching digital currencies to rival Bitcoin—and opening up new ways to snoop on their citizens in the process.

The Covid-era mania for cryptocurrencies and digital tokens shows how bored elites have already bought everything.

A bill in the works would turn over large tracts of Nevada to tech companies, allowing them to build—and run—their own towns.

Elon Musk’s car company quietly bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin while he hyped the digital currency on Twitter.

A widely used cryptocurrency can’t escape investigation and controversy—and it may be fueling another coin bubble.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has invested billions in Bitcoin. Can we trust him—or the cryptocurrency’s skyrocketing value?

Mining the cryptocurrency requires a staggering amount of energy—contributing to global warming and providing little public benefit.