The ‘Hawk Tuah girl’ went viral. You won’t believe what happened next – except, of course, you will
In Haliey Welch’s rise to fame, there was an Instagram account, then a podcast and, inevitably, a cryptocurrency
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Crypto entrepreneur eats banana art he bought for $6.2m
‘It’s much better than other bananas,’ was Justin Sun’s verdict after his first taste of the fruit at a press conference in Hong Kong
Crypto chief buys a banana for $6m at contemporary art auction
Justin Sun, founder of blockchain network Tron, outbids six others for Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’
Cowen factor as Trump win cheers cannabis crypto entrepreneur
Former taoiseach sits on advisory board of GetTangi Corp which sees Trump return to White House as ‘potentially transformative’
Married couple charged over alleged €21m international money laundering operation
Hundreds of ‘unusual transactions’ linked to accounts held by Jixu Wang (35) and Ye Wang (34), court told
FTX sues Binance, ex-CEO Zhao seeking $1.8bn clawback
Case centres on alleged fraudulent transfer by former FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried
Cab unable to access seized Bitcoin worth €350 million
Criminal Assets Bureau seized virtual currency from former Dublin beekeeper who grew cannabis crops for years, without drawing Garda attention, until caught by chance
Trump’s pitch for ‘crypto-president’ is a merger of the bizarre
Facts and truth can be fluid both in the world of the bitcoin bros and the former president Trump
Crypto.com clears Irish anti money-laundering regulatory hurdle
Singapore-based crypto asset exchange has received VASP authorisation from the Central Bank
Crypto winter hits Crypto.com’s Irish entity as revenues plunge 80%
Foris Dax Global swung to a small loss in 2022 compared with a €2.9 million profit in 2021, according to recently-filed accounts
US seeks up to 50-year sentence for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
Prosecutors push back on convicted crypto kingpin’s pleas for leniency ahead of sentencing later this month
Hypocrisy is everywhere with crypto and the banks
Capital flows from institutional investors are driving up the price of tokens such as bitcoin
Bitcoin’s real value is based on the greater fool theory
Anyone with a sense of financial history knows how the fever for the cryptocurrency will end. And it’s not pretty
Crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried pleads for lenient prison sentence after conviction
FTX founder should face no more than six and a half years behind bars, his lawyers argue ahead of hearing next month
Sam Bankman-Fried denies knowing FTX money was missing, as he concludes testimony
Prosecutors press former FTX boss on inconsistencies between his public statements and how he ran his crypto empire
How is blockchain changing financial services?
Secure-transaction technology has yet to make significant inroads into traditional banking sector
Dethroning of a crypto king: ‘Sam Bankman-Fried’s brain couldn’t function doing one thing. It had become addicted to distraction’
Author Michael Lewis has written a revealing and sometimes very funny book about the young former billionaire facing a huge US federal fraud trial
New York sues Gemini Trust and Digital Currency Group over alleged $1.1bn fraud
Gemini was founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. Both companies were hit by plunge in cryptocurrency markets
Coinbase selects Dublin as EU regulatory hub
Nasdaq-listed company has had a presence in the Republic since 2018
Where does entrepreneurship end and fraud begin?
Sam Bankman-Fried is the latest business leader seen as visionary right up until the moment it all crashes down
Former ‘crypto king’ Sam Bankman-Fried prepares for fight of his life in US trial
FTX founder and one-time poster child of cryptocurrency faces a legal reckoning in proceedings that will lay bare the collapse of his empire
If you’re going to buy crypto, here’s some advice
Speculate only with what you can afford to lose, and don’t forget about tax if you do make money
Metamates, the Crypto Bowl and further blockade tensions in Ottawa
Planet Business: Boldly going deeper into space than anyone has gone in 50 years
Semple Stadium goes down sponsorship road but is the field getting too crowded?
Hanging on to the name of your stadium may become the best way of standing out from the crowd
Singapore to grant first crypto licence in bid to lure digital asset groups
Australia’s Independent Reserve receives green light ‘in principle’ to operate in city-state
Ex-diplomats ‘always knew’ Britain intercepted Irish communications
GCHQ intercepted ‘everything’ related to Anglo-Irish Agreement, ex-diplomats say
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