cryptocurrencies

Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum says levies delayed in X post

Fed chair Jerome Powell’s measured comments on crypto regulation also lift digital asset

Unthinkable: Irish economic policy was once framed as ‘Boston or Berlin’ – our options today are much starker

Seen and heard: airport cap row may soon be resolved, Vit Hit’s UK sales and councils to face crackdown on housing targets

Tech bros from Elon Musk to Sam Altman are looking to president-elect’s second term to unshackle them from regulatory restrictions

Today’s technologies are facilitating crime on a vast scale, and Ireland has a significant footprint in this murky, international gang-controlled world

In Haliey Welch’s rise to fame, there was an Instagram account, then a podcast and, inevitably, a cryptocurrency

‘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

Cryptocurrency is a digital asset that has proven you don’t need a practical use case to be a lucrative investment

Former taoiseach sits on advisory board of GetTangi Corp which sees Trump return to White House as ‘potentially transformative’

Expected level of global heating by end of the century has not changed since 2021, with ‘minimal progress’ made this year - Carbon Action Tracker

Technological solutions to the problem of too much government is something that appeals to appeals to both Bitcoin advocates and Trump supporters. Both want to use AI and blockchain to leave messy problems like death, taxes and climate change behind

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Call for better financial education as Competition and Consumer Protection Commission finds women, lone parents and unemployed have worst understanding of finance

Criminal Assets Bureau seized virtual currency from former Dublin beekeeper who grew cannabis crops for years, without drawing Garda attention, until caught by chance

Fraudsters stole almost €100 million from Irish consumers last year – an increase of 16 per cent on 2022

Worries over whether authorities are being too cautious on cutting interest rates take effect as jobs growth slowdown weighs on sentiment

Investors step back from crypto currencies as risk aversion hits global markets

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Singapore-based crypto asset exchange has received VASP authorisation from the Central Bank

Founder Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted after November 2022 failure that shook the cryptocurrency industry

Signing up for crypto from an article on Facebook about a TV personality making money, led to the inevitable ending

In the hours before his cryptocurrency exchange FTX collapsed, Bankman-Fried, sentenced this week to 25 years in prison, was telling his customers everything would be OK

“I was responsible for FTX, and its collapse is on me,” crypto executive tells sentencing hearing

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Prosecutors push back on convicted crypto kingpin’s pleas for leniency ahead of sentencing later this month

The most popular cryptocurrency is starting to look like more than a passing fad

Capital flows from institutional investors are driving up the price of tokens such as bitcoin

Anyone with a sense of financial history knows how the fever for the cryptocurrency will end. And it’s not pretty

Cryptocurrency struggled in 2022 following monetary tightening by central banks and a number of high profile crypto failures

US regulator’s approval seen as victory for industry despite warnings about ‘myriad risks’

Pan-European Stoxx 600 suffers third consecutive day of losses

Decision brings payment and exchange under regulator’s supervision for purpose of anti-money laundering rules

Deal is latest blow to crypto industry

Gardaí have seized largest sum of cryptocurrency ever taken from gang involved in text-based frauds and money laundering

More casual readers will find Going Infinite a bit of a slog because it goes into the weeds of the world of cryptocurrencies and presumes prior familiarity with it on the part of the reader

Rachel O’Dwyer digs behind the medium of exchange and portrays cyptocurrency, blockchains, artworks and digital assets with a less than optimistic eye

Is cash a spent force or are we in danger of rushing headlong into the virtual alternatives with no thought to the consequences?

Secure-transaction technology has yet to make significant inroads into traditional banking sector

Author Michael Lewis has written a revealing and sometimes very funny book about the young former billionaire facing a huge US federal fraud trial