cryptocurrencies

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

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

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

New York court will weed through prospective jurors as case against founder of FTX crypto exchange gets under way

FTX founder and one-time poster child of cryptocurrency faces a legal reckoning in proceedings that will lay bare the collapse of his empire

Speculate only with what you can afford to lose, and don’t forget about tax if you do make money

Many people have invested in crypto currencies without thinking about the tax implications - that could prove to be a costly mistake

US crackdown on industry makes it difficult to see the upside despite overtures being made by other EU states

Crypto giant coming under increasing pressure from US regulators

‘Real opportunity for Dublin to become crypto hub’, says Zodia Custody

In the wake of the controversial crypto outfit going bust, does every athlete and celebrity in America have to be more cautious now about the products they promote?

Temporary High Court freezing order granted restraining Millcove Digital Solutions Limited from disposing of plaintiff’s cryptocurrency assets

Company founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss expects to ramp up headcount from current low levels

Push for global approach comes following collapse of FTX exchange

Retiree Gerald Stitt claims he invested close to €300,000 in what he though was a cryptocurrency

Central Bank governor’s comments come weeks after EU voted in favour of sweeping regulations

But tech leaders plan to ramp up IT staff hiring to executive digital transformation, says EY

New regulatory framework to be rolled out from 2024 but near consensus vote obscures wide range of views on crypto

Crypto exchange is being sued over alleged breaches of trading rules and destruction of documents

Several high-profile figures did not tell social media followers they were being paid to endorse products

Number of enquiries to the regulator’s Innovation Hub declined by almost 50% last year

Bitcoin hit its highest level in nine months on Monday

Irish and European regulators confident that risk to financial system is minimal