$749 million ‘treasure hunt’: Crypto miner fights to retrieve Bitcoin fortune he claims was accidentally thrown in landfill – Fortune
An early Bitcoin miner said he lost more than $700 million in wealth more than a decade ago when his partner accidentally threw a hard drive containing 8,000 coins into a landfill. James Howells, of Newport, Wales, has asked his local council if he could dig up a dumpster to find discarded hard drives, but […]
US Bitcoin ETF assets break $100 billion – Cointelegraph
US Bitcoin (BTCExchange-traded funds (ETFs) topped $100 billion in net assets for the first time on Nov. 21, according to data from Bloomberg Intelligence. Bitcoin has dominated the ETF world ever since the Spot BTC ETF was launched in January. Investor interest in cryptocurrencies accelerated after President-elect Donald Trump, who favored cryptocurrencies, won the November […]
Bitcoin Price Blasts Past $97,000 as Futures Hint at More Room to Run – Decrypt
Bitcoin continues to set new records this year as traders begin to focus on the six-digit price of the world's largest cryptocurrency, but an analysis of the asset's derivatives market shows that Bitcoin remains Not overheating. The asset rose to well over $97,000 late Wednesday night, breaking its all-time high. $95,000 According to CoinGecko data, […]
Novogratz Says Massive Capital Entering Bitcoin as Countries Buying BTC in Large Volumes – The Crypto Basic
Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz said huge amounts of capital from other countries are flowing into Bitcoin, with support from cryptocurrency advocate President Donald Trump. Bitcoin, one of the “Trump trades,” performed as expected following the Republican presidential victory. The pioneering cryptocurrency has soared more than 40% from less than $68,000 on November 5 to […]
Smithsonian to display IRS laptop that tracked Bitfinex’s 120K stolen Bitcoin – Cointelegraph
The MacBook Pro belonging to an Internal Revenue Service employee who tracked down and seized 120,000 bitcoins stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 is now in the collection of the world-famous Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. “Laptops are central to criminal cases that demonstrate the evolution of our understanding of cryptocurrencies,” said Ellen Feingold, […]
Bitcoin options become a reality
Dylan LeClair, Director of Bitcoin Strategy at MetaPlanet, reacts to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's comparison of Bitcoin to the 1980s mortgage market on “Making Money.” Investors stand to benefit from the continued rise in Bitcoin prices on the first day of options trading in iShares Bitcoin Trust, the largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) focused on cryptocurrencies. […]
Trump Media group in talks to buy crypto marketplace Bakkt as Bitcoin approaches $100K
Bitcoin Foundation Chairman Brock Pierce argues that Bitcoin skeptics are clearly not reading the tea leaves. Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), a major shareholder in social media companies, is a cryptocurrency exchange with digital assets soaring since President-elect Trump secured a second term in the White House. The company is reportedly in talks to […]
Bitcoin ETF options begin trading, ushering in a new way for investors to hedge their bitcoin exposure – CNBC
Jonathan Ra | Null Photo | Getty Images Options on BlackRock's popular iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) began trading on the Nasdaq on Tuesday, providing a new way to trade and speculate on Bitcoin prices. IBIT traded 73,000 options contracts in the first 60 minutes of trading on Tuesday, putting the fund among the top […]
Bitcoin Gets Another Fillip From US’s Growing Embrace of Crypto – Yahoo Finance
(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin rises to another all-time high, helped by a series of developments highlighting deepening support for the digital asset industry in the U.S. under crypto cheerleader Donald Trump. did. Most Read Articles on Bloomberg The tape opens with the revelation that the president-elect's Trump Media & Technology Group is in talks to buy […]
Laptop Used to Trace Bitcoin Stolen From Bitfinex Headed to Smithsonian – Decrypt
The 2019 MacBook Pro used by the IRS to track and seize $3.6 billion worth of Bitcoin stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is now in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. At the time, the Department of Justice press release It touted the recovery of stolen BTC as the “largest financial seizure in […]