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Bitcoin

  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    LexFinancial services
    The Lex 2024 hits and misses: crypto’s resurgence, credit cards swipe higher Premium content

    We failed to foresee the Trump effect and the scale of the boost his election win would give to the crypto universe

    A mobile phone showing the Coinbase app
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    On Wall StreetCraig Coben
    Crypto boom draws in Wall Street banks

    There has been a profound shift in thinking on capital raisings

    Composite image of a Wall St scene with a Bitcoin as a stylised sun
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    MicroStrategy Inc.
    MicroStrategy’s ‘financial engineering’ powers ascent to Nasdaq 100

    Convertible bonds to fund bitcoin purchases have been lapped up by investors, but some fear impact if token falls sharply

    Michael Saylor, chairman of MicroStrategy
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Hedge funds
    Brevan Howard and Galaxy Digital cash in on crypto boom

    Crypto strategies made more than 30 per cent in November following Donald Trump’s election victory

  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    News in-depthCryptocurrencies
    The crypto crown princes who could ‘win, win, win’ under Trump

    Executives have already profited from bitcoin’s rally and see golden era for industry under incoming US president

    A montage of a hand holding a Maga hat and the faces of crypto executives and crypto coin logos
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    US equities provide rocket fuel for record ETF flows in November

    Virtually every other corner of the ETF investment universe was ground into dust by the onward march of Wall St

    A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Lex
    Can bitcoin miners find a green way to dig for digital gold? Premium content

    Using a wind farm to produce the cryptocurrency is a nifty, if limited, option

    Wind farm turbines
  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast17 min listen
    Swamp Notes: America’s first ‘Bitcoin president’

    Cryptocurrencies used to be ‘anti-establishment’. Donald Trump might change that.

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Hodlers: an apology

    A mea culpa to mark a BTC milestone

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Bitcoin hit $100,000. What’s next?

    Predictions from an arcane method popularised in 18th-century France

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Bitcoin hits $100,000 as Trump era hopes grow

    Cryptocurrency has climbed more than 50% since US election on bets president-elect will bring in pro-crypto regulation

    A cartoon image of US President-elect Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin token to mark the cryptocurrency reaching over $100,000 displayed at a Coinhero store in Hong Kong
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Billion dollar squirrel: Trump effect fuels crypto’s ‘memecoin’ boom

    Tokens based on online viral moments outpace bitcoin over past month but critics say they reflect market froth

    Cryptocurrencies representing a euthanised grey squirrel and a Thai pygmy hippo
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Managers rush to file for ‘risk-averse’ crypto ETFs

    If approved, the products will allow investors to limit or protect against losses in return for surrendering some potential gains

    Golden Bitcoin digital currency
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Jemima Kelly
    The grim ghost of crypto future

    Overconfidence since the election victory of Donald Trump could tee the sector up for its next collapse

    Ben Hickey illustration of a bitcoin sign on a bomb with a lit fuse
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Markets InsightCraig Coben
    The epic spectacle that is the bitcoin juggernaut MicroStrategy

    Despite massive fundraising plans, the stock is up 450% this year, valuing the company at about $90bn

    Michael Saylor raises his left hand as he makes a point. He is wearing a microphone
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    LexRetail & Consumer industry
    Bitcoin and bananas add a new twist to conspicuous consumption Premium content

    Both have joined the elite world of useless objects that get desirable as they get pricier

    Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped Banana titled ‘Comedian’
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    On Wall StreetBrendan Greeley
    The delusions behind a bitcoin strategic reserve

    It is a resilience strategy for the ‘hodlers’, not the US state

    A representation of bitcoin
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Can Trump really pay off the US national debt with bitcoin?

    And will Betteridge’s law finally be defeated???

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    MicroStrategy Inc.
    MicroStrategy takes fundraising to $7bn for push into bitcoin

    Software maker turned crypto investor increases size of convertible bond offering to $2.6bn

    Visual representations of bitcoin
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Stephen Diehl
    Bitcoin’s shift towards respectability should concern us all

    Regulators have not put in the necessary controls needed to address underlying disclosure, manipulation and systemic risks

    A Maga-style hat on display at this year’s bitcoin conference in Tennessee during the summer
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Trump victory tipped to break logjam of exotic US crypto ETF filings

    SEC has only allowed spot bitcoin and ether ETFs, while Europe has ETPs invested in about 30 cryptocurrencies

    A screen shows cryptocurrency market movements at a cryptocurrency exchange in Barcelona, Spain
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Katie Martin
    Bitcoin’s big bang moment is impossible to ignore

    The post-election excitement around crypto comes down to vibes and vision

    Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Examining MicroStrategy’s record-shattering $21bn ATM

    At-the-market equity offering; in-your-face bitcoin evangelism

  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Political risk and investment
    Bitcoin, dollar and Tesla jump as investors pile into ‘Trump trades’

    Markets expect US president-elect to take light-touch approach to regulation

    A man with a backpack walks past a storefront displaying multiple bitcoin symbols and an advertisement for bitcoin ATMs in Nicosia
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    China’s $1.4tn fiscal package fails to excite

    Beijing unveils fiscal stimulus to help shore up its faltering economy

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