Cryptos

The Fort Knox of the future. Photographer:  Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images Photographer:  Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images What is the money of the future? My nine-year-old son thinks it will be Robux. For those…

A Missouri man was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison after he twice tried to purchase a chemical weapon on the dark web and pay for it with Bitcoin as part of a plot to poison a woman who had ended a relationship with him, prosecutors said.The man, Jason William Siesser, 46, of Columbia, Mo., pleaded guilty last year to one…

Instagram star “Jay Mazini” was hit with federal charges Tuesday for allegedly duping his followers into sending him $2.5 million in Bitcoin, officials said. Mazini, 25, whose given name is Jegara Igbara, had one million followers before his Instagram account was shut down. He allegedly posted videos of himself on the site…

A Goldman Sachs logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen.Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty ImagesGoldman Sachs is close to offering its first investment vehicles for bitcoin and other digital assets to clients of its private wealth management group, CNBC has learned exclusively.The bank aims to begin offering investments in…

Baseball’s hottest player is getting in on the cryptocurrency craze — even if it isn’t his idea. A 22-year-old San Diego Padres fan has created his own bitcoin-style coin in honor of shortstop phenom Fernando Tatis, Jr. called, appropriately, the TatisCoin. Carlsbad native Chad Hamner, a business and economics college student in the San…

Mining devices at the CryptoUniverse cryptocurrency mining farm in Nadvoitsy, Russia. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Singapore once again warned the public about the risks of trading…

Warren Buffett hates cryptocurrencies. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen isn’t a fan and neither is Bill Gates. Ditto for scores of great economic minds who call the rise of cryptos like Bitcoin a “bubble,” and a lot worse.   I have my doubts as well. I’ve seen too many Pets.coms in my career covering Wall Street to embrace a…

Alright, class, let's put our tinfoil hats on for today’s discussion. In today’s lesson, we are going to address surviving the fabled $5 wrench attack with our health and bitcoin stack intact.First, some background: what is a $5 wrench attack?I'm glad you asked. It's actually quite simple.Imagine for a moment that through some sequence of…

Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018.Steve Jennings | Getty Images for TechCrunchIn preparation for its debut on the Nasdaq next week, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said on Tuesday that first-quarter revenue climbed about nine-fold from last year, driven by a historic rally in the price of…

Bitcoin market manipulation still exists:The importance of on-chain analytics and blockchain data providers is rising in importance right alongside bitcoin’s price and overall adoption. However, with this increase of importance comes an increase of responsibility. Tens of thousands of traders now use popular on-chain data providers such as…