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Bitcoin Miners Are Playing a High-Stakes Game of Chicken
“It’s kind of a last-man-standing situation,” says Fred Thiel, CEO of US-based Marathon Digital Holdings. His crypto-mining company, among the…
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What Is Blockchain? The Complete WIRED Guide
At this stage, when you say “blockchain,” you get two reactions: eye-rolling and dismissal or excited fervor at the potential…
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Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges
For years, the cryptocurrency economy has been rife with black market sales, theft, ransomware, and money laundering—despite the strange fact…
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No One Will Escape the FTX Fallout
Venture capital investment in crypto is drying up, according to a recent paper released by market data house PitchBook. After a…
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FTX Has Wrecked the Crypto Party in Paradise
In the two years since, a collection of startups and large crypto companies have set up shop in the Bahamas,…
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A Row Erupts Over Texas’ Bold Bitcoin Battery Plan
Fred Thiel, CEO of Marathon Digital, claims that crypto miners participating in demand response schemes have helped to stave off…
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The US Congress Is Starting to Question This Whole Crypto Thing
Hundreds of thousands of investors just had billions picked from their collective e-pockets. Yet, crypto remains the untouchable queen in…
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Crypto Contagion Is Spreading, Fast
To ensure Genesis wasn’t hamstrung by the loss, its parent company, Digital Currency Group (DCG), bailed it out. But in the…
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I Lost $17,000 in Crypto. Here’s How to Avoid My Mistake
In 2014, I bought 25,000 dogecoin as a joke. By 2021, it was briefly worth over $17,000. Problem was, I…
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What the Hell Happened to FTX?
CZ has denied that he deliberately created a liquidity crisis at FTX—”I spend my energy building, not fighting,” he tweeted…
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