Sign at office park for venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Menlo Park, California, including … More Bessemer Venture Partners, Signia Venture Partners, Montgomery and Hansen and Mitsui, November 14, 2017. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Getty Images Venture capital isn’t dying. It’s evolving. Fast. What was once a high-risk, high-reward game of early-stage bets
French gendarmes have been busy policing crypto crimes, but these aren’t the usual financial schemes, cons, and HODL! shenanigans one usually reads about. No, these crimes involve abductions, (multiple) severed fingers, and (multiple) people rescued from the trunks of cars—once after being doused with gasoline. This previous weekend was particularly nuts, with an older gentleman
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The overall feeling in the market was positive from the close of October 2024 until the beginning of this year. The market was sluggish for a couple of months, but things are starting to look up for altcoins. After a month of
As of Wednesday morning, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading over $96K, up nearly 2% in the last 24 hours, marking a continued recovery from April’s lows around $75,000. Late Tuesday evening ET, Bitcoin surged over $97K. The world’s largest cryptocurrency is now within striking distance of the critical $100,000 milestone amid renewed institutional and political tailwinds.
Payments behemoth Visa has invested in BVNK, a London-based startup focused on stablecoin payment infrastructure, signaling continued interest in digital asset innovation. According to a May 7 BVNK announcement, the startup “secured a strategic investment from Visa through their Visa Ventures arm.” Furthermore, while the company does not explain fully what it entails, it refers
Bhutan, known for investments in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, has launched a tourism crypto payment system in partnership with Binance Pay and DK Bank. The system allows Bhutan travelers with Binance accounts to pay for services like tickets, hotel stays, tour guides and other products using at least 100 different crypto assets, including Bitcoin (BTC), USDC
After abruptly pulling their support from what would have been the Senate’s first stablecoin regulatory bill, Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that they would introduce a new bill that would prevent federal officials and their families from issuing digital assets – a bill directed at Donald Trump and his family’s current stablecoin and meme coin holdings.
By Stephanie Ruhle and Elliot Metz This is an adapted excerpt from the May 5 episode of “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle.” Investors appear to be getting a little impatient for some good news on Donald Trump’s trade war. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 continued to sink after snapping its nine-day winning streak on
Tensions rose during a joint House hearing as Representative Maxine Waters strongly objected to a new crypto market structure bill. The legislation, backed by both Republicans and Democrats, aims to define oversight responsibilities in the digital asset sector. Waters, however, described the bill as part of what she called US President Donald Trump’s “crypto corruption.”
Donald Trump has raised nearly a billion dollars from his various cryptocurrency schemes, says researcher Molly White. “He is really allowing for bribery and the types of corruption that we’ve never seen in the American presidency,” White says. She lays out how the Trump family profits from cryptocurrency while directly influencing policy and regulations, encouraging