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  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Bitcoin
    Hedge funds’ bitcoin trade helps lift Grayscale assets to $38bn

    Cryptocurrency investing group has garnered a deluge of inflows, driven in part by arbitrage bets

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    NY attorney lasers Bitcoin’s key funding mechanism

    The NY Attorney-General’s ruling on Tether and Bitfinex stands to destabilise the way dollars flow into the bitcoin value system. But Bitcoin’s meme warriors are buffering up their defences.

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
    Tether and Bitfinex agree to pay $18.5m penalty after New York probe

    State’s attorney-general accused groups of covering up ‘massive’ financial losses

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    LexBitcoin
    China/blockchain: digital realm Premium

    Investors seeking bitcoin exposure in local markets face constraints

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
    North America’s first bitcoin ETF captures flurry of trading on debut

    Purpose Investments fund ranked among the most actively-traded securities in Toronto

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    What does institutional bitcoin mean?

    As BlackRock reveals it is dabbling in bitcoin, it’s time to ponder how institutional money will impact bitcoin’s prices, term structure and lending rates.

  • Sunday, 14 February, 2021
    Rana Foroohar
    Bitcoin’s rise reflects America’s decline

    Cryptocurrencies have a place in a new world order where the dollar has less of a starring role

  • Sunday, 14 February, 2021
    Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
    The environmental idiocy of Tesla’s bitcoin bet

    Tech companies should avoid pushing pointless power hungry applications

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    The Big Read
    ‘Digital tulip’ or new asset class? Bitcoin’s bid to go mainstream

    The cryptocurrency’s embrace by Elon Musk and America’s oldest bank suggests it is starting to win institutional acceptance

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  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    This Valentine’s, consider the crypto-flower

    Upside: it’ll never die. Downside? Your love just might.

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Is the party over for top tech stocks?

    A decade of dominance is a long time in market history

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    European IPO boom, Bitcoin price jump, China’s corn spree

    Tech and ecommerce listings are behind a surge in IPOs on European exchanges

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    Bitcoin hits record as US financial giants embrace cryptocurrency

    BNY Mellon and Mastercard unveil new services within 24 hours of each other

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    Nouriel Roubini
    Nouriel Roubini: bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk

    Elon Musk may be buying it, but that doesn’t mean everyone else should follow suit

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
    Tesla and bitcoin: the accounting

    Reality just became even more distorted at Elon Musk’s company.

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    Bitcoin
    A month-old Reddit post appears to make public Tesla’s bitcoin strategy

    Post from ‘u/TSLAinsider’ appeared on the bitcoin subreddit five weeks ago.

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    Katie Martin
    Elon Musk’s effect on crypto world shows how irrational markets are

    Support from Tesla founder fires up support for bitcoin and Dogecoin

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    News in-depthTesla Inc
    Tesla’s bitcoin bet is unlikely to have many corporate copycats

    Carmaker's $1.5bn move comes as the cryptocurrency has attracted institutional investors and will be closely watched

  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    LexTesla Inc
    Tesla/bitcoin: asset exchange Premium

    Expect more companies to be forced into acknowledging the worthiness of digital assets

  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla sends bitcoin to record high with $1.5bn investment

    Electric carmaker also plans to accept cryptocurrency as payment

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Elon Musk is moving the market with joke-tweets about a joke-coin

    A memecoin is mooning. Because markets are kayfabe now too.

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Where do the next generation of investors go from here?

    After riding the Reddit wave, short-term trading could develop into a longer-term habit

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Runaway Markets
    Bitcoin boom backstopped by central banks’ easy-money policies

    Cryptocurrency has so far dodged a repeat of its 2017 collapse as more investors take notice

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Jemima Kelly
    Revolut: bitcoin hype-merchant or bank?

    The fintech appears to have lost its way in the unicorn forest.

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Investments
    Investors’ Chronicle: JD Wetherspoon, IG Group, Argo Blockchain

    Companies analysis from our sister publication

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