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March 16, 2021
As bitcoin climbs to uncharted highs, mainstream investors are opening up to cryptocurrency, and Bitpanda has capitalized on the boom to become Austria’s very first unicorn.
February 28, 2021
Coinbase has formally filed for a direct listing, which joins Paul Ryan, Lucid Motors, telecom transactions and more in our recap of the week.
January 8, 2019
PitchBook analysts are at CES this week, where they're sharing their take on the tech talk, gadgets and industry trends likely to shape the coming year. Here's the report from day one.
November 1, 2018
Coinbase hits an $8 billion valuation, Aaron Rodgers invests in safer football helmets and more from the past week in VC.
July 26, 2018
Galaxy Digital Ventures has led the round for BlockFi, which offers loans in traditional currency to owners of bitcoin and ether that are backed by the borrowers' cryptocurrency holdings. ConsenSys...
June 21, 2018
A lot has happened in the past six months to fuel skeptics of cryptocurrency. Nonetheless, VCs have taken a big leap forward when it comes to investing in the space.
In a scathing report, the world's central bank has labeled the largest cryptocurrency useless, unsafe and environmentally disastrous.
June 14, 2018
New research suggests that roughly half of bitcoin's meteoric rise in late 2017 was driven by possibly fraudulent buying demand—undercutting the main reason why bitcoin entered the mainstream.
June 12, 2018
Bitmain, a manufacturer of bitcoin mining hardware, has raised $400 million in a round led by Sequoia China and has plans to go public in Hong Kong this fall, according to Chinese media reports....
April 3, 2018
Turmoil and volatility in the stock market—which senior writer Anthony Mirhaydari warned about in January—has hit with ferocity. That's threatening the most exciting areas of the private markets.
March 28, 2018
Emilie Choi joined Coinbase as vice president of corporate and business development earlier this month after eight years with LinkedIn. Her mandate: acqui-hire. Her options: virtually limitless.
February 27, 2018
The bitcoin headlines are still coming in hard and fast, despite a harrowing drop from the December highs of just below $20,000. The sentiment bubble remains intact. But are prices headed even lower?
January 17, 2018
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been battered by selling pressure over the past month. Is this merely another dip to buy or the start of something worse?
December 19, 2017
Adam Draper made a crazy bet on cryptocurrency when he launched a bitcoin startup accelerator in 2012. Now it's paying off big time, and the Boost VC founder is looking to the future.
December 13, 2017
According to a price analysis that went viral this week, the rise of bitcoin has overtaken Tulip Mania of the 1600s and the Mississippi Bubble of the 1700s to become the largest bubble ever.