Cryptocurrencies

Crypto is starting to lose its cool – just look at El Salvador | Rowan Moore
Fantasies of a Bitcoin City have been undermined by the country’s huge losses in cryptocurrency
Rowan Moore
21, May, 2022 @2:00 PM

Commonwealth Bank pauses in-app cryptocurrency trading after market turmoil
Bank says it will pause rollout of app-based trading of assets like bitcoin and Ethereum pending further regulation
Josh Taylor
19, May, 2022 @4:06 AM

Crypto crash unlikely to reduce its climate impact, expert says
Enormous energy consumption has barely reduced despite $1tn being wiped off the sector
Alex Hern Technology editor
18, May, 2022 @3:25 PM

TechScape: How Musk and crypto bros get away with it
In this week’s newsletter: Just like Donald Trump’s political rise, Tesla’s CEO and firms like Tether win by simply not playing by the same rules as everyone else
Alex Hern
18, May, 2022 @10:45 AM

Q&A: the collapse of terra and what it could mean beyond crypto
After the crash of the ‘stablecoin’ sparked panic, could the fall of the wider crypto market lead to a more permanent economic crunch?
Alex Hern and Dan Milmo
16, May, 2022 @5:09 PM

$7.6bn of ‘stablecoin’ tether redeemed since start of crypto crisis
Figures suggest company has paid out more than total cash on hand, as terra backers prepare relaunch
Alex Hern
16, May, 2022 @3:01 PM

‘Unstoppable until they aren’t’: are tech market losses signs of a bust?
Apple is no longer the most valuable company, Meta took a $230bn hit, Amazon reported its first loss since 2015, but a slump ‘is a big question mark’
Kari Paul
15, May, 2022 @5:00 AM

Elon Musk ‘still committed’ to Twitter deal after putting it on hold – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Graeme Wearden
13, May, 2022 @3:01 PM

TerraUSD ‘stablecoin’ delisted from crypto exchanges
‘Algorithmic stablecoin’, whose collapse triggered multibillion-dollar selloff, turns off blockchain
Alex Hern UK technology editor
13, May, 2022 @11:09 AM

Digested week: I feel pure schadenfreude about collapsing crypto
Elsewhere, an unfortunate Wordle message, and Prince Charles subs in for the Queen
Emma Brockes
13, May, 2022 @10:44 AM

Tell us: have you lost money investing in cryptocurrencies?
We would like to hear from people about their experiences of investing in the sector
Guardian community team
12, May, 2022 @2:16 PM

Turmoil and panic in crypto market as ‘stablecoin’ slump prompts wider collapse
The near-total crash of terra has fuelled real panic that the crypto sector may face existential problems
Alex Hern and Dan Milmo
12, May, 2022 @1:11 PM
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