Beijing’s Digital Currency Push at Winter Olympics Puts Visa in a Bind
For decades, America’s largest card network has been the exclusive electronic-payments provider at the world’s largest sporting event. At this year’s Beijing…
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Justice Department Says It Seized $3.6 Billion Worth of Bitcoin Stolen in 2016 Hack
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department said Tuesday it seized over $3.6 billion worth of digital currency stolen during a hack of a cryptocurrency exchange and…
Robinhood’s Stock Drops 12% After Loss Is Worse Than Analysts Expected
Robinhood Markets Inc.’s
HOOD -6.45%
stock fell 12% in postmarket trading after…
WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Venture to Wind Down, Sell Assets
Facebook’s ambitious effort to bring cryptocurrency to the masses has failed.
The Diem Association, the consortium…
MicroStrategy to Continue Buying Bitcoin Despite Market Tumble, CFO Says
MicroStrategy Inc.
plans to continue investing in bitcoin despite recent declines in the value of the cryptocurrency asset and…
Crypto-Savings Lawsuit Puts Principles of DeFi to the Test
The emerging world of decentralized finance offers the holders of cryptocurrency many of the amenities of a modern financial system, under the premise that…
Jack Dorsey and the Unlikely Revolutionaries Who Want to Reboot the Internet
The internet hasn’t turned out the way it was supposed to.In its earliest incarnation, before some Wall Street Journal readers were born and the rest had…
I Gave My Mom a Crypto Wallet: A Simple Guide to NFTs, Blockchain and More
I got you your very own MetaMask crypto wallet. Inside is an NFT of your grandson’s artwork. Yes, you now own a token on the 13734952 block of the Ethereum…
India Investigates Hacking of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter Account
NEW DELHI—Indian officials are investigating how Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s
Twitter
account was hacked,…