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The former president's speech to the Libertarian convention raises the question of whether there are distinctly "crypto" values.

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.

From curiosity to viable investment: Were all cryptocurrency people now 26 Apr, 2021 10:15 PM 8 minutes to read Bitcoin Frankie, a cryptocurrency influencer, on a laptop in Austin, Texas. Photo / Ilana Panich-Linsman, The New York Times Bitcoin Frankie, a cryptocurrency influencer, on a laptop in Austin, Texas. Photo / Ilana Panich-Linsman, The New York Times New York Times On Monday evening (US time), a few days after a large cryptocurrency exchange listed its shares on the stock mark...

There’s an industry term for white-knuckling it through crypto’s wild volatility without selling: “hodl.” “I always tell my friends, ‘If you really believe in it, buy it for your kids,’” one asset manager said.Credit...Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times The Great Read We’re All Crypto People Now Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone from curiosity to punchline to viable investment, making them almost impossible to ignore — for better or worse. There’s...

“We felt like we were doing God’s work,” explains cryptocurrency payments pioneer Erik Voorhees as he recalls trying to convert the unbelievers in the early days of Bitcoin. The man whose gambling platform SatoshiDice was once responsible for half of all Bitcoin transactions, is now an elder statesman of crypto and the CEO of the ShapeShift exchange. He remembers Bitcoin being written off as a joke at the Money 2020 conference in Las Vegas back in 2012. At the time he was working for BitI...