Editor’s Note, Oct. 9, 2025: This story has been updated to show that Australia’s Federal Court ruled in favor of Carlo Sciubba in 2024. Non-fungible token (NFT) art marketplace SuperRare has raised $9 million in a Series A funding round, Decrypt reported. Tokenized, rare...
The crypto sector is seeing a boost in the value of mergers and acquisitions, doubling to almost $1.1 billion last year, according to Coindesk. The report says the average deal size went from $19.2 million in 2019 to around $52.7 million in 2020, according to data...
Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol said he doesn’t think cryptocurrencies will be in such high demand once central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are introduced, CoinDesk reported. He added that bitcoin and other crypto assets have high volatility, which means that there are limits on...
Some bitcoin investors are watching General Motors (GM) closely in the wake of CEO Mary Barra’s response during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call to a question about whether the automobile giant might accept the cryptocurrency as a form of payment. The exchange Barra had with...
The New York Times (NYT) has sold a non-fungible token (NFT) for more than $500,000, according to the Foundation page for the NFT. Columnist Kevin Roose entered his own column as the NFT for sale. NFTs have been surging in popularity lately as a type...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that it’s now possible to buy Tesla vehicles in the U.S. using bitcoin, CNBC reported. A support page on the Tesla website explains how to do so. The company’s cars usually cost around $37,990 and $124,000 before taxes, according...
Bitcoin has been around for more than a decade. And, depending on where you look, its role as a disrupter in financial services – allowing users to bypass traditional banking constructs and intermediaries – is just around the corner. But the reality, at least to...
Abra has rolled out Abra Borrow, which will help the company reach its goal of becoming a complete crypto bank, a company blog post stated. According to the post, this means the company’s users never have to sell their loans but will still have access...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has sold his first tweet as a non-fungible token (NFT) for over $2.9 million, CNBC reported. The tweet in question reads “just setting up my twttr,” and has been a hugely popular tweet for years. Dorsey was using the Valuables platform,...