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Will This Be the First Country Bankrupted by Crypto?
It’s been a year since El Salvador adopted bitcoin as currency — things are not going well
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How 'Baby Al Capone' Pulled Off a $24 Million Crypto Heist
Ellis Pinsky was a regular suburban teenager until he found his way into the underworld of internet hackers. In his first interview, he details the crime that nearly ruined his life
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Jay-Z, Jack Dorsey Launch 'Bitcoin Academy' Program in Marcy Projects
"The simple goal is to provide people tools to build independence for themselves and then the community around them," Jay-Z wrote
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Why Did An Anonymous Donor Give Alex Jones $1 Million in Bitcoin?
Jones was previously an open critic of cryptocurrency — but in the wake of losing multiple defamation lawsuits and facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, the conspiracy theorist appears to have embraced the financial medium
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Of Course Netflix Is Already Plotting a Doc on the Alleged Crypto-Conspiracy Rapper
Project was announced days after Heather Morgan and her husband Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein were arrested for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in stolen Bitcoin
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Why Is Mariah Carey Teaming Up With the Winklevoss Twins? (Hint: It Has to Do With Financial Empowerment)
Carey is the latest artist to (publicly) join the crypto craze, teaming up with the Winklevii on a new campaign aimed at encouraging women to educate themselves about the asset class
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Who Killed the Nazi on Campus?
In 1999, Rolling Stone profiled a college student leading a new white-nationalist party. Twenty years and several identities later, he turned up dead in a brutal murder that remains unsolved
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Welcome to the Church of Bitcoin
Thousands gathered in Miami to talk about the OG cryptocurrency — but instead of your typical finance conference, it had the feeling of a fringe religious event
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Porn Creators Are Getting In on the NFT Craze
Many adult-content creators have embraced cryptocurrency since they've often had problems with censorship in the past
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What Are NFTs?
Non-fungible tokens are part cryptocurrency, part digital trading card — and they're upending the way musicians and artists can earn a living
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