Bitcoin news headlines

Following a long and punishing crypto winter, and despite the damaging trials and tribulation of Sam Bankman-Fried, Bitcoin is on a red-hot run.

The ruling opens the door to an investment product that investors have been demanding for years.

In the space of an hour late on Thursday night, the price of the cryptocurrency dropped by almost $2000, from $43,170.96 at 9:30pm to $41,287.93 at 10:30pm.

Australians lost more than $221 million in crypto scams last year, leaving the average victim stripped of $56,600.

The price of Bitcoin has jumped 20 per cent over the last week, hitting levels not seen since the shock FTX exchange collapse.

Cryptocurrency was hit by a dark winter in 2022, but some analysts think a new spring is around the corner.

When Sam Bankman-Fried bought a nearly 7.6 per cent stake in Robinhood, he financed the deal with more than half a billion dollars illegally borrowed from his own hedge fund.

The former FTX CEO faces criminal charges in the US, including wire fraud and money laundering.

An American man who was involved in defrauding more than a dozen retirees out of $3.5 million in an investment scam has been jailed by a Sydney judge.

Designed to look like real paperwork relating to digital currency such as Bitcoin, but they could see your bank account emptied.

A new court filing about Sam Bankman-Fried's bankrupt companies reveals a crypto empire that was colossally mismanaged and potentially fraudulent.

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX could have more than 1 million creditors and has been in contact with "dozens" of regulators around the world

As the dust settles from one of the most shocking financial implosions in history, one of the key unknowns is how much customers who can't access their money expect to get back from FTX

Cryptocurrency insiders are debating whether to call the implosion of FTX, which filed for bankruptcy last week, a "Lehman moment".

Exhilaration is sweeping Wall Street and financial markets worldwide on the back of surprising inflation figures.

The cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it plans to buy its rival FTX Trading, in the latest example of how fortunes can change rapidly in the crypto world.

A man in the US has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $5 billion of stolen Bitcoin in what authorities have called a historic case.

Serial conman Peter Forster says "fatally flawed" fraud charges against him will be dropped by Queensland police and when the truth comes out others will go to jail, not him.

A Sydney business woman says she has lost her life savings in a cryptocurrency scam, calling the ordeal "the biggest mistake of her life".

After a brief resurgence, prompting hope the crypto winter might finally be over, Bitcoin has lost momentum and shed almost 20 per cent in seven days.

A cryptocurrency analyst predicted the punishing downturn would kill off up to 90 per cent of all crypto projects.

The two most popular cryptocurrencies in the world were brutalised in June, as Bitcoin recorded its heaviest monthly loss in more than a decade.

The wealth-generating hot streak for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has turned brutally cold.

El Salvador's Bitcoin-boosting president has asked people to be patient after the price of the cryptocurrency fell below $28,700 - less than half the price the government paid.

Bitcoin fell below the psychologically important threshold on Saturday for the first time since late 2020, in a fresh sign that the selloff in cryptocurrencies is deepening.

A growing number of startups are slashing staff in order to survive a possible prolonged downturn in the crypto market and the broader economy.

Gates jokes that "expensive digital images of monkeys" will "improve the world immensely".

One of the world's biggest lenders of cryptocurrency has paused all withdrawals amid "extreme market conditions".

One in nine Australians have purchased cryptocurrency in the past year, and almost one in five are interested in jumping into the market.

The founder of the world's second biggest cryptocurrency has gifted an Australian university more than $5 million to establish an online warning system for future pandemics.

The cryptocurrency brokerage reported a first-quarter loss late Tuesday and revenue that fell 27 per cent from a year ago, missing Wall Street's forecasts.

Bitcoin has plummeted nearly 20 per cent in just seven days as inflation worries hit crypto investors.

The man who spent almost $4 million on the NFT of then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's first tweet has failed to attract little more than $15,000 at auction.

It could be the largest cryptocurrency heist ever recorded in history.

Steve Wozniak said he has personally experimented with cryptocurrency but is not "in it to make money".

Late in 2013, when bitcoin prices were in the middle of a steep dip, a post appeared in an online forum featuring a misspelling that would become legendary: "I AM HODLING."

Cryptocurrency prices are climbing after Russia's ruble sank to another record low and Moscow was hit with new sanctions.

The West's initial salvo of financial sanctions against Russia failed to deter President Vladimir Putin from launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies have been feeling the heat this week as tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalate and investors shun riskier assets.

A 60 second ad during the Super Bowl was so unique – and so successful – that it crashed the app of the cryptocurrency exchange that aired it.

The term "metaverse" is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry's imagination.

A New York couple has been arrested and charged with conspiring to launder US$4.5 billion ($6.29 billion) in stolen cryptocurrency funds.

The electric vehicle maker lost more than $141 million in the great Bitcoin plunge — but it's sticking with crypto long term.

Australians rushing to invest in cryptocurrency may find themselves paying larger than expected surcharges as new data estimates more than $50 million has been spent on fees alone.

The richest men in the world have lost billions of dollars in the past week as cryptocurrency markets and technology stocks plummet.

The price of Bitcoin has nose dived by almost half in just two months.

Bitcoin's bubble could burst and lose more than half of its value in 2022 as investor "mania" wears off, one investment firm has warned.

Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, who runs the crypto exchange Binance, has joined the ranks of the world's top billionaires

Bitcoin has had a horror start to the new year, falling in value four of the last five days.

Bitcoin has continued to shed value in January, reaching its lowest point in months, trading at just over US $42,250 at 2:30pm AEST.