Coinbase users’ accounts showed a “zero balance” on Wednesday afternoon. Coinbase confirmed the problem on its status page at 12:40 p.m. ET but claims customer cryptocurrency funds are safe.
Bitcoin’s price surged past $63,000 and then receded just a bit under on Wednesday, reaching a level the crypto coin hasn’t seen since November 2021. While it still has a little way to climb to reach an all-time high of $68,000, that level feels comfortably within reach.
Have you seen a story on social media recently claiming that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has endorsed Bitcoin? That would be quite a change, given Warren’s intense skepticism of crypto and her advocacy of more regulation for the industry. But the claim that Warren has made an about-face—even…
It’s safe to say crypto is experiencing renewed interest since the crash of 2022.
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Cryptocurrency cleaned up its act this week as spot Bitcoin ETFs made their Wall Street debut in January. The digital tokens are looking almost unrecognizable from what the industry represented just a few years ago, leading to the question, is Bitcoin still crypto?
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