For Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin (BTC), the motivation to create a new payment ecosystem from scratch in 2009 stemmed from the economic chaos caused by the banking sector’s over-exuberant and risky…
Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli’s recently-launched crypto token tanked 90% on Friday, Aug. 13, 2022, data from crypto exchange Binance shows. The drop in price to fractions of a penny appeared to correlate…
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Despite the ongoing cypto bear market, many top cryptocurrencies posted double-digit percentage gains over the week. Bitcoin had no such luck. Bitcoin only…