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• December 11 2024
  Exchange traded funds

  US equities provide rocket fuel for record ETF flows in November

  Virtually every other corner of the ETF investment universe was ground into dust by the onward march of Wall St

  
• December 7 2024
  FT News Briefing podcast17 min listen

  Swamp Notes: America’s first ‘Bitcoin president’

  Cryptocurrencies used to be ‘anti-establishment’. Donald Trump might change that.

  
• December 6 2024
  US politics & policy

  Trump picks Musk ally David Sacks as crypto and AI tsar

  Ex-PayPal executive and VC investor hosted Silicon Valley fundraiser for president-elect

  
• December 5 2024
  Bitcoin

  Hodlers: an apology

  A mea culpa to mark a BTC milestone

  
• December 5 2024
  Bitcoin

  Bitcoin hit $100,000. What’s next?

  Predictions from an arcane method popularised in 18th-century France

  
• December 4 2024
  Cryptocurrencies

  Memecoins will go away once we stop paying attention to them

  Regulation has failed. It’s time to try indifference

  
• December 3 2024
  Celsius Network

  Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky pleads guilty in fraud case

  Cryptocurrency lender’s former chief reaches agreement with prosecutors in criminal case

  
• December 2 2024
  Enron Corp

  Enron is posting on social media now

  Birds Aren’t Real, but Enron is

  
• December 2 2024
  Exchange traded funds

  Managers rush to file for ‘risk-averse’ crypto ETFs

  If approved, the products will allow investors to limit or protect against losses in return for surrendering some potential gains

  
• December 1 2024
  Jemima Kelly

  The grim ghost of crypto future

  Overconfidence since the election victory of Donald Trump could tee the sector up for its next collapse

  
• November 29 2024
  The Long ViewJohn Plender

  Stand by for financial instability

  The combination of huge public debt issuance and Trump’s notorious unpredictability is a toxic mix for markets

  
• November 29 2024
  Craig Coben

  The epic spectacle that is the bitcoin juggernaut MicroStrategy

  Despite massive fundraising plans, the stock is up 450% this year, valuing the company at about $90bn

  
• November 29 2024
  Cryptocurrencies

  Trump-linked crypto founder eats $6mn banana on stage

  Justin Sun hails US president-elect’s support of industry amid spectacle at Hong Kong event

  
• November 29 2024
  FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

  France’s bond market sell-off

  Political uncertainty in France sends shockwaves through the country’s sovereign bond market

  
• November 28 2024
  FT Collecting Supplements

  Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

  The fair’s new director Bridget Finn on selling art in a divided US. Plus: interviews with Anastasia Samoylova and Jesse Lee, the private gallery succession question

  
• November 28 2024
  Cryptocurrencies

  Hong Kong plans crypto tax break for hedge funds and billionaire families

  Chinese territory is competing with Singapore and Switzerland to become top offshore finance hub

  
• November 26 2024
  Telegram

  Telegram finances propped up by crypto gains as founder fights charges

  Revenue leapt to $525mn in first half of 2024 before chief Pavel Durov was detained over alleged criminality on platform

  
• November 21 2024
  Bitcoin

  Can Trump really pay off the US national debt with bitcoin?

  And will Betteridge’s law finally be defeated???

  
• November 21 2024
  Currencies

  Crypto chief buys banana for $6mn at contemporary art auction

  Justin Sun, founder of blockchain network Tron, outbids six others for Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’

  
• November 20 2024
  MicroStrategy Inc.

  MicroStrategy takes fundraising to $7bn for push into bitcoin

  Software maker turned crypto investor increases size of convertible bond offering to $2.6bn

  
• November 20 2024
  FTX Trading Ltd

  FTX co-founder Wang avoids prison after assisting in Bankman-Fried case

  Crypto exchange’s former chief technology officer credited by judge for swiftly helping prosecutors

  
• November 18 2024
  Trump Media & Technology Group

  Trump’s social media group in talks to buy crypto trading venue

  Truth Social owner is close to an all-share takeover of Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt

  
• November 15 2024
  Exchange traded funds

  Trump victory tipped to break logjam of exotic US crypto ETF filings

  SEC has only allowed spot bitcoin and ether ETFs, while Europe has ETPs invested in about 30 cryptocurrencies

  
• November 15 2024
  FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

  Crypto’s Trump card

  President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-crypto rhetoric has sent bitcoin soaring

  
• November 12 2024
  FTX Trading Ltd

  Sam Trabucco is probably just in San Francisco

  Bay Area man loses boat, keeps freedom