It could soon be easier to buy and sell ether, a cousin of bitcoin, via traditional market mechanisms.

Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, the massive crypto exchange.

Two years after El Salvador approved bitcoin as legal tender, only 1% of remittances are in bitcoin and many people don’t use it.

But it’s only one tool for evading sanctions. And it’s actually easier to track cryptocurrency movement than you might think.

“There were red flags all over FTX,” said the New York Times’ David Yaffe-Bellany. “Even in the kind of renegade world of crypto, these sort of lessons from traditional finance still apply.”

Crypto sanctions have caused headaches for many anti-war Russians who fled abroad, but crypto use within Russia is still common.

The cryptocurrency industry seeks to create a decentralized, peer-to-peer means of exchange, but is it really just a speculative bubble?

Both regulators and crypto bros cheer a ruling on Ripple Labs. Many call the regulatory framework governing digital assets outmoded.

Are cryptocurrencies securities like stocks and bonds? There isn’t consensus, but the answer would make a huge difference to the crypto industry.

Attendance was down from last year at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami, but faith in the cryptocurrency held on strong.