Bitcoin hoarder’s business model has come into question but retail traders still view founder as ‘visionary leader’
A New Hampshire municipal issue stretches the bounds of what state borrowing is for
Michael Saylor’s financial engineering inspired dozens of imitators but is now close to unravelling
The industry was hugely optimistic when Donald Trump returned to the White House. But bitcoin has fallen by a quarter in two months
“This Fear is Not Warranted”
The flywheel is difficult to maintain if crypto’s animal spirits turn out to have been durably damped down
Company’s shares plummet as investors cash out at end of lock-up period
Shares slide as group warns of loss of up to $5.5bn if digital asset prices do not rebound
Rating agency cites rising exposure to high-risk assets and lack of disclosures
Micro Strategy, major strife
There is a crypto parallel in the aftermath of Europe’s 14th century bubonic plague
‘Digital asset treasury’ craze sours amid $1tn rout in cryptocurrency market
Moves in the cryptocurrency are becoming an early alert that markets are unwell
Do Our Own Research
Online conversations about hot meme stocks or cryptocurrencies are the source of some very bad decisions
Bitcoin has erased all of its gains from this year
State of the art
Zhimin Qian sentenced to more than 11 years in jail after defrauding thousands of victims out of £4.6bn in total
Strategy’s down and Chanos is out, but the ‘amplified bitcoin’ trade looks as fragile as ever
So-called cold storage wallets allow digital currency holders an alternative to holding their tokens directly on an exchange
Head of world’s biggest crypto tracing company says security ‘hasn’t really been considered’ by start-ups
Digital ETNs can be cheaper to hold than most equity and bond funds
Main market listing comes as regulator ‘puts a lot more resources’ into digital asset class
Saylor of the Century
How a mysterious tip-off led investigators to uncover the inner workings of a highly unusual hacking operation
