On February 26, 2014, financial advisor and radio personality Dave Ramsey made a now-infamous statement about Bitcoin — calling it “wacko,” worthless, and comparable to gravel or the Iraqi dinar. In a…
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Maple CEO wants to turn Bitcoin into the new backbone of global lending
Sid Powell, CEO and co-founder of Maple, is taking a page from Wall Street and bringing it on-chain. His company is rethinking institutional lending with crypto as the foundation — starting with…
If you bought $1000 of Bitcoin in 2015, you’d have enough retirement money today
What would your finances have looked like had you diverted just $1000 away from your 401(k) match in 2015 and purchased Bitcoin instead? Bitcoin opened at $320.43 on January 1, 2015. At…
Bitcoin Plunges Below $84K after $115B Sell-Off Wipes Out Weekly Gains
Hopes for the crypto recovery to continue vanished on Friday, as a market-wide rout erased virtually all gains from earlier this week. Bitcoin (BTC), hovering just below $88,000 a day ago, tumbled…
Crypto-Related Stocks Sink, Following Bitcoin Lower Friday
Romain Costaseca / Hans Lucas / AFP / Getty Images Shares of Mara Holdings, Strategy, and several other companies tied to cryptocurrencies fell Friday, along with the price of Bitcoin. Stocks were…
FDIC Reverses U.S. Crypto Banking Policy That Demanded Prior Approvals
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will no longer instruct banks to get prior sign-off before they engage in crypto activities — a standard that was set in 2022 and that effectively severed…