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The milestone came just hours after the president-elect signalled a lighter regulatory approach to the crypto industry.

James Howells says the hard drive containing the wallet was mistakenly thrown out in 2013.

The world's largest cryptocurrency surged in the run-up to Tuesday's US presidential election, rose sharply immediately on election night after it became clear Donald Trump would win and has continued rising in the days since his victory.

The value of cryptocurrency Bitcoin has surged to an all-time high on the back of Donald Trump's US election victory.

Britain's high court ruled that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency.

Experts are expecting the rally in the volatile cryptocurrency will continue in coming months.

Goldbugs are rejoicing as their favorite precious metal continues to reach new heights.

In mid-November 2021 Bitcoin hit an all-time high in Australia with a price just shy of $90,000 and then went on to slump over the following year to $25,000, proving the much reported volatility of cryptocurrency overall.

The cryptocurrency is surging, but the coming months are expected to be a financial rollercoaster ride for shareholders.

The world's largest cryptocurrency has touched its highest level since December 2021.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday reluctantly approved the first exchange-traded funds that hold bitcoin, saying it is still deeply skeptical about cryptocurrencies and that its decision did not mean it approves or endorses bitcoin.

A key decision, which some think will bring new money flowing into the popular cryptocurrency, is imminent.

Longtime Bitcoin evangelist predicts the cryptocurrency might quadruple in price over the next 12 months.

Key regulatory approvals that could make the crypto asset more mainstream have driven the spike.

Following a long and punishing crypto winter, and despite the damaging trials and tribulation of Sam Bankman-Fried, Bitcoin is on a red-hot run.

The ruling opens the door to an investment product that investors have been demanding for years.

In the space of an hour late on Thursday night, the price of the cryptocurrency dropped by almost $2000, from $43,170.96 at 9:30pm to $41,287.93 at 10:30pm.

Australians lost more than $221 million in crypto scams last year, leaving the average victim stripped of $56,600.

The price of Bitcoin has jumped 20 per cent over the last week, hitting levels not seen since the shock FTX exchange collapse.

Cryptocurrency was hit by a dark winter in 2022, but some analysts think a new spring is around the corner.

When Sam Bankman-Fried bought a nearly 7.6 per cent stake in Robinhood, he financed the deal with more than half a billion dollars illegally borrowed from his own hedge fund.

The former FTX CEO faces criminal charges in the US, including wire fraud and money laundering.

An American man who was involved in defrauding more than a dozen retirees out of $3.5 million in an investment scam has been jailed by a Sydney judge.

Designed to look like real paperwork relating to digital currency such as Bitcoin, but they could see your bank account emptied.

A new court filing about Sam Bankman-Fried's bankrupt companies reveals a crypto empire that was colossally mismanaged and potentially fraudulent.

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX could have more than 1 million creditors and has been in contact with "dozens" of regulators around the world

As the dust settles from one of the most shocking financial implosions in history, one of the key unknowns is how much customers who can't access their money expect to get back from FTX

Cryptocurrency insiders are debating whether to call the implosion of FTX, which filed for bankruptcy last week, a "Lehman moment".

Exhilaration is sweeping Wall Street and financial markets worldwide on the back of surprising inflation figures.

The cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it plans to buy its rival FTX Trading, in the latest example of how fortunes can change rapidly in the crypto world.

A man in the US has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $5 billion of stolen Bitcoin in what authorities have called a historic case.

Serial conman Peter Forster says "fatally flawed" fraud charges against him will be dropped by Queensland police and when the truth comes out others will go to jail, not him.

A Sydney business woman says she has lost her life savings in a cryptocurrency scam, calling the ordeal "the biggest mistake of her life".

After a brief resurgence, prompting hope the crypto winter might finally be over, Bitcoin has lost momentum and shed almost 20 per cent in seven days.

A cryptocurrency analyst predicted the punishing downturn would kill off up to 90 per cent of all crypto projects.

The two most popular cryptocurrencies in the world were brutalised in June, as Bitcoin recorded its heaviest monthly loss in more than a decade.

The wealth-generating hot streak for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has turned brutally cold.

El Salvador's Bitcoin-boosting president has asked people to be patient after the price of the cryptocurrency fell below $28,700 - less than half the price the government paid.

Bitcoin fell below the psychologically important threshold on Saturday for the first time since late 2020, in a fresh sign that the selloff in cryptocurrencies is deepening.

A growing number of startups are slashing staff in order to survive a possible prolonged downturn in the crypto market and the broader economy.

Gates jokes that "expensive digital images of monkeys" will "improve the world immensely".

One of the world's biggest lenders of cryptocurrency has paused all withdrawals amid "extreme market conditions".

One in nine Australians have purchased cryptocurrency in the past year, and almost one in five are interested in jumping into the market.

The founder of the world's second biggest cryptocurrency has gifted an Australian university more than $5 million to establish an online warning system for future pandemics.

The cryptocurrency brokerage reported a first-quarter loss late Tuesday and revenue that fell 27 per cent from a year ago, missing Wall Street's forecasts.

Bitcoin has plummeted nearly 20 per cent in just seven days as inflation worries hit crypto investors.

The man who spent almost $4 million on the NFT of then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's first tweet has failed to attract little more than $15,000 at auction.

It could be the largest cryptocurrency heist ever recorded in history.

Steve Wozniak said he has personally experimented with cryptocurrency but is not "in it to make money".

Late in 2013, when bitcoin prices were in the middle of a steep dip, a post appeared in an online forum featuring a misspelling that would become legendary: "I AM HODLING."