What Elon Musk gets wrong about bitcoin The Tesla CEO personified the shift from bitcoin capitalist to eco-warrior in six months, crashing it in the process. But a new plan means greening bitcoin could become a profitable venture. Joon Ian Wong 6.25.21 10:00 AM
Experts like Robert Schiller are arguing whether NFTs are a bubble, a fad, an epidemic — or here to stay At the heart of the bubble kerfuffle is a question of the language and data: What constitutes a bubble, and how do we know if we were even in one? Joon Ian Wong 6.18.21 1:55 PM
Binance’s head of NFTs explains the company’s new focus on creators Helen Hai, the head of Binance’s NFT and Charity divisions, hopes that the company’s foray into NFTs will pave the way for their use beyond the art world. Ivan De Luce 6.17.21 12:00 PM
What is Strike, the digital wallet company behind El Salvador's Bitcoin announcement? The President of El Salvador partnered with an American cryptocurrency startup to propose that his country begin accepting Bitcoin as a legal tender. Danny Konstantinovic 6.8.21 3:30 PM
Chamath, Cuban, bitcoin: Metromile's wild ride into the future of car insurance, where less driving means more profit The pay-per-mile insurer, led by CEO Dan Preston, went public via a SPAC and jumped on the crypto bandwagon. Christie Smythe 6.7.21 5:26 PM
What Bitcoin's crash says about crypto's role in geopolitics Getting sucked into geopolitics is not a great look for a stateless project. But Bitcoin as a political hot potato is likely here to stay. Joon Ian Wong 6.3.21 5:12 PM