Crypto

The Blackpool man who found a pot of crypto gold

Lewis Goodall makes sense of this brilliantly nutty tale about James Parker, the fraudster who spent £24.5m in free bitcoin. Plus, a deadly standup routine

How to own a Rembrandt – just a little bit of one

A collector plans to float his Dutch masters on the stock market, letting thousands of investors take stakes in the collection

Fears grow over far right’s embrace of crypto

Hard-to trace digital transactions could lead to hostile states threatening democracy

The six warning signs as crypto is welcomed into the US mainstream

In a week, the Trump family’s wealth has increased by more than $6.5bn after their crypto company debuted on the Nasdaq

Never mind the profits: new model is to hold crypto and forget risk

Struggling companies the world over are praying that a risky cryptocurrency strategy is the answer to their problems

Bullish bets big that this crypto bubble won’t burst

Soaring shares after IPO suggests what was a marginal sector has entered the mainstream

Iranian energy crisis looms as revolutionary guards mine Bitcoin

‘There is just no water left’: anger at government as drought and power outages take hold

Ethereum surges in cryptocurrency battle

Fuelled by Trump regulations and faster trading, Ethereum has surged ahead of rival Bitcoin in the ongoing crypto wars

Tether’s record quarterly profit shows strength of stablecoins

Tether, the world’s largest issuer of dollar-backed stablecoins, registered a whopping net profit of $4.9bn (£3.7bn) last week