Bitcoin. Nurphoto | Getty Images The price of bitcoin shot above the $54,000 level on Monday after waking up from a week of tepid trading. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 5% at $54,460.00, according to Coin Metrics. At its session high, bitcoin hit $54,965.26 and reached its highest level since December 2021. “Today … Read more
Binance chief Changpeng Zhao will plead guilty to criminal charges and step down as the company’s CEO as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the Department of Justice, according to court documents. The plea arrangement with the government resolves a multi-year investigation into the world’s largest crypto exchange. Zhao and others are charged with … Read more
Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images The price of ether jumped Thursday, topping the key $2,000 level for the first time since April, after BlackRock filed for a spot ether ETF. Ether was last higher by 7.5% at $2,037.39, according to Coin Metrics. Meanwhile, bitcoin rose 5% to $37,504.34, its highest level since May … Read more
Bitcoin has had a strong start to the year with the cryptocurrency seeing a huge rally. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin rose to a new high for 2023 on Thursday as optimism around a potential bitcoin ETF approval continued to build. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency rose more than 3.5% to … Read more