The 28-year-old was brought to the Nolita home, where he was held and tortured for several weeks, according to sources.

The Venetian Convention and Expo Center will host the world’s largest bitcoin conference next week. While the cryptocurrency community has gathered in Las Vegas before

Price move gives renewed hope that the digital token can achieve a kind of escape velocity against almost any economic backdrop.

Bitcoin has been embraced by BlackRock and the U.S. government, but skeptics remain. Early Bitcoiner Adam Back shares his take on why.

Now, as a Wall Street giant suddenly flips from gold to bitcoin, the bitcoin price is braced for a huge week that will see U.S. president Donald Trump’s vice president JD Vance speak alongside Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks at the Bitcoin 2025 conference.

It’s not an official holiday – yet – but for many cryptocurrency enthusiasts “Bitcoin Pizza Day” is still special. Thursday marks the 15th anniversary of the first known use of cryptocurrency to buy real-world goods.

Bitcoin slumped just modestly from record high levels on Friday, but the carnage in related stocks was far worse.

Bitcoin Pizza Day marks Bitcoin's first real-world purchase, turning two pizzas into crypto legend—celebrating innovation, community, and blockchain's journey.

Crypto-related stocks rose early Thursday while stock futures were trading largely flat, after the world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin hit a record high. Crypto exchanges Coinbase Global and Robinhood rose 2.

Bitcoin’s value broke the $100,000 mark for the first time in early December and moved even higher later in the month before pricing eased a bit. The digital token ended 2024 up over 100% for the year, with about half that gain realized after President Donald Trump‘s election victory in early November.

On May 22, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) hit a new all-time high of nearly $112,000. With a total market cap of $2.2 trillion, it now ranks as one of the five most valuable assets in the world, trailing only Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and gold.