Cash-strapped Argentines queue for eyeball scans
Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned ...
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Sam Bankman-Fried, the fallen wunderkind of cryptocurrency
New York (AFP) - He was the face of cryptocurrency, and a young one at that -- a media darling ...
Fallen crypto tycoon Bankman-Fried gets 25-year sentence
New York (AFP) - Disgraced cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in jail on Thursday -- a ...
Crypto fraudster Bankman-Fried faces sentencing
New York (AFP) - Disgraced cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried is set to be sentenced Thursday following his conviction in one ...
El Salvador’s ‘Bitcoin Beach’ cheers cryptocurrency surge
El Zonte (El Salvador) (AFP) - In a surf town in El Salvador nicknamed "Bitcoin Beach," shopkeeper Maria Aguirre watched ...
El Salvador stashes $406 million in bitcoin in ‘cold wallet’: Bukele
San Salvador (AFP) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said Thursday that his country has stored more than $400 million ...
Bitcoin zooms to record beyond $72,000
London (AFP) - Bitcoin raced to an all-time peak above $72,000 Monday as the world's most popular cryptocurrency won further ...
Stocks slip as bitcoin hits fresh record high
London (AFP) - Bitcoin rose struck a fresh record high Monday but stock markets mostly fell as traders awaited more ...
In bitcoin’s shadow, another cryptocurrency, Ether, stages its own rally
New York (AFP) - Bitcoin has captured the limelight in recent weeks as it surged to a new record high, ...
Nigeria targets cryptocurrency in bid to end naira freefall
Lagos (AFP) - The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange Binance is halting operations in Nigeria's naira currency as the government puts ...
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