Bitcoin

Among crypto analysts, there is hope that maybe — just maybe — the crypto markets are turning a corner after a truly dismal year that was pockmarked by a slew of bankruptcies.

They had been due to launch in March 2022 — but their rollout has been repeatedly delayed after BTC's value plummeted during a punishing bear market.

Plus — why a new Apple product set to be released later this year could be exceptionally bullish for the metaverse.

Plus: after weeks of bickering, teams in the U.S. and The Bahamas have agreed to cooperate in bankruptcy proceedings against FTX.

CoinMarketCap data shows the best performers among the 20 biggest cryptocurrencies were Solana and Cardano — up 20% and 15% respectively compared with 24 hours ago.

Gary Harmon covertly transferred the Bitcoin from his brother's hardware wallet — despite the fact that it had been seized by law enforcement.

According to Blockworks editor David Canellis, BTC is now on the brink of enduring its longest bear market in its 14-year history.

As part of CMC's end-of-the-year wrap-up, we shine a light on what Bitcoin has been up to as the rest of the crypto market has struggled.

Today, Connor and Molly Jane are counting down from 43 to 37 — and we're talking about another crazy year for the NFT space.

CoinMarketCap Academy takes a visual look at some key Bitcoin metrics as we head into the year's end.

May, June and November saw huge one-week plunges in the value of Bitcoin — driven by Terra's implosion, crypto firms going bankrupt, and the FTX scandal.

While some of the market's losses were recovered over the last couple of weeks, crypto severely underperformed stocks throughout the month of November.

Plus, it's revealed that a senior FTX executive tipped off The Bahamas about the misuse of customer funds.

European Central Bank executive board member Fabio Panetta reopened the call for a ban on cryptocurrencies that use energy-intensive mining as a consensus mechanism.

The Bitcoin maximalist executive chairman of MicroStrategy explains how he believes FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried manipulated "air tokens" to loan himself $10 billion of customers' money.

It's a long-shot scenario in the global bank's annual set of long-shots, which calls out scenarios its analysts believe have a "non-zero" chance of coming true.

The authors argue a flurry of technological shortcomings mean Bitcoin transactions are "cumbersome, slow and expensive" — and it isn't used for legal real-world payments.

It isn't just the crypto markets that have been reacting to these protests, with selloffs also seen on the stock market.