The two major techbro obsessions—crypto and AI—have delivered mostly scams and hype. But this year, they managed to buy themselves a federal government.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his hand.

If you thought there was too much money in politics before, you’re in for a rude awakening.

The CEO of FTX was the worst possible subject for a biographer of real but limited talent: He was boring.

Coinbase and Binance allegedly hoped to flout the law just long enough to change it.

The battle for power and influence in the nation’s capital is more shameless, desperate, and embarrassing than ever.

Digital currency enthusiasts can scream all they want about the Biden administration conspiring against them, but they brought this on themselves.

The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York has become one of the country’s chief financial watchdogs.

The government’s request for an outsider examiner to explore what led to the company’s downfall was shot down.

After years of unwarranted hype ballooned its value, the crypto market came crashing down in 2022, bankrupting billionaires and naïve investors alike. Has America learned its lesson?

In his 1854 book “Hard Times,” the great British novelist satirized the utilitarian underpinnings of the Effective Altruist movement.

Federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission made a strong case for the latter on Tuesday.

Embracing the bitcoin industry’s regulatory agenda is not the answer to the crypto crash.

The overarching lesson of Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall is that the gauzy philosophical natterings of CEOs are just meant to distract us from their real goal: accumulating cash without interference.

Celebrities such as Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen, and Shohei Ohtani face a class-action lawsuit for their roles touting the now wiped-out FTX.

Ditch the crypto bros and push forward with regulation.

Donald Trump Jr. is weighing in on a heated MAGA primary in a Long Island congressional district, and his father is trying to spoil Democratic primaries elsewhere.

Sam Bankman-Fried may have lost in Oregon, but he and other crypto big shots have discovered politics. What will Democrats do for them in return?

Cryptocurrency, climate, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are starting to intersect in strange ways.

Depraved grifters compounded the misery of Covid-19 by defrauding Americans through bitcoin, NFTs, and meme stocks.