The group’s bourse bills itself as the world's only bank-backed full service digital exchange – offering cryptocurrency trading, asset tokenisation and digital custody services

Fears about the impact of new coronavirus outbreaks on the economic recovery becalmed most trading floors around the region while the prospect of political change in Japan spurred more gains

Beijing’s administrators have long felt frustrated by capitalist excesses as the communist state sought to tread a delicate path between prosperity and fairness – but this year their patience snapped and the lawmakers made their move

While the Delta variant remains cause for concern, bargain hunting and Fed comment that hints at a slowing of taper plans help erode last week’s losses; bitcoin surges past $50K

• Digital asset manager CoinShares reports weekly outflow of $33 million • Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain network, sees supply drop...

• Dow and S&P 500 record all-time highs while Hang Seng fizzles • Bitcoin hovering around $44,000 after surging more...

Analysts expect slip in US EV-maker’s second-quarter results; Critical launch of self-produced battery has suffered series of setbacks

Musk comments that Tesla may resume accepting bitcoin help lift sentiment Reports also link Twitter, Amazon with cryptocurrency use  ...

Officers use steamroller to destroy 1,000 machines worth $1.25m in a car park; Energy-hungry computers stole $2m of electricity to ‘mine’ coins 

Lawyers for investors in a cryptocurrency exchange in South Africa say billions have disappeared after accounts were hacked – and...

The issue with Bitcoin mining As the world is becoming increasingly aware, Bitcoin is struggling with an energy efficiency crisis....

Chinese mines powered nearly 80% of the global trade in cryptocurrencies – and that’s despite a domestic trading ban for the last four years – but now with almost all the crypto operations shutdown by a hardline central government, the mines are on the move