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Gabriel Shipton at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, February 2025.

How Julian Assange’s brother and a crypto artist raised $74m to free him

Gabriel Shipton and the cyber artist Pak joined forces to create an NFT artwork that played a major role in securing the WikiLeaks founder’s release.

  • Karl Quinn

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Risky investments such as cryptocurrency can be a great way to lose a lot of money later in life.

Bitcoin is no longer just a financial asset – it’s a political one

Thanks to Donald Trump, Bitcoin is not just a trade but a core asset class, integrated into the financial system.

  • Billy Leung
Bybit CEO Ben Zhou assured customers that the company was still solvent.

The $2.4 billion hack that has rattled the crypto world

As President Donald Trump embraces crypto, we just got a reminder of why it remains the Wild West of the financial world.

  • David Yaffe-Bellany
Nathan Carloss says his son, Lachlan, has become much more careful with his spending since being introduced to crypto.

Why kids are ploughing their pocket money into crypto

Instead of a bagful of sweets at the milk bar, many teens are spending their hard-earned investing in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.

  • Emily Chantiri
Cutouts of President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, left, President-elect Donald Trump, center, and Elon Musk, at the Bitcoin MENA 2024 conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates,

The ‘curious’ Trump coin trade that made an investor $173 million in two days

The controversial Trump coin has been great business for the president’s family and for early investors. Others have not been so lucky.

  • Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany
The $TRUMP coin will serve as an online prediction market on the popularity of the Trump government.

Trump has made billions from his coin. But it is tearing the crypto world apart

Trump has never been afraid to cash in on his power and fame, but his shock decision to launch a new cryptocurrency has sparked fury.

  • David Yaffe-Bellany and Eric Lipton
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Cryptocurrency and pot – a heady combination.

Rich Lister’s medical marijuana dreams go up in smoke

OneLife Labs has collapsed, owing its creditors $18.5 million.

  • Sarah Danckert
Within hours of its launch, the price of Trump’s oh-so-inventively named meme coin $Trump, had skyrocketed by as much as 600 per cent.

Trump’s ridiculous ‘meme coin’ lays bare crypto’s rotten underbelly

What if I told you about a great investment opportunity that involves putting your hard-earned savings into a product that, two weeks ago, didn’t exist?

  • Victoria Devine
David Balland, a co-founder of French crypto firm Ledger, had his hand mutilated while he and his wife were kidnapped.

Millionaire crypto boss rescued from kidnappers – but not in time to save his finger

Ledger founder David Balland and his wife were freed after a 48-hour police search across France.

  • Henry Samuel
Trump meme coin. Photo: X (formerly known as Twitter)

$Trump meme coin gives new meaning to ‘creating money out of thin air’

The surge in Donald Trump’s meme coin, which didn’t exist a week ago and has no intrinsic value, takes speculative investment to a head-exploding level.

  • Elizabeth Knight

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