Bitcoin

The proposal acknowledges it would require a coordinated network upgrade and could risk a chain split if parts refuse to adopt the change.

Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh says it’s the new gold, but bitcoin’s plunge proves that it belongs in a trading account — not a national reserve.

Bitcoin and the broader crypto market headed into Friday on the back foot, with most major tokens posting losses over the last 24 hours as traders continued to de-risk alongside equities following Nvidia’s earnings-driven pullback. […]

MARA Holdings Inc. is partnering with Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital Group to develop some of the Bitcoin miner’s existing sites into infrastructure that can support artificial intelligence applications and some other cloud services.