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Cryptocurrency holders typically secure their holdings in "cold storage" using offline hardware wallets beyond the purview of governments and financial institutions.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 7, 2026
Hack of supposedly safe bitcoin tool tests faith of the devoted
Bad actors fleeced investors of an estimated $130 million by exploiting a software flaw in an offline hardware wallet called Coldcard.
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump stand outside the Nasdaq building after ring the opening bell to celebrate the closing of ALT5¡¯s $1.5 billion offering and adoption of its $WLFI Treasury Strategy at the Nasdaq Market, in New York in August 2025.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 10, 2026
Parsing the Trumps¡¯ crypto profits and investors¡¯ losses
The Trump family has made $2.3 billion from crypto with little-to-no downside risk, while other investors have lost $2.3 billion, including paper losses, as of the end of April.
A video of U.S. President Donald Trump speaking at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville plays on a screen during a forum at the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong on Aug. 28, 2025.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 10, 2026
Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don¡¯t.
The Trump family has generated at least $2.3 billion in profit from investors since Donald Trump retook the presidency
A Vietnamese cryptocurrency investor looks at the latest Bitcoin values on a smartphone in Hanoi on Feb. 12.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 16, 2026
Crash course: Vietnam¡¯s crypto boom goes bust
Unlike neighboring China, which has banned cryptocurrencies, Vietnam has allowed blockchain technology to develop in a legal gray area.
Donald Trump¡¯s pro-crypto shift dismantled regulations and empowered industry insiders, but bitcoin¡¯s poor performance and the risks posed by lightly regulated stablecoins expose crypto¡¯s failure as money.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2026
The coming crypto apocalypse
The future of money and payments will feature gradual evolution, not the revolution that crypto-grifters promised.
Bitcoin has wiped out all of its gains since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, who pledged on the campaign trail to overhaul policies toward digital assets.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 6, 2026
Bitcoin slump shakes companies that jumped on crypto-hoarding bandwagon
Bitcoin has wiped out all of its gains since the election of U.S. Presidnet Donald Trump, who pledged on the campaign trail to overhaul policies toward digital assets.
A year-end plunge in cryptocurrencies has rattled companies that had bet heavily on bitcoin.
BUSINESS
Dec 28, 2025
How company bets on bitcoin can backfire
A year-end plunge in cryptocurrencies has rattled companies that had bet heavily on bitcoin.
A cryptocurrency advertisement featuring an image of U.S. President Donald Trump in Hong Kong. The current U.S. administration¡¯s endorsement of crypto is driven by a mix of personal financial interest, ideology, and the need to reinforce global demand for dollars to finance America¡¯s trade deficit.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2025
Is crypto an opportunity or a threat?
Crypto innovation has some valuable features but the proliferation of private digital assets has widened the gap between private and social interests.
The theft of 127,272 Bitcoin tokens from the LuBian Bitcoin mining pool in December 2020 is likely a "state-level hacker operation¡± led by the U.S., according to the Chinese National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025
China accuses U.S. of orchestrating $13 billion bitcoin hack
The theft of the 127,272 Bitcoin tokens from the LuBian Bitcoin mining pool in December 2020 is?one of the largest crypto heists in history.
Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, during the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong, China, in August. Japanese policymakers are taking a more positive view of crypto as U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s embrace of the assets bolsters the industry.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 21, 2025
Â鶹´«Ã½ FSA may allow banks to invest in crypto assets if risks are managed
The Financial Services Agency is also considering allowing banking groups to apply for licenses to operate cryptoexchanges, according to a source.
Ferries cross the Mekong River in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Oct. 8. U.S. prosecutors have charged Chen Zhi, the chairman of Phnom Penh-based Prince Group, with engaging in a wire-fraud conspiracy and operating a money-laundering scheme.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 15, 2025
U.S. seizes $15B in bitcoin and charges Cambodian mogul with cyberfraud
Prince Group Chairman Chen Zhi, who was born in China but emigrated to Cambodia, is not in custody and remains at large.
Eric Trump, a son of U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong on Friday. He attended an extraordinary shareholders meeting of Metaplanet in Tokyo on Monday as the firm's adviser.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 2, 2025
Eric Trump takes stage in Japan as bitcoin firm Metaplanet votes on capital plan
The relationship between the Japanese bitcoin firm and U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s son comes as the Trump family expands its crypto ventures internationally.
Network School¡¯s co-working space in Johor Bahru, Malaysia
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 1, 2025
Techno-utopia rises in Malaysia¡¯s $100 billion Forest City flop
Entrepreneurs experiment with ¡°startup societies¡± defined less by historical territory than shared beliefs in technology, cryptocurrency and light regulation.
A sleepy Tokyo-listed operator of nail salons is aiming to reinvent itself as one of the world¡¯s largest corporate holders of Bitcoin.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 30, 2025
Japanese nails salon attempts reinvention as major bitcoin holder
The shift is the latest in a wave of radical financial reinventions pulling the likes of biotech firms and regional banks into crypto¡¯s orbit.
Eric Trump plans to attend a shareholder meeting of Japanese bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet on Sept. 1, according to people familiar with the matter.
BUSINESS
Aug 22, 2025
Eric Trump to visit Japan in September amid crypto push
The U.S. President¡¯s son plans to attend a shareholder meeting of Japanese bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet.
The U.S. dollar's dominance is threatened as digital currencies' security and data integrity become key factors in the global monetary system, challenging America's economic privilege.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2025
Currency dominance in the digital age
As digital technologies power money via stablecoins and CBDCs, currency networks depend on both macroeconomics and infrastructure security.
As crypto adoption grows and Bitcoin hits new highs, a surge in violent attacks, kidnappings and hacks targeting holders underscores the steep and often overlooked cost of being your own bank in a cashless world.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 11, 2025
Crypto crime is the future. Bank heists are history.
Banks are no longer easy or juicy targets for robbers, with heists down more than 80% since the 1990s as branches close and piles of cash hoarded in safes become a rarity.
Over a five-year period, shares of Bitcoin-buyer Metaplanet have soared more than 3,000%.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 17, 2025
Bitcoin buyer Metaplanet sees market value top ?1 trillion amid crypto rally
But not everyone is convinced Metaplanet¡¯s rally will last, with short positions having grown to about 23% of its free float as of last Thursday.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this month establishing the 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.'
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Mar 16, 2025
Trump¡¯s bitcoin reserve to be a ¡®digital Fort Knox¡¯
The reserve is funded by about 200,000 bitcoins ¡ª worth nearly $17 billion ¡ª that have been seized in the U.S. as a result of civil and criminal cases.
Capital gains on direct Bitcoin purchases are subject to taxes of up to 55% in Japan, making investing in stock proxies like Metaplanet via the Nippon Individual Savings Account program a cheap and convenient option for small-scale and first-time buyers.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 10, 2025
Bitcoin hoarder¡¯s stock soars 4,000% in Japan on crypto rally
Shares of Metaplanet are up more than 4,000% over the past 12 months, the largest gain among all Japanese equities in that period.
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Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
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She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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