Bitcoin

Pure Crypto is employing a PE-style drawdown on LP capital calls for its third fund.

“I don’t believe that Binance or Coinbase will settle,” PitchBook analyst Robert Le said.

As bitcoin climbs to uncharted highs, mainstream investors are opening up to cryptocurrency, and Bitpanda has capitalized on the boom to become Austria’s very first unicorn.

Coinbase has formally filed for a direct listing, which joins Paul Ryan, Lucid Motors, telecom transactions and more in our recap of the week.

PitchBook analysts are at CES this week, where they’re sharing their take on the tech talk, gadgets and industry trends likely to shape the coming year. Here’s the report from day one.

Coinbase hits an $8 billion valuation, Aaron Rodgers invests in safer football helmets and more from the past week in VC.

In a scathing report, the world’s central bank has labeled the largest cryptocurrency useless, unsafe and environmentally disastrous.

A lot has happened in the past six months to fuel skeptics of cryptocurrency. Nonetheless, VCs have taken a big leap forward when it comes to investing in the space.

New research suggests that roughly half of bitcoin’s meteoric rise in late 2017 was driven by possibly fraudulent buying demand—undercutting the main reason why bitcoin entered the mainstream.

Turmoil and volatility in the stock market—which senior writer Anthony Mirhaydari warned about in January—has hit with ferocity. That’s threatening the most exciting areas of the private markets.

Emilie Choi joined Coinbase as vice president of corporate and business development earlier this month after eight years with LinkedIn. Her mandate: acqui-hire. Her options: virtually limitless.

The bitcoin headlines are still coming in hard and fast, despite a harrowing drop from the December highs of just below $20,000. The sentiment bubble remains intact. But are prices headed even lower?

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been battered by selling pressure over the past month. Is this merely another dip to buy or the start of something worse?

Adam Draper made a crazy bet on cryptocurrency when he launched a bitcoin startup accelerator in 2012. Now it’s paying off big time, and the Boost VC founder is looking to the future.

According to a price analysis that went viral this week, the rise of bitcoin has overtaken Tulip Mania of the 1600s and the Mississippi Bubble of the 1700s to become the largest bubble ever.

Despite the ICO craze of 2017, cryptocurrency startups are still nabbing venture capital backing. Here’s a look at the eight most active investors in the bitcoin/blockchain space.

The rise has been breathless: From a low of $3,226 on September 14, bitcoin pushed past the $17,000 level on Thursday, a gain of more than 400% in less than three months. Is it sustainable?

At 500 Startups’ PreMoney conference, Blockchain Capital co-founder and managing partner P. Bart Stephens shared an interesting statistic from a survey that his crypto-focused firm did recently.