Full coverage: bitcoin

Bitcoin is not an asset. Bitcoin is not a currency. And unlike the booms of the past, Bitcoin is not the excessive hope of a plausible promise.

Ciaran Murray travelled the world, moving from villa to villa, trading cryptocurrencies. Now back in Dublin, he’s on a mission to revolutionise journalism with blockchain technology. But who is he? And can he succeed where so many others have failed?

The things that happened last year, the predictions of the things that happened last year, and the predictions for the coming year.

The German entrepreneur Christian Angermayer wears many hats. He is an investor, film enthusiast, and psychedelics proselytiser with business links to controversial Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. So why is he and the tech firm Northern Data suing Twitter?