Carlos Garcia

Articles by Carlos Garcia

Why Strategy bought another $2 billion in Bitcoin despite a slumping crypto market

Crypto January 23, 2026

Bitcoin is dipping, but that only seems to make Strategy buy more of it. The largest digital asset treasury purchased more than $2 billion worth of Bitcoin this week, CEO Michael Saylor revealed on XοΏ½...

Mass texts and EZ-Pass phishing: $17 billion stolen in crypto scams, largely by the Chinese

Crypto January 21, 2026

EZ-Pass final reminder: you have an outstanding toll. Such texts have become all too familiar to many Americans, and it is a Chinese-backed criminal network that is largely behind them. These scammerοΏ½...

Bitcoin closes in on $100,000 in surprise surge

Crypto January 15, 2026

New Year, new hope for Bitcoin. After several months of sputtering, Bitcoin is back on the rise. On Wednesday, the original cryptocurrency surpassed $97,000 for the first time in two months and is upοΏ½...

Meld raises $7 million to integrate stablecoin networks, build the β€˜Visa for crypto’

Crypto January 15, 2026

When a company wants to pay its employees in different countries using stablecoins, it encounters a roadblock: many countries use different stablecoin service providers: there is Yellow Card in SouthοΏ½...

Rumors are swirling about Venezuela holding $60 billion in Bitcoinβ€”but crypto experts are skeptical

Crypto January 10, 2026

Following the United States capture of NicolΓ‘s Maduro over the weekend, a report came out claiming that Venezuela had $60 billion stored in Bitcoinleading to speculation that the U.S. could lay claim...

Russia and Iran are increasingly turning to cryptoβ€”especially stablecoinsβ€”to avoid sanctions, report finds

Crypto January 9, 2026

Illegal activity in the crypto sector is nothing new but, in recent months, it is nation-states that account for a growing share of it. In the last year, there has been a 694% increase in crypto receοΏ½...

Stanford professor raises $15 million for Babylon, a decentralized protocol to turn Bitcoin into collateral

Crypto January 8, 2026

When a Bitcoin owner wants to generate yield from their holdings, they typically go to a third party. That middleman is usually a stablecoin issuer or exchange like Tether or Coinbase that allows theοΏ½...

Notorious crypto conman Sam Bankman-Fried has a prison passion project: giving legal advice to other inmates - Fortune

Business December 24, 2025

The founder of FTX has brought his entrepreneurial spirit behind bars. He has advised several high-profile inmates, like former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez and rapper Sean Combs, accordοΏ½...

Notorious crypto conman Sam Bankman-Fried has a prison passion project: giving legal advice to other inmates

Crypto December 23, 2025

The founder of FTX has brought his entrepreneurial spirit behind bars. He has advised several high-profile inmates, like former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez and rapper Sean Combs, accordοΏ½...

North Korea stole a record amount of cryptoβ€”again: report estimatesΒ  its hackers’ 2025 haul at $2 billion

Crypto December 19, 2025

A massive amount of crypto was robbed this year, and most of it went to North Korea. The country accounted for roughly 59% of the more than $3.4 billion in stolen crypto, according to Chainalysis 202οΏ½...