A UK judge ruled against a man who was hoping to retrieve a Bitcoin-laden hard drive from a city dump. That wallet today, the owner says, is worth nearly $750 million and could be worth $1 billion next year.

Since 2013, James Howells has been hoping to recover a laptop hard drive that he says contains the private key for cryptocurrency which he says he mined in 2009. We wrote about it at the time, noting that the value of a bitcoin had just passed $1,000, making 7,500 bitcoins worth $7.5 million.

James Howells lost his legal battle to recover a hard drive with $770 million worth of Bitcoin after a UK judge dismissed the case.

A federal judge approved the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to sell $6.5 billion in Bitcoin acquired from the Silk Road darknet.

A new wave of exchange-traded funds holding bitcoin attracted about $37 billion of total net flows in their first year of trading, fueling a monster rally in the cryptocurrency along the way. Regulato

Spot bitcoin ETFs began trading a year ago, opening up the crypto market to a wider range of investors and paving the way for more such products.

It’s been one year since US Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hit Wall Street. They cannonballed in and broke records that are impossible to ignore. In twelve months, these babies have pulled in 1.