Zhimin Qian acquired her cryptocurrency holdings using fraud proceeds through Huobi trading accounts, over-the-counter transactions in China, and cryptocurrency mining.

The first and largest cryptocurrency, spanning its price and adoption, mining, protocol politics, and its contested role as digital money and inflation hedge.

The venues where digital assets trade, from Coinbase and Binance to decentralized protocols, with their listings, licenses, custody and failures.

The industry that secures Bitcoin by expending energy, spanning public miners, hashrate economics, energy sourcing and the shift toward AI data-center workloads.