Mathew is a reporter who's covered the space since 2019, reporting on everything from Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's Bitcoin bet to crypto exchange FTX's bankruptcy.
A Wall Street Journal report says that the central bank's boss, Christine Lagarde, who has previously bashed Bitcoin and is pro-CBDCs, stopped Binance getting a foothold in the European Union.
Bitcoin's price on Friday shot above $81,000 — despite a week of setbacks for the crypto industry.
The biggest coin was recently trading for $80,982, after jumping as high as...