Nathaniel Popper covers finance and technology from San Francisco for The New York Times. He is the author of "Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money." Before joining The Times he was a reporter at The Los Angeles Times and The Forward.
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The electronic Chinese yuan is now being tested in cities such as Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. No other major power is as far along with a homegrown digital currency.
By Nathaniel Popper and Cao Li
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By Nathaniel Popper and Matt Phillips
Lawmakers at a congressional hearing kept coming back to the chief of the stock-trading app with pointed questions and a key argument: “Something very wrong happened here.”
By Nathaniel Popper and Matt Phillips
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By Nathaniel Popper
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The trader who pumped up the stock on the internet will appear next week with the leaders of the Robinhood app and hedge funds that lost big during the frenzy.
By Nathaniel Popper
Bitcoin and even Dogecoin, which began as a playful experiment, are soaring in value as billionaires, companies and celebrities promote the digital currencies.
By Nathaniel Popper
The moderators of the Reddit message board WallStreetBets battled over movie deals after their sudden fame with the GameStop mania.
By Nathaniel Popper, Taylor Lorenz and Matt Phillips
Keith Gill was an early endorser of GameStop on his YouTube channel. But a regulator in Massachusetts wants to know about his day job.
By Matthew Goldstein