August 5, 2020, will forever remain engraved in the history of gold. Indeed, it is the day when an ounce of gold surpassed the $2,000 price for the first time in its history. Gold began the year 2020 at an already very high level of $1,520 an ounce. Aside from the significant drop it experienced a few days during the liquidity crisis that hit the world in March 2020, the gold price has never stopped to rise this year.

Whether or not Bitcoin is halal has been a point of contention for many Muslims. But the answer depends mostly on its intended use.

Bitcoin and Ethereum crashed by 12% and 20% respectively in about 6 minutes as more than $1 billion of positions were liquidated.

The decentralized nature of Bitcoin is what makes it stand out compared to traditional, tightly controlled fiat currencies, US Congressman Tom Emmer said yesterday, during the “Pomp Podcast” hosted by Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano.

According to the company, a small number of employees were targeted in a "phone spear phishing attack," suggesting that hackers called some of its staff and duped them into thinking they were speaking with fellow Twitter employees, leading them to reveal the credentials the hackers needed to access internal account support tools.

The likelihood of bitcoin challenging record highs by the end of the year may have have increased with the cryptocurrency’s violation of major price resistance – but don’t raise your hopes too high just yet.

Bitcoin is a form of "money", a Washington, D.C. federal court said on Friday.

The scammers have raised $20,000 — and rising — in less than an hour.

Bitcoin can benefit the black community and help create leverage against the current financial system, author Isaiah Jackson told the Decrypt Daily podcast.

Bitcoin prices take flight on Monday.

Samsung is diving deeper into cryptocurrencies, the South Korean technology giant and creator of the Galaxy smartphone range, could soon become one of the biggest drivers of bitcoin, crypto and blockchain adoption.While bitcoin traders and investors are focused on the upcoming bitcoin halving, a looming U.S. bitcoin crackdown, and rocky crypto trading volume, Samsung is putting the power of bitcoin, crypto and blockchain in people's hands.

The largest Bitcoin wallet that belongs to an unknown entity or individual recently moved 101,857 BTC, worth just over $933 million. The transfer was first noticed by automated crypto tracking service Bitcoin Block Bot on June 27. And for this whopping transaction, the mysterious owner of the wallet paid just $0.48 in fees.

The pseudonymous owner of Bitcoin’s oldest website—created by Satoshi Nakamoto himself—has fired its maintainer after a verbal dispute.

The financial space was rocked by the news that German fintech group Wirecard filed for insolvency owing €3.5bn. Not only a financial failure but also a seemingly “elaborate and sophisticated fraud,” according to EY, the company’s auditor for more than a decade.

A privacy strategy known as CoinJoin has been used to make roughly 70,000 Bitcoin private this month alone. Here's why that's a big deal.

In general it is seen that the stock markets, especially the major indices like the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones, are representative of the state of the economy in the US. When there are poor factors impacting the economy, the markets closely mirror this. This was clearly seen as the case when the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was realized across the US and the markets took a tumble in the middle of March, and has been the case in most major troubled times for the country.

Many people know the benefits of Bitcoin but few users know that they are not as anonymous as they think. Certainly, it’s a fact that Bitcoin works on the blockchain, which means every other investor, bitcoin user, miner, or other person connected to the network can track your transactions and moves.

Bitcoin as a censorship-free money has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals. Alexandra Elbakyan, a 31-year-old freelance coder, neurobiologist and phylologist, is running a database of over 80 million articles from academic journals that are normally available only through subscriptions.

A fake Bitcoin scam, with Elon Musk’s likeness at the helm, has reportedly raked in over $2 million.

Since the dawn of civilisation, from barter to bitcoin, the very meaning of the word ‘currency’ has never stood still. Even in the current century, the core idea of what currency “is” continues to be malleable by group behaviour and innovation. Fiat currencies fall (mostly inflation led — case in point, Zimbabwean Dollar and Venezuelan Bolivar) but exchange of value, trades and transactions continues to take place with alternative forms of exchange. As a result, money will very likely evolve to a new medium.