BlackRock has set up a working group to investigate ways the world’s largest asset manager can take advantage of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market despite its chief executive lambasting the bitcoin sector. The $6.3tn investment powerhouse has created a team from different parts of the business to investigate cryptocurrencies and their underlying infrastructure, blockchain, according to two people familiar with the matter.

It is hard to predict when quantum computers will be strong and fast enough to crack the codes that keep bitcoin safe. But that day is coming.

Hundreds of coins created through initial coin offerings (ICO) have become worthless. 

Why I quit my day job to become a Bitcoin miner.

Bitcoin mining has been the talk of the town lately, despite the high fluctuations in the coin's value. Though the woes for the coin are ever increasing, the crypto community hasn’t lost the hots for the coin. Even now, it is dominating the crypto market’s trade volume, standing tall at 43.4%. But, the bitcoin mining community is in a state of panic as the mining costs have hit the skies despite the fall in the coin’s value!

Despite the risks involved with investing in the still nascent cryptocurrency market, one chief security scientist believes that cryptocurrencies are still “absolutely a good thing” — they’ve just got some work to do.

The Bitcoin community has changed greatly over the years; from technophiles that could explain a Merkle tree in their sleep, to speculators driven by the desire for a quick profit & blockchain startups seeking billion dollar valuations led by people who don’t even know what a Merkle tree is.

A University of Texas team found evidence that a cryptocurrency boom may have been largely due to manipulation.

Few billionaire investors have been so vocal and bullish on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency price appreciation as Tim Draper, the founder of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. TheStreet sat down with Draper in early May at the Collision tech conference and later chatted after Draper spoke at the Federal Reserve in San Francisco in mid-May, where he told the people at the organization in charge of U.S. monetary policy that it might be time for them...

Wells Fargo & Co. customers hoping to use their credit cards to buy Bitcoin will have to look elsewhere.

The former White House strategist has even toyed with the idea of creating a new virtual currency, a “deplorables coin.”

Have you always wanted to buy some bitcoin, but did not know how? Well, this guide is just for you. I will show you how to buy bitcoin in under 15 minutes and also how to buy alternative cryptocurrencies, so called altcoins.

What are Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and why do they matter? According to Investopedia, an ETF is a marketable security that tracks an index, a commodity, bonds, or a basket of assets like an index fund. ETFs typically own the underlying assets (such as Bitcoin) and turn that ownership into shares. The great thing about ETFs is the simplicity of access via the public stock exchanges. Buying and selling ETFs is just as simple as buying and selling stocks.

Operation Dark Gold targeted dark-web drug dealers, offering cash in exchange for tainted cryptocurrency

Bitcoin could consume 7.7 gigawatts by the end of 2018.

The Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether traders are manipulating the price of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, dramatically ratcheting up U.S. scrutiny of red-hot markets that critics say are rife with misconduct, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Explains how Bitcoin works for general audiences without skipping the key technical insight. Covers money, value, gold, blockchain & proof of work.

Critic David Golumbia is blowing the whistle on how crypto has normalized right-wing economic thought

The cryptocurrency ecosystem could see an enormous influx of capital entering the market in the next 2 years. This information follows the London Block Exchange’s research on the population of the cryptocurrency market. Encouraging statistics suggest that while there is an underrepresentation of women in Bitcoin, interest among female investors in cryptocurrency is rapidly growing.

McAfee tweeted today that he was poisoned and left him in a coma. He's been worried about his safety before, including during a February Bitcoin conference.

Bitcoin has seen a massive decline in 2018 and it looks like it may get worse before it gets better. It is leaving investors grasping for reasons why the world's top cryptocurrency is falling so hard, with some wondering - could this be it for Bitcoin?

Andreas Antonopoulos, the Bitcoin and blockchain expert, has shown its support for the ultimate scaling solution for Bitcoin known as Lightning Network (LN). During periods with high transacted volumes, the network was overloaded, which led to increase transaction fees and slow processing times.

After devouring nearly as much energy as all of Iceland’s households combined, Bitcoin miners may be about to return something to the community that’s housed them.

While most big banks have steered clear of virtual currencies, the Wall Street giant will use its own money to trade in Bitcoin-related contracts.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Monday said buyers of bitcoin, which he has characterized as “rat poison squared,” thrive on the hope they’ll find other people who will pay more for it.

Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are warming up to Bitcoin, a virtual currency that for nearly a decade has been consigned to the unregulated fringes of the financial world. The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange has been working on an online trading platform that would allow large investors to buy and hold Bitcoin, according to emails and documents viewed by The New York Times and four people briefed on the effort who asked to remain anonymous because the plans were still confidential.

CNBC's Seema Mody reports on the world's largest bitcoin conference. And Arthur Hayes, BitMEX CEO, discusses his outlook for the cryptocurrency. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Pete Najarian, Tim Seymour, Dan Nathan and Guy Adami.

The 2018 Consensus conference in New York was packed with numerous DLT insiders. But outside, Genesis Mining created a spectacle by staging a protest by “Bankers Against Bitcoin,” a group they helped create and support.

What libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, and proponents of the Austrian school of economics, all have in common is their love for free markets and disdain for state intervention. Many evangelists of these schools of thought have thus publicly praised decentralized digital currencies, such as bitcoin, as they provide individuals with personal financial sovereignty and allows them to store their wealth in an asset whose value cannot be controlled by the actions of central banks.

“Crypto is an oddball fucking thing…” By Davis Richardson.

Just recently the tech giant Apple has revised its App Store policies concerning cryptocurrency applications offered within the platform marketplace. The new rules are a bit stricter and apply to cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges, and platforms that facilitate Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).

Bitcoin price plunge over the weekend is generally being linked to another cryptocurrency exchange hack in South Korea. This time it was a smaller exchange called Coinrail that was breached by blackhats who made off with over $40 million in altcoins which may have caused the massive sell-off on Sunday leaving a trail of red all through the top 100 trading cryptocurrencies.

CloudSight, a Los Angeles-based technology startup that specializes in image captioning and understanding, will use the Bitcoin Lightning Network for microtransactions to gather and share visual knowledge and allow artificial intelligence (AI) systems to learn from and communicate with each other, the company said on Thursday.

The bitcoin price has dipped below the $5,900 mark, after initially dipping below the $6,000 mark on June 23. Subsequent to four consecutive sell-offs as shown in the 1-hour bitcoin price chart below, BTC officially fell to a yearly low. On February, the bitcoin price recorded a major drop from around $8,000 to the lower end of $6,000, bottoming out at around $6,050. However, on June 24, the drop of BTC continued to the higher end of the $5,000 region, entering $5,000 for the first time since early November.

Initial coin offerings, a means of crowdfunding for blockchain-technology companies, has caught so much attention that even the co-founder of the ethereum network, where many of these digital coins are built, says it’s time for things to cool down in a big way.