Despite the CEO’s negative outlook on bitcoin, JP Morgan is still investing time and money into related technology

The Turkish lira plummeted as much as 17% against the dollar on Friday, deepening worries about the country's economic stability.

Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future.

A cryptocurrency called Agrocoin is giving buyers a chance to invest in some of the world’s spiciest peppers.

Scrapping 1p and 2p coins will damage fundraising for smaller charities, sector warns

The two founders of a cryptocurrency firm called Centra have been charged with with carrying out a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) by the SEC.

Australia’s Liberal Party government has announced that it will soon be illegal to purchase anything over $10,000 AU ($7,500 US) with cash. The government says it’s, “encouraging the transition to a digital society,” and cracking down on tax evasion. But not everyone is happy with the move.

A key committee of Swedish lawmakers wants to force the country’s biggest banks to handle cash in an effort to halt the nation’s march toward complete cashlessness.

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

But bitcoin mining isn't economical with graphics cards because the bitcoin mining market has long been taken over by energy-efficient ASICs. So for the last year, the value of graphics cards has been largely driven by the value of ether.

The second stage of the Dogethereum bridge was presented on September 5, 2018 at 10 am (PT) and live streamed. The bridge uses “superblocks” to move coins from Dogecoin to Ethereum and collateralization to move coins from Ethereum to Dogecoin. We are excited because this innovation can also be used to bridge other blockchain …

Declaring Bitcoin 'a virtual Wild West for narcotraffickers and other criminals,' the New York State Department of Financial Services is stepping into the sheriff's boots.

Bitcoin, a digital currency, has appealed to high-tech skeptics of government-issued money, as well as global criminals who are eager and able to capitalize on a totally free market. But mainstream investors are taking notice. Paul Solman reports on the potential, advantages and risks of this crypto-currency.

What does the FBI plan to do with $80 million in Bitcoin, assuming they can seize it?

CoinX is a brand new Bitcoin exchange that just opened its doors, and we caught up with founder Megan Burton at the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas to learn what her company is all about.

Despite shutdown of the illicit Internet marketplace Silk Road, the virtual currency Bitcoins shows great promise for a wide range of legitimate applications.

Chinese Internet giant Baidu is starting to accept Bitcoin as a payment method for its security services.

The Silk Road made a small fortune during its two and a half years as the web's biggest anonymous black market for illegal drugs. As of Friday, at least one $28.5 million chunk of that fortune now belongs to the FBI.

Three high school buddies from a tiny Canadian town say that they will flip the switch on the world’s first bitcoin ATM next week. It will operate near the entrance of a downtown Vancouver coffee house. Built by a Nevada company called Robocoin, the machine will trade bitcoins for cash and vice versa.

The euro rose against the dollar on Friday, hovering close to a two-year high, as souring German business morale did little to dent bullish sentiment toward the euro zone common currency.

FOUR years ago Norwegian student Kristoffer Koch spent 150 kroner ($26.60) on a little-known internet currency called bitcoin. It was 2009 and he was working on his thesis about encryption when he came across the mysterious currency. He bought some for fun, then forgot about it.

We already knew that Chamath Palihapitiya, ex-Facebook executive, and founder and partner of The Social+Capital Partnership, was bullish on Bitcoins. But how bullish? He actually owns the equivalent of $5 million in Bitcoins, representing one of the largest positions in the world with the Winklevoss twins.

There are few disappointments in the Digital Age more conspicuous than our failure to "apply the Internet to money." Enter Bitcoin, the most ingenious system yet for settling online transactions.

Hoping to convince the US federal government to block websites it deems harmful to business, the RIAA has submitted its list of “notorious websites” with an especially notable version which includes a dig at the digital currency bitcoin.

Mark Karpeles is the man who built the world's largest bitcoin exchange. But now that the digital currency is reaching the mainstream, his success may slip through his fingers.

The word "bubble" comes up a lot in discussion of Bitcoin. Bubble talk last peaked in April of this year, when the value of one Bitcoin soared from less than $100 at the start of the month to an all-time high of $266 on April 10.

In its first week, the Bitcoin ATM, located at a coffee shop in Vancouver, traded more than $100,000 CDN worth of the cybercurrency, though it's unknown how many unique users took advantage of the new service.

The greatest, most existential debate in the entire Bitcoin community revolves around how much (if any) cooperation there should be between the alternative currency network and state regulators. Fo...

Don't look now, but everyone's favorite crypto-currency is creeping back up the charts again. Over the past two weeks the value of a bitcoin has skyrocketed from just over $200...

Predicting the imminent collapse of the U.S. dollar, a Russian lawmaker submitted a bill to his country’s parliament Wednesday that would ban the use or possession of the American currency.

If Bitcoin Is So Secure, Why Have There Been Dozens of Bitcoin Bank Robberies And Millions In Losses?

China has experience with virtual currencies. So it understands why it is important to quickly become a leading player in the Bitcoin market.

This has been a big week for Bitcoin. On Monday, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the first-ever Congressional hearing on Bitcoin. Later in the day, the currency's value reached an all-time high of more than $800. That has left a lot of people scratching their heads. What's Bitcoin? How do you use it? And why would anyone want to? Read on for answers.

Back in April, an online gamer noticed that his computer seemed to be working harder than it should be given what he had running on it. When he checked his logs, he realized that his computer, much to his surprise, had joined a Bitcoin mining pool in the Czech Republic and was helping someone to mine the cryptocurrency.

One of the unique things about Bitcoin is that every transaction on its network is publicly available for anyone to examine. Any time a user sends a payment to another user, that transaction is reflected in the "blockchain," a global, permanent ledger of Bitcoin transactions.