Yes, it’s driven by greed — but the mania for cryptocurrency could wind up building something much more important than wealth.

How many shares of LaCroix'n can I interest you in?

Well, shit. I’ve been watching this situation for a few years, and assuming it would just blow over so we wouldn’t have to talk about it here in this place where we are supposed to be b…

Cryptocurrencies encompass a wide range of technologies, communities and uses. Not all of them are taken seriously.

What's behind the cryptocurrency's slide?

Bitcoin, whose ballooning market cap reached above $325 billion a month ago, is not a worthy opponent for fiat money, says Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari. In fact, no single cryptocurrency could give the US dollar a run for its money, so to speak. Instead, they are more likely to tussle with one another as they jockey for position among the top 10 digital coins.

For second day in a row every major cryptocurrency suffers double-digit losses.

Researchers Neil Gandal, JT Hamrick, Tyler Moore, and Tali Oberman have written a fascinating paper on Bitcoin price manipulation

A collective insanity has sprouted around the new field of ‘cryptocurrencies’, causing an irrational gold rush. I know you’re tempted, but don’t be a fool

Who wouldn’t like to invest in Bitcoin back at the time when it was worth $100 or $200 dollars? Now it seems that the establishment regrets not to have invested before. Bart Chilton, a former financial regulator, said in Thursday that he wished he had invested in Bitcoin, or other cryptocurrencies, when he was warning everyone about them.

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

Less than four months after Jamie Dimon lashed out at bitcoin, warning that it was would "eventually blow up" because it was "worse than tulip bulbs" and that "any trader trading bitcoin" will be "fired for being stupid", the JPMorgan CEO said he "regrets" his infamous criticism of bitcoin, in which he called the cryptocurrency a "fraud." In an interview with FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo, Dimon repented, softening the comments he made in a September banking conference, saying "I regret making them."

Bitcoin is currently the sixth most circulated currency within the world, behind 5 super powers, and outranking the Pound, the Ruble, and therefore the Won, in keeping with the Bank for International Settlements. The figure is predicated on a price of Bitcoin at $10,765 each, which means that the entire price of all Bitcoins in circulation is $180 bln.

XRP, a cryptocurrency for international money transfers by the fintech company Ripple, has been on a tear this winter, skyrocketing to the No. 2 cryptocurrency by market cap. That astronomical rise to $2.47 a coin — up from $0.25 in mid-December — has made the co-founder and former CEO of the company one of the world’s richest people.

BitMEX, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency trading platform, has sold all of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) cryptocurrency granted to its customers during the Bitcoin clone’s creation in August, and says it will credit those users with an equivalent value of Bitcoin (BTC).

Bitcoin prices climbed back above the $15,000 mark Saturday following a steep decline Friday when the cryptocurrency shed about a third of its value. Bitcoin, which is known to be extremely volatile, sank below $11,000 at one point Friday, according to data from CoinDesk.com. Prices had approached $20,000 as recently as a week ago.

The South Korean government has officially refuted various reports on the possibility of a cryptocurrency trading ban within the country. On Wednesday, December 13th, the South Korean government, central bank, and financial authorities had held an emergency meeting to discuss the legality of cryptocurrencies and the current state of the bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange markets. …

Bitcoin has been viewed as a liberating path out of the corporate monetary system. But the process of 'mining' the cryptocurrency is a massive energy drain - and potential environmental disaster.

Tim Draper, Draper Oakwood senior adviser and DFJ founder, discusses the volatility in bitcoin and the future of cryptocurrencies with Bloomberg's Emma Chandra on "Bloomberg Technology."

In a theft on the cryptocurrency-mining service NiceHash, hackers made off with nearly $70 million worth of Bitcoin. NiceHash announced the security breach on its Facebook page Wednesday afternoon, saying it is investigating the incident and stopping operations for 24 hours. NiceHash also recommended that users change their online passwords as a precaution, though they added “the full scope of what happened is not yet known.”