The massive calculating power of quantum computers will be able to break Bitcoin security within 10 years, say security experts. Bitcoin is taking the world by storm. The decentralized digit... Read more
CME Group will launch Bitcoin futures, based on the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR), in Q4 2017, building off of the success of the BRR and demand for a regulated trading venue for the d... Read more
Forking happens because a set of miners, who create bitcoin, believe that there are more efficient options than the existing bitcoin In the world of cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, you... Read more
After soaring $2,000 in a week, investors are left wondering when price will pause to consolidate. The break-neck speed rally of Bitcoin has left investors wondering where Bitcoin would fina... Read more
Advocates for a bitcoin hard fork have now decided to cancel plans for the so-called SegWit2x fork. The bitcoin blockchain was supposed to split into two blockchains in roughly 8 days. But i... Read more
If the ownership of bitcoin is as concentrated as some estimate, then the liquidity issue distills down to the actions of the top tier of owners. Whenever I raise the topic of bitcoin and cr... Read more
The I.R.S. has ruled that some currencies like Bitcoin are an asset and subject to capital gains; donors can also see how the charity spends the money. Like many Americans, Brad Hines spent... Read more
I do expect some things to still change between the time that this article is posted and the actual fork date. I expect some more companies to back out, Bitso for example realized that there... Read more
Since the beginning of the year, the value of Bitcoin has climbed 600 percent, fueled in part by interest from institutional investors. SAN FRANCISCO — The chief executive of JPMorgan Chase,... Read more
Anyone who’s been involved in the bitcoin and blockchain space for any length of time certainly has stories of lost crypto. There are some estimates that up to 10% of bitcoins will nev... Read more