Bitcoin

Austrian authorities are asking Interpol to help them track down suspects in an alleged Bitcoin scam that blew up last year and may have hit hundreds of investors in the country and abroad.

Digital-assets exchange Coinbase Inc. is releasing a service for merchants to accept Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin payments, and deposit them into their own digital wallets.

Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay, the payments company JPMorgan Chase & Co. bought in October, said his company hasn’t gotten enough requests to support cryptocurrency transactions.

In what could be seen as a mea culpa for CEO Jamie Dimon's disparagement of bitcoin five months ago, the Wall Street megabank has released a big and relatively bullish report on cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin extended a rebound on Monday as the regulatory concerns that have plagued digital currencies this year showed signs of subsiding.

Bank makes errors in refund program; credit bureau now says tax IDs, email addresses and driver’s license were compromised in last year’s hack.

It’ll be up to card not present payment processors to ease the path toward acceptance of cryptocurrencies for subscriptions, and it could be another five years or more before any of that comes to fruition, writes Georg Richter, founder and CEO of OceanX.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., sent a letter to two virtual currency trade associations on Thursday asking them what their members are doing to prevent hate groups from using cryptocurrencies to finance themselves.

S&P lowers the bank’s rating to A-minus following Federal Reserve sanctions on growth; 13 are arrested after alleging defrauding banks of $530 million over seven years.

Like similar bans on using credit cards to buy stock and derivatives, banks would rather people use credit cards for other purposes than buying bitcoin, writes Alfred Duncan, a lecturer at the University of Kent.

Customers are now getting slapped with “cash advance” charges when using credit cards to buy Bitcoin and other virtual currencies.

The heads of the Securities and Exchange and Commodity Futures Trading commissions said they are not ignoring the fast-growing cryptocurrency sector and they have some oversight powers. But they indicated that they might need more.

Shares drop nearly twice as much as other bank stocks and the broader market; agency denies it’s looking to end the investigation into last year’s data breach.

The blockchains that likely prove the most durable and widely used will likely be those that have most effectively developed scalable protocols, writes Xiahong Lin, founder of Bodhi.

Bitcoin declined for a fifth day, breaking below $7,500 and leading other digital tokens lower, as Lloyds Banking Group Plc joined a growing number of big credit-card issuers halting purchases of cryptocurrencies on their cards.

The bank’s assets are capped at their current level of $1.95 trillion; Citi, JPM and B of A will no longer allow bitcoin purchases on their credit cards.

Success with blockchain does not depend on new technology alone. It requires bringing together experts in people, process and technology to simplify complex processes and apply tested methods to the new technical landscape, writes Michael Goodman, senior director of data and analytics for NTT Data Services.

The nation’s two largest banks don't want the credit risk associated with the transactions.

Mastercard Inc. doesn’t traffic in cryptocurrencies, but it’s benefiting from them just the same.

The South Asian nation’s income tax officials had started investigations into transactions at various illegal bitcoin exchanges in December, soon after the country’s central bank cautioned users about potential risks.