Bitcoin

Rapid changes in the cryptocurrency's valuation make it hard to properly price content purchases according to Steam.

The biometric data, broken up into shares, is persisted separately in off-chain storage that can be controlled and sealed via blockchain references for integrity and provenance, writes James Stickland, CEO of Veridium.

The Office of Financial Research said the failure of a large financial institution could still ignite a crisis; hotel chain plans to use both issuers for its credit cards.

Innovative companies are working on ways to instantaneously convert cryptocurrency into the currency accepted by the merchant, writes Vladimir Gorbunov, COO and co-founder of Crypterium.

Acting director Mulvaney has major concerns about cybersecurity at the agency; the commission says a Canadian company's initial coin offering is a 'scam.'

With the total value of all bitcoins in circulation at $190 billion, it’s come a long way from August, when one coin could buy you a hefty supply of avocados.

Brian Johnson joins agency as senior adviser to acting director Mick Mulvaney; CME and Cboe are expected to begin trading bitcoin futures in the next few weeks.

The CFTC's greenlighting of bitcoin futures could open the floodgates for Wall Street, and digital-asset die-hards see a plot to take control.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have grown rapidly in the past year, prompting more mainstream acceptance.

Jelena McWilliams, Fifth Third Bancorp’s chief legal officer, is the choice for FDIC chair; digital currencies pose too many risks.

Dizzying trading in bitcoin fed the bubble argument, but now that Nasdaq is the third Wall Street player to say it is designing a financial instrument around it, banks may be forced to reassess cryptocurrencies.

Not so fast, bitcoiners. Randal Quarles, the Federal Reserve official who oversees Wall Street, says central banks are a long way off from embracing cryptocurrencies as a means of paying for things.

The Federal Reserve Board's vice chair of supervision said that digital currencies hold the potential for innovation but that the financial system's security and resiliency are more important.

Digital currency jumps through $11,000 before falling below $9,500 in a volatile day of trading; bank faces growing regulatory scrutiny.

It’s been month after month of record-breaking, confounding growth for the cryptocurrency, accompanied by regular warnings from banks about bubble speculation.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said “bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.”

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said "bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight."

Japan’s bitFlyer is expanding to the American market, even as U.S. banks remain wary of cryptocurrencies.

One of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges, bitFlyer, has landed in the U.S. with a focus on institutional investors — a move that suggests bitcoin's days as a payments instrument are still a long way off.

Not only does Elon Musk deny being the mysterious creator of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, but he’s also forgotten where he keeps his cryptocurrency.