Bitcoin

One of India’s biggest cryptocurrency trading platforms has lost about 438 Bitcoins worth some 190 million rupees ($3 million), allegedly due to a rogue employee.

Processing firm Galileo has built an API to bridge the gap between cryptocurrencies and mainstream payments, an area where a handful of other providers are experimenting. Large banks and card networks continue to keep their distance.

A Cambridge professor has found how an 1816 legal ruling can be used to trace stolen bitcoins, thus potentially making it easier for governments to legislate bitcoin exchanges.

One of the most outspoken proponents of Bitcoin Cash, the digital token that spun off from Bitcoin in August amid a heated debate in the digital-money community, still holds some of the original cryptocurrency because, well, everyone knows it’s smart to diversify.

Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash’s most fervent supporters are at it again and Twitter has become a bitter battlefield. The latest victim? The @Bitcoin Twitter account.

The agency should consider exempting some registered cryptocurrency exchanges from state money transmission laws.

The agency should consider exempting some registered cryptocurrency exchanges from state money transmission laws.

This year could be a pivot point for blockchain to move past proofs of concept to adoption, propelled by strong investor interest. But many still see the tech as being three to four years away from going mainstream.

The cryptocurrency and blockchain related failure rate is comparable to other technology startup categories and manageable with the right due diligence, writes Cahill Puil, founder of the consultancy Byte Media Group.

The funding round comes on the heels of what BitPay cited as a record year in 2017 in processing more than $1 billion in bitcoin payments.

Elizabeth Rossiello heard that cryptocurrencies would be the next big thing so she founded BitPesa. And while she benefited from the initial craze around bitcoin and blockchain, her company also shares bitcoin's reputational wounds.

Early Bitcoin adopter Reddit stopped accepting payments with the largest digital currency.

Confusion over whether certain digital currency transactions are considered securities is shutting many U.S. investors out of initial coin offerings and spurring illegal behavior.

Confusion over whether certain digital currency transactions are considered securities is shutting many U.S. investors out of initial coin offerings and spurring illegal behavior.

To take Bill Gates’ anti-cryptocurrency comments at face value is to dismiss out of hand a $500 billion cryptocurrency market and the thousands of traders, scientists, engineers, academics, businesspeople and media professionals it employs, writes Rob Viglione, co-founder of ZenCash.

Internet searches for “Bitcoin” have plunged, suggesting public interest has, too.

More than half of the retailers that use Square Inc.’s technology at the checkout stand would take Bitcoin as a form of payment, according to a new study.

Banks and payment companies have long been wary of the political and reputational risks of supporting gun sellers. But gun sellers know their customers better than most other merchant categories.

The stance the Bank of England is taking a proactive and pragmatic approach that should be championed, writes Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group.

Japan’s financial regulator ordered further improvements at embattled cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc. and penalized six others, including one operated by publicly listed GMO Internet Inc.