Bitcoin

The five-year window on HSBC's deferred prosecution agreement connected to a money laundering case expires; profile says outgoing Fed Chairman Janet Yellen has become "a pop culture phenomenon."

We’ll view this wild rally as the starting point of cryptocurrencies becoming mainstream. They cannot be defined as a fad any longer, writes Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group.

Bitcoin is coming to Wall Street on Sunday, and some executives at the world's biggest banks aren't sleeping well.

Tether's $31 million hack gave bitcoin skeptics plenty to crow about. But experts say bad security is to blame, not digital assets.

Fed's supervision chief wants more openness on bank stress tests; cybercurrency jumps 40% in 40 hours, climbing past $19,000.

Digital currency surges past both $12,000 and $13,000 on Wednesday; the bank may make it back quickly, depending on the corporate income tax rate.

Bitcoin has passed $13,000 in value. The spike has many people wondering about the future of the digital currency.

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.