Digital currencies

With so much uncertainty, the only thing that's clear is how different the sector may look a year from now. Here's an overview of the leading trends in technology that will impact payments and banking in 2018.

With so much uncertainty, the only thing that's clear is how different the sector may look a year from now. Here's an overview of the leading trends in technology that will impact banking in 2018.

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.

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.

Judge says he will move quickly on who should head the agency; group allegedly overcharged hundreds of clients.

The digital-currency startup, which markets software to banks, appears keen to signal that it wants to play by the rules.

Brian Behlendorf, leader of the Linux Foundation's effort to establish standards for blockchain, likens the invention of cryptocurrencies to the moon launch and says banks, open-source developers and others are working to make the underlying technology commercially viable.

Beyond the initial coin offerings — a fundraising process, similar to an IPO, in which blockchain companies sell crypto tokens instead of shares — and myriad science projects, is there anything substantive occurring with blockchain?