Mark Zuckerberg’s latest venture won't compete with Satoshi Nakamoto’s project for undermining central banking, tyranny, and the financial surveillance state.
In his new book, Fall, the author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Diamond Age, looks to the digital afterlife, and beyond.
A new documentary reveals how stable currency leads to prosperity.
As the cryptocurrency continues use, issues of privacy and fungibility crop up.
Michael Shermer, Ron Bailey, and Jim Epstein talk poverty-eradication, genomics, and blockchain at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration
The Cypherpunk co-founder was a major influence on both bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
Q&A with Alex Winter, whose new documentary, Trust Machine, explores the radical potential of blockchain to decentralize just about everything.
To assume that governments do better at keeping currencies stable ignores parts of the world.
Venezuela attempts to combat economic illiteracy with more economic illiteracy.
Cybercurrencies are not as anonymous as you might think.
With its supply permanently capped at 21 million units, Satoshi Nakamoto's invention may turn out to be the best form of money ever conceived.
Chairman Jerome Powell says they are putting their money in risky, unbacked investments built on reckless speculation.
Entrapment prosecution of bitcoin exchangers highlights government's war on privacy.
The SEC is getting serious about initial coin offering (ICO) oversight.
The country has liberalized one aspect of the disastrous capital controls established by Hugo Chavez in 2003.
A handful of best practices can go a long way toward shielding your transactions from government spies and other malevolents.
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur says cryptocurrencies, virtual reality, and mobile devices are helping individuals escape failed institutions.
Regulators seem to recognize the need for restraint.
If buying drugs online feels easy, you're probably doing it wrong.
How do we scale the system for broad use?
More than 3,800 Bitcoin will be auctioned on January 22, including those taken from vendors on cryptomarkets like SilkRoad and AlphaBay.
Q&A with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
Evaluating the current cycle of buzz
Will a new regulatory framework help stop extortion and police abuse, or will it set the stage for a brutal crackdown?
Mainstream economists were trained to believe that currencies need to be managed by central banks. So this new form of money is...hard to grasp.
Notes from satisfied and/or snarky customers, and a last-ditch attempt to loosen some of your crypto-riches!
Joseph Stiglitz is the George Costanza of economists: Every instinct he has, do the opposite.
Bitcoin is booming. Libertarians were there first. So where are all the cryptocurrency tycoons?
Libertarians understood the power of bitcoin early on. Now it's booming. So where are the cryptocurrency tycoons?
Customers lost billions in bitcoin, and former operator Mark Karpeles could gain well over half a billion.
Q&A with Caitlin Long, a former Morgan Stanley managing director, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and recent convert to Austrian economics.
As the cryptocoin hits new record highs in value, bitcoin money thinks of buying a free country.
Cryptocurrency is just code, and code is just speech, which is why in the U.S., at least, it's protected.
Operational security remains the Achilles heel for dark web drug vendors.
The technology promises to be a secure and efficient way of confirming voter ID.
Proposed legislation would be a boon to users dealing with very complex regulations.
Princeton Computer Science Professor Michael Freedman on why scaling this blockchain-based computing platform will be so difficult.
"This ranks as one of the most successful coordinated takedowns against cybercrime in recent years," says Europol's Rob Wainwright.
Alphabay has been down for more than a week. A series of raids and arrests suggests it's not an exit scam.
Federal application of banking law to bitcoin nets another victim.
A new U.N. report finds cryptomarkets comprise a bigger chunk of the global drug trade than ever before.
Meet the developers behind Blockstack, who are using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. It'll make NSA mass data collection impossible.
Q&A with Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt on bitcoin as "regulatory arbitrage."
"How can you stop software running on the internet?"
Authorities uncover a warehouse with 11,000 mining computers drawing enough electricity "to power a whole town."
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