The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is limited by its astronomical electricity consumption and outsized carbon footprint. A nearly zero-energy alternative sounds too good to be true, but as... Read more
Stevens Institute of Technology researcher analyzed 3.3 million tweets and 344,000 posts, verifies for the first time social media’s effect on cryptocurrency Bitcoin is on fi... Read more
System piggybacks on the digital currency’s security protocols to thwart hijacked servers. A reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin is a digital-currency scheme designed to... Read more
Olivier Stern, a 31-year-old French socialist with an appetite for risk, recently invested a third of his life savings — 10,000 euros, about $11,000 — in a cryptocurrency start-up... Read more
A new virtual gold rush is underway. Even as Bitcoin, riven by internal divisions, has struggled, a rival virtual currency — known as Ethereum — has soared in value, climbing 1,000... Read more
Mike Hearn, a British computer programmer, holed up in his two-bedroom apartment in Zurich over several days and nights last week, writing a cri de coeur. Two years ago, Mr. Hearn... Read more
With its volatile currency and dysfunctional banks, the country is the perfect place to experiment with a new digital currency Dante Castiglione stalked through the doors of a glas... Read more
Some couples opt for a traditional wedding, while others go for the Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas. But David Mondrus and Joyce Bayo may be the first to have incorporated Bitcoin.... Read more
Bitcoin is the new money: minted and exchanged on the Internet. Faster and cheaper than a bank, the service is attracting attention from all over the world. But a big question rema... Read more
I was recently (virtually) introduced to Simon de la Rouviere after reading his recent article, “In the Future, Everyone Will Have Their Own Cryptocurrency.” Simon make... Read more
Wences Casares is one of the great technology entrepreneurs of the past 20 years. The son of a Patagonian sheep farmer, Casares has founded and sold several major startups since he... Read more
Bitcoin and 3-D printing aren’t just successful commercial innovations, but signals of a larger societal reset. Every so often, a novel technology emerges that propels society forw... Read more
If Bitcoin is a bubble, as its critics contend, it is showing signs of deflating. A rapid succession of moves by governments around the world has cast doubts on the legitimacy of t... Read more
It looks overvalued. But even if this digital currency crashes, others will follow BITCOIN is booming. Investors are piling into the digital currency, which is not issued by... Read more
So this is where they collared the man they call the Dread Pirate Roberts. It’s up a flight of stone steps, past the circulation desk and the Romance stacks, over in Science Fictio... Read more
