Tech thinks it has a fix for the problems it created: blockchain
The first blockchain was created in 2009 as a new kind of database for the virtual currency bitcoin. Now, innovators are looking to use similar...
Bitcoin thieves threaten real violence for virtual currencies
While banks can stop or reverse large electronic transactions made under duress, there is no bitcoin bank to halt or take back a transfer, making...
Cryptocurrencies come to campus
Graduate-level classes this semester at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Duke, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland, among other places, illustrate the fascination...
Here are the world’s virtual currency billionaires (or at least they were)
Forbes magazine identifies 10 virtual-currency billionaires, but because of major drops in cryptocurrency prices in recent weeks, most of them were no longer billionaires by...
Bitcoin falls below $10,000 as virtual-currency bubble deflates
Wednesday’s decline took the value of the virtual currency down to about half what it was at its peak last month.
Identity thieves hijack cellphone accounts to go after virtual currency
Hackers have been calling up wireless carriers and asking them to transfer control of a victim’s phone number to a device under the control of...
Dark-web sales flooding U.S. mailboxes with deadly opioids
On the so-called dark web, buyers can visit anonymously and pay with virtual currencies such as bitcoin, bringing powerful synthetic opioids — the fastest-growing cause...
Silicon Valley tried to upend Wall Street; now it works with the financial industry
Silicon Valley has upended a growing number of industries, and it had seemed not too long ago that Wall Street would soon be next. But...
Microsoft has software for everything — even marijuana
Microsoft is announcing a partnership to begin offering software that tracks marijuana plants from “seed to sale” to help states that have legalized marijuana keep...