Meat labs pursue a once-impossible goal: kosher bacon
The Orthodox Union, the largest kosher certifying organization in the world, is trying to figure out how it should deal with what is known as...
After the bitcoin boom: hard lessons hit cryptocurrency investors
The number of people who have bought virtual currencies more than doubled last winter. For people who got in late, the bust has been disastrous.
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...