The key concern is that a sufficiently advanced quantum computer will be able to break various forms of cryptography used in Bitcoin (and many other cryptocurrencies), effectively making the ...

A low-cost solo mining rig was used to mine a Bitcoin block on Wednesday, though they secured the $330K prize with a little ...

NYU finance professor David Yermack weighs in on the potential risks and benefits of investing in crypto and more ...

Any user of Bitcoin can elect to use a pay-to-Taproot (p2tr) address rather than the older public key hash or SegWit addresses. If a quantum computer can one day break these Schnorr signatures ...

Why Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy is a brilliant blueprint for manipulating traditional finance to harness the pixie dust of ...

Since 2013, James Howells has been hoping to recover a laptop hard drive that he says contains the private key for cryptocurrency which he says he mined in 2009. We wrote about it at the time, noting ...

Bitcoin recently fell below the $100,000 price level for the first time during the Trump presidency. The largest cryptocurrency continues to garner strong support from the Trump White House, Wall ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. Regulation is among the key factors that affect Bitcoin's price. The cryptocurrency's rise in popularity has been arrested ...

Bitcoin's value rests mostly on its status as the first cryptocurrency and as an alternative to fiat currency, while Ethereum (Ether) offers more utilitarian value through its ecosystem of ...