BITCOIN

Cryptocurrency... so hot right now. Bitcoin surges above $2,700. Economic shifts in China are one of many factors propelling cryptocurrency to record-breaking prices.

Although blockchain technology is still in its infancy, there is rampant adoption and integration across the tech industry, from startups to corporations.

Many tech experts believe we are living during the dawn of a new era, a blockchain revolution. From Dubai to Nairobi and New York, women are leading the way.

Long before the global WannaCry ransomware attack, hackers used the same NSA vulnerabilities in a large scale botnet hack for mining cryptocurrency.

The Palestine Monetary Authority is developing the first Palestinian national currency, the digital Palestinian pound.

Arguably the biggest ransomware attack in hacker history, infecting 200,000 computers worldwide, already has started to change the way people think about cryptocurrency.

Mobile payment apps and bitcoin trading are both commonplace in China. Many experts now suspect China will become the first modern country to stop printing paper money altogether.

Bitcoin, the most popular of the digital currencies, crossed another all-time high benchmark of $1,800 at the end of Wednesday trade.

The cryptocurrency is an unregulated way of doing commercial transactions and is fast growing in popularity and demand.

The cryptocurrency ether, which hails from the open source blockchain network Ethereum, is now valued at more than $100 per token for the first time since the Ethereum platform went live in the summer of 2015.

It looks like Russia will become the next country to legalize the use of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wants to make blockchain technologies an official part of the Russian economy and Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev hopes to have cryptocurrency regulations in place by 2018.

The United Nations has a blockchain program that is helping aid organizations feed thousands of displaced people, including Syrian refugees in Jordan.

A new blockchain startup called Userfeeds wants to combat fake news on social media with the same technology bitcoin uses to verify financial transactions. Could blockchain technology curb the tide of fake news on Facebook?

People are still trying to figure out if Sean Spicer's mysterious tweets in January contained a Bitcoin verification code or evidence of cryptocurrency transactions.

The Legends Room strip club in Las Vegas will be the first to accept cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is already popular with sex workers, from cam girls to escorts.

The price of Bitcoin recently hit an all-time high, now worth around $1,400 per coin. The market value of this digital blockchain technology is making dramatic gains despite the slow march of regulation.

A group known as the Turkish Crime Family has reportedly received its requested ransom and will no longer carry out a purported attack that would have erased millions of iOS devices associated stolen iCloud accounts.

Cybersecurity firm ZeroFOX found a massive spike in scams related to the cryptocurrency in March, all of which exploit the unique characteristics of Bitcoin that are supposed to make it secure.

A group of hackers identifying as the Turkish Crime Family are blackmailing Apple over what they claim to be a cache of hundreds of millions of stolen iCloud and Apple email credentials.

IBM announced the launch of IBM Blockchain, a platform that will allow businesses to make use of the technology behind Bitcoin at an enterprise level.

An exchange-traded fund for bitcoin, backed by the Winklevoss twins of Facebook fame, was rejected by the Securities and Echange Commission due to concerns of fraud.