BITCOIN

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.

Placing the cryptocurrency on mainstream securities markets could put unknowing investors at major risk, some say.

For the first time ever, the price of a single bitcoin has surpassed the price of a single ounce of gold.

Representatives Jared Polis, a Democrat from Colorado, and Arizona Republican David Schweikert launched the Blockchain Caucus this week to help push sound public policy for blockchain technologies, often used for digital currencies.

A hacker connected with hacking group Anonymous took down over 10,000 websites from Freedom Hosting II; the largest host site on the Dark Web.

A former Federal Reserve employee was placed on probation and fined for operating bitcoin mining software on a government server for more than two years.

The digital currency has seen notable volatility in the past month.

Amid the country’s growing economic crisis, Venezuelans are increasingly using digital currency bitcoin.

The IRS is going after America’s largest Bitcoin service, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. A federal judge authorized a summons requiring Coinbase to provide the IRS data from users who conducted transactions from 2013 to 2015.

The Hong Kong-based exchange said Tuesday it was halting all trading, withdrawals and deposits till the breach — in which 119,756 bitcoins were stolen — is fixed.

The price of bitcoin has surged following the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union as macroeconomic uncertainty takes hold.

The price of the cryptocurrency has plunged significantly in just five hours as polls predict the U.K. will remain in the European Union.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twins who claim Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook, are bringing their bitcoin exchange to the other side of the Atlantic.