Bitcoin
The Bitcoin Crash Begins
After peaking at $266, the anonymous, open-source cryptocurrency took a tumble on Wednesday afternoon. A big tumble.
This Is How Bitcoin Could Die
While the bitcoin platform is theoretically sound—the decentralized blockchain makes it nearly impossible to counterfeit—vulnerabilities do exist at a few key junctures. Continuing Motherboard's bitcoin guide, here's some crucial ways the whole thing...
Engineering the Bitcoin Gold Rush: A Chat With Yifo Guo
Guo's company, Avalon, shipped the ASIC-based bitcoin miners, custom-built rigs with specially-designed chips for efficiently printing the market’s hottest commodity. We recently caught with him on all things bitcoin, mining, and the future.
Why Bitcoins Are Just Like Gold
A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what Bitcoin is or why it even has value, especially as the virtual cryptocurrency continues to scale record heights. How isn't this a Ponzi scheme? A good way to look at it is to compare...
Ripple, a Peer-to-Peer Financing Network, Could Make Bitcoin Great (or Destroy It)
Until now, one of the main flaws of Bitcoin, the encrypted digital currency, is that it still relies on centralized exchanges.