Tag: Bitcoin

Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token at his shop in Sandy, Utah. As Venezuela’s national currency loses value at a catastrophic rate, thousands have begun turning to the world of cryptocurrency to salvage what little value remains from their increasingly worthless bolivars. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Cryptocurrency rivals snap at Bitcoin’s heels

Bitcoin may be the most famous cryptocurrency but, despite a dizzying rise,…

January 15, 2018

Bitcoin (Pixabay)

Bitcoin fever hits US real estate market

Bitcoin fever has hit the US real estate market, especially that of…

January 14, 2018

Photo shows bitcoin tokens at 35-year-old software engineer Mike Caldwell's shop in Sandy, Utah. The price of bitcoin, the most widely used virtual currency, rose above US$ 10,000 on Wednesday for the first time, breaking a symbolic threshold in what has been a vertiginous ascent this year. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

How is a bitcoin mined?

A company in Slovenia that mines bitcoin says it has been hacked,…

December 8, 2017

Bitcoin (Pixabay)

Bitcoin smashes record

The world's stock markets struggled for direction Thursday as investors paused for…

December 8, 2017

Symantec sinkholes part of the massive ZeroAccess botnet

The ZeroAccess botnet is one of the largest known botnets in existence…

October 9, 2013