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The cryptocurrency mining marketplace NiceHash has been hacked, the team behind it said in a newly released statement.

Popular gaming service Steam said Wednesday that it would no longer accept bitcoin from customers as payment for video games. Steam, which is owned by the video game developer Valve, cited the “high fees and volatility” associated with the popular cryptocurrency.

Well that escalated quickly... Just a few hours ago, Bitcoin surged above $13,000 and now, on notable volume, it has reached the stunning $14,000 level... up 20% today... The real surge began at 1715ET... For those keeping track, this is how long it has t

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For the first time in history, the price of Bitcoin has surpassed $13,000 (rising from $12,000 in less than a day). For those keeping track, this is how long it has taken the cryptocurrency to cross the key psychological levels: $0000 - $1000: 1789 days $

Imagine you wake up one day to find your bank account has $75 million in it, but you can't access it. That's likely how James Howells feels every time he sees the price of Bitcoins. The post This Bitcoin collection is worth $75 million — it&

Are Bitcoin Uranium andSuper Bitcoin the future of cryptocurrency? Or a big joke?

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There are reasons to suspect that in the long term, Bitcoin may lose most or all of its value. One reason is competition. There is a growing number of rival cryptocurrencies, some of which may be better-designed than Bitcoin.

At the Beyond Block conference in Taipei, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's founder, unveiled the new architecture for the next-generation Ethereum 2.0 blockchain network.

Bitcoin and Ethereum aren't the only ponies in town when it comes to blockchain technology.

American Express has introduced instant blockchain-based payments using Ripple, a fintech start-up, for U.S. corporate customers sending funds to UK-based businesses that bank with Santander UK, the companies said on Thursday.

Today is not a good news day for Ethereum. A vulnerability found within a popular wallet has frozen potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of the..

Bank payment specialists starting to use Ripple blockchain make clear to their own executives and regulators that this has nothing to do with bitcoin.

Anyone for XRP?

Derivatives contracts could pave the way for the funds

A report by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission raised fears about future regulations.

Having earlier called for crypto currencies to be banned, Russian President Vladimir Putin has now officially stated that Russia will issue its own CryptoRuble using Blockchain technology. According to communications minister Nikolay Nikiforov, CryptoRubl

DLT startup Ripple is one of several firms to contribute to a new payments services app from the Gates Foundation.

The Central Bank of Russia says crypto-markets are bad news for investors.