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2017 was bitcoin’s year. The cryptocurrency graduated from outsider status to becoming part of mainstream conversation as its volatile price trajectory, scandals, and promise crafted...

Ripple is making waves. The cryptocurrency has burst onto the scene at the start of this year, with a surging value that’s pushed Ethereum aside to...

Yuzo Kano is the CEO for BitFlyer, one of Japan's largest cryptocurrency exchanges. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs developing settlement systems, and later...

The technology powering bitcoin could help improve Facebook in the future, Mark Zuckerberg has said. As part of a commitment to help fix the site over...

With 2017 now firmly in the rearview mirror, it is time to take stock of the best-performing digital currencies of the year. Bitcoin grabbed...

Nomura analysts Yoshiyuki Suimon and Kazuki Miyamoto estimate the wealth effect of bitcoin could boost consumer spending in Japan to as much as...

Despite being one of the most amazing periods of sustained gains for bitcoin, 2017 ends with the first cryptocurrency losing market share to altcoins....

Slovenian mining service NiceHash has swapped CEOs several weeks after hackers stole Bitcoins worth around $63 mln in 2017’s last major attack. After the embattled platform relaunched Dec. 22, local...

If big, scary price swings in markets make your blood pressure spike and anxiety levels rise, steer clear of Bitcoin. The world's most valuable digital...

Ripple is now the world’s second-most valuable cryptocurrency. It had already overtaken ethereum briefly yesterday before the latter usurped its previous position. This time around,...