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People sit along Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador.
Economics
El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment rides on choppy seas as currency fluctuates
An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021.
Economics
‘It’s a casino operation’: As Turkish lira falls, some Turks turn to cryptocurrency
A bank machine is shown in a small building with blue lighting with two people sitting on a bench nearby.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Early stumble as El Salvador starts Bitcoin as currency
Dinora Hernandez’s three children make bracelets at home in Oakland, California. Every Tuesday, Hernandez heads to a local food bank, assistance that allows her to wire cash to family in El Salvador.
Economics
‘I want to send more money home’: Remittances are a sign of sacrifice, resilience in immigrant communities during pandemic
An array of bitcoins
Top of The World
El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender
The value of paper money
Economics
How money became ‘the most powerful metaphor’ in the world
a young Chinese man wears yellow headphones in front of a computer
Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government censorship
bitcoin logo on pillow
Environment
Mining bitcoin uses more energy than mining gold
A migrant worker from Myanmar looks at his cellphone at a wholesale market for shrimp and other seafood in Mahachai, in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, July 4, 2017.
Technology
A tech startup called OMG wants to revolutionize cash for hundreds of millions of ‘unbanked’ people in Asia
A group of panelists address an audience at the State of the Net Conference in January. The panel consists of (from left to right) Jason Kaplan, Hilary Swab Gawrilow, James Cross, Mercina Tillmann-Dick and Justin Herman.
Culture
Women look to make their voices heard in new space created by male-dominated blockchain boom
Bitcoins, represented here with with actual coins, are a type of digital currency that have spearhead a new nefarious activity known as "cryptojacking."
Technology
Hackers find the processing power they need for mining for cryptocurrencies through ‘cryptojacking’
Chain of Bitcoin keychains, symbolizing the Bitcoin Blockchain.
Technology
Blockchain seems to be all the hype these days. But what, exactly, is it?
Bitcoin
Economics
Bitcoin, the virtual currency, has become a massive energy hog
Broken representations of the bitcoin virtual currency, placed on a monitor that displays binary digits, are seen in this illustration picture, December 8, 2017.
Technology
First-ever bitcoin futures trading is now underway
People line up to withdraw cash from an ATM in Greece
Finance
Who sees opportunity now in Greece? Oh, Bitcoin.
A screenshot of the Silk Road website, allegedly an underground online drug market, after it was closed by U.S. authorities November 6, 2014.
Technology
Will the real Dread Pirate Roberts please stand up?
The Bitcoin ATM where Alina Simone had to deposit money to pay off the hackers who ransomed her mother's data.
Technology
What I’ve learned after my Mom got hacked (and her data held for ransom)
Bitcoin promoter Charlie Shrem walks out of federal court in Lower Manhattan on September 4, 2014. A judge later sentenced Shrem to two years in prison for aiding illegal transactions.
Technology
Quoting Spiderman didn’t spare a Bitcoin evangelist from prison
Bitcoin Factory in China
Global Scan
This is where bitcoins are made
Global Scan
Just between us leaders of the free world…
Global Scan
Just between us leaders of the free world…
Global Scan
If you want to climb Everest, you’re going to have to help clean it up
Global Scan
In one particular part of Beijing, stray cats are more than welcome
Global Scan
The Church of England vows to get tough on climate change — really
Global Scan
A Nobel Peace Prize for Edward Snowden?
Business, Economics and Jobs
New York could move Bitcoins out of the shadows and into broad acceptance
Business, Economics and Jobs
How one guy’s $24 investment in bitcoins turned into an $886,000 payday
Global Scan
Progress in the Middle East as Palestinians celebrate a prisoner release?
Business, Economics and Jobs
Why bitcoin is not likely to be the currency of the future
Behind the bar at Room 77 a sign announces that clients can pay for their beers in Bitcoin.
Business, Economics and Jobs
If you wanna buy a beer in Berlin, bring your bitcoins
Global Scan
A constellation of problems faces the US as the government stays closed
Congress Investigates The Digital Currency Bitcoin
Environment
What are Bitcoins? And Are They a Threat to the Monetary System?