Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Shaping the future of banking with bitcoin. A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym used by the inventor of bitcoin, is ...

Farran Powell is the managing editor of investing at Forbes Advisor. She was previously the assistant managing editor of investing at U.S. News & World Report. Her work has appeared in numerous ...

Discover Mt. Gox's rise as a leading Bitcoin exchange, its 2014 bankruptcy after a massive Bitcoin theft, and the latest ...

On May 22, 2010, crypto miner Laszlo Hanyecz traded 10,000 of his Bitcoins for two Papa John’s pizzas. It was the first real-world cryptocurrency transaction in history. Roughly 15 years later, those ...

Is Bitcoin history being forgotten, and the lessons of events like the UASF being forgotten? Do people remember Bitcoin Independence Day? The User Activated Soft Fork (UASF) to activate Segregated ...

In October 2008, as governments scrambled to bail out collapsing banks, a pseudonymous developer quietly published a nine-page document to an obscure cryptography mailing list. It proposed something ...

Bitcoin is legendary for its volatility. The cryptocurrency has soared, plunged and then risen again since it debuted in 2009. In three separate years, the world’s largest cryptocurrency has plummeted ...

The world's largest cryptocurrency is Bitcoin, (CRYPTO: BTC) with a market valuation of nearly $1.9 trillion. And as of this writing, the price per Bitcoin isn't far from $100,000 -- it's a value that ...