Five men face federal charges of bilking investors of $722 million by inviting them to buy shares in bitcoin mining pools.

The defendant tried—and failed—to use bitcoin to cover his tracks.

A hacker identified only as Individual X had been sitting on a cryptocurrency gold mine for seven years before the IRS came knocking.

Researchers found troubling bugs in open-source libraries used by financial institutions.

Blockchain tech enables systems where no one is in charge, and keeps them secure. But it's compute-intensive and slow, a hurdle for applications li...

The federal government desperately needs to take cues from global humanitarian agencies that have developed quick and secure payment tools.

Block.one raised $4 billion in 2018 by promising to build a decentralized, blockchain-based platform. Now its social network wants to encourage qua...

Blockchain technology was designed to thwart big institutions. Now the likes of Facebook and Twitter are co-opting it.

The Ethereum community is divided over whether some chips are too powerful, pricing out small miners. The dispute also reflects heightened US-China...

Missoula County, Montana, commissioners are expected to approve a resolution that would require bitcoin mines to offset their energy use with renew...

Many of the body cameras worn by police are woefully vulnerable to hacking and manipulation. Amber Authenticate wants to fix that—with the blockchain.

Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here's why.

Attackers appear to have gained control of 51 percent of the computers on the Ethereum Classic network, allowing them to spend cryptocurrency that ...

Bitcoin is a prime example of how Silicon Valley touts "democratization" and "decentralization" as righteous motives when wealth is the ultimate goal.