Bitcoin backer Charlie Shrem pleaded guilty Thursday of knowingly transmitting money intended to facilitate drug trafficking on the “Silk Road” online underground market, the U.S. Attorney’s Office ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charlie Shrem, an outspoken supporter of bitcoins, was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for indirectly helping to send $1 million in the digital currency to the Internet ...

Rep. Brandon Gill was late reporting two Bitcoin transactions, violating the STOCK Act. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas), a first-term House member bent on placing ...

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler is a well-known critic of the crypto industry, often warning investors that the asset class is rife with fraud. But the top Wall Street regulator, ...

Bitcoin surged to a two-week high on Monday after the attempted assassination of presidential candidate Donald Trump raised the odds of the former president, who has presented himself as a champion of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how bitcoin, crypto and blockchain can change the world. The bitcoin price has climbed to levels not seen since last ...

State employees' pensions in North Carolina won't be invested in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency — at least, not yet. A new bill would allow the State Treasurer to put potentially billions of dollars ...

For some it’s a worrying combination: Donald Trump back in the White House and a brash Central American president who declares himself the world’s coolest dictator. But as bond investors see it, a ...

Stablecoin Tether has emerged as the unlikely backer of German bitcoin miner Northern Data's bid to become a major cloud GPU player with the latest AI chips from Jensen Huang's Nvidia. A $40,000 ...

Peter Thiel's fund closed almost all of its crypto positions shortly before prices crashed last year, according to the Financial Times. Founders Fund made $1.8 billion cashing out its bet on digital ...