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People sit along Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador.

El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment rides on choppy seas as currency fluctuates

Economics

The bitcoin cryptocurrency has seen its ups and downs lately, gaining and losing 10% of its value in just the past week. Nowhere is this volatility felt more intensely than in El Salvador, which became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender in 2021.

An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021.

‘It’s a casino operation’: As Turkish lira falls, some Turks turn to cryptocurrency

Economics
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

Mining bitcoin uses more energy than mining gold

Environment
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.

A tech startup called OMG wants to revolutionize cash for hundreds of millions of ‘unbanked’ people in Asia

Technology
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.

Women look to make their voices heard in new space created by male-dominated blockchain boom

Culture

Blockchain has turned from a movement to an overall tech boom — or possibly a revolution. Yet the space containing blockchain pioneers is only made up of five percent women … for now.

Bitcoins, represented here with with actual coins, are a type of digital currency that have spearhead a new nefarious activity known as "cryptojacking."

Hackers find the processing power they need for mining for cryptocurrencies through ‘cryptojacking’

Technology

Your laptop may be doing extra work for someone else — without you even knowing about it.

Chain of Bitcoin keychains, symbolizing the Bitcoin Blockchain.

Blockchain seems to be all the hype these days. But what, exactly, is it?

Technology

In recent years there’s been a lot of hype surrounding blockchain and the system’s applications — particularly as it applies to cryptocurrencies. But what, exactly, is blockchain? And how does it work?

A university student, a member of a club studying cryptocurrencies, attends a meeting at a university in Seoul, South Korea, December 20, 2017.

Why some young South Koreans are putting their hopes in cryptocurrencies

Commentary

“People in their 20s and 30s account for more than half of all cryptocurrency investors in South Korea. I am one of them, and I made my choice because my future in South Korea seems so bleak.”

Bitcoin

Bitcoin, the virtual currency, has become a massive energy hog

Economics

Bitcoin, the most popular of the new digital currencies, has shot up in value in the past year, and even though you can’t hold one in your hand, bitcoins require huge amounts of energy.