Bitcoin, created in 2008, is a decentralized digital currency maintained via blockchain technology. Investing in Bitcoin offers high potential returns but comes with volatility and environmental ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Becca Bratcher is an author and journalist specializing in crypto. Bitcoin is often seen as a volatile asset, a political football ...

Not only is Bitcoin the first cryptocurrency, but it’s also the best known of the more than 5,000 cryptocurrencies in existence today. Financial media eagerly covers each new dramatic high and stomach ...

Bitcoin has just flown past another all-time-high early on Friday. That alone would be headline-worthy. But it’s not the number that matters. It’s who is buying, and why. Inflows from institutions, ...

Bitcoin (BTC) has leapt from chat rooms and code repos into graduate syllabi. At the University of the Cumberlands (UC), students recently completed the eight-week course “Bitcoin: Fundamentals, ...

When a Redditor who pioneered buying Bitcoin on student loans over a decade ago starts warning about leverage risks, people should pay attention. The individual known as "Kid Elite Trader" claims to ...

Bitcoin wasn’t supposed to just sit still. When Satoshi Nakamoto released the white paper in 2008, it wasn’t a blueprint for digital gold; it was a peer-to-peer cash system. But fast-forward to today, ...