Digital generated image of bitcoin sign made out of golden bars stored on each other and starting ruining on concrete surface. As the old saying goes, the purpose of a system is what it does, not what ...

Seventeen years after its publication, the Bitcoin white paper is still widely viewed as a novel technical achievement or the starting point for a new digital asset class. This narrow interpretation ...

Competition for blockspace is and always will be one of the core tensions that exist between different users of the Bitcoin protocol. At the end of the day there are only two restrictions on how it ...

Remember when your tech-obsessed friend wouldn't stop talking about Bitcoin BTC/USD back in 2013? They'd corner you at parties, excitedly proclaiming that this "magic internet money" was the future.

Since its release in 2009, Bitcoin has transformed from a peer-to-peer electronic cash system into a major digital store of value. As more people embrace its decentralized nature and limited supply, a ...

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 ...

Few financial assets in history have shifted from a wildly speculative asset to a potential reserve currency in such little time. And yet, here we are, in a year where a leading presidential candidate ...

On May 23, 2014, a few days after Credit Suisse pled guilty in a $2.6 billion settlement, Edmund Moy, Director of the United States Mint between 2006 to 2011, had an epiphany. Seeing public statements ...

At one point in time, finance and computer science enthusiasts alike considered Bitcoin one of the most innovative technologies in the financial technology sector. But as more of its shortcomings ...

Discover how Bitcoin Cash (BCH) functions, its creation from a 2017 Bitcoin hard fork, and its role in decentralizing ...

The Founder and CEO of Strike, Jack Mallers, at the 2025 Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, announced a new system of Bitcoin backed loans at Strike with one digit interest rate. Jack Mallers began his ...

Satoshi Nakamoto is the founding father of cryptocurrency—and a mystery. In October 2008, Nakamoto gave Bitcoin to the world. Then they disappeared. To this day, nobody knows who Nakamoto is. Amongst ...