El Salvador has adopted Bitcoin as the country's official currency. And now, its president, Nayib Bukele, is addressing concerns regarding Bitcoin's latest crash.
Bitcoin, one of the hottest topics in the world of technology, business, and international finance, now officially has a sideshow: the debate over who founded it.
The anonymous founder of the mercurial cyber currency Bitcoin may have been discovered, if a new profile published at Newsweek is correct. Leah McGrath Goodman's two-month investigation led her to Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, an unassuming family man in his 60s living in the Los Angeles area.
"Bitcoin" may still be an unfamiliar term for most everyday people, but online, the cryptocurrency is one of the biggest, and most worrisome, phenomena to emerge from the dark corners of the internet in years.
Wow. Such story. Very excite. Many joyful: A good-natured, but nevertheless silly, internet campaign helped the Jamaican Bobsled team return to the Winter Olympics for the first time in over a decade. Here's how an internet meme, a cryptocurrency, and a love for the underdog combined to give Jamaica another chance at a real-life Cool Runnings.