Bitcoin

Bitcoin has been making headlines for months now. Extreme price fluctuations have sparked a vigorous debate: Is it a currency or a scam? Is …

The Silk Road was an undercover website where you could buy or sell illegal goods — drugs mainly. I believe passports were changing hands …

The market has selected different things as money throughout history. Some of these items have served as money in isolated places for specific periods …

[Ed. Note: This article originally published on Jan. 24, 2013] Stocks up. Gold down. Bitcoin… waaay up. The S&P 500 busted through the 1,500 …

Before the housing market collapsed and the government pumped billions into the economy to save it, there was a programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto. And …

Now, this is sheer entertainment. The Chicago branch of the Federal Reserve has addressed the great monetary question of our day. A researcher has …

It was a wild ride last week in the world of the Deep Web, that section of the Internet that requires special tools to …

Following an extensive investigation, The Martian can reveal that it is neither Lawrence Summers nor Janet Yellen who will be the next chairman of …

A frightening story this week in The New Yorker tells of a Texas couple that headed toward the Texas-Louisiana border to buy a used …

Is there anything that we can do to stop the government’s data mining of our email, phone calls, and other digital habits? I moderated …