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There are a lot of fish in the sea. Blockchain could help track them.

by Molly Wood
Oct 18, 2018
You've heard of bitcoin. What about Fishcoin?
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Is Bitcoin a currency, security or commodity? Depends who you ask

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
Jul 3, 2018
Bitcoin has a bit of an identity crisis when it comes to regulatory frameworks.
A visual representation of the digital cryptocurrency, bitcoin, alongside U.S. dollars.
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Are traders messing with the price of bitcoin? And why should you care?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 31, 2018
The U.S. is reportedly investigating price manipulation in digital currencies.
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ICOs raised billions last year. Should Silicon Valley be worried?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 11, 2018
Initial coin offerings let startups skip venture capital funding, but will they last?
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Venezuela turns to crypto currency, hoping to salvage battered economy

by Aaron Schrank
Feb 20, 2018
Venezuelan government will begin pre-selling a cryptocurrency today, called the "petro."
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Even for cryptocurrency traders, the taxman cometh

by Ryan Kailath
Feb 15, 2018
As more people invest in cryptocurrency, will they report gains or losses to the IRS? One tax preparer says only a fraction of tax filers have reported cryptocurrency investments so far. How much money could the IRS be missing out on? And what should cryptocurrency traders be aware of when it comes to possible tax […]
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Bitcoin is a hassle ... but maybe not for long

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 12, 2018
A new technology aims to make the cryptocurrency work faster and use less computing power.
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Should you buy bitcoin? Or Ethereum? Or Dash? Or just ... boring old stocks?

by Stephanie Hughes and Molly Wood
Jan 22, 2018
What's a would-be cryptocurrency investor to do?
A visual representation of the digital cryptocurrency, bitcoin alongside U.S. dollars.
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Bitcoin miners are optimistic about the future

by Karishma Vaswani
Dec 21, 2017
There’s been a little dip in the bitcoin market this week. The cryptocurrency has dropped about 10 percent against the dollar. Of course, that’s in the face of a 1,700 percent rise in the past year, so those tulip bulb analogies still apply. Speculators, however, (investors, if you prefer) are just one side of the […]
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5 things you need to know about bitcoin

by Molly Wood
Dec 15, 2017
Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood on the must-knows of the crytpocurrency.
In an age of encryption, one of the major innovations of Bitcoin is their block-chain technology, which allows for transaction to be encrypted and tracked.
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