Unciphered is facing internal upheaval following revelations that one of its secret co-founders, Morgan Marquis-Boire.

The Trump White House recently announced a project that the crypto industry loves, skeptics hate, and that most people, ...

When you buy bitcoin, you are effectively buying a password to a unique coin, Bogart says. Each bitcoin is a combination of a public and private key, similar to a username and password.

If you accidentally send bitcoins to the wrong person or lose your password there is nobody to turn to. Of course, the eventual arrival of practical quantum computing could break it all.