Bitcoin is literally soaring into space after rocket-like surge

Space-like adjectives are often used to describe Bitcoin’s stratospheric price rise. Now there may be some truth in those analogies. Blockstream Inc. plans to make the digital ledger underpinning the cryptocurrency accessible via satellite signal so people without Internet access, or in places where bandwidth is expensive, can trade and mine bitcoin. The company also […]

Bitcoin surges past $4,000 on speed breakthrough

Bitcoin soared past $4,000 for the first time on growing optimism faster transaction times will hasten the spread of the cryptocurrency. The largest digital tender jumped to a peak of $4,187 Monday, a gain of nearly 17 percent since Friday, after a plan to quicken trade execution by moving some data off the main network […]