Stephen Moore — the economist who advised Trump on his tax cut policy and made an aborted Trump-backed bid to join the United States Federal Reserve board — has joined a cryptocurrency project that aspires to function as a new type of central bank....

With tax season having finished, many people know that most tax agencies expect tax of some kind to be paid on cryptocurrencies — and that tax agencies are actively looking for those who are evading taxes. There are however, a few countries...

Patrick McDonnell, who ran CabbageTech Corp., has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a scheme that defrauded at least ten cryptocurrency investors, according to an announcement on Friday from the US Attorney’s office.  Between November 2014 and January 2018, McDonnell posed as...

The team inside Facebook (FB) developing its new Libra cryptocurrency platform has at least one friend inside President Donald Trump’s inner circle. And considering how under attack Facebook is right now by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, having...

Oil, gold, and bitcoin jumped on Monday ahead of President Trump’s reveal of “major” sanctions on Iran, as traders parked their cash in commodities and cryptocurrencies in the face of rising geopolitical tensions. “We are putting major additional sanctions on...

2gether, a European payment app allowing users to spend crypto via a Visa debit card, is adding dash to its list of supported coins. Launched in March and available in 19 countries of the European Union, 2Gether now supports nine tokens,...

A 17-year-old, brain-computer interface developer is challenging people to rethink the possibilities of blockchain by creating her own encrypted interface where people can share genetic data. Ananya Chadha—the youngest interviewee at Fortune’s inaugural Brainstorm Finance conference in Montauk, N.Y.—told Fortune Editor-at-Large Shawn Tully that “blockchain...

Bitcoin has been around for more than a decade, yet the question still persists: “What’s the purpose of cryptocurrency?” Even though people have bought and sold billions of dollars of the stuff, it has yet to find a role in...

Blockchain is surging in acceptance — a recent Deloitte survey showed a 2000% increase in interest in the technology since 2013. In recent years, the crypto-born technology steadily infiltrated the worlds of finance, energy and real estate, but we are just now...

The U.S. government should consider forcing Facebook Inc to freeze work on its new cryptocurrency project, a senior U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday. Representative Maxine Waters, who chairs the House of Representative Financial Services Committee, said in a CNBC interview...