In the ‘real world’ the term fungible good is used by economists to describe goods that are essentially interchangeable: one barrel of crude oil is …

Bitcoin is a digital currency which operates free of any central control or the oversight of banks or governments. Instead it relies on peer-to-peer …

RARELY before has such an obscure and complex technology captured the popular imagination quite like the one announced in a nerdy corner of the …

WHEN Marco Polo visited Kublai Khan at the end of the 13th century, little seems to have impressed him more than that the Khan used paper money. “In …

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Bitcoin mining consumed enough electricity last year to release carbon emissions on a par with Estonia, according to a study that suggests the …

An Australian entrepreneur called Craig Wright (pictured above) has spent the last few months trying to prove that he is someone called Satoshi …