In the past 24 hours, the price of Bitcoin has surged from around US$7,000 to $8,200 — twice as much as it was trading for six weeks ago.

The same report calls digital currencies an 'environmental disaster.'

Google said Wednesday it was banning advertisements for cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings.

Two employees of Russia’s top nuclear research institute have been arrested for using the facility’s supercomputer for crypto-currency mining.

Bitcoin slid another 13 per cent to below USD $6,000 on Tuesday, bringing the world’s best-known cryptocurrency’s losses to more than half since the start of 2018.

Experts are warning that bitcoin is a bubble about to burst, but things might get crazier before it does: A lot of people have heard of bitcoin by now, but very few people own it.

Backlogs, technical glitches and fees make it complicated to offload your bitcoins.

Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz is sounding the alarm on Bitcoin, likening it to the tech boom and bust, roughly two decades ago.

But that's not the kind of stuff that should go in your retirement investments.