Bitcoin

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms made headlines over the summer for making millions by selling pre-purchased power back to the grid. The news highlighted how the grid can benefit businesses more than consumers.

Council members passed a resolution Thursday that asks the city manager to study how Austin could adopt or use cryptocurrency, including allowing residents to make payments with it.

The rural part of Texas will be home to a 125,000-square-foot facility.

From Texas Standard:Rockdale, Texas, an hour outside of Austin, was depending on a company called Bitmain – a Bitcoin “mining” company – to bring new jobs…

It’s 2018. Blockchain is here, opioids have caused a national emergency, and those two things have more to do with each other than you’d think.Some…

As the city prepares for the international mobs of South by Southwest, one small but growing industry is doing some last-minute tinkering.The nation’s…

The Tokyo-based company is the subject of reports that a large amount of the virtual currency may be missing. It's another blow to the bitcoin market.

The first cash-dispensing Bitcoin ATM machine in the U.S. launched today, and it’s right here in Austin.Bitcoin is a form of digital currency that was…

Bitcoin is blowing up, both in the successful and not-so-successful sense.The currency is as volatile as a Texas summer is miserably hot. But the…