Bitcoin surges past $6000 for no apparent reason
Bitcoin has smashed through the US$5,000 (AU$6387) barrier for the first time.
Bitcoin has smashed through the US$5,000 (AU$6387) barrier for the first time.
A supercomputing company once led by controversial Australian Bitcoin figure, Craig Wright, has gone into liquidation.
Smart contracts, healthcare data-sharing and microgrids are all taking advantage of the technology.
Digital currencies such as Bitcoin will no longer be subject to the GST, the federal government announced during last night’s budget.
Thousands of publicly accessible FTP servers, including many Seagate network-attached storage devices, are being used by criminals to malware that mines cryptocurrency.
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has just been overtaken as the world's fastest by another Chinese computer, the Sunway TaihuLight, capable of 93 million billion floating-point operations per second.
Blockchain technology is not just useful for creating digital currencies such as Bitcoin or developing new financial technologies.
CSIRO’s digital arm, Data61, is collaborating with the treasury to investigate potential implications and productivity gains following the possible adoption of Blockchain within the nation.
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright is bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, he claimed on his personal blog and in media interviews on Monday. Within hours, skeptics were pointing to flaws in his claims.
Talk of blockchain technology is everywhere, it seems -- but what is it, and what does it do?
Four weeks: That's how long Swedish bitcoin mining company KnCMiner takes to build a new datacenter, from breaking ground to beginning operations.
“True anonymity in Bitcoin is only a myth, currently."
Some people who use uTorrent, the popular BitTorrent client, are up in arms over the presence of cryptocurrency mining software on their computers which they say was installed without their permission.
Australia’s largest Bitcoin company, CoinJar, has developed a system of hedging Bitcoin against real world currencies.
Australia Post and State Debt Recovery Office (SDRO) customers were targeted by a sophisticated series of ransomware attacks late in 2014.