KEVIN KELLEHER

For all its potential, bitcoin has long been in need of a killer app. Early on, bitcoin marketplaces like Xapo and BTCJam saw a strong contender in developing economies, where low-income residents had little to no access to bank loans and peer-to-peer...

Finance has proven to be stubbornly resilient to technology innovation. Online trading, despite its ubiquity, never delivered on its promise of democratizing stock investing. Bitcoin remains far from a threat to centrally managed currencies. Incumbent...

For all the volatility in bitcoin pricing, 2014 may be looked back on as a year when bitcoin began to move past the proof-of-concept stage and toward a mainstream market. Some 6.6 million bitcoin wallets have been set up so far this year, according to...

2014 wasn’t a banner year for Bitcoin speculators—its price was down nearly 60%—but it has left the community of developers who support the digital currency more optimistic than ever. New applications, exchanges, products, and uses for the Bitcoin...

It’s been a week since the WannaCry ransomware attack began infecting computers running Windows software. And things are strangely silent again. It’s almost as if the wake-up call that WannaCry set off was heard by IT managers around the world — and...

Peer-to-peer businesses are seeing something of a rebirth. After early Internet startups like eBay and Napster built their business models on peer-to-peer technology, the social media sites that drove the second wave of the web stole their...

Consumers have been paying their bills online and managing their finances for a couple of decades now, but big banks still remain laggards when it comes to adopting AI solutions that can improve their service to customers, a group of panelists who...

If you thought 2014 was a bad year to buy bitcoins, 2015 is starting off even worse. Bitcoin was not only the worst performing currency last year, it was the worst area of investment. The bitcoin-US dollar rate fell 59% to around $313 in 2014. And in...