Newly appointed MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Brian Forde discusses his university's role in "mainstreaming" digital currency.
New research from New York University uncovers how mining has changed from a solo activity to an industry dominated by powerful groups of miners.
At least $11m has gone to fraudsters running bitcoin scams in the last four years, university researchers have found.
A researcher in Berlin has described a way to compromise a core algorithm underpinning bitcoin so that transactions leak private-key data.
The amount of academic research centred on bitcoin has risen sharply in the last year, financial analyst and author Brett Scott has found.
Researchers have investigated the conditions under which bitcoin mining pools will attack one another or co-exist peacefully.
New research that analyses bitcoin’s price fluctuations and usage patterns through empirical analysis has delivered some interesting results.
A privacy researcher has created a monitoring tool called TorBan to check for attacks on bitcoin users over Tor.
Japanese researchers have published a set of monetary policy proposals they say could stabilise bitcoin's volatility.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have published a new paper examining the characteristics of US bitcoin users.
Researchers at the University of Luxembourg have found that using bitcoin over Tor leaves users open to privacy-busting attacks.
MIT researchers have developed a trading system that can almost double a bitcoin investment in under two months.