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Cryptocurrencies were one of 2018's worst-performing investments, as most experienced steep declines for the year amid a government clampdown and a lack of large-scale institutional support. For instance, the widely traded bitcoin plummeted over 70 percent for the year. The new year,...

Online publication Salon announced in a blog post that the website will mine cryptocurrency with the unused processing power in a reader's computer when they turn on ad-blockers while reading the online magazine. A Revenue Model In Decline Salon said newspaper ad revenues fell...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) removed its archive poster Chrome extension Tuesday after some of its 105,000 users reported the surreptitious deployment of an in-browser CoinHive miner. Early reports suggest the Monero mining script was present on at least four updates of the extension, which...

Cash was once the preferred form of currency for criminals, but the difficulty in tracing cryptocurrencies has many turning to them for underground activity.  The Currency Of The Dark Web  Bitcoin — encrypted data that's based on blockchain code and is transferrable between...

Maybe you’re a skeptic, or maybe you want in but don’t know how. But while you fail to benefit from the bitcoin boom, you may be an unwitting instrument in another’s cryptocurrency work. Cryptocurrency miners have been hijacking consumer central processing units to steal...