Seriously, What the Hell Is a Blockchain? Blockchains are often explained with a lot of tech jargon by people in mathematics, cryptography, and network engineering. It turns out that blockchains are ...

TL;DR – We have dug ourselves in trouble by way of varying measures of monetary expression. Bitcoin gives us, at the very least, a standard unit with which to measure the distance to the surface. The ...

WIRED has been reporting on digital currency Bitcoin for several years, but in the past few months, a single bitcoin's trading value has swung significantly making it a regular fixture in headlines.