Bitcoin prices rose sharply today, blowing past the $90,000 level and setting a new record as the digital currency benefited from rising demand.

Bitcoin notched another record high, climbing above $93,000 for the first time, with traders exuberant over President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetorical support for crypto.

STORY: Bitcoin broke through the $90,000 level to hit a new all-time high on Wednesday.It was holding at around that mark in early Asian trades the following day. The world's biggest cryptocurrency has become one of the most eye-catching market movers in the week since the election of Donald Trump,

A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife — has been sentenced to five years in prison.

A hacker has been sentenced to five years in a US prison for laundering the proceeds of one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts. Ilya Lichtenstein pleaded guilty last year to hacking into the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016 and stealing almost 20,

A New York technology entrepreneur was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty last year to laundering funds stolen from Bitfinex one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges,