Bitcoin broke above $50,000 for the first time in history, continuing its blistering rally as major companies jump into crypto.

PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin.

Cryptocurrency miners are now being distributed by a new campaign pretending to be Adobe Flash Player installers. While this is not new, this particular campaign is going the extra mile to appear legitimate by not only installing a miner, but also updating Flash Player as well.

Salon.com has a new, cryptocurrency-driven strategy for making money when readers block ads. If you want to read Salon without seeing ads, you can do so—as long as you let the website use your spare computing power to mine some coins.

Over the course of the current week, WordPress sites around the globe have been the targets of a massive brute-force campaign during which hackers attempted to guess admin account logins in order to install a Monero miner on compromised sites.

Read on for a beginner’s guide to Bitcoins. We’ll explain what Bitcoin is, how it works, and what ordinary people should know about the technology.