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Crypto Diaries: The Bitcoin Entrepreneur Whose Wife Won't Let Him Talk Bitcoin
Kyle Hill is the latest in our series on what people in crypto actually do all day.
“Selling Sunset” Star Christine Quinn Is Leaving The O Group To Go All In On Crypto
The reality show archvillain has launched a crypto real estate company with her husband.
Ukraine Tweeted Its Cryptocurrency Wallet And Got $4 Million In Donations To Help Fight Russia
A source who confirmed the government’s fundraiser believed the funds would go to “exterminate as many Russian occupants as possible.”
From China To Kazakhstan To Texas: The Great Crypto Migration To The US Is Underway
Bitcoin miners keep picking up their operations and moving to more lucrative destinations. Now, their sights are trained on the US.
The NFTs They Bought From The Crypto Rapper Disappeared. Now They Want A Refund.
In the aftermath of the DOJ’s announcement of a $4.5 billion crypto laundering scheme, NFT owners want OpenSea to stop treating their goods like evidence of a crime.
The NFT Accounts Of The Couple Who Allegedly Tried To Launder $4.5 Billion In Stolen Crypto Have Disappeared
The couple may have attempted to use NFTs to launder some stolen Bitcoin, the Department of Justice complaint says.
A Woman Accused Of A $4.5 Billion Cryptocurrency Laundering Scheme Has Moonlighted As A Rapper And Forbes Writer
The DOJ has charged Heather Morgan, who uses the stage name Razzlekhan, with attempting to launder thousands of bitcoins alongside her husband, startup founder Ilya Lichtenstein.
Congress Is Trying To Figure Out What To Do About Crypto's Colossal Carbon Footprint
House members pushed back on crypto CEOs' assertion that bitcoin's energy consumption is actually a "feature not a bug."
How A Bunch Of Crypto Nerds Liberated Jodorowsky’s Bible For “Dune,” The Greatest Film Never Made
The director’s lavish vision proved too much for Hollywood studios, but an ether-backed collective has vowed to bring it into public view at last.
This Quiz Is Made For Anyone Who's Confused About Bitcoin
Let's go over the ABCs of BTC.
Meet The Guys Selling Memes As NFTs — For A Price
Connor Flanigan and Greg Cervenak are brokering an auction for Numa Numa, Honey Badger Don't Care, and Two Pretty Best Friends.
I Am Genuinely Curious To Hear Gen Z'ers' Opinions On Cryptocurrency
Be as *honest* as possible.
Instagram Influencer Jay Mazini Was Charged With Wire Fraud For Allegedly Stealing $2.5 Million In Bitcoin From His Followers
Prosecutors said Mazini, who claimed to have a net worth of $33 million, offered to buy Bitcoin from his Instagram followers for more than market value but never sent the money.
Secret Documents Show How Terrorist Supporters Use Bitcoin — And How The Government Is Scrambling To Stop Them
After a decade of concerns, the US government is pushing for stronger regulation.
OneCoin konnte Milliarden stehlen, obwohl Banken die Behörden informiert hatten
60.000 Deutsche haben an OneCoin geglaubt. Weltweit waren es Millionen. Ihr Geld ist weg. Wie konnte das passieren? Ein Teil der Antwort findet sich in den FinCEN-Files.
Prosecutors Said A 17-Year-Old And Two Others Hacked All Those Famous Twitter Accounts In A Bitcoin Scam
“These crimes were perpetrated using the names of famous people and celebrities, but they’re not the primary victims here," prosecutors said.
Joe Biden, Elon Musk, And Barack Obama's Twitter Accounts Were Hacked In A Bitcoin Scam
Hackers took over some of Twitter's biggest accounts to solicit bitcoin on Wednesday.
"Down The Rabbit Hole I Go": How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies To Her Death
Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.
A Nationwide Bomb Threat Email Demanding A Bitcoin Ransom Has Panicked People Across The US
"At this time, it appears that these threats are meant to cause disruption and/or obtain money," the New York Police Department said.
Cryptocurrency Scams Are Thriving On Twitter Eight Months After It Said It Was Working To Eliminate Them
Scammers promising free bitcoin have become more sophisticated over the past few months, hacking verified Twitter accounts like Target to spread their scheme. It seems to be coming from Russia.
Mining Cryptocurrencies Is Consuming A Significant Amount Of Energy, Researchers Say
During the past two years, researchers estimate cryptocurrencies generated between 3 million and 15 million tons of carbon emissions.
How A Hapless Bitcoin Entrepreneur Got Swept Up In The Crypto Craze And Started A Multimillion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme
A Quebec IT worker was certain he’d developed a foolproof way to mine bitcoin. Instead, it led him and his investors to ruin.
浮気をバラすとの脅迫状、「口止め料はビットコインで！」
「奥さんや他の人たちに秘密にしていること、ありますよね。知っていますよ」
This Is What Happened When John McAfee Told His Twitter Followers To Harass The SEC
“You seem to not be thinking logically about anything.”
Scammers Are Threatening To Reveal Cheating Husbands Unless They Get Paid Thousands In Bitcoin
“I know about the secret you are keeping from your wife and everyone else.”
People Are Selling Their Homes For Bitcoin Now
“As a realtor ... I thought, isn’t it time to offer something in crypto?”
A Bot Network Stealing Twitter Identities Ran Its Scam For Days Before Being Taken Down
The scam ran for three days before Twitter removed the fake accounts.
Sifting Through The Hype At The Blockchain Career Fair
A product that lets you scroll through pictures of breasts was one of the few publicly available applications on display at the UC Berkeley cryptocurrency career fair.
The Future Is Faster Bitcoin, Say Guys Who Made Faster Bitcoin
“We have fairness. Let’s be clear what we’re talking about when we talk about fairness. It’s not fairness.”
Google Will Ban All Cryptocurrency-Related Ads Starting June 2018
Both Facebook and Google, two of the world's largest players in online advertising, are working to ban ads promoting cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings.
The Mountain West Is Experiencing A Second Gold Rush. This Time They’re Mining Bitcoin.
Thanks to its plentiful land and cheap power, rural Montana, Washington, and Wyoming are now home to a new crop of cryptocurrency prospectors. Their neighbors aren’t too happy about it.
Want To Make Millions? Copy Someone’s Cryptocurrency Project.
Copying other companies' work and intellectual property can generate big paydays for hucksters in the cryptocurrency world. One company has maintained a $2.3 billion valuation despite widespread allegations of plagiarism.
Twitter Is Still Allowing Scammers To Hijack Verified Accounts To Take People’s Money
Unlike past versions of Twitter cryptocurrency phishing, @TronFoundationl is different: It has a verification badge, the blue check mark that Twitter uses to delineate famous or important accounts from imposters.
Wie Alice Weidel zum „Bitcoin Entrepreneur“ wurde
Alice Weidel, Fraktionsvorsitzende der AfD im Bundestag, sollte im Frühling auf einer Bitcoin-Konferenz sprechen. Angeblich plane sie die Gründung eines eigenen Startups für Bitcoins. Als das öffentlich wird, verschwindet Weidel aus dem Programm.
サギ師がビットコイン投資家たちを手玉にとるまで
ビットコインに代表される仮想通貨（暗号通貨）の世界には、規制がほとんど及ばない。そこでは、詐欺師たちがSNS、フェイクニュースサイト、チャットアプリを悪用し、自分たちの資産の価格を操作するための偽情報を故意に広め、私腹を肥やしている。
Scammers Are Impersonating Elon Musk And Donald Trump To Take Your Bitcoin
And they're using automated networks of bot accounts to do it.
The Latest "Bitcoin" Ploy? Faking A Super Bowl Ad Rejection.
"It wasn’t rejected because it was never reviewed because the company never made a buy," an NBC spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
Facebook Is Banning Cryptocurrency And Initial Coin Offering Ads
Say goodbye to ads like “Use your retirement funds to buy bitcoin!”
Bitcoin Scammers Are Using This App To Fleece People
Messaging app Telegram started out as a WhatsApp alternative, but it's fast becoming a petri dish for cryptocurrency get-rich-quick schemes, propped up by dubious trading bots and bogus celebrity endorsements from Christopher Walken and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. That may be a problem as it heads toward a possible billion-dollar initial coin offering.
Here’s How Scammers Are Using Fake News To Screw With Bitcoin Investors
In the largely unregulated world of bitcoin and cryptocurrency, fraudsters are getting rich by deliberately spreading false information to affect the price of their holdings using social media, scam news sites, and private chat apps.
This Is Why Experts Are Calling Kodak's New Bitcoin Scheme A Scam
"IN MATH WE TRUST"
A Bunch Of People Say They Got Spam Messages On GroupMe Hawking A Diet Pill Or Asking For Bitcoin
People took to Twitter to apologize to their contacts for the messages and advise against clicking on the links. Microsoft said the app's security wasn't compromised.
The Coinbase Effect Shows The Power Of The US’s Most Important Cryptocurrency Platform
Bitcoin Cash surged more than 180% after Coinbase, the popular trading platform, announced it would allow for trading of the relatively new cryptocurrency.
People Are Rooting For The Man In A Hoax About Bitcoins And Chuck E. Cheese
Kind of with Shadowfart69 on this one.
Bitcoin And Its Competitors Are Becoming A Problem For US Sanctions
The pace at which bitcoin and other digital currencies are evolving could spell a big problem for the US in the future.
Now You Can Short Bitcoin
But it will be very, very expensive.
The Introduction Of Bitcoin Futures Was Surprisingly Calm And Normal
The bitcoin crash might be coming, but the only thing that broke so far with the new futures exchange was the website.
North Korea Said To Be Hacking Into Bitcoin Exchanges To Steal Money
Bitcoin's surge in value in 2017 is another incentive for North Korea to hack into cryptocurrency exchanges.
There's More Bad News About ICOs, This Time From China
China — an important market for cryptocurrencies — will no longer permit ICOs.
There's A Murky New Way To Raise Money And Regulators Are Not Amused
Startups have raised more than $1 billion from unregulated "initial coin offerings" this year, but the party won't last forever.
PotCoin Says That Dennis Rodman Was Totally Behind The Release Of A US Prisoner
A spokesperson for PotCoin said that Rodman deserves "total credit" for securing the release of a US citizen. The State Department disagrees.
Bitcoin Surges Following Trump Win
Is the cryptocurrency gold 2.0?
The Thief Who Stole $50 Million In Ether Can't Spend His Money
Will the hacker or hackers behind a huge heist be able to spend their bounty?
Man Who Claims To Be Bitcoin Inventor Says He Doesn't Have Courage To Present Proof
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright backed out his promise to present "extraordinary proof" that he is the mysterious founder of bitcoin.
Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? It Doesn't Matter, Bitcoin Investors Say
Did an Australian computer scientist invent the world's leading crypto-currency? If you ask some Bitcoin entrepreneurs, you're met with a shrug of the shoulders.
Here's What We Know About The Australian Who Says He Invented Bitcoin
Australian entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright identified himself as the founder of Bitcoin — but many are skeptical.
Circle's Future Looks Like Less Bitcoin And More Banking
It's not a Bitcoin company, its founder says, but the "consumer bank of the future."
Los Angeles Hospital Pays $17,000 Bitcoin Ransom To Hackers
The hack prevented Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center from accessing its computer systems, prompting the hospital to pay a ransom for the encryption key.
Newly Unmasked Bitcoin "Founder" Has House Raided By Tax Officers
Satoshi Nakamoto is allegedly Australian computer genius Craig Wright.
Florida Man Pleads Not Guilty In Bitcoin Case Linked To Massive Bank Hack
Anthony Murgio has been linked to conspirators charged in the massive U.S. bank hack that compromised data on 100 million people.
Virginia Teen Jailed For 11 Years For Supporting ISIS On Twitter
Ali Shukri Amin, 17, will have his internet activities monitored for the rest of his life after pleading guilty to providing material support to ISIS.
The Canadian Senate Wants Canada To Be A Bitcoin Utopia
A Senate committee has fallen head over heels for cryptocurrencies.
FTC Settles With Developer Who Hijacked Phones To Mine Cryptocurrency
A game and rewards app was really a Trojan horse, installing virtual currency mining software on the phones of unsuspecting consumers.
Goldman Sachs Makes Its First Big Investment In Bitcoin
Goldman is co-leading a $50 million financing round in Circle Internet Financial, a bitcoin wallet company. The investment lends some Wall Street credibility to the bitcoin world.
Most Popular Bitcoin Wallet App Allowed Back Into App Store
"This is a big deal," Blockchain CEO Nicolas Cary said. The app had been removed in February but has now returned following Apple's publishing guidelines for digital currency apps released in June.
AirBaltic Becomes World's First Airline To Accept Bitcoin As Payment
The Latvian airline announced Tuesday it would accept bitcoins as payment from passengers when booking flights.
New York Becomes First State To Propose Bitcoin Regulation
"These businesses are going to have to be licensed whether we like it not."
Here Is The Saddest Bitcoin Photo You Will See For At Least An Hour
Three men on a couch.
Bitcoin Will Sponsor A College Bowl Game
Not a drill.
eBay CEO: PayPal Will Eventually Accept Bitcoin
John Donahoe told CNBC, "Over time, you'll start to see it with some merchants accepting Bitcoin" on PayPal. He also said he owns some of the digital currency.
Bitcoin Entrepreneur Settles With SEC Over Unregistered Stock Sales
Erik Voorhees will pay more than $50,000 for raising money — in Bitcoin — for social media marketing and gambling companies that ran on the digital currency.
Brock Pierce, Associate Of Embattled X-Men Director, Joins The Bitcoin Foundation
Brock Pierce is a pioneering digital currency entrepreneur who has been sued for sexual abuse and fraud, and who lived in a mansion where Bryan Singer allegedly abused an underaged boy. "Completely false," Pierce said, of the lawsuits. "My view is that these people are only trying to get money."
Bitcoins Will Be Taxed As Property, Not Currency
That's going to be a bummer for a lot of bitcoin's defenders. And it probably won't help it get more mass adoption.
Here Are The New Digital Currencies That Hope To Become The "Bitcoin Of Pot"
"We're the bad boys of cryptocurrency," one founder said.
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto Releases Official Statement "Unconditionally" Denying Newsweek's Bitcoin Story
"I have no knowledge of nor have I ever worked on cryptography, peer to peer systems, or alternative currencies." Updated with statement from Newsweek.
New York State Opens Up To Bitcoin Exchanges
New York State's Department of Financial Services will accept proposals to "operate virtual currency exchanges."
Newsweek Satoshi Author And Tina Brown Spar Over Questioned Bitcoin Exposé
"I'm so glad I'm not the editor," said Tina Brown, Newsweek's former editor. Leah McGrath Goodman, the Satoshi author, responds: "I find her comments not to be very friendly to Newsweek."
The Internet Reacts To Satoshi Nakamoto Denying He Invented Bitcoin
Let the memes begin.
Alleged Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Denies Involvement
Updated: Nakamoto denied in an Associated Press interview that he had anything to do with the digital currency after reporters showed up at his Los Angeles-area home. Newsweek maintains, "The facts as reported point toward Mr. Nakamoto’s role in the founding of Bitcoin."
How Leah McGrath Goodman Found The Inventor Of Bitcoin
"A lot of amazing journalists I look up to, instead of looking for his name, looked at all the coders in the world who might have done it." Update — 8:15 ET. Dorian Nakamoto has denied that he's the inventor of Bitcoin.
The Soundtrack To The End Of This Horrible World Will Be One Of These Bitcoin Cover Songs
Well, it's been a nice few hundred thousand years of human existence, but it's time to pack it up. Ride into extinction with one of these "songs."
Bitcoin Company CEO Dead Of Apparent Suicide
Autumn Radtke, CEO of bitcoin exchange company First Meta, was found dead in her Singapore apartment last week; suicide is suspected. The death comes during a tumultuous week for bitcoin exchanges following the collapse of Mt. Gox in Japan.
Investment Giant Fortress Reports Bitcoin Loss
The firm said it had taken a 18.5% loss on its relatively small stake. "It's going to be worth a lot," the fund's co-chief investment officer Michael Novogratz said in October.
Behind The Plan To Make A Major U.S.-Regulated Bitcoin Exchange
Second Market CEO and Bitcoin investor Barry Silbert is working on rolling out a regulated, US-based exchange following the Mt. Gox disaster. "This is the fun stuff."
The Winklevoss Twins Really Are Identical
Find the differences in their bios. (h/t Stephen Foley)
How One Startup Is Training Engineers To Handle Real-World Tech Disaster Scenarios
Payments startup Stripe's "capture the flag" annual event is designed to teach engineers how to handle intense, worst-case scenario situations before they arise.
Winklevoss Twins Warn Of Restrictive Regulation One Day After Bitcoin Startup Founder's Arrest
"Overregulation could cripple Bitcoin's development," Cameron Winklevoss said Tuesday. New York's financial regulator said there needs to be "guardrails for this industry to help root out money laundering and other misconduct."
Bitcoin Falls Flat Among Davos Crowd
The cybercurrency, which is supposed to make money transfers across the globe easier, is barely on the radar of those gathered at the World Economic Forum this week.
Millions Of Dogecoins Stolen In Apparent Heist
Much robbery, so anger, etc. Users of the functional joke currency are reporting emptied wallets.
Donald Glover Is Not An Expert On Monetary Economics
He doesn't want money backed by gold (which we haven't had in any form since the 1970s) and says that Bitcoin "feels realer to me and makes more sense."
Selling Shiny Gold Bitcoins — at A Premium
Will luddites pay more to hold the digital cryptocurrency in their hands?
China Loves Talking About Bitcoin
From Weibo to BTCMan. Not surprising when almost 60% of all trading on Bitcoin exchanges happens in yuan.
Sign-Holding Student's Bitcoin Account Passes $25,000 After Being On ESPN
How one college student's sign made him a small Bitcoin fortune.
Here Are Some Of The Weirdest Places You Can Spend Your Bitcoins
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday on deck, here are a few of the places where you can spend the Bitcoins burning a hole in your virtual pocket. From a group of pubs in England to a place that sells Alpaca wool socks.
The 16 Most Important Bitcoinaires
The cybercurrency is deliberately opaque, making it nearly impossible to track who holds it, but a few bitcoin owners have outed themselves proudly. Meet the known — and still-mysterious — bitcoin tycoons.
Bitcoin Still A Bit Player For Hedge Funds
Bitcoin is still too small and too controversial for widespread implementation in the hedge fund industry in the near future.
9 Things The Winklevoss Twins Taught Me About Bitcoin
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss finally got their moment Tuesday morning to tell the world just how much they love Bitcoin, "the internet of money." Here are the most noteworthy Bitcoin facts imparted to an audience of investors at the Value Investing Congress.
Famous Pickup Artist Is Now A Bitcoin Expert
As "Lovedrop," Chris Odom taught you how to score with babes. Now he'll teach you how to score with bitcoin.
Guess Whose Face Is On Printed Bitcoin Money
PrintCoins.com makes paper cheques for bitcoin, and I'll give you 5 bitcoins if you can guess what politician is on the bills.
