Cryptocurrency

Ads Inc. Shut Down, But The Tools It Used To Trick People On Facebook Have Lived On
“The quantity of these scams is so huge that it's not possible to check them by human labor.”

DJ Khaled And Floyd Mayweather Are Paying Hefty Fines To Settle A Cryptocurrency Case With Federal Regulators
The two touted a new cryptocurrency on social media, but failed to disclose that they were being paid for their endorsement, according to the SEC.

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.

A Cryptocurrency Pioneer Wrote About Sex With A Preteen Girl On His Blog. He Says It Was Fiction.
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Gavin Wood wrote — and then deleted — a post about having sex with a preteen girl who was dying of AIDS. He says it was fiction.

This Is What Happened When John McAfee Told His Twitter Followers To Harass The SEC
“You seem to not be thinking logically about anything.”

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.

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.

ビットコイン2千兆円男がZaifに苦言 「怒りというより呆れています」
YouTubeで経過を報告してきた麺屋銀次さんが取材に応じた

Scammers Are Impersonating Elon Musk And Donald Trump To Take Your Bitcoin
And they're using automated networks of bot accounts to do it.

北朝鮮犯行説「現段階では…」 コインチェック問題、山本一郎に聞く
返金、回収の可能性は?

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.

仮想通貨はこれで守れ!? 凍った「コールドウォレット」つくる猛者が出現
これなら安心……なわけないから!

ひろゆき氏、コインチェック問題で予想的中 「犯人ってわけじゃないですよ」
3日前のブログで「次の一手」予測

「犯人が資金移動模索か」 コインチェック問題でブロックチェーン団体が見解
複数回の送金と入金、狙いは一体何なのか

Facebook Is Banning Cryptocurrency And Initial Coin Offering Ads
Say goodbye to ads like “Use your retirement funds to buy bitcoin!”

コールドウォレット、マルチシグって何? 今さら聞けない仮想通貨の基礎知識
コインチェック以外でも流出は「起こり得る」

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"

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.

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?

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.

9 Conspiracy Theories About Newsweek's Story On Satoshi Nakamoto, The Alleged Father Of Bitcoin
Questions abound since the man Newsweek reported is the reclusive creator of Bitcoin said he had nothing to do with the digital currency — and you know what the internet does with unanswered questions.

Millions Of Dogecoins Stolen In Apparent Heist
Much robbery, so anger, etc. Users of the functional joke currency are reporting emptied wallets.