Bitcoin

Dark web crypto laundering kingpin sentenced to 12.5 years in prison

Prosecutors hand Russo-Swede a half-billion bill

Cyber-crime11 Nov 2024 | 23

Alleged Bitcoin crook faces 5 years after SEC's X account pwned

SIM swappers strike again, warping cryptocurrency prices

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 13

'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive

To Wales now, where crypto bro sues to be allowed to excavate landfill site

Bootnotes16 Oct 2024 | 85

Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect

'If I was Satoshi I would have destroyed my ability to prove I'm Satoshi'

Offbeat09 Oct 2024 | 45

Craig Wright admits he isn't the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK

Aussie definitely not Satoshi Nakamoto, faces £6M legal bill and possible perjury trial

Security17 Jul 2024 | 86

Oklahoma saddles up bill of rights for crypto wranglers and miners

Bitcoin cowboys now have guaranteed freedoms

Offbeat16 May 2024 | 11

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

Interview On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

Malware Month08 May 2024 | 24

Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder

Hint: If someone says they're an assassin on the dark web, they're probably not

Offbeat09 Apr 2024 | 37

Cryptocurrency laundryman gets hung out to dry

Bitcoin Fog washed hundreds of millions for criminals

Cyber-crime13 Mar 2024 | 25

Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption

Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high

On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 30

SEC Twitter hijacked to push fake news of hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETF approval

Updated Buy the hype, sell the, wait, what do we do now?!

Cyber-crime09 Jan 2024 | 11

Bitcoin's thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite

A single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 41

Poloniex crypto-exchange offers 5% cut to thieves if they return that $120M they nicked

White hat bounty looks more like a beg bounty

Cyber-crime10 Nov 2023 | 18

China's top crypto-mining hardware-maker reportedly furloughs staff

Bitmain's 'Antminers' dominate the market – but customers aren't buying

On-Prem10 Oct 2023 | 15

Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin

It's not a broken business model if the subsidies make up for cratering market and flagging demand

Systems07 Sep 2023 | 27

Guy who ran Bitcoins4Less tells Feds he had less than zero laundering protections

What? Yogurt Monster isn't really a legitimate customer's name?!

Cyber-crime06 Sep 2023 | 14

Couple admit they laundered $4B in stolen Bitcoins after Bitfinex super-heist

A man, a plan, and Razzlekhan fought the law – and the law won

Cyber-crime04 Aug 2023 | 36

Unsealed: Charges against Russians blamed for Mt Gox crypto-exchange collapse

What a blast from the past, the past being a year before the pandemic

Cyber-crime12 Jun 2023 | 7

North Korea's Lazarus Group linked to Atomic Wallet heist

Users' cryptocurrency wallets look unlikely to be refilled

Cyber-crime08 Jun 2023 | 6

EU passes world's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrency

Gone are the days of unlicensed exchanges and anonymous transactions – for EU citizens, at least

Personal Tech17 May 2023 | 54

Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5 million in crypto cash

Terminal maker General Bytes shutters its cloud business after second breach in seven months

Security23 Mar 2023 | 30

Bitcoin mining rig found stashed in school crawlspace

Pics Don't blame the kids! Ex-city employee charged with $17k power theft

Cyber-crime24 Feb 2023 | 80

More victims of fake crypto investor scam speak to The Register

Exclusive UK-based Coin Publishers were conned out of $206,000 after meeting in a Barcelona hotel

Cyber-crime16 Feb 2023 | 52

Craig Wright's crypto wallet claim against Bitcoin SV devs back before judges

Another of the self-proclaimed BTC inventor's lawsuits rumbles onward

Software15 Feb 2023 | 22

Crypto mixer Sinbad looks uncannily like a remix of North Korea's notorious Blender

Lazarus Group’s favorite digi-dollar launderer may have risen again

Software14 Feb 2023 | 12

Scammers steal $4 million in crypto during face-to-face meeting

Demand to display wallet full of coin facilitated mystery heist

Cyber-crime08 Feb 2023 | 86

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

Opinion Fintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff

Networks23 Dec 2022 | 150

‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman argues for centralized infrastructure

Inventor of the spanning tree protocol gets heretical about blockchain, crypto, and why the broken internet is a blessing in disguise

Networks02 Dec 2022 | 40

Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red

Little fish lured into the market help whales cash out

Security16 Nov 2022 | 70

Intel plans to cut products — we guess where they’ll happen

Analysis To help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose

Systems05 Nov 2022 | 30

Bitcoin energy consumption a feature, not a bug, says crypto-miner

But it's OK because we use non-carbon energy, argues CEO

On-Prem14 Oct 2022 | 28

America, use Bitcoin instead of old-school money? Not likely, says Fed

It's all about the Benjamins, says Michael Barr

Personal Tech13 Oct 2022 | 10

Google Cloud to accept cryptocurrencies as payment

GCN Plus: AI services, security tools and more from Google Cloud Next this week

PaaS + IaaS11 Oct 2022 | 11

Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

Researchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact

Science30 Sep 2022 | 39

China's central bank declares victory over online lenders, Bitcoin speculators

Just in time for the Party Congress, whatever the reality of the situation

Software28 Sep 2022 | 3

America taps 150+ prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime

As President Biden rolls out a blueprint for future regulations

Personal Tech17 Sep 2022 | 10

US warns cryptominers must cut power use to avoid busting US carbon goals

Datacenters or digicash - what's the bigger boon to society?

Systems09 Sep 2022 | 54

US treasury whips up sanctions for crypto mixer Tornado Cash

Being the money launderer for North Korea’s Lazarus Group comes at a price

Cyber-crime08 Aug 2022 | 21

One way Bitcoin miners can make money: Selling electricity back to Texas

Beats screwing around actually crafting these unloved tokens

Personal Tech03 Aug 2022 | 45

Tesla jettisons 75% of Bitcoin holdings, boosting cash balance by $936m

Estimates suggest it could take a $460 million hit on the exchange

Software21 Jul 2022 | 34

Intel ships crypto-mining ASIC at the worst possible time

Comment Chipmaker finally ahead of schedule only to find it arrived too late

Systems30 Jun 2022 | 24

Investors start betting against Bitcoin with short-trade products

Some crypto-bros keep the faith in the face of market onslaught

Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 46

Bill Gates says NFTs '100% based on greater fool theory' amid crypto cataclysm

Comment Plus: Non-fungible tokens for dummies

Offbeat16 Jun 2022 | 87

Crypto market crashes on Celsius freeze, inflation news

Not a good moment to look at that digi-coin portfolio, fam

Personal Tech13 Jun 2022 | 42

Clipminer rakes in $1.7m in crypto hijacking scam

Crooks divert transactions to own wallets while running mining on the side

Research03 Jun 2022 | 2

Despite ban, China surges back to second place on bitcoin mining charts

Miners behind the Great Firewall may never have downed tools, say Cambridge crypto-boffins

Software19 May 2022 | 5

US brings first-of-its-kind criminal charges of Bitcoin-based sanctions-busting

Citizen allegedly moved $10m-plus in BTC into banned nation

Cyber-crime16 May 2022 | 5

Don't hate on cryptomining, hate the power stations, say Bitcoin super-fans

We're not the ones telling them to burn fossil fuels, top names write in response to probe request

Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 111

Wiki community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

Cryptocurrencies make up less than 1% of wiki donations, but as member points out, that $130k could pay a salary

Networks13 Apr 2022 | 19

Crypto inferno: Intel's Bitcoin-mining Blockscale ASIC to arrive in Q3

Gelsinger's firm drops details on crypto chip – including hash rate of up to 580GHps

Systems05 Apr 2022 | 11

Europe advances crypto-coin regulation – without potential ban on Bitcoin

Vote held after red-tape targeting proof-of-work assets removed

Personal Tech16 Mar 2022 | 28

Intel blasts Bitcoin mining, unveils own mining kit

Gelsinger believes his chip won't make quite a hash of the climate

Systems26 Feb 2022 | 22

India's Reserve Bank deputy governor calls for crypto ban

Labels digital currencies wreckers of sovereignty, worse than a Ponzi scheme

Security16 Feb 2022 | 51

Intel chases after Bitcoin miners with dedicated chip

Silicon giant thinks there's real money to be made in the web metaverse 3.0 chain hype

On-Prem11 Feb 2022 | 36

FBI seizes $3.6bn in Bitcoin after New York 'tech couple' arrested over Bitfinex robbery

Updated Ilya Lichtenstein and partner cuffed via blockchain records

Security08 Feb 2022 | 45

Indonesia bars financial institutions from offering crypto services

Advises citizens to avoid 'Ponzi schemes'

Security27 Jan 2022 | 17