Bitcoin

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 | 42

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 | 84

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 | 53

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 | 25

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

Russia's Putin out the idea of a broad cryptocurrency ban

Central bank worries that block-bucks reduce government control and are used by crims

Security21 Jan 2022 | 20

Crypto.com now says someone tried to drain $34m from hundreds of accounts

Won't reveal net loss, says it stopped some withdrawals and has reimbursed those who had funds taken

Security20 Jan 2022 | 8

I own that $4.5bn of digi-dosh so rewrite your blockchain and give it to me, Craig Wright tells Bitcoin SV devs

Oh look, another High Court sueball over cryptocurrencies

Legal19 Jan 2022 | 95

Bitcoin 'inventor' will face forgery claims over his Satoshi Nakamoto proof, rules High Court

COPA load of that

Legal06 Jan 2022 | 76

International Monetary Fund warns crypto-related risks could soon become systemic

Wants comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated regulation to avoid instability

Personal Tech10 Dec 2021 | 40

Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining because while hydroelectric power is cheap, they need it for other stuff

Lighting and warming homes in winter, or ransoming encrypted files and buying drugs? Hmmm

Networks26 Nov 2021 | 160

For the nth time, China bans cryptocurrencies

Coin prices drop after People's Bank reiterates crackdown

Personal Tech24 Sep 2021 | 36

Thief hands back at least a third of $600m in crypto-coins stolen from Poly Network

It was just a prank, bro

Security11 Aug 2021 | 23

US proposes tracking digital cash and taxing it to pay for, you know, roads and stuff

Uncle Sam wants digital asset brokers to log customer info but didn't clarify who counts as a broker or not

Software06 Aug 2021 | 15

Europe mulls anonymous crypto-wallet ban, rules to make transfers more traceable

Won't someone please think of the ch, er, money laundering

Personal Tech22 Jul 2021 | 68