Bitcoin

Hey, look who's rushing to weigh in on crypto-coins. Hello, United Nations and European Commission!

Rules, rules, standards, and rules

Science23 Jan 2018 | 6

Stripe in Bitcoin hype flight while fans blindly gobble up crypto-cash

Roundup Between scrutiny, scams, fees, and hacking, digi-dosh looks less appealing

Science23 Jan 2018 | 16

Cyber-coin crackdown continues: Commission charges couple crypto-currency company chiefs concerning 'conned' customers

Crikey!

Science20 Jan 2018 | 21

Crypto-cash exchange BitConnect pulls plug amid Bitcoin bloodbath

BTC plunge, er, sorry, market correction leaves faithful shaken but not deterred

Science18 Jan 2018 | 39

Junk food meets junk money: KFC starts selling Bitcoin Bucket

Transaction costs more than chicken, which would go cold by the time BTC change hands

Bootnotes15 Jan 2018 | 81

Good lord, Kodak's stock is up 120 per cent. How? New film? Oh. It launched a crypto-coin

Sigh, 2018. Sigh

Science09 Jan 2018 | 56

Hyperledger 3 years later: That's the sound of the devs... working on the chain ga-a-ang

But is anyone actually using it?

OSes02 Jan 2018 | 16

Long Island Iced Tea Corp renamed itself to Long Blockchain – and its shares went bananas

Logowatch Shift in focus spikes drink biz

Science22 Dec 2017 | 35

UK reaches peak Bitcoin as bin firm accepts cryptocurrency

'It's not a publicity stunt,' says BusinessWaste.co.uk

Legal18 Dec 2017 | 18

Bitcoin price soars amid technical troubles for exchanges

Outages throw a wrench into profit taking

On-Prem07 Dec 2017 | 57

Games-mart Steam halts Bitcoin payments

Hyper-volatility means transaction fees can hit $20 – if they go through before the price of Bitcoin changes

Science07 Dec 2017 | 47

NiceHash diced up by hackers, thousands of Bitcoin pilfered

Mining outfit says its entire wallet gone, estimated $62m

Security06 Dec 2017 | 89

Badass alert: 1 in 5 Brits don't give a damn about webpage crypto-miners

More sensible users would like regulation or permission first

Science01 Dec 2017 | 40

Crypto-cash souk Coinbase forced to rat out its high rollers to probing US taxmen

Broker claims 'partial victory' after caving to IRS demand

Security30 Nov 2017 | 28

Crown Prosecution Service is coming for crooks' cryptocurrency

Brit prosecutors have a confiscation order and say 'more to follow'

Science30 Nov 2017 | 45

Elon Musk says he's not Satoshi Nakamoto and is pretty rubbish at Bitcoin

He had some once, but lost them down the back of the sofa

Science29 Nov 2017 | 33

Crypto-jackers enlist Google Tag Manager to smuggle alt-coin miners

Ad giant has malware detection in its script-hosting service... but Coinhive isn't flagged

Security22 Nov 2017 | 10

Bitcoin outfit 'Tether' reveals US$31m BitBuck BitHeist

Company badly forked up after promising secure 'stable digital currency equivalent'

Science21 Nov 2017 | 24

Your attention has value, personal cryptocurrency will advertise it

ICOs meet advertising in the end-game for the gig economy

Science14 Nov 2017 | 21

Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin, but fixes are available now

Shor, we need a new sig scheme

Security09 Nov 2017 | 10

Bitcoin drops SegWit2x hard fork after community objects

Cryptocurrency hits all-time high, then bounces back down

Science08 Nov 2017 | 21

Vietnam bans Bitcoin as payment for anything

What is it with (mostly) single party states and crimps on cryptocurrency?

Legal30 Oct 2017 | 45

Man: Just 18 Bitcoin babies and my home is yours

'People are doing it for high-end properties – why not Grimsby?'

Bootnotes27 Oct 2017 | 49

Crypto-coin miners caught toiling away in hacked cloud boxes

Manic miners don't even pwn you: They just use default creds admins are too lazy to change

Security17 Oct 2017 | 13

Assange thanks USA for forcing him to invest in booming Bitcoin

Banking blockade has actually enriched WikiLeaks

Science16 Oct 2017 | 20

To Russia, with love: Greek court now says Bitcoin fraud suspect could be tried at home

US and Moscow both want to extradite Alexander Vinnik, 38, but minister of justice will decide

Legal11 Oct 2017 | 13

Russia, America dig into tug-of-war over Bitcoin laundering suspect

We want him! No, he's ours! Shut up!

Security06 Oct 2017 | 18

Russian suspected of $4bn Bitcoin laundering op to be extradited to US

38-year-old said to be appealing Greek court's decision

Security04 Oct 2017 | 17

South Korea bans Initial Coin Offerings

Financial regulator worries about speculative investments going bad, fraud and crime

Legal29 Sep 2017 |

Ethereum just checked that part of a Zcash transaction was legit

Someone sent somebody else some money – that's all we know, and that's a good thing

Science20 Sep 2017 | 8

Ethereum will have transaction chops of Visa in 'a couple of years', founder claims

Starcraft on the blockchain? What a time to be alive

On-Prem19 Sep 2017 | 20

Pirate Bay digs itself a new hole: Mining alt-coin in slurper browsers

Would you trade your CPU time and electricity bill for pirated content?

Security19 Sep 2017 | 42

Someone checked and, yup, you can still hijack Gmail, Bitcoin wallets etc via dirty SS7 tricks

Two-factor authentication by SMS? More like SOS

Security18 Sep 2017 | 16

Bank for central banks admits decentralised cryptocurrencies are a pretty good idea

'Fact that they're even talking about it is quite significant'

Science18 Sep 2017 | 7

China orders immediate shuttering of Bitcoin exchanges

And *clunk* – cryptocurrency value drops 20 per cent

On-Prem15 Sep 2017 | 26

North Korea attacks Bitcoin bods to swell its war chest says FireEye

BTC isn't explicitly covered by sanctions and Kim could launder it into useful currencies

Security13 Sep 2017 | 19

China bans cryptocurrency fundraising schemes

Bitcoin, Ethereum values dip after 'Initial Coin Offerings' ruled dangerously disruptive

Science05 Sep 2017 | 17

Bitcoin Foundation wants US Department of Justice investigated

Bitcoin isn't money, so money laundering laws shouldn't apply

On-Prem31 Aug 2017 | 41

Best Korea fingered for hacks against Bitcoin exchanges in South

Norks planning more raids to cover sanction losses, say intel boffins

Security30 Aug 2017 | 27

Lanarkshire NHS infection named as Bitpaymer variant

Ransomeware asked for 50+ Bitcoin, but analysts say files can't be decrypted anyway

Security30 Aug 2017 | 13

US watchdog alert: Don't fall victim to crapto crypto-coin cons, people

Advisory warns of dodgy digital money scams

Science29 Aug 2017 | 48

Bitcoin-accepting sites leave cookie trail that crumbles anonymity

Merchants share too much tracking information? Colour us un-surprised

Security20 Aug 2017 | 9

Australian money cops gain powers to regulate cryptocurrency

Money laundering and terror finance laws will stretch to cover digi-dollars

Legal18 Aug 2017 | 19

Disgraced US Secret Service agent coughs to second Bitcoin heist

Fox, meet henhouse

Security16 Aug 2017 | 18

At last, a kosher cryptocurrency: BitCoen

Have we reached peak blockchain yet?

Science10 Aug 2017 | 50

For fork's sake! Bitcoin Core braces for another cryptocurrency split

BTC client software set to reject SegWit2x nodes

Science08 Aug 2017 | 28

Go fork yourself: Bitcoin has split in two – and yes, it's all forked up

Bitcoin Cash is the New Coke of cryptocurrency

Science01 Aug 2017 | 48

Greek police arrest chap accused of laundering $4bn of Bitcoin

Russian Alexander Vinnik thought to be handling proceeds of Mt Gox bust

Security27 Jul 2017 | 17

Don't panic, but your Bitcoins may just vanish into the ether next month

Well, actually, do panic. A pending code change could bring a period of instability

Software13 Jul 2017 | 76

Breached Bitcoin Bithumb bosses blame bod's BYOD

Humans still the weakest link

Security06 Jul 2017 | 3

See you in 2023 – Bitcoin exchange Coin.mx bigwig gets 66 months in the slammer

Murgio gets off easy in money laundering case

Security27 Jun 2017 | 5

Australian oppn. leader wants to do something about Bitcoin, because terrorism and crypto

Bill Shorten says there are things 'we do not know enough about to deal with properly'

Legal13 Jun 2017 | 26

Bogus Bitcoiners battered with US$12 million penalty

SEC pounds Ponzi prospectors ZenMiner and GAW Miners

Security06 Jun 2017 | 7

Bitcoin exchange Coinbase crashes after Asian buying frenzy

Japanese investors rush in after cryptocurrency was made legal

Science26 May 2017 | 45

Unplug the Bitcoin miner and do us all a favour: Antminer has remote shutdown flaw

‘Antbleed’ attack could crock 70 per cent of all mining. Time to try another flavour?

Security27 Apr 2017 | 6

EU plans for blockchain 'observatory' raise concerns, says expert

€500,000 to improve expertise and regulatory capacity

Legal20 Apr 2017 | 8