An unknown “Project Spartacus” has formed in an attempt to immortalize on bitcoin the thousands of Afghan War logs published by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks in 2010…
FBI to Form New Digital Currency Unit as Justice Department Taps New Crypto Czar…
The U.S. Justice Department has tapped a seasoned computer crimes prosecutor to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement team and announced on Thursday that the FBI is launching a unit for blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure. The creation of the “virtual asset exploitation” unit at the FBI comes on the heels of the Justice Department’s largest-ever financial seizure…
Tax Trouble For Certain Bitcoin Traders…
What do you do, come April 17, if you made a ton of money trading crypto last year and have since lost most of it? Panic, probably. A lot of last year’s winners are in deep porridge now. They owe tax on 2017 profits. They’re losing money now, so it’s not easy to come up […]
Thieves Steal 600 Computers Used to Mine Bitcoin…
Ukrainian Cyber-Thieves Bagged $50M in Bitcoin Phishing Scam…
Security analysts at the US technology corporation Cisco have exposed a bitcoin phishing scam, which involves web resources disguising themselves as one of the world’s most popular online wallets, Blockchain.info. Cisco has been investigating the case over the past six months in partnership with Ukrainian Cyber-police, according to the firm’s security experts Dave Maynor and […]
U.S. Lawmakers Draft Bill ‘Protecting’ Cryptocurrencies from Government Interference…
Several members of the US Congress are drafting legislation that is intended to recognize certain digital currencies and ‘protect’ them against interference from the federal government. The question is – does the ‘protection’.
‘Bitcoen’ to Become First Electronic Currency Specifically for Jews…
Coming soon to your community may be the first ever international Jewish currency, dreamed up by a Russian entrepreneur. BitCoen, an electronic crytopcurrency based off of the idea of BitCoin, is set to launch in September. Businessman Viacheslav Semenchuk, the brains behind the operation, told Russian media outlet RT that he and his partners are…
‘Sophisticated’ Ethereum Hack Steals $8M Worth of Cryptocurrency…
Hackers struck the Ethereum platform twice in consecutive weeks – this time stealing more than $8 million worth of cryptocurrency in the second Initial Coin Offering (ICO) heist. Veritaseum, the peer-to-peer software firm at the center of the hack, confirmed the theft Monday. The firm’s founder, Reggie Middleton, explained the incident on the Bitcoin Talk […]