Bitcoin exchange founder sentenced to prison for money laundering
The DOJ believes Alexander Vinnick ran BTC-e as a front for a money laundering operation.
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FX and Hulu are airing a documentary on the teenage Twitter hacker
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PayPal now lets all US users buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency
The company plans to bring cryptocurrency into Venmo next year.
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US authorities seize $1 billion worth of Silk Road Bitcoin
The seized Bitcoin came from someone who allegedly hacked the Silk Road.
PayPal will soon let US users buy, sell and shop with cryptocurrency
The company plans to bring digital currencies to Venmo next year too.
John McAfee arrested for tax evasion, charged by SEC for touting ICOs
McAfee faces charges for failing to file taxes between 2014 and 2018, and hiding his income.
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It takes an estimated seven nuclear plants to power our bitcoin mining
That's 21.8 million solar panels worth of production.US officials seize cryptocurrency accounts tied to al-Qaeda and ISIS
Agents recouped about $2 million worth of virtual currency in total.
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Alleged Twitter hacker was previously caught stealing a fortune in Bitcoin
He reportedly started working on the Twitter heist weeks after he was busted for the theft.
Steve Wozniak sues Google for not acting on YouTube Bitcoin scams
He said the service has been "unapologetically hosting and directly profiting from similar scams.”
Twitter confirms 'Bitcoin' hackers copied the data of several accounts
Exports from the 'Your Data' tool would expose DMs, address books and more.
Twitter's Bitcoin hackers had almost limitless access
And they burned it all for a handful of magic internet coins.
Everything we know about the Twitter Bitcoin hack
The investigation is underway, and we're collecting all the updates here.
It won't be easy to hide the Bitcoin stolen through Twitter
Bitcoin is not as anonymous as its boosters would have you believe.
Telegram to pay $18.5 million and return $1.2 billion following SEC crypto charges
The company has to return $1.2 billion in investment and pay a $18.5 million fine.