New Jersey Man In Soup For Selling Bitcoin Worth $2 Million
New Jersey resident William Green faces up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for selling $2 million worth of Bitcoin online. The Justice Department Lays Down the Hammer On...
EXMO Crypto-Analyst Pavel Lerner On His Kidnapping and Life Afterwards
In late 2017, news from Ukraine made headlines across numerous cryptocurrency-related media around the world. The lead analyst of the major cryptocurrency exchange EXMO Pavel Lerner...
Norwegian Man Stabbed to Death After Conducting Bitcoin for Cash Trade in Person
An unfortunate man in Norway was murdered over what appears to be a Bitcoin trade gone wrong. P2P Gone Wrong? What appears to be a trade gone wrong has resulted in the tragic loss of...
DEA: The Number Of Illegal vs. Legal Uses of Bitcoin Has Swapped
If 90 percent of Bitcoin’s applications used to be tied to illegal activities in 2013, today, the cryptocurrency is being used for legal financial speculation in 90 percent of cases...
Founder of Two Closed Cryptocurrency Services Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
The operator of two now-defunct cryptocurrency services – BitFunder and WeExchange – has pleaded guilty on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. Jon...
More than $8.5 Million in Bitcoin Seized by Israeli Police
A massive anti-money laundering action has been carried out by the cyber department of the State Attorney’s Office. It filed an indictment, alleging that Hilmi Git had managed to...
Vancouver Resident Gets Sentenced to U.S. Jail for Unlicensed Bitcoin Trading
Louis Ong, a Vancouver-based bitcoin trader, has been sentenced to 20 days in a U.S jail for unlicensed cryptocurrency trading. Ong was apprehended as part of a sting operation by...
5 Arrested in $1 Million Bitcoin Strong Arm Robbery Conspiracy
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Deputies have arrested five individuals charged in connection with an alleged home-invasion conspiracy to steal nearly $1 million in Bitcoin. ...
‘Discount Bitcoin Bandits’ Charged in Robberies
A duo dubbed the “Discount Bitcoin Bandits” have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from individuals intending to purchase cryptocurrency in the Los Angeles...
New Study Finds Less Than 1% of Bitcoin Transactions To Exchanges Are Illicit
A new report that analyzes illicit transactions conducted on the blockchain has determined that less than 1% of all Bitcoin transactions are criminal in origin. Elliptic, a UK based...
Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Pleads Not Guilty As Trial Opens
The French-born 32-year-old former head Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange, faces embezzlement and data manipulation charges owing to the loss of 650,000 Bitcoins...
Petya Developers Break Radio Silence, Demand $250k
The public is finally hearing from the people behind the Petya attack. This marks the first time they’ve released a statement since the attack began to spread around the world...