Minister of the Economy of France suggests discussing Bitcoin at G20
Bruno Le Maire, the French economy minister, clearly believes the issue of Bitcoin has become too hard to ignore, especially when there is already an international legislative practice. He is likely not a fan of cryptocurrency, though
18 December 2017 21:00, UTC
New York State Assembly sees 4 blockchain bills
An official in New York State has prepared four different drafts revolving around blockchain for voting, data storage and election results, as well as on legal terms upgrades. The reason for this activity? Reports about Russian hackers who allegedly tried to hack voting machines
18 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Kuwait Finance Ministry does not recognize Bitcoin
Sources of the local press in the government suggest that the authoritues would not ban Bitcoin trading, but this does not mean they view cryptocurrencies as a good method of payment, these unspecified officials note
18 December 2017 21:00, UTC
White House: yes, it was North Korea behind those WannaCry hackers
Probably the biggest ransomware attack in history is connected to the cryptocurrency market — the ransom the hackers received was in bitcoins later converted to Monero. Now White House Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert confirms Kim Jong-un’s hackers were behind this extortion
18 December 2017 21:00, UTC
European Union to verify cryptocurrency traders
To counter money laundering, the European Union authorities decide to tighten regulations for cryptocurrency exchange platforms and its users. As shown by the BTC-e example, their fears are far from being a paranoia
17 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Cryptocurrency portal founder’s home searched by Security Service of Ukraine
A popular portal on cryptocurrency, blockchain and digital technologies takes a hit after the Ukrainian law enforcers suspect its founder, Anatoly Kaplan (Klimov) is involved in unlawful economic activities
17 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Mining at work becomes a pain in the neck for bosses
Two major Russian organizations - Vnukovo Airport and Transneft (oil giant) had dishonest system administrators who used the corporate resources to get cryptocurrency for themselves, local media tells
17 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Another North Korean cryptocurrency-related hack trick spotted
North Korea, or the DPRK, is aware about the digital currency market and its state-backed hackers perform various malicious acts related to the crypto space
14 December 2017 21:00, UTC
UAE and Saudi Arabia to create transnational digital currency
One of the main features of this altcoin is going to be the fully institutional and legal payment between these two countries which have quite close economic ties
14 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Barbarian financing: woman arrested in US for sending bitcoins to ISIS
No matter who Satoshi Nakamoto actually is, there is little reason to believe he intended his creation to benefit one of the most cruel terrorist organizations in human history
14 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Indian officials are not pleased with non-taxed coin transactions
The authorities of India are neither fully anti-Bitcoin nor pro-Bitcoin, and the latest news about their sentiment points more at the regulative approach instead of full prohibition or permission
13 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Areopagus, Greece: Vinnik is going to the US
According to the American law enforcers, the Russian citizen committed multiple financial crimes by using a relatively old BTC-e crypto exchange (now renamed to WEX)
13 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Latent mining script spotted in… Starbucks
Apparently, someone decided to inject the mining script in the Wi-Fi instead of websites, the tactics everybody already got used to. And it’s not clear how to find out who was the criminal who did this
13 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Cyber crime goes offline: man robbed of his hardware Ethereum wallet containing $1.8 million
More than a million dollar sum temporarily lost after robbery involving disk with Ethereum in New York City, at least one of criminals under arrest, law enforcement thinks such crimes will only multiply
13 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Coinbase and Bitfinex down
At the moment this news is posted they both might return back online, but at the press time, around 9:45 a.m. ET, Bitfinex has had a DDoS attack and Coinbase — occasional technical difficulties
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
No, former New Zealand PM did not advise to buy Bitcoin
Initial messages about the former Prime Minister of New Zealand telling that Bitcoin investments is a good idea are denied by both the person from this news and by the New Zealand Herald, the outlet these unidentified crooks copied
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Belarus is going to become more liberal on ICOs than South Korea
The democratic state where people recently persuaded the President to resign has banned ICOs recently, and the authoritarian post-Soviet state is now risking breaking some fundamental stereotypes
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Bitcoin Platinum is a fraud made by teenager
The supposed hard fork of Bitcoin protocol called Bitcoin Platinum actually was a scam created by a South Korean teenager who tried to play on Bitcoin’s price decrease
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
SEC makes Munchee refund thousands of dollars back to token buyers
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission decides to close the initial coin offering of Munchee, Inc. after it becomes apparent the company does not interpret the federal law as it should
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Fake MyEtherWallet application becomes #3 in Finance in AppStore
The fraudsters were detected by the real MyEtherWallet employees, report to Apple already sent, the whole situation reminds: cryptocurrency mobile apps far from ideal
10 December 2017 21:00, UTC