FTC Sues Smart Backpack Crowdfunder Who Spent Proceeds On Bitcoin
The Federal Trade Commission is suing a crowdfunder who promised a smart backpack but instead spent the proceeds on bitcoin.
The Federal Trade Commission is suing a crowdfunder who promised a smart backpack but instead spent the proceeds on bitcoin.
A judge has ordered Bitfinex to turn over documents to the New York Attorney General, but only once the scope of the request is narrowed.
New diamond coatings promise to connect physical objects to blockchains. Now users of SAP's cloud service can try it out.
Bitfinex customers may suffer if it can't tap a credit line from Tether, the firms' lawyers say in a new filing in the New York Attorney General case.
The FCC could one day use blockchain to monitor and manage wireless spectrums to support the growing requirements of the internet of things.
Did Backpage launder cash through crypto? What happened to three Germans on the DarkWeb? This week's Crypto Crime Blotter.
A U.S. court has ordered self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright to disclose bitcoin addresses from 2013 in an ongoing lawsuit.
The CFTC is willing to approve an ether futures contract – provided it ticks all the right boxes, a senior official told CoinDesk.
When I visited some early bitcoin startups in Hong Kong five years ago, they were unanimous about their biggest challenge: finding a bank that would let them open an account.
U.S. prosecutors want to detain Reginald Fowler until his trial for illicitly providing banking services to crypto exchanges.
Binance has partnered with blockchain analytics startup Elliptic to combat money laundering as it continues to expand.
Five Canadian banks have rolled out a new blockchain-based mobile service from SecureKey to let customers securely verify their identities.
The central banks of Canada and Singapore have for the first time settled cross-border payments using blockchain and central bank digital currencies.
Losses arising from cryptocurrency hacks and fraud may have reached as high as $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2019, CipherTrace estimates.
Income tax payers in the U.S. now have the option to receive their federal and state refunds in bitcoin through Bitpay and Refundo.
Tether's general counsel told the New York Supreme Court that it can only back about 74% of USDT in circulation as of Tuesday.
Hackers who breached Microsoft Outlook have reportedly used the email service to steal cryptocurrency users' funds.
The Huobi Cloud network of crypto exchanges wants to facilitate $55 million in daily volume by 2020.
The SEC has temporarily suspended trading in shares Bitcoin Generation, a little-known crypto exchange and miner.
A law firm has taken the London Block Exchange to court saying it's owed money, but the startup's CEO has denied it is going out of business.
Australia saw a surge in reports of scams involving cryptocurrencies last year, according to the country's consumer watchdog.
Some of bitcoin's earliest adopters have made a fortune holding onto the coins, and Connie Gallippi wanted to give them a way to help other people. Turns out bitcoiners are quite the philanthropists too.
The government of India is said to be renewing its efforts to completely outlaw public cryptocurrencies, according to The Economic Times.
A new form of malware discovered by Symantec is targeting enterprises using leaked NSA tools to infect networks and mine monero.
France's wide-ranging new blockchain law aims to solve a longstanding problem for crypto startups: banking, or lack thereof.
The agency that regulates and manages China's foreign exchange reserves will trial a blockchain system addressing inefficiencies in cross-border trade.
A case involving millions of dollars in bitcoin and Western Union payments resulted in New York State's first conviction for crypto money laundering.
BitGo has passed an advanced security review by an outside monitor, claiming to be the first crypto firm to receive this level of certification.
After demoing a beer vending machine at SXSW, Civic is announcing a blockchain identity deal with 12 suppliers in the automated retail space.
A 21-year-old student from the U.S. who stole over $7.5 million in cryptocurrency via SIM-swap hacks has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.