Cryptocurrency

Hackers paid Twitter employee for help: Report

Haley Victory Smith · July 16, 2020 6:13 pm

Bitcoins have been propelled from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use, a remarkable breakthrough for a currency which made its online debut only four years ago. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

Scammers collect over $100,000 in Bitcoin during elaborate hack of high-profile Twitter accounts

Spencer Neale · July 15, 2020 9:32 pm

In an artist's rendering U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck, left, presides over the sentencing of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, right, in the SunCruz fraud case at the federal courthouse in Miami Wednesday, March 29, 2006. Abramoff and former business partner Adam Kidan plead guilty last year to conspiracy and fraud charges stemming from their $147.5 million purchase of the SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet. (AP Photo/Shirley Henderson)

Jack Abramoff charged in cryptocurrency case

Spencer Neale · June 25, 2020 10:13 pm

Bitcoins have been propelled from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use, a remarkable breakthrough for a currency which made its online debut only four years ago. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

‘It will be Bitcoin’: Legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones buys ‘digital gold’ futures in hedge against dollar inflation

Spencer Neale · May 7, 2020 6:33 pm

Dutch police investigate dual mail bomb blasts tied to Bitcoin demands

Zach Halaschak · February 12, 2020 7:26 pm

DOJ arrests hundreds in global cryptocurrency child pornography website bust

Jerry Dunleavy · October 16, 2019 6:51 pm

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a hearing in Washington, D.C.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before House panel about new cryptocurrency Libra

Nihal Krishan · October 9, 2019 4:32 pm

Beltway Confidential

Cryptocurrencies get pinched by the IRS

Ryan Ellis · August 1, 2019 9:12 pm

Facebook’s biggest crypto problem may be its own reputation

James Langford · July 19, 2019 3:00 am

Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019.

Rep. Sherman compares Facebook cryptocurrency to 9/11

Mike Brest · July 17, 2019 8:23 pm

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, leads a hearing.

Maxine Waters: Facebook creating a new financial system to rival US dollar

James Langford · July 17, 2019 4:53 pm

Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio and ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, speaks during a hearing with David Marcus, head of blockchain with Facebook Inc., not pictured, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 16, 2019.

‘Facebook is dangerous’: Senators rip firm’s foray into digital cash

James Langford · July 16, 2019 5:59 pm