Bitcoin

Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect

'If I was Satoshi I would have destroyed my ability to prove I'm Satoshi'

Offbeat09 Oct 2024 | 48

Craig Wright admits he isn't the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK

Aussie definitely not Satoshi Nakamoto, faces £6M legal bill and possible perjury trial

Security17 Jul 2024 | 86

Oklahoma saddles up bill of rights for crypto wranglers and miners

Bitcoin cowboys now have guaranteed freedoms

Offbeat16 May 2024 | 11

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

Interview On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

Malware Month08 May 2024 | 24

Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder

Hint: If someone says they're an assassin on the dark web, they're probably not

Offbeat09 Apr 2024 | 37

Cryptocurrency laundryman gets hung out to dry

Bitcoin Fog washed hundreds of millions for criminals

Cyber-crime13 Mar 2024 | 27

Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption

Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high

On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 30

SEC Twitter hijacked to push fake news of hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETF approval

Updated Buy the hype, sell the, wait, what do we do now?!

Cyber-crime09 Jan 2024 | 11

Bitcoin's thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite

A single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe

Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 42

Poloniex crypto-exchange offers 5% cut to thieves if they return that $120M they nicked

White hat bounty looks more like a beg bounty

Cyber-crime10 Nov 2023 | 18

China's top crypto-mining hardware-maker reportedly furloughs staff

Bitmain's 'Antminers' dominate the market – but customers aren't buying

On-Prem10 Oct 2023 | 15

Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin

It's not a broken business model if the subsidies make up for cratering market and flagging demand

Systems07 Sep 2023 | 27

Guy who ran Bitcoins4Less tells Feds he had less than zero laundering protections

What? Yogurt Monster isn't really a legitimate customer's name?!

Cyber-crime06 Sep 2023 | 14

Couple admit they laundered $4B in stolen Bitcoins after Bitfinex super-heist

A man, a plan, and Razzlekhan fought the law – and the law won

Cyber-crime04 Aug 2023 | 36

Unsealed: Charges against Russians blamed for Mt Gox crypto-exchange collapse

What a blast from the past, the past being a year before the pandemic

Cyber-crime12 Jun 2023 | 7

North Korea's Lazarus Group linked to Atomic Wallet heist

Users' cryptocurrency wallets look unlikely to be refilled

Cyber-crime08 Jun 2023 | 6

EU passes world's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrency

Gone are the days of unlicensed exchanges and anonymous transactions – for EU citizens, at least

Personal Tech17 May 2023 | 54

Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5 million in crypto cash

Terminal maker General Bytes shutters its cloud business after second breach in seven months

Security23 Mar 2023 | 30

Bitcoin mining rig found stashed in school crawlspace

Pics Don't blame the kids! Ex-city employee charged with $17k power theft

Cyber-crime24 Feb 2023 | 84

More victims of fake crypto investor scam speak to The Register

Exclusive UK-based Coin Publishers were conned out of $206,000 after meeting in a Barcelona hotel

Cyber-crime16 Feb 2023 | 53

Craig Wright's crypto wallet claim against Bitcoin SV devs back before judges

Another of the self-proclaimed BTC inventor's lawsuits rumbles onward

Software15 Feb 2023 | 22

Crypto mixer Sinbad looks uncannily like a remix of North Korea's notorious Blender

Lazarus Group’s favorite digi-dollar launderer may have risen again

Software14 Feb 2023 | 12

Scammers steal $4 million in crypto during face-to-face meeting

Demand to display wallet full of coin facilitated mystery heist

Cyber-crime08 Feb 2023 | 86

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

Opinion Fintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff

Networks23 Dec 2022 | 150

‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman argues for centralized infrastructure

Inventor of the spanning tree protocol gets heretical about blockchain, crypto, and why the broken internet is a blessing in disguise

Networks02 Dec 2022 | 40

Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red

Little fish lured into the market help whales cash out

Security16 Nov 2022 | 70

Intel plans to cut products — we guess where they’ll happen

Analysis To help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose

Systems05 Nov 2022 | 30

Bitcoin energy consumption a feature, not a bug, says crypto-miner

But it's OK because we use non-carbon energy, argues CEO

On-Prem14 Oct 2022 | 28

America, use Bitcoin instead of old-school money? Not likely, says Fed

It's all about the Benjamins, says Michael Barr

Personal Tech13 Oct 2022 | 10

Google Cloud to accept cryptocurrencies as payment

GCN Plus: AI services, security tools and more from Google Cloud Next this week

PaaS + IaaS11 Oct 2022 | 11

Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

Researchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact

Science30 Sep 2022 | 39

China's central bank declares victory over online lenders, Bitcoin speculators

Just in time for the Party Congress, whatever the reality of the situation

Software28 Sep 2022 | 3

America taps 150+ prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime

As President Biden rolls out a blueprint for future regulations

Personal Tech17 Sep 2022 | 10

US warns cryptominers must cut power use to avoid busting US carbon goals

Datacenters or digicash - what's the bigger boon to society?

Systems09 Sep 2022 | 54

US treasury whips up sanctions for crypto mixer Tornado Cash

Being the money launderer for North Korea’s Lazarus Group comes at a price

Cyber-crime08 Aug 2022 | 21

One way Bitcoin miners can make money: Selling electricity back to Texas

Beats screwing around actually crafting these unloved tokens

Personal Tech03 Aug 2022 | 45

Tesla jettisons 75% of Bitcoin holdings, boosting cash balance by $936m

Estimates suggest it could take a $460 million hit on the exchange

Software21 Jul 2022 | 34

Intel ships crypto-mining ASIC at the worst possible time

Comment Chipmaker finally ahead of schedule only to find it arrived too late

Systems30 Jun 2022 | 25

Investors start betting against Bitcoin with short-trade products

Some crypto-bros keep the faith in the face of market onslaught

Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 46

Bill Gates says NFTs '100% based on greater fool theory' amid crypto cataclysm

Comment Plus: Non-fungible tokens for dummies

Offbeat16 Jun 2022 | 87

Crypto market crashes on Celsius freeze, inflation news

Not a good moment to look at that digi-coin portfolio, fam

Personal Tech13 Jun 2022 | 42

Clipminer rakes in $1.7m in crypto hijacking scam

Crooks divert transactions to own wallets while running mining on the side

Research03 Jun 2022 | 2

Despite ban, China surges back to second place on bitcoin mining charts

Miners behind the Great Firewall may never have downed tools, say Cambridge crypto-boffins

Software19 May 2022 | 5

US brings first-of-its-kind criminal charges of Bitcoin-based sanctions-busting

Citizen allegedly moved $10m-plus in BTC into banned nation

Cyber-crime16 May 2022 | 5

Don't hate on cryptomining, hate the power stations, say Bitcoin super-fans

We're not the ones telling them to burn fossil fuels, top names write in response to probe request

Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 111

Wiki community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

Cryptocurrencies make up less than 1% of wiki donations, but as member points out, that $130k could pay a salary

Networks13 Apr 2022 | 19

Crypto inferno: Intel's Bitcoin-mining Blockscale ASIC to arrive in Q3

Gelsinger's firm drops details on crypto chip – including hash rate of up to 580GHps

Systems05 Apr 2022 | 11

Europe advances crypto-coin regulation – without potential ban on Bitcoin

Vote held after red-tape targeting proof-of-work assets removed

Personal Tech16 Mar 2022 | 28

Intel blasts Bitcoin mining, unveils own mining kit

Gelsinger believes his chip won't make quite a hash of the climate

Systems26 Feb 2022 | 22

India's Reserve Bank deputy governor calls for crypto ban

Labels digital currencies wreckers of sovereignty, worse than a Ponzi scheme

Security16 Feb 2022 | 51

Intel chases after Bitcoin miners with dedicated chip

Silicon giant thinks there's real money to be made in the web metaverse 3.0 chain hype

On-Prem11 Feb 2022 | 36

FBI seizes $3.6bn in Bitcoin after New York 'tech couple' arrested over Bitfinex robbery

Updated Ilya Lichtenstein and partner cuffed via blockchain records

Security08 Feb 2022 | 45

Indonesia bars financial institutions from offering crypto services

Advises citizens to avoid 'Ponzi schemes'

Security27 Jan 2022 | 17

Russia's Putin out the idea of a broad cryptocurrency ban

Central bank worries that block-bucks reduce government control and are used by crims

Security21 Jan 2022 | 20

Crypto.com now says someone tried to drain $34m from hundreds of accounts

Won't reveal net loss, says it stopped some withdrawals and has reimbursed those who had funds taken

Security20 Jan 2022 | 8

I own that $4.5bn of digi-dosh so rewrite your blockchain and give it to me, Craig Wright tells Bitcoin SV devs

Oh look, another High Court sueball over cryptocurrencies

Legal19 Jan 2022 | 95