Bitcoin

Android Wallpaper Apps Secretly Mine Bitcoins

Google has removed five smartphone wallpaper applications that used handset computing power to produce digital currency

11 years ago

Mt Gox Abandons Hope, Prepares For Liquidation

CEO of the bitcoin exchange Mark Karpeles has been replaced by court-appointed provisional administrator

11 years ago

Mobile Botnets Start Mining Dogecoin

Mobile hackers love Dogecoin... so scarce, much mine

11 years ago

Mt Gox Discovers 200,000 BTC In An “Old-Format” Wallet

There’s nothing suspicious about a forgotten bitcoin cache worth $100 million, says Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles

11 years ago

Mt. Gox Lets Users Check Bitcoin Balances

Bitcoin exchange opens up a little after criticism over lack of transparency

11 years ago

Federal Judge Freezes US Assets Of Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles

The head of the defunct bitcoin exchange will not be able to access his money. Oh, the irony.

11 years ago

Hackers Claim Mt. Gox Still Sitting On Bitcoins

Hackers target CEO Mark Karpeles to show outrage at Bitcoin exchange

11 years ago

Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto Denies Being Bitcoin Creator

The quiet Japanese-American man says he never admitted creating the virtual currency

11 years ago

Newsweek Claims To Have Found The Creator Of Bitcoin

The publication says the 64-year old Satoshi Nakamoto from California created the virtual currency to ease international transactions

11 years ago

Winklevoss Twins Use Bitcoin To Pay For Virgin Galactic Space Trip

The twins who claim to have invented Facebook praise the spirit of exploration, compare Richard Branson to Marco Polo

11 years ago

Bitcoin Crisis Continues With Theft, Closure And Death

Flexcoin caves after epic theft, whilst exchange Poloniex loses 12 percent of its coins and First Meta CEO is found…

11 years ago

Mt Gox is Gone, But Bitcoin Will Continue

The Mt Gox exchange failed spectacularly, and the price of bitcoins tumbled,. but Sean Michael Kerner thinks the virtual currency…

11 years ago

Mt Gox Finally Admits It Lost $500,000,000 In Bitcoin

The exchange has launched a dedicated call centre to handle furious investors after admitting that it lost 750,000 bitcoins belonging…

11 years ago

RSA 2014: Bitcoin Wallet Stealers Plentiful And Pesky

At least 80 new families of Bitcoin stealers emerge in the last year

11 years ago

Bitcoin In Crisis: Mt Gox Exchange Goes Offline

Several reports claim the Tokyo-based company will file for bankruptcy

11 years ago

Bitcoin In Crisis: Mt Gox Quits Bitcoin Foundation

CEO Mark Karpeles resigns from the Foundation’s board, Mt Gox still doesn’t transfer bitcoins into third-party wallets

11 years ago

Mt Gox Ready To Roll Again As Bitcoin Bug Fixed

Flaw that left exchanges open to denial of service attacks appears to be fixed, for Mt Gox at least

11 years ago

Silk Road 2.0 Hacked, £1.5 Million Worth Of Bitcoins Stolen

Attackers have used the ‘transaction malleability’ flaw which prompted Mt Gox exchange to stop withdrawals a few days ago

11 years ago

Bitcoin Battered By DoS Attacks

Attackers take advantage of a weakness in the cryptocurrency protocol known as “transaction malleability” and a number of exchanges suspend…

11 years ago

Mac Users Hit By Bitcoin-Stealing Trojan

A bitcoin-stealing Mac OS X Trojan has been reported in the wild, disguised as a payments application

11 years ago

Bitcoin In Crisis: Mt Gox Claims To Be Fixing Network-Wide Vulnerability

The exchange resumes currency withdrawals, but refuses to send Bitcoins to third-party wallets until further notice

11 years ago

Mt Gox Trouble: It’s Not The Great Bitcoin Crash

Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox had some troubles and the virtual currency tumbled. Sean Michael Kerner says that's just because of…

11 years ago

A Bitcoin Rig Is Not A Green Data Centre

No matter how efficient a Bitcoin data centre is,,it's just burning more and more electricity for less and less value,…

11 years ago

Russian Government Says Bitcoin Is Illegal

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office says Bitcoin is used for money laundering, and should be avoided

11 years ago

Apple Kills The Only iOS-Compatible Bitcoin Trading App

Apple has dumped the Blockchain application from its App Store – and Bitcoin users are threatening to dump their iPhones

11 years ago

Marc Andreessen Talks Up Bitcoin’s Bright Future

Bitcoin could be an outright replacement for centralised banking, according to Internet entrepreneur Andreessen

11 years ago

BTC China Exchange Resumes Taking Deposits In Yuan

The largest Bitcoin exchange in the world says the memo banning virtual currency transactions was misunderstood

11 years ago

The Bitcoin Hype Is a Sign Of Real Change

Bitcoins have benefited from hype and noise, But Sean Michael Kerner finds they are a sign of a change in…

11 years ago

Bitcoin Entrepreneur Charlie Shrem Charged With Money Laundering

The co-founder of BitInstant allegedly conspired to supply Silk Road with Bitcoins

11 years ago

University Of Cumbria To Accept Fees In Bitcoin

Rival university lecturer says Cumbria would be braver to use dogecoin

11 years ago