Steer Clear of Libra Cryptocurrency Scams| David Murphy
Libra hasn’t even officially debuted on Facebook yet, but the highly anticipated cryptocurrency has already gotten a ton of interests—from scammers. In fact, it’s hard to tell who is more interested in Libra at this point: those looking to make a quick buck f…
Bitcoin instability continues, nosedives to below $10,000| Saavon Smalls
The drop follows the cryptocurrency's highest value of the year just a few days prior. Read more here. Read more... More about Tech, Mashable Video, Bitcoin, Economics, and Tech
Large racks of the computers constantly mining Bitcoin have led to a spike in electricity consumption.
Facebook’s Libra hearings in Congress are the best free entertainment you’ll get all week| Elizabeth Lopatto
Who needs comedy when we have cryptocurrency?
Iran seized nearly a thousand computers used to illegally mine Bitcoin| Andrew Liptak
After detecting an unusual spike in energy consumption, Iranian authorities seized nearly a thousand computers being used to mine cryptocurrency, according to the country’s state media.
It Would Take This 50-Year-Old NASA Computer More Than a Quintillion Years to Mine a Single Bitcoin Block| Andrew Liszewski
Ken Shirriff is a hardware hacker who also has a penchant for restoring old computers, including the Xerox Alto, which had a huge influence on Steve Jobs and the Macintosh computer. His latest project was bringing one of NASA’s Apollo-era guidance computers b…
Bitcoin Scammers Try and Fail to Sextort 86-Year-Old Woman Who Just Wanted a Free Bagel| Victoria Song
All 86-year-old Arlene Kaganove wanted was a free bagel from Panera on her birthday. Instead, after signing up for the My Panera rewards program, Kaganove was sent threatening emails demanding she pay $1,400 worth of bitcoin—in exchange for a supposed recordi…
If You Solve This Math Problem, You Could Steal All the Bitcoin in the World| Ryan F. Mandelbaum
You may have heard of the famous P versus NP problem. If you can prove or disprove its cryptically short equation, you’d be a million dollars richer—and maybe even billions of dollars richer, depending on your scruples. Read more...
Hackers steal $32 million worth of crypto from Japanese exchange Bitpoint| Stan Schroeder
Keeping your cryptocurrency at exchanges, unless you absolutely must do so, still isn't prudent. New proof of that comes from Japan, where cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has been hacked to the tune of $32 million, CoinDesk reports. In a notice on its websit…
Despite Trump's anti-crypto tweets, the IRS wants its cut of virtual currency profits| Rachel Kraus
Cryptocurrency might be a challenge to the primacy of the U.S. dollar, but that's not stopping the Internal Revenue Service from wanting a piece of the action. The IRS announced Friday that it was sending letters to 10,000 cryptocurrency holders informing the…
You can now buy shares in this brewery using cryptocurrency| Matthew Beedham
Paying for coffee with Bitcoin is a common trope in the cryptocurrency industry, but what about beer? More specifically, what about buying shares of a beer company with Bitcoin? The edgy Scotland-based brewery BrewDog announced yesterday that it’s extending i…
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