Theft

Crime

Lock Up Your Lucre, the Best Democracy Bitcoins Can Buy, and Liquid Asset Conversion

John Law advises keeping your bitcoin safe, ponders bitcoin funding for political parties and recommends drinking wine (responsibly).

Policy & regulation  ·  15 November 2013
Regulation

Anti-Theft Bitcoin Tracking Proposals Divide Bitcoin Community

Should bitcoin transactions be marked to prove they didn't come from criminals? Should identities behind bitcoin addresses be verified?

Policy & regulation  ·  15 November 2013
Crime

Bitcoin’s cruel world: scams, thefts and the FBI’s influence

We look at the recent scams and hacks that have caused people to lose a lot of bitcoins.

Policy & regulation  ·  13 November 2013
Exchanges

Czech bitcoin exchange Bitcash.cz hacked and up to 4,000 user wallets emptied

Czech Republic-based bitcoin exchange Bitcash.cz has been hacked and up to 4,000 customers' wallets have been emptied.

Policy & regulation  ·  12 November 2013
Exchanges

$4.1 Million goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes

Chinese investors taste the darker side of bitcoin as a trading platform shuts down and $4.1m goes missing.

Policy & regulation  ·  11 November 2013
Bitcoin

Hackers steal $1.2 Million of bitcoins from Inputs.io, a supposedly secure wallet service

Approximately $1.2m worth of bitcoin have been stolen from a wallet service intended to be high-security.

Policy & regulation  ·  7 November 2013