Japanese police on Saturday arrested Mark Karpeles, head of the collapsed Mt. GoxBitcoin exchange, over the disappearance of about $390 million worth of the virtual currency, local media said. France-born Karpeles, 30,
A hacker shut down four New Jersey Internet gambling sites for half an hour last week and threatened more cyber-attacks over the holiday weekend unless a ransom was paid using the online
The US Justice Department announced charges on Monday against two former federal agents accused of stealing the digital currency Bitcoin during the investigation of the underground drug marketplace Silk Road. Carl Force,
In a fresh possible headache for regulators, including in India, ‘gold for Bitcoin’ trades are emerging as a new fad in the world of anonymous transactions, fuelling further the appetite for virtual
Bitcoin investors voiced anger Wednesday after the first creditors’ meeting for failed Tokyo trading exchange Mt. Gox, whose spectacular collapse hammered the digital currency’s reputation and left a trail of unanswered questions.
Banks in the European Union should refrain from offering customer accounts in virtual currencies like Bitcoins until regulatory safeguards are in place, the bloc’s banking watchdog said on Friday. The EU’s executive European
Europe should update its laws to reflect the rise of digital currencies, the head of a Bitcoin start-up said, after a successful U.S. auction of Bitcoins was seen as a sign of
A list of potential bidders for the Bitcoin auction was accidentally leaked by the U.S. Marshals Service on Wednesday, according to the agency. The Marshals Service confirmed that it accidentally released the
The co-owner of two Bitcoin-related Websites is paying almost $51,000 to settle federal civil charges that he sold shares in the businesses without registering them as securities offerings. The Securities and Exchange
U.S. and Canadian customers of failed Tokyo-based Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox have agreed to settle their proposed class action lawsuits that alleged the company defrauded them of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Prominent Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has been indicted by a federal grand jury in New York on charges of funneling cash to the illicit online marketplace Silk Road. Shrem, known as one
The boss of a Bitcoin company in Cyprus has fled abroad days after it suddenly stopped operations, in a blow to the virtual currency’s once vaunted prospects on the island. Privately owned