Austrian authorities are asking Interpol to help track down suspects in an alleged Bitcoin scam that blew up last year and may have hit at least hundreds, maybe thousands of investors in the country and abroad.

A Ukrainian cybercrime operation has made an estimated $50 million by using Google AdWords to lure users on Bitcoin phishing sites.

Bitcoin looks to be proving the naysayers wrong once again.

At Bitcoin’s current value, someone could win $9,800 for beating ‘Montecrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma.’

Kyle’s note: The law might come after you if you’re trading too much on LocalBitcoins in an unregulated manner.

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Ethereum developer Yoichi Hirai has resigned as one of the platform’s code editors, citing concerns that a contentious proposal may be in violation of penal law.

Following complaints from users, Coinbase confirmed it accidentally charged tons of cryptocurrency buyers multiple times for the same purchase.

Originally designed for use on bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market size was also the first to implement the concept, touted as a way to make transactions faster and cheaper by moving them to a layer above the blockchain. But with scalability emerging as a pressing issue across the industry, developers of other cryptocurrencies aren’t letting the once-novel idea go to waste.

Cryptocurrencies so far haven’t lived up to their promise as digital cash for buying goods and services. Whether that happens someday is anyone’s guess.

If you’re just starting out in the cryptocurrency world you could be more comfortable wading into it than diving headfirst. One of the most popular investing strategies, championed by Warren Buffet’s mentor, Benjamin Graham, is to accumulate and invest in volatile assets by buying a fixed amount on a set schedule, otherwise known as dollar cost averaging.

People assume that the people who worked on Bitcoin in the early years are fabulously wealthy. That’s a bad assumption, for lots of reasons: It was easy to lose coins. They weren’t worth much, so people didn’t bother to take the time to keep them… | Gavin Andresen | Bitcoin developer. All-around geek.

Hello bitcoiners! I hope the recent rally has been making you happy. I’m here to share probably the second last Pineapple Fund update, and…

Kyle’s note: Someone made a website for estimating the future bitcoin price based a combination of the total number of users and those users’ activity, which is what @fundstrat has talked about using as part of his method for valuation.

Bitcoin may be well off its mid-December peak of $19,511, but it will be touching new highs again by July, according to Fundstrat Global Advisors LLC’s Tom Lee.

Soros Fund Management held 2,472,188 shares in Overstock at the end of the fourth quarter of 2017, making it the third-largest shareholder.

Bitcoin’s initial bottom looks to be around $6,000, where it was trading around the Thanksgiving investment surge, according to Bespoke Investment Group.

The number of hedge funds focused on trading cryptocurrencies more than doubled in the four months to Feb. 15, despite sharp falls in the value of the virtual coins in recent weeks, data from fintech research house Autonomous NEXT showed on Thursday.

Stepping further into the digital realm, Arizona lawmakers have passed a bill through the state Senate to make cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Dash an acceptable form of tax payment. ASU Now turned to Dragan Boscovic, an Arizona State University computer science professor and director of the Blockchain Research Lab, to discuss what this means for residents and the future of cryptocurrency.

If you find yourself confused by cryptocurrency, there’s a media company for that, and they’re based right here in Nashville. 

SACRAMENTO – It’s a Tuesday evening at C&B Liquor on Broadway in Sacramento, and the ATM is busy – the Bitcoin ATM. People use it to trade real money for the cryptocurrency, a form of money that exists only in computer code. Bitcoin is the most prominent.

The golden rule: Don’t spend more money on cryptocurrency than you’re prepared to lose.

Hydro-Quebec may consider raising its rates for energy-hogging cryptocurrency miners who are rushing to establish themselves in the province.

After over a year of intense development and over three months in a limited release beta, our highly anticipated multi-asset wallet is now available for all to use! Users all around the world have…

We’re excited to announce Coinbase Commerce, available today for merchants around the world. Merchants everywhere can use Coinbase Commerce to accept Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin…

The UK has become the first major Western country to formally accuse the Russian military of orchestrating and launching the NotPetya ransomware outbreak.

Dutch and American police and federal agents have paid unannounced visited visits to dozens of people they say bought drugs via a darknet site that Dutch police took over last year.

TrickBot is getting in on the cryptocurrency gold rush, expanding its operations to target digital wallets and exchanges using serverside injections and other malicious tactics.

Atari has become the latest company to pivot to cryptocurrency, launching a digital coin in a bid to revive the gaming pioneer’s fortunes.

A team in the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series has a new sponsor this season, and it announced Wednesday that the payment was done in cryptocurrency—cryptocurrency that’s only existed for a day, apparently. What could possibly go wrong, yeah?

A digital photo of a red rose sold for $1 million worth of cryptocurrency to a group of 10 collectors on Valentine’s Day.

Kyle’s note: This seems very dumb to me.

Tax evasion and other illicit activities are going on to a great extent in cryprocurrencies, CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo told a Senate Agriculture Committee meeting today. The members sometimes seemed on edge talking about Bitcoin and their ilk.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Thursday issued a warning about cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes.

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