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Crime
2 charged with $230 million cryptocurrency theft used for luxury cars, parties
Malone Lam, 20, and Jeandiel Serrano, 21, were charged on Thursday with stealing over $230 million in cryptocurrency, which they used to fun...
Michelle De Pacina
Education
Interview: Why Christopher Pan doesn’t regret giving the ‘worst Ohio State commencement speech ever’
“Graduation speaker booed by entire stadium,” “Cringe-worthy speech peddling Bitcoin” and “The worst Ohio State commencement speech ever.” T...
Australia
UK court to rule on Australian man’s claim he is Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto
A trial in the UK is underway to verify the claims of an individual asserting to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous founder of the cryptocur...
Ryan General
Fugitive Thai drug lord arrested despite multiple surgeries to become ‘handsome Korean man’
A fugitive drug lord in Thailand who evaded authorities for months by transforming himself to pass as a Korean man was finally arrested by t...
Woman trying to adopt kitten loses $764,000 to crypto scam
A Hong Kong fashion executive lost 6 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately $764,000) in a crypto scam while trying to adopt a kitten onli...
Georgia man pleads guilty to stealing bitcoin worth $3.4 billion
The Southern District of New York revealed on Monday that real estate developer James Zhong pleaded guilty to stealing over 50,000 bitcoin ...
News
Hacker streams old Elon Musk interview about cryptocurrency in latest South Korean government YouTube hack
Government of the Republic of Korea, the official YouTube channel of the South Korean government, has been restored following a hacking inc...
Bryan Ke
Neopets hacker steals 69 million accounts and offers them online for Bitcoin
A hacker known as “TarTarX” has stolen 69 million Neopets accounts ransom in exchange for four Bitcoins worth approximately $86,339. The c...
Rebecca Moon
Economy
‘It’s great to invest, but invest smartly’: Jimmy O. Yang explains why he turned down crypto promotion offers
Jimmy O. Yang revealed that he has turned down multiple paid cryptocurrency promotion offers in the past, fearing that his endorsements mig...
Hong Kong billionaire Calvin Lo reveals why he has no plans to invest in crypto
R.E. Lee International CEO Calvin Lo, whom Forbes has estimated to have a net worth of $1.7 billion, revealed in an interview with Tatler A...
Entertainment
YouTuber Joma Tech signs with ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ backer to make Bitcoin dramedy
Google software engineer-turned-YouTuber Jonathan Ma, known online as Joma, has signed a deal with Stars Collective, an entertainment compa...
Tech
Elon Musk shares conspiracy theory about Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in viral tweet
In a viral tweet on Wednesday, Elon Musk posted an image suggesting that Satoshi Nakamoto — the pseudonym of the person or people behind Bi...
Carl Samson
Australian man claiming to be Japanese Bitcoin inventor wins $27 billion court case
Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, has been cleared of six out of se...
Asia
Hong Kong Bitcoin ‘God’ Arrested After Making Cash Rain on the Streets
A Bitcoin enthusiast who describes himself as a “god” who allegedly “steals from the rich and gives to the poor” was arrested in Hong ...
Thai Actor Arrested After Fooling Finnish Man Out of $24 Million in Bitcoin
A popular actor in Thailand was recently arrested in connection with an alleged Bitcoin scam, worth almost a billion Thai baht worth of ...
Thailand’s Largest Movie Theater Brand Now Accepts Cryptocurrency as Payment
Thailand’s largest movie theater chain will now accept bitcoin and other digital currencies as forms of payment to buy tickets or even snack...
Technology
Laotian Adult Film Star Who Got into Bitcoin in Her Teens Now Averaging 1,100% ROI
With cryptocurrency exploding in popularity in recent years, many experts have been summoned by mainstream media to drop their sage wisdom f...
Editorial Staff
EF
Singaporean Entrepreneur is Helping Small Farmers Play With the Big Boys
Sentinel Chain is doing something revolutionary and disruptive for the small scale agricultural farmers of the world. The major problem of s...
17 Most Influential Asian Americans in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
A VC told me recently that it’s hard for them focus on anything else except for blockchain and crypto companies. Given the excitement around...
Bob Wu
South Korean Bitcoin Exchange Goes Bankrupt After Getting Hacked Again
Following a significant loss of Bitcoin assets due to its second alleged hacking this year, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Youbit has ...
Entrepreneur Buys Lamborghini With Bitcoin for Just $115
Peter Saddington, an entrepreneur and co-founder of VINwiki, proves that you can actually buy ridiculously expensive things like a Lamborghi...
Indonesia is Trying to Ban Bitcoin After Value Hits $11,000
Indonesian bitcoin owners are now being encouraged to take their profits off their cryptocurrency soon as the government is set to impose a ...
India Just Dealt a Huge Blow to Bitcoin
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) remains steadfast in its stance on not using bitcoins — or any other cryptocurrency — as a form of payment i...
Vietnam Bans Bitcoin, Other Cryptocurrencies
Vietnam is banning cryptocurrencies, subjecting offenders to fines and even criminal charges by 2018. The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) announ...
Japanese YouTuber Sparks Outrage After Making $490,000 in Bitcoin on Exchange Platform in One Week
A popular Japanese YouTuber has drawn fury after listing himself on a new financial exchange platform and cashing out $490,000 in bitcoin af...
China Officially Bans ICOs, Bitcoin Crashes More Than 8%
China’s central bank officially banned several organizations — as well as individuals — from raising funds through the use of Initial Coin O...
Dark Web Entrepreneur Who Loved Thai Women Found Dead in Jail
French-Canadian Alexandre Cazes, the founder of AlphaBay, has been found dead by apparent suicide in his jail cell in Thailand. The darkweb ...
Heather Johnson Yu
Bitcoin is Now Officially Legal in South Korea as a Payment Method
China has been making strides in the Bitcoin industry, and now South Korea is following suit as the country officially legalized internation...
Khier Casino
Rare Photos Reveal Life Inside China’s Largest Bitcoin Mines
Editor’s Note: The Bitcoin industry exists in a legal gray zone in China, and the miners in this story, concerned about attention from...
Man Who’s Made Over $400,000 Investing in Bitcoin Reveals His Strategy
Ever since Nas Daily’s video came out about how I earned over $400,000 with less than $10,000 investing in Bitcoin and Ethereum, I’ve been g...
Ben Yu
Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than Gold Because of China
Bitcoin is now officially more valuable than gold and experts are saying it’s mostly China’s fault. On Friday, the price for the cryptocurr...
Indonesian ISIS Militant Used PayPal and Bitcoin to Fund Terrorists
Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian militant fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, used online financial services to fund terrorist activ...
A 28-Year-Old Man Was Robbed at Gunpoint For His Bitcoin
Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your bitcoin because no one and nothing is safe from street-cyber crimes. CNBC reported that last W...
Sebastian Dillon
One of the Earliest Bitcoin Pioneers is Cryonically Freezing Himself For the Future
Hal Finney, renowned cryptographer, coder, and bitcoin pioneer, died on Thursday at the age of 58 after battling ALS for five years. However...
Business
College Student Reveals How He Mines Bitcoins in His Dorm Room — The Cheap Way
Nothing in the tech world confuses us as much as Bitcoin it seems. What we do know about it is that it’s volatile and it can be worth a ton...
Waylae Gregoire
Missed the Bitcoin Train? Get Rich with These 5 Alternatives
There’s no getting over the Bitcoin madness and with the recent news, it’s not soon to end. Between the news that Bitcoin’s value is holdi...
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