Notorious North Korean hacker group Lazarus has stolen more than $571 million in cryptocurrency, a new report from rearch firm Group IB has revealed.

A deal between a traditional ATM manufacturer and a cryptocurrency vending machine firm will make it possible to buy bitcoin at tens of thousands of locations in the United States using a debit card. Bitcoin ATM firm LibertyX and regular ATM manufacturer Genmega have forged a partnership which will make it possible to purchase bitcoin using a debit card at up to 100,000 locations in the United States.

The main intention behind Satoshi Nakamoto’s initiative was to design and radicalize a currency which wouldn’t be under the jurisdiction of any form of government or a specific financial institution. Even though Bitcoin has been left behind by various cryptocurrencies in terms of attributes like transaction fees and confirmation time, it has managed to remain as the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization since a very long time. This might be due to the precise reason that Bitcoin is absolutely decentralized and most popular one in the domain.

The US Marshals Service has announced an upcoming auction for over $4 million worth of bitcoin seized during various legal proceedings. The sealed bid auction, which is scheduled to take place in November, will offer approximately 660 BTC seized during about 31 federal criminal, civil and administrative cases under the asset forfeiture framework of the Department of Justice.

Out of fourteen separate exchange breaches, five have been attributed to the group, among them the industry record-breaking $532 million NEM hack of Japan’s Coincheck this January. The report, dedicated to hacks in 2017 and 2018, identifies the allegedly state-sponsored hacker group Lazarus as responsible for $571 million of the $882 million total in crypto that was stolen from online exchanges during the studied time period; almost 65 percent of the total sum.

A man in China has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after stealing electricity from a train network in order to mine bitcoin. Xu Xinghua from Shanxi province pleaded guilty to stealing 104,000 yuan (£11,300), which was used to mine 3.2 bitcoins. At the current price of bitcoin, Mr Xinghua's bounty would be worth around £15,000, however at bitcoin's peak, it would have been worth close to £48,000.

The U.S. Government doesn’t care about your losses. They don’t care if you get scammed. What they care about is their own power, keeping it, and controlling you. There is no better illustration of that than in the disparity in the sentences of Ross Ulbricht and Joshua Homero Garza. It’s been three years since Garza’s actions and even longer since Ulbricht’s arrest so a recap is in order. Joshua Homero Garza, better known simply as Josh Garza was the CEO and founder of GAW Mining, which initially sold mining hardware.

Dan Held, co-founder of Interchange and ZeroBlock, published an article in Medium on 4 October in which he explains why the initial distribution of bitcoins is so far the fairest within the entire ecosystem. According to Held “Satoshi set out to design the fairest possible system“. Unlike the projects where the pre-mining of crypto coins is carried out, Held explains the tests that confirm that Satoshi did not pre-mine and that, in addition, he placed Bitcoin’s open source so that anyone could easily mine at its inception, without the need for high processing power.

Years after the Mt. Gox hack, people are still asking Mark Karpeles for their bitcoin back.

A billion-dollar baby of the Bitcoin boom plots its next move.

Cryptocurrency scammers have gotten extra creative and are now hiding mining malware in legitimate updates of Adobe Flash Player. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks discovered a fake Flash updater which has been doing the rounds since early August. While it claims to install a legitimate Flash update, the malicious file sneaks in a cryptocurrency mining bot called XMRig (which mines privacy coin Monero).

Bitcoin and other digital currencies are a "Wild West industry" and need to be regulated to protect investors, a committee of MPs has urged. Problems include volatile prices, minimal consumer protection and risks of hacking and money-laundering, says the Treasury Committee. The committee said there were no well-functioning crypto-currencies and preferred to call them "crypto-assets". It urged City watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority to supervise them.

Hackers stole an estimated $59 million from a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange called Zaif, according to a statement released by the owners of the exchange.

The crypto industry is booming, and it’s unlikely to slow down for a long time. For anyone outside of the community, understanding the basics can be a challenge as cryptoinsiders tend to explain things very technically. Here, I have tried to break down crypto concepts. So if you’d like to understand crypto basics, read on...

It’s been a brutal bear market for crypto. Since peaking in early January, the entire space has lost around $640 billion. Every time there’s been a brief rally it’s been followed up by relentless selling. According to OnChainFX, a site that tracks cryptocurrencies, only one coin has seen major gains over the last 30 days, and it happens to be the one that’s the biggest joke of all: Dogecoin. The coin, which was introduced in 2013 as a play on the once popular Doge meme, has surged over 160 percent in about a month.

The following are factors that contribute to market manipulation in cryptocurrency markets. I recently built a massive-multi-player trading game for cryptocurrencies as a research project for a (real) decentralized exchange that is launching in December to analyze order-flow dynamics, market making, trader psychology, trade execution strategies, bot interactions, risk management, spread dynamics, conflicts of interest, margin lending, market microstructures, etc.

Let me freak you out for a second. You know what bitcoin is, right? I mean, no, but quickly, it’s a “cryptocurrency” that’s basically secret computer money. One bitcoin, which doesn’t actually have a real, physical form, is worth at this moment upwards of $16,000. But to get one, you either have to buy them from online exchanges or use specialized computing hardware to “mine” it. That last bit is where the freak-out comes in.

Twitter's solution against the growing cryptocurrency "giveaway" scam epidemic is to lock accounts using the display name Elon Musk.

On any given day, as much as two-thirds of the transaction activity registered on the Bitcoin network has nothing to do with buying goods and services or trading the virtual currency.

The fallout from the alleged scheme extends as far as Texas and has embroiled a former lawmaker.

Pantera Capital officials continue to maintain an upbeat outlook for cryptocurrency amidst the current market downturn. In an ICO and digital asset funds conference call Tuesday, CEO and chief investment officer Dan Morehead said blockchains are the next step in the evolution of equity, while cryptocurrency is a superior form of currency. He called bitcoin the biggest disruption of this generation.

Last month, a South Korean company known as the Shinil Group announced it had discovered the wreckage of a 100-year old Russian warship, which the company said held 200 tons of gold bullion worth roughly $130 billion USD. Now, South Korean police are investigating the company on the suspicion that the story of sunken treasure was an elaborate cryptocurrency scam.

All traces of Shinil Group are vanishing from the internet.

Trying to have a baby? Eating fish might help. Researchers interviewed 501 couples who were trying to get pregnant without medical assistance. All kept diaries on their diet and other health and behavioral habits, including fish consumption and frequency of sexual intercourse. They followed the pairs for a year or until pregnancy.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a series of drastic economic reforms over the weekend, in another desperate attempt to prop up the country’s flailing economy.

On Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced plans to raise the minimum wage and create a single exchange rate pegged to his government's petro-backed cryptocurrency, which would effectively devalue Venezuelan money by 96%.

The number of people who bought virtual currencies more than doubled last winter. For people who got in late, the bust has been disastrous.

Cryptocurrencies have taken the world by storm. Between January 2017 and December 2017, the price of Bitcoin rose by over 2,000%—from $953 to $20,089. Right now, the market cap of Bitcoin alone is over $120 billion. However, the most exciting part of blockchain technology isn’t Bitcoin rather, the way it can be applied to change the world we live in.

Who’s using Bitcoin to buy and sell goods and services? A lot fewer people than you probably would have guessed. After peaking at $411 million in September, the amount of money the largest 17 crypto merchant-processing services received in the best-known cryptocurrency has been on a steady decline, hitting a recent low of $60 million in May, according to research that startup Chainalysis Inc. conducted for Bloomberg News.

No. Though blockchain is a technological breakthrough that offers us low transaction costs and transparency, it is still just a tool that has to be used properly. Even the best 16mm wrench in the world won’t help you with a 12mm nut. That is why crypto community has to implement blockchain technology where it is really needed. We need to find those “rusty 16mm nuts” – find obsolete mechanisms in the spheres of life where transparency, low transaction fees and public ledgers are needed the most.

The debate about the value of bitcoin has been going on since the inception of cryptocurrencies. Some think that bitcoin is the future of currency and will replace fiat currencies as a whole because of the convenience that it provides. On the other end, there are people who believe that bitcoin will never be able to reach the status of an official currency in any way and will die out soon as we proceed with time. In the middle lie the expert who believe bitcoin is definitely valuable and will persist as we move forward.

The second stage of the Dogethereum bridge was presented on September 5, 2018 at 10 am (PT) and live streamed. The bridge uses “superblocks” to move coins from Dogecoin to Ethereum and collateralization to move coins from Ethereum to Dogecoin. We are excited because this innovation can also be used to bridge other blockchain …

Bitcoin dropped below $7,000 a few minutes before press time, in a move that warrants caution as a possible bull trap. The leading cryptocurrency closed yesterday (as per UTC) above the trendline sloping downwards from the March 5 high and May 5 high, seemingly confirming a long-term bearish-to-bullish trend change. However, the follow-through has been disappointing. As of writing, BTC is changing hands at $6,965 on Bitfinex – down 3.5 percent on a 24-hour basis.

Nowadays, Bitcoin-related apps are in great demand than ever before. For those who are actively using Bitcoins on a daily basis, a mobile Bitcoin wallet app is an essential solution. We have prepared info how to create a Bitcoin wallet app.

Institutional investors are at the forefront of trading in crypto currencies, according to a report published yesterday. These investors, who in some cases represent hedge funds, have displaced individuals with greater purchasing power as the biggest bitcoin buyers, after making private transactions, some of them as large as [EDITED a mistake – not $100k but $100 M] $100 million in the over-the-counter (OTC) market.