US investigators seize more than $1bn in Bitcoin from account linked to Silk Road online black marketplace, the largest Bitcoin seizure in history

US investigators seize more than $1bn in Bitcoin from account linked to Silk Road online black marketplace, the largest Bitcoin seizure in history
Popular online payments system PayPal announces entry into cryptocurrency market, in a move that may draw regulator scrutiny
Libra cryptocurrency project still progressing after it confirms it has hired former HSBC executive as chief financial officer
Twitter’s self regulation not working says US report, citing its embarrassing hack in the summer that compromised high profile accounts
Proposed EU rules to be published this month aim to bring crypto-assets into line with existing regulatory framework, but risk stifling innovation
Not me, gov’nor. Florida-based teenager pleads not guilty to masterminding major hack of Twitter’s internal systems for bitcoin scam
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sues YouTube for allowing scammers to use images and videos of him in a cryptocurrency scam
Bitcoin scam sees Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, as well as Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West hacked
Suspended jail sentences for ‘misguided’ parents of TalkTalk hacker Elliott Gunton
Police sell off cryptocurrency seized from TalkTalk hacker Elliott Gunton, in a case that is the first of its kind for a UK police force
Just say no. None of municipalities crippled by ransomware attack have paid the hackers, Texas confirms
Nearly £1m in Bitcoin taken from imprisoned hacker Grant West is to be sold to compensate victims, in a first-of-its-kind case for the Met
China is looking to issue a sovereign crypto-coin that could be used as an alternative to cash
Financial Conduct Authority warns bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value
FCA finds that derivatives and ETNs referencing crypto-assets are ‘poor products’ and too risky to be sold to retail investors
Facebook’s Libra plans help Bitcoin jump 10 percent to reach 15-month highs, as investors hope to see cryptocurrencies move into the mainstream
The emblem for Facebook’s new virtual currency subsidiary, Calibra, bears a striking similarity to one in use since 2016
Digital asset aims to put financial transactions into the hands of millions without bank accounts, but with access to a mobile phone
But the social network faces tight regulatory scrutiny over its poor track record on protecting users’ personal data
The Aura system is designed on a consortium model, allowing any luxury firm to use it to provide tracking services to users
The ION network would use Bitcoin’s blockchain for identity assurance, while creating a secondary network to vastly speed up processing chores
The volatile cryptocurrency has regained some of its losses after shedding some three-quarters of its value last year
Major crypto-currency exchange is hacked, but wners pledge to cover the millions stolen in the cyber heist
Rakuten Wallet is one of several major crypto-asset platforms arriving in Japan in the coming weeks, even as authorities battle against soaring losses due to theft and scams
The biggest crypto-mining companies are based there, but China may now list the activity amongst the ‘undesireable’ economic sectors destined for elimination
After a 74 percent drop in 2018, Bitcoin has showed relatively little activity this year – but its sudden rise causes other crypto-assets to jump
Scams and fraud involving cryptocurrencies rose to £1.3bn last year – in spite of an 80 percent drop in crypto-asset values
Users of blockchain-based information services will have to register their real names and identity numbers in latest crackdown – even as Hong Kong moves to attract virtual asset traders
Popular JavaScript library injected with malicious code to steal coins from cryptocurrency wallet
Regulators and government finance officials in the UK are backing away from immediate regulatory action on cryptoassets, as investor interest cools