Mark Karpeles, a 32-year-old French national, has officially pleaded not guilty in Tokyo District Court to the charges of embezzlement and data manipulation he faces in the aftermath of the collapse of his Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox. Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, collapsed...
In a cryptocurrency case that could have repercussions across the pond, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week (June 30) charged a U.K. citizen with securities fraud tied to bitcoin. The Guardian reported that the SEC charges allege that Renwick Haddow, a U.K. citizen...
VIPole Private Messenger, the internet telephone company, announced news on Wednesday (June 28) that it is joining the digital currency world, giving hundreds of thousands of users worldwide the ability to pay with the cryptocurrency bitcoin. In a press release, the company said bitcoins can now...
With many cybercriminals choosing bitcoin as their currency of choice, the U.S. Department of Justice has naturally done its best to set up regulations that would prevent criminals from using the cryptocurrentcy for nefarious purposes. But those regulations may be doing more harm than good,...
Bitcoin has had its ups and downs this year. While back in March, the valuation of cryptocurrency bitcoin tiptoed above $1,000, it jumped to just above $1,400 at the beginning of May and soared above $3,000 earlier this month. It appears the upward trajectory of...
Digital currencies like bitcoin and blockchain are slowly becoming a hot commodity. As such, it should come as no surprise that one of the largest cryptocurrency companies, Coinbase, experienced some difficulties. On Monday, it reported an outage as a direct result of increased amounts of...
Bitcoin’s big surge continued on Sunday when the price per unit of the digital currency briefly broke the $3K mark. That figure comes care of CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index — rival currency index CoinMarketCap calculated the peak exchange rate at just a few cents short of...
Moving at the speed of light was once reserved for the comic book hero Flash, but with nearly every industry going digital, technology may be giving him a run for his money. To help diversify its economy outside of oil and gas, Russian president Vladimir Putin is...
Mark Cuban is not feeling the bitcoin love — and he is not afraid to tell Twitter all about it. The opinionated billionaire had a bitcoin warning for his millions of followers this week: “I think it’s in a bubble. I just don’t know when...
