My Bank Account Was Frozen for Bitcoin – And It Only Made Me Love Crypto More

Chinese police have arrested three individuals who allegedly stole bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies worth around 600 million yuan, or $87 million. 

Mar 12, 2020 at 20:09 UTCUpdated Mar 12, 2020 at 20:19 UTCEXTRAORDINARY MEASURES: "These changes are being made to address highly unusual disruptions in Treasury financing markets associated with the coronavirus outbreak," the New York Fed said. (Credit: Shutterstock)U.S. central bankers pledged Thursday to inject some $1.5 trillion into the financial system in an effort…

Russia's president Vladimir Putin signed the digital ruble bill into law today, allowing the country's central bank to issue its own digital currency.The digital ruble, which the Bank of Russia has long been mulling over, will be used for payments along with other methods, according to the new amendments to Russia's Civil Code. The digital…

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Scott Minerd, chief investment officer of Guggenheim Investments, said he’s no longer invested in bitcoin after he predicted earlier this year that the cryptocurrency could hit $600,000.“The one thing I learned as a bond trader years ago, when you don’t understand what’s happening, get out of the market,” Minerd said in an interview on CNBC…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Oliver Knight is a CoinDesk reporter based between London and Lisbon. He does not own any crypto.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.The bankruptcy claims exchange co-founded by failed Three Arrows…

A purported $25 million crypto giveaway on the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter is – no surprise, really – indeed too good to be true.Posts on X on Thursday and Friday lean into one of the hot stories of the moment in crypto: the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), which, as a result of a

Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto or the author of the Bitcoin whitepaper, U.K. Judge James Mellor said after closing arguments in the Crypto Open Patent Alliance trial on Thursday.After finding that the evidence was "overwhelming," the judge said he plans to write a ruling that Wright is not Nakamoto, is not the creator of

The 53-year-old Bulgarian national was convicted for laundering funds via cryptocurrency for a fake online auctions gang.(Txking/Shutterstock)Jan 13, 2021 at 9:47 a.m. UTCOwner of Crypto Exchange RG Coins Gets 10 Years in Prison for Laundering $5MThe owner and manager of cryptocurrency exchange RG Coins has been handed a lengthy prison term for his involvement in…