Bitcoin Stories for 2016

Destructive KillDisk Malware Turns Into Ransomware 56
Bitcoin Circulation Hits Record High Of $14 Billion 153
New Ransomware Offers The Decryption Keys If You Infect Your Friends 236
Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels In Almost Three Years 78
Bitcoin Could Rise By 165% To $2,000 in 2017 Driven by Trump's 'Spending Binge' and Dollar Rally 255
Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users 203
IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period 124
Bitcoin Boosted by Safe-Haven Demand After Trump Victory 45
Bitcoin Can Be Bought With Cash At Swiss Railway Ticket Machines 63
No One's Bidding on The Shadow Brokers' Stolen NSA Hacking Tools 51
Microsoft Partners With Bank of America On Blockchain Trade Finance 43
Japanese To Pay Utility Bills Using Bitcoin 36
Accenture Patents a Blockchain-Editing Tool 87
Federal Judge Rules Bitcoin Is Money In Case Tied To JPMorgan Hack 87
CureCoin Cryptocurrency Enters Third Year of Helping Disease Researchers 21
These Are the Six Crypto-Currencies Approved By Apple 74
Kim Dotcom Will Revive Megaupload, Linking File Transfers To Bitcoin Microtransactions 76
US Unveils Charges Against KickassTorrents, Names Two More Defendants 110
'SingularDTV' Will Use Ethereum For DRM On A Sci-Fi TV Show 78
New Linux Trojan Is A DDoS Tool, a Bitcoin Miner, and Web Ransomware 63
Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology 282
DDoSCoin: New Crypto-Currency Rewards Users For Participating In DDoS Attacks 45
US To Auction $1.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin From Various Cases 67
Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Says It Was Hacked, Roughly $60M Stolen 117
North Korea Is Blackmailing Top South Korean Online Retailer For $2.66 Million 45
EU Plans To Create Database of Bitcoin Users With Identities and Wallet Addresses 130
Bitcoin Not Money, Rules Miami Judge In Dismissing Laundering Charges 150
'Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts' 103
Ex-Google Engineer Launches Blockchain-Based System For Banks 62
Bitcoin 'Miners' Face Fight For Survival As New Supply Halves 164
How China Took Control of Bitcoin 165
Will Brexit Hurt International Cyber-Security? 197
Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Rules Fail to Ban BitTorrent Throttling 81
New and Improved CryptXXX Ransomware Rakes In $45,000 In 3 Weeks 124
Australian 'Bitcoin Founder' Quietly Bidding For Patent Empire 45
Ethereum Debate Marred By Second Digital Currency Heist 44
Digital Currency Ethereum Is Cratering Amid Claims Of a $50 Million Hack 116
Access To Thousands Of Compromised Government Servers Selling For $6 On Black Market 28
New Device Sold On The Dark Web Can Clone Up To 15 Contactless Cards Per Second 193
Ransomware Thieves Cost Canada University C$20,000 In Bitcoin 87
Russian Hacker Selling Information of 32 Million Twitter Accounts, Report Says 54
Bitcoin Sting Operation Nabs Egyptian Dentist 121
Bitcoin Price Jumps 21% Over 4 Days, Reaching a 21-Month High 106
Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money 121
Researchers Criticize New DAO Ethereum VC Fund 39
Hundreds of Drupal Sites Targeted With Fake Ransomware 51
New Clues About Why Mt. Gox Failed 50
Robin Hood Hacker Donates $11,000 of Stolen Bitcoin to Help Fight ISIS 66
Fake Hacker Found Guilty Following Gutsy Mitt Romney Extortion Scheme 108
Police Reveal Tactics For Fighting Botnets 38
Swiss City of Zug Will Accept Bitcoin For Public Service Payments 39
NY Approves New Digital Currency For Winklevoss Bitcoin Exchange 43
Bitcoin 'Creator' Reneges On Promise To Provide More Proof, Says He's Sorry 133
Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin 147
The Pirate Bay Gets a 'Massive' $9 in Donations Per Day 103
Humble Bundle Announces 'Hacker' Pay-What-You-Want Sale 52
Steam Computer Gaming Network Now Accepting Bitcoin 54
Businesses Pay $100,000 To DDoS Extortionists Who Never DDoS Anyone 52
Popular Dark Web Market Disappears, Users Migrate In Panic 217
Experts Crack Petya Ransomware, Enable Hard Drive Decryption For Free 49
Mozilla Co-Founder's Ad-blocking Brave Browser Will Pay You Bitcoin To See Ads 159
Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 170
Repeated DDoS Attacks Force Coinkite Bitcoin Wallet To Close Down Web Service 35
Petya Ransomware Uses DOS-Level Lock Screen, Prevents OS Boot Up 155
Kentucky Hospital Calls State of Emergency In Hack Attack 265
Australia Promises To Remove Tax On Bitcoin, Support FinTech Innovation 31
Bitcoin Trading Platform Announces Huge Downtime Following Cyber-Attack 51
Microsoft Still Accepts Bitcoin, Apologizes For 'Inaccurate Information' 25
Microsoft Store No Longer Accepts Bitcoins As Payment 116
Google Chrome Extension Caught Stealing Bitcoin From Users 28
VPN Provider's No-Logging Claims Tested In FBI Case 67
Russian Bitcoin Issuers Will Risk 7 Years In Prison 99
Bank of England Looks Into 'Centralized' Bitcoin Alternative, RSCoin 131
What Airbnb's Blockchain Authentication Proposal Means For Online Privacy 44
Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass 306
Incident Raises Concerns About a More Formal Spec For Bitcoin 80
Japan Considers Treating Bitcoin As Conventional Currency 106
It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers 558
L.A. Hospital Pays Off Ransomware Thieves To Reclaim Its Network 159
Phone Hacking Group Is Trading Fake Bomb Threats For Bitcoin 39
Best Way To Mine Bitcoins - Allow Errors! 167
Researchers Discover a Cheap Method of Breaking Bitcoin Wallet Passwords 96
Ask Slashdot: Time To Get Into Crypto-currency? If So, Which? 271
Bitcoin Capitalist Opens Bounty For New Block Cipher 72
EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users 158
Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike 173
Is Blockchain the Most Important IT Invention of Our Age? 190
Bank Consortium Successfully Tests Bitcoin Tech 47
10 People Arrested In the Netherlands For Bitcoin Laundering 44
Cryptsy Bitcoin Trader Robbed, Blames Backdoor In the Code of a Wallet 90
Big Trouble for Bitcoin 256
"DDoS-For-Bitcoin" Blackmailers Arrested 27