Bitcoin Stories for 2017

Blockchain Brings Business Boom To IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft 94
A Manager of the Exmo Bitcoin Exchange Has Been Kidnapped In Ukraine 82
Where Did WikiLeaks' $25 Million Bitcoin Fortune Go? 85
Beware: 'Digmine' Cryptocurrency Bot Is Spreading Via Facebook Messenger 96
Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 150
Estimates of Bitcoin's Soaring Energy Use Are Likely Overstating the Electric Power Required To Mine the Cryptocurrency 115
Opera 50 Web Browser Will Offer Anti-Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Mining Feature 76
Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why 461
Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk 55
Youbit Shuts Down Cryptocurrency Exchange After Second Hack, Files For Bankruptcy 68
Bitcoin's Rise May Reflect a Monumental Transfer of Trust From Human Institutions Backed By Gov't To Systems Reliant on Well-Tested Code, Says Tim Wu 365
Coinbase Adds Support For Bitcoin Cash [Update: Disabled] 111
'Loapi' Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Is Causing Phone Batteries To Bulge 55
A Small Fintech Stock Surged 2,600 Percent in a Week After Announcing It's a Crypto Company 64
Venezuela Will Force Bitcoin Miners To Register With the Government 152
Bitcoin Jumps Another 10% in 24 Hours, Sets New Record at $19,000 224
An Anonymous Bitcoin Millionaire Is Donating Their Fortune To Charities 98
Coinbase Wants Wall Street To Resolve Its Bitcoin Trust Issues 49
Lock Out: the Austrian Hotel That Was Hacked Four Times 53
Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million 151
A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built To Outperform Bitcoin 186
Searchable Database of 1.4 Billion Stolen Credentials Found On Dark Web 72
SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO 43
SEC Warns 'Extreme Caution' Over Cryptocurrency Investments As Many People Take Out Mortgages To Buy Bitcoin 233
Bitcoin Fees Are Skyrocketing 272
In-Store WiFi Provider Used Starbucks Website To Generate Monero Coins 30
The Case that Bitcoin Is a Bubble 264
Bitcoin Futures Surge In First Day Of Trading 64
Coinbase Warns During Times of High Volatility, Access Could Become 'Unavailable' 90
People Who Can't Remember Their Bitcoin Passwords Are Really Freaking Out Now 202
About 40 Percent of Bitcoin Is Held By 1,000 Users. If a Few of Them Want To Sell, That Could Tank Values 241
Bank of America Wins Patent For Crypto Exchange System 52
Cryptocurrency Miners Are Using Old Tires to Power Their Rigs 79
Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day 464
NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen 79
Steam Ends Support For Bitcoin 151
'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' 468
Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering 47
The Winklevoss Twins Are Now Bitcoin Billionaires 155
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Bitcoin 'Ought to be Outlawed' 461
Blockchains Are Poised To End the Password Era 129
Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto' 169
Nasdaq Plans To Offer Bitcoin Futures In Early 2018 100
Coinbase Ordered To Report 14,355 Users To the IRS 141
Bitcoin Tumbles From Record High After Exchanges Confirm Outage 130
Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations 141
Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man 348
Elon Musk Says He Is Not Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto 108
Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says 218
There's Some Intense Web Scans Going on for Bitcoin and Ethereum Wallets 34
We'll Never Legalize Bitcoin, Says Russian Minister 55
$31 Million In Tokens Stolen From Dollar-Pegged Cryptocurrency Tether 63
Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker 35
An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K 190
Bitcoin Prices Surge 26% in November, Pass $8000 221
Bitcoin Gold, the Latest Bitcoin Fork, Explained 96
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses As Much Energy As Your House In a Week 227
Bitcoin Drops Over $1,000 In Value Over 48 Hours 107
The Bitcoin Bubble 284
Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks 312
2x Called Off: Bitcoin Hard Fork Suspended for Lack of Consensus 50
Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia 106
Bitcoin and Blockchain Are Among the Fastest-Growing Skills Online 80
Bitcoin Smashes Past $7,000 For the First Time 144
Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of 40 Old Galaxy S5s 73
TV News 'Hack' Sees Bitcoins Swiped 33
Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin To Work on Many Blockchains 65
Wolf of Wall Street: Cryptocurrency ICOs Are 'the Biggest Scam Ever' 279
Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? 164
Software Developer Creates Personal Cryptocurrency 102
Bitcoin Nears $6,000 For the First Time 120
Julian Assage Taunts US Government For Forcing Wikileaks To Invest In Bitcoin 195
Ransomware Sales On the Dark Web Spike 2,502% In 2017 23
Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency, Researchers Reveal 78
This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies 180
Russian Central Bank To Ban Websites Offering Crypto-currencies 45
Bitcoin Transactions Lead To Arrest of Major Drug Dealer 169
South Korea Bans Initial Coin Offerings 45
Chaos and Hackers Stalk Investors on Cryptocurrency Exchanges 64
Popular Chrome Extension Embedded A CPU-Draining Cryptocurrency Miner 76
Bitcoin Futures-Based ETF Likely To Be Approved in the US 59
John McAfee Said Top Executives From the Major Bitcoin Exchanges Weren't Allowed To Leave China 96
China Orders Bitcoin Exchanges In Capital City To Close 71
Ethereum Will Match Visa In Scale In a 'Couple of Years,' Says Founder 114
Illinois Tests A Blockchain-Based Birth Registry/ID System 151
Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? 123
Bitcoin Plummets Below $3,000 on Rising China Worries 221
Bitcoin Exchange BTCChina Says To Stop Trading, Sparking Further Slide 70
North Korea Is Dodging Sanctions With a Secret Bitcoin Stash 188
Bitcoin Price Falls Again On Reports that China is Shutting Down Local Exchanges 115
Bitcoin Prices Surge Past $5,000 Three Weeks After Passing $4,000 179
Nearly 3,000 Bitcoin Miners Exposed Online Via Telnet Ports, Without Passwords 43
Litecoin Prices Surge Above $70 As Crypto Market Tops $175 Billion 67
Messaging-App Kik's Big Bet On Digital Coin Offering 25
Bitcoin Foundation Boss Urges Cautious Investment 59
How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto 427
IRS Now Has a Tool To Unmask Bitcoin Tax Evaders 210
Here's Why People Don't Buy Things With Bitcoin 376
Estonia Proposes Estcoin, a Government Backed Cryptocurrency, Issued Via an Initial Coin Offering After e-Residency Success 51
Two-Factor Authentication Fail: Identity Thieves Hijack Cellphone Accounts to Go After Virtual Currency 76
Third Party Trackers On Web Shops Can Identify Users Behind Bitcoin Transactions 63
Leading Chinese Bitcoin Miner Wants To Cash In On AI 23
Bitcoin Is Forking. Again. 121
Australia Joins China and Japan in Trying To Regulate Digital Currency Exchanges 63
Bitcoin Just Surged Past $4,000. TechCrunch Explains Why 154
Former Bitcoin Developer Shares Early Satoshi Nakamoto Emails 42
Who's Profiting From The WannaCry Ransoms? 31
Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split In Half and Why It Matters 109
Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud 204
US Indicts Suspected Russian 'Mastermind' of $4 Billion Bitcoin Laundering Scheme 99
SEC Rules That ICO Tokens Are Securities 96
Fourth Ethereum Platform Hacked This Month: Hacker Steals $8.4 Million From Veritaseum Platform 99
Ethereum Co-Founder Says Cryptocurrencies Are 'a Ticking Time Bomb' 64
Hacker Allegedly Steals $7.4 Million In Ethereum After Hijacking ICO 64
Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD Ride Cryptocurrency Wave -- For Now 57
Petya Ransomware Authors Demand $250,000 In First Public Statement Since Attack 59
Petya Ransomware Outbreak Originated In Ukraine Via Tainted Accounting Software 23
NVIDIA To Launch Graphics Cards Specifically Designed For Digital Currency Mining 105
South Korean Web Hosting Provider Pays $1 Million In Ransomware Demand 100
NYTimes: Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the Moment. 117
Why Ethereum Is Outpacing Bitcoin 150
Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web To Send Deadly Drugs by Mail 175
What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? 258
GPU and Motherboard OEMs Readying Components Optimized For Cryptocurrency Mining 77
Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Reportedly Valued At $1 Billion 72
Messenger App Kik Debuts Its Own Digital Currency 51
Bitcoin Surges 10% To All-Time High Above $2,700, Has Now Doubled in May 139
Ethereum Could Be Worth More Than Bitcoin Very Soon 84
Bitcoin Price Hits Fresh Record High Above $2,200 172
New Ransomware 'Jaff' Spotted; Malware Groups Pushing 5M Emails Per Hour To Circulate It 58
ISPs Could Take Down Large Parts of Bitcoin Ecosystem If They Wanted To 72
Backdoor Could Allow Company To Shut Down 70% of All Bitcoin Mining Operations 102
BitTorrent Inventor Bram Cohen Will Start His Own Cryptocurrency 104
Kim Dotcom Announces New Bitcoin Venture For Content Uploaders To Earn Money 38
Bitcoin Becomes Legal Payment Option In Japan, Prices Spike 77
Venezuelan Developers Are Using Bitcoin, Rare Pepe Trading Cards To Fight Against a Dismal Economy 93
Hackers Claim Access To 300 Million iCloud Accounts, Demand $75,000 From Apple To Delete the Cache of Data 122
IBM Unveils Blockchain As a Service Based On Open Source Hyperledger Fabric Technology 42
Ask Slashdot: How Does One Freely Use Bitcoin In the Land of the Free? 270
The SEC Just Handed Bitcoin a Huge Setback 73
The Promise of Blockchain Is a World Without Middlemen 73
One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold 208
CloudPets IoT Toys Leaked and Ransomed, Exposing Kids' Voice Messages 64
Former Fed Employee Fined $5,000 For Installing Bitcoin Software On Server 80
Bitcoin Slides as China's Central Bank Launches Checks On Exchanges 43
Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency 104
Over 1,800 MongoDB Databases Held For Ransom By Mysterious Attacker 115
Legal Sparring Continues in Bitcoin User's Battle with IRS Tax Sweep 101
Bitcoin Breaks $1,000 Level, Highest in More Than 3 Years 146