Bitcoin Stories for 2018

Users Report Losing Bitcoin in Clever Hack of Electrum Wallets 72
Wall Street Banks Are Reportedly Backing Away From Cryptocurrency 49
Price Of Bitcoin Rises 27%, While Price of Bitcoin Cash Triples 83
Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead At 67 60
Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Report Says 44
Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam 63
Ranks of Crypto Users Swelled in 2018 Even as Bitcoin Tumbled 49
'Blockchain Developer' is the Fastest-Growing US Job 96
'Cryptocurrencies Are Like Lottery Tickets That Might Pay Off in Future' 122
Bitcoin Options Purchased for $1 Million Will Soon Be Worthless 59
Cryptocurrencies Tumble Even More, While One Asset Manager Proclaims 'Bitcoin is Dead' 165
Bitcoin Miners Bail, While Cryptocurrency Capitalization Drops 83% Since January 148
Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled Charged For Illegally Touting Crypto Offerings 89
Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks 47
The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin 149
Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative 289
Bitcoin Loses 32% of Its Value This Week, Falls Below $4,000 201
French Tobacco Shops Will Sell Bitcoin and Ethereum Starting January 2019 121
Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 180
Bitcoin Plummets Under $6,000 To a New Low For the Year 132
Twitter is Struggling To Contain the Bitcoin Scam Outbreak 52
Corporate America's Blockchain and Bitcoin Fever is Over 91
Principal Fired For Using School's Computer Room To Mine Cryptocurrency 54
Energy Cost of 'Mining' Bitcoin More Than Twice That of Copper Or Gold 165
A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada 116
Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033 287
Chinese Court Rules Bitcoin Should Be Protected As Property 51
A Reporter, Posing as Sketchy PR, Asked 28 Media Outlets If They'd Take Money To Publish Content Without Disclosing it Was Advertising. More Than Half Said Yes. 63
Japan Grants Cryptocurrency Industry Self-Regulatory Status 10
Coinbase Lets You Buy and Sell USDC Stablecoin 53
China Requires Blockchain-Based Information Service Providers To Register Users Using Real Names, Censor Postings and Store User Data 56
Armenia Opens $50 Million Bitcoin, Ethereum Mining Farm 38
Why Someone Put a Giant, Inflatable Bitcoin Rat on Wall Street 39
The Cryptocurrency Industry is 'On the Brink of an Implosion', Research Says 187
French Officer Caught Selling Access To State Surveillance System On the Darkweb 68
Google Ends Cryptocurrency Ad Ban For Certain Kinds of Ads 58
Crippling DDoS Vulnerability Put the Entire Bitcoin Market At Risk 37
Time To Regulate Bitcoin, Says UK Treasury Committee Report 111
Zaif Cryptocurrency Exchange Suffers $60 Million Hack 32
It Only Took 37 Seconds For Two Bitcoin 'Celebs' To Start Fighting on a Cruise Ship 106
Windows, Linux Kodi Users Infected With Cryptomining Malware 58
Cryptocurrency's 80 Percent Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash 178
Marshall Islands Warned Against Adopting Digital Currency 71
Cryptocurrency Wipeout Deepens To $640 Billion As Ether Leads Declines 174
New York State Approves Two Dollar-based Cryptocurrencies 95
Crypto Growth Nears 'Ceiling,' Ethereum Co-Founder Buterin Says 87
Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens 51
The Bitcoin Boom Reaches a Canadian Ghost Town 64
Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Are Useless, The Economist Says 276
John McAfee's 'Unhackable' Bitfi Wallet Got Hacked -- Again 108
In Venezuela, 'Cutting-Edge' Cryptocurrency is Nowhere To Be Found 129
Bitcoin Mining Now Accounts For Almost One Percent of the World's Energy Consumption 172
China Shuts Down Blockchain News Accounts on WeChat App, Bans Hotels in Beijing From Hosting Cryptocurrency Events 33
North Korean Hackers Hit Cryptocurrency Exchange With macOS Malware 100
As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely 559
Bitcoin Sinks Below $6,000 as Almost Everything Crypto Tumbles 203
Cryptocurrency Markets Lost $18 Billion Overnight 99
Colorado Candidate For Governor Wants To Put His State On the Blockchain 61
Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer 49
Audius Raises $5.5 Million To Decentralize Music, Help Artists Get Paid Faster 65
Traders Are Talking Up Cryptocurrencies, Then Dumping Them, Costing Others Millions 123
New Starbucks Partnership With Microsoft Allows Customers To Pay For Frappuccinos With Bitcoin 80
Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure 62
Steam Game Pulled From Store After Allegations of Cryptocurrency Mining 26
Cops Accuse 20-Year-Old College Student of Stealing More Than $5 Million in Bitcoin by Hijacking Phone Numbers 71
Several Small Countries and Territories Have Passed Laws, or Have Legislation in the Works, To Make Themselves More Welcoming To Cryptocurrency Companies 48
Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From the Play Store 111
Hashflare, One of the Largest Cloud Bitcoin Mining Companies, Abruptly Disables SHA-256 Mining Contracts, Leaving Customers Furious 84
Coinbase Says It's Exploring Adding 5 New Coins To Its Platform 29
Major League Baseball Is Going Crypto 51
Chinese Police Bust World Cup Gambling Ring With More Than $1 Billion In Cryptocurrency 28
Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized 101
As Cryptocurrency Values Plummet, Graphics Card Pricing Improves Dramatically 242
Bitcoin Drops Below $6,000, An 8-Month Low 106
Feds Ran a Bitcoin-Laundering Sting For Over a Year 97
Facebook Reverses Its Crypto Ad Ban 28
Last Year's ICOs Had Five Security Vulnerabilities On Average, Say Researchers 44
Bitcoin Makes Historic First Appearance In US Supreme Court Opinion 29
Bumbling Hacker 'Bitcoin Baron' Sentenced To 20 Months In Prison 39
Square Obtains New York State Cryptocurrency License 18
The CIA 'Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny' It Has Documents on Satoshi Nakamoto 66
Bitcoin's Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say 209
Apple's App Store Officially Bans Cryptocurrency Mining 39
Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases On Its Credit Cards 129
Bitcoin Tumbles Most in Two Weeks Amid South Korea Hack 87
Blockchain's Once-Feared 51% Attack Is Now Becoming Regular 168
Chinese President Xi Jinping Calls Blockchain a 'Breakthrough' Technology 82
How WIRED lost $100,000 in Bitcoin 127
Bitcoin Backlash as 'Miners' Suck Up Electricity, Stress Power Grids in Central Washington 212
About $1.2 Billion in Cryptocurrency Stolen Since 2017 53
US Launches Criminal Probe Into Bitcoin Price Manipulation 48
IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption 197
Floating Pacific Island Is In the Works With Its Own Government, Cryptocurrency 168
Investors Have Placed $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency Offerings Rampant With Red Flags For Fraud 49
Nobody Knows How Much Energy Bitcoin Is Using 161
Facebook Plans To Create Its Own Cryptocurrency: Report 90
The New York Stock Exchange Teases Plan To Launch Cryptocurrency Trading 68
Aventus Blockchain-Based Ticketing System Aims To Wipe Out Ticket Touts 94
Telegram's Billion-Dollar ICO Has Become a Mess 34
Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation 50
GPU Prices Are Falling 149
Bezop Cryptocurrency Server Exposes Personal Info of 25,000 Investors 28
Nasdaq 'Would Consider' Creating a Crypto Exchange, Says CEO 38
Hackers Keep Robbing Cryptocurrency YouTubers 42
German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million 200
Cambridge Analytica Planned To Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency 60
New York's Attorney General Is Investigating Bitcoin Exchanges 43
Coinbase Buys Earn.com For Reported $100 Million, Adds Key Executive 9
A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining 225
438 Bitcoins Worth Nearly $3.5 Million Stolen From Exchange In India, CSO Accused 85
Japan Could Have More Than 3 Million Cryptocurrency Traders 35
George Soros, Rockefeller Take Their Marks Before Diving Into the Cryptocurrency Pool 100
GPU Prices Soar as Bitcoin Miners Buy Up Hardware To Build Rigs 157
Coinbase Launches Early-Stage Venture Fund 5
Hacker Uses Exploit To Generate Verge Cryptocurrency Out of Thin Air 85
Ethereum Founder Confronts Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright, Calls Him a Fraud 54
Google Bans Chrome Extensions That Mine Cryptocurrencies From the Web Store 49
MailChimp Bans Emails Promoting Cryptocurrency 48
Intel Files Patent For Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining Hardware 48
Reddit No Longer Accepts Bitcoin 61
Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says 228
Twitter Moves To Ban Crypto Ads 58
Pablo Escobar's Brother Says He Met an FBI Agent Posing As Satoshi Nakamoto 38
UK Launches Task Force To Scrutinize Cryptocurrency Risks and Benefits 27
A 15-Year-Old Hacked the Secure Ledger Crypto Wallet 68
Twitter CEO Says Bitcoin Will Be the World's 'Single Currency' In 10 Years 256
Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency To Evade US Sanctions 109
The NSA Worked To 'Track Down' Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal 60
Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain 321
New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More 128
Sierra Leone Government Denies the Role of Blockchain In Its Recent Election 20
Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency 170
Twitter Will Ban Most Cryptocurrency-Related Ads 35
Sierra Leone Records World's First Blockchain-Powered Election 72
For the First Time, a US City Has Banned Cryptocurrency Mining 198
Bitcoin's Highly Anticipated 'Lightning Network' Goes Live 132
Google Will Ban All Cryptocurrency-related Advertising 108
Apple Seems OK With Currency Miners In the Mac App Store 38
Qarnot Unveils a Cryptocurrency Heater For Your Home 65
Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered 81
Coinbase Announces Cryptocurrency-Focused Index Fund 26
Thieves Steal 600 Powerful Bitcoin-Mining Computers In Iceland 88
SEC Reportedly Subpoenas Companies and Advisers Over ICOs 10
Bill Gates: Cryptocurrency Is 'Rare Technology That Has Caused Deaths In a Fairly Direct Way' 161
Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS 133
'Satoshi' Craig Wright Is Being Sued For $10 Billion For Stealing His Partner's Bitcoin 92
We Will Regulate Bitcoin if Risks Are Not Tackled, EU Finance Head Says 143
Nearly Half of 2017's Cryptocurrencies Have Already Failed 28
Is Cryptocurrency Threatening Earnings at Bank of America? 49
Bitcoin Exchange Accidentally Allowed Customers To Buy Coins For $0 51
The Los Angeles Times Website Is Unintentionally Serving a Cryptocurrency Mining Script 58
Poland's Central Bank Accused of Paying YouTubers To Make Videos That Attack the Legitimacy of Cryptocurrencies 76
Venezuela Launches Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency 178
FCC Orders a Brooklyn Man To Turn Off His Bitcoin Miner Because It Was Interfering With T-Mobile's Wireless Network 207
Salon Magazine Mines Monero On Your Computer If You Use an Ad Blocker 314
Cryptocurrency Miners Are 'Limiting' the Search For Alien Life Now 135
Kaspersky Says Telegram Flaw Used For Cryptocurrency Mining 42
Energy Riches Fuel Bitcoin Craze For Speculation-shy Iceland 99
Cryptocurrency Classes Are Coming To Campus 81
Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' 84
Arizona Introduces Bill That Would Allow Residents To Pay Taxes In Bitcoin 109
Bitcoin Won't Be the Dark Web's Top Cryptocurrency For Long 79
Attackers Drain CPU Power From Water Utility Plant In Cryptojacking Attack 76
Twitter Bans Notorious Bitfinex and Tether Critic Bitfinex'ed 73
Get Ready For Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says 276
Senate Cryptocurrency Hearing Strikes a Cautiously Optimistic Tone 44
Man Sues T-Mobile For Allegedly Failing To Stop Hackers From Stealing His Cryptocurrency 133
US Regulators To Back More Oversight of Virtual Currencies 121
Five Major Credit Cards Are Now Blocking Cryptocurrency Purchases 253
India Rejects Cryptocurrency, But It Isn't Giving Up On Blockchain 51
Bitcoin Plummets Below $8,000 For First Time Since November 298
India Vows To Eliminate Use of Cryptocurrencies in the Country 68
Why Tether's Collapse Would Be Bad For Cryptocurrencies 161
Facebook Is Banning Cryptocurrency, ICO Ads 41
US Regulators To Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether 60
Ethereum Startup Vanishes After Seemingly Making $11, Leaves Message: 'Penis' 125
Deanonymizing Tor: Your Bitcoin Transactions May Come Back To Haunt You 106
$500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange 104
How a PhD Student Unlocked 1 Bitcoin Hidden In DNA 58
Coinbase Is Making $2.7 Million a Day 91
More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins 177
Bitcoin's Fluctuations Are Too Much For Even Ransomware Cybercriminals 84
Bitcoin Watchers Running Out of Explanations Blame Slump on Moon 157
Bitcoin Plunges Below $12,000 To Six-Week Low Over Crackdown Fears 174
Researchers Find That One Person Likely Drove Bitcoin From $150 to $1,000 117
Cryptocurrency Traders in South Korea Face Fines For Virtual Accounts 74
South Korea Plans To Ban Cryptocurrency Trading 78
Bitcoin Conference Stops Accepting BTC Due To High Fees 135
Kodak Announces Its Own Cryptocurrency, Watches Stock Price Skyrocket 135
A Crypto Website Changes Its Data, and $100 Billion in Market Value Vanishes 69
China Plans To Kill Most of the World's Bitcoin Mining Operations 261
Microsoft Halts Bitcoin Transactions Because It's An 'Unstable Currency' 106
A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion 141
Bitcoin Starts a New Year by Tumbling, First Time Since 2015 267