Tesla buys $1.5 billion in Bitcoin, will soon accept it as payment

Posted on 08/02/2021 by Engadget

Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency hype was more than just idle talk. CNBC reports that Tesla not only bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin to help “diversify and maximize” its returns, but will start taking payments using the digital asset sometime in the “...

India will propose a law banning private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin

Posted on 31/01/2021 by Engadget

India may be the next country to clamp down on existing cryptocurrencies in favor of its own. As TechCrunch reports, India’s lower house of parliament has revealed plans to introduce a law that would ban “all private cryptocurrencies” in the country,...

Mt. Gox exchange users may finally get to recover some of their lost Bitcoin

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Engadget

When Mt. Gox went bankrupt in 2014, it was the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, holding 850,000 Bitcoins from thousands of users. Now, creditors might finally be able to get a portion of those riches back. One of Mt. Gox’s largest creditors, CoinLab...

Bitcoin exchange owner who helped scam eBay buyers sentenced to 10 years in prison

Posted on 13/01/2021 by Engadget

Rossen G. Iossifov, the Bitcoin Exchange owner who was accused of laundering money for a Romanian gang putting up fake car listings on eBay, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. According to the Department of Justice, Iossifov was sentenced “for...

Bitcoin exchange founder sentenced to prison for money laundering

Posted on 08/12/2020 by Engadget

Alexander Vinnick, the Russian man who founded and ran the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange service BTC-e, has been sentenced to five years in prison. A Paris court has found Vinnick guilty of money laundering and has ordered him to pay €100,000 (US$121,...

FX and Hulu are airing a documentary on the teenage Twitter hacker

Posted on 17/11/2020 by Engadget

It’s been a busy year, so we’ll forgive you if you’ve forgotten about this one.On July 15th, 2020, Twitter was the target of a widespread, disruptive hacking campaign. More than 100 high-profile accounts — including those of Jeff Bezos, Uber, Apple,...

PayPal now lets all US users buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency

Posted on 12/11/2020 by Engadget

PayPal is bringing its newly-announced support for cryptocurrency to all US accounts. It first announced plans to open cryptocurrency trading to US-based users in October, but until now it was only available to a small subset of PayPal account holder...

US authorities seize $1 billion worth of Silk Road Bitcoin

Posted on 06/11/2020 by Engadget

Even after Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was arrested and sentenced to life in prison, authorities were unable to find a huge chunk of the commissions — in Bitcoin, of course — the dark web marketplace generated. Earlier this week, authorities have...

PayPal will soon let US users buy, sell and shop with cryptocurrency

Posted on 21/10/2020 by Engadget

PayPal is leaping into the cryptocurrency market, Starting in the next few weeks, users in the US can buy and sell bitcoin and several other digital currencies on the platform. Early next year, you’ll be able to use cryptocurrency to pay for goods at...

After Math: 15-Minute COVID tests and 27,000 not-so-great scots

Posted on 30/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Congratulations on making it through another seven days as the world burns around us — in California’s case, quite literally — so let’s take a look at some of the top headlines from the week that was. Engadget TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer quits just three...

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