The arrival Wednesday of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on Nasdaq is one of the most anticipated events of the year on Wall Street, where enthusiasm for record-breaking bitcoin is in full swing, despite questions about the sustainability of the market.
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The future of a class action lawsuit brought by online investors who say they were scammed by a Miami Beach-based cryptocurrency startup out of over $32 million hinges on a federal appeals court’s decision on the timeliness of a court filing.
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The rainbow flag flew proudly Thursday above the Bank of England in the heart of London’s financial district to commemorate World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, the new face of Britain’s 50-pound note.
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A federal court in New Hampshire dismissed a man’s civil rights suit against the IRS, in which he alleges the government violated his rights by obtaining records of his financial transactions from third parties. The case stems from the agency’s summons of financial records from certain digital currency exchanges.
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Governments might look askance at bitcoin but it doesn’t mean they don’t want to cash in its soaring value — France is auctioning off the cryptocurrency for the first time.
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Graham Ivan Clark, 18, was given a three-year sentence Tuesday after pleading guilty to last year’s hacking of prominent Twitter accounts belonging to politicians, celebrities and technology moguls.
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McAfee’s Twitter endorsements for cryptocurrency tokens, including DogeCoin and Verge, netted him more than $2 million in illicit profits from a “pump and dump” investment scheme, prosecutors allege.
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Bitfinex and Tether, two cryptocurrency trading platforms accused of hiding some $850 million in losses, will pay New York $18.5 million as part of a Tuesday settlement that also forces them to cease letting New Yorkers use their so-called stablecoin platforms.
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New York state brought a lawsuit Wednesday to shut down Coinseed, a mobile app that allows users to invest the change from everyday purchases into virtual currency.
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The seemingly unstoppable rise of Bitcoin continued Tuesday with the cost of a single unit of the digital currency rising above $50,000 for the first time.
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Two German men were fined for late payment of their public broadcaster fee after being told they could not pay in cash.
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A record low proportion of fake euro banknotes were seized in 2020, according to European Central Bank data, with 20- and 50-euro notes most popular among counterfeiters.
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Copper objects discovered in Central Europe present the earliest known standardized currency, hinting at money’s earliest origins.
Read moreSierra Club and other environmental advocates sued the town of Torrey, New York Thursday, claiming a recently approved 24/7 bitcoin data mining operation whose increase in power usage from a nearby generating station would harm fish populations, increase algae blooms and interfere with boating and swimming in Seneca Lake.
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Berlin police raided homes and jewelry shops Wednesday on suspicion they could be connected to efforts to fence a massive 220-pound Canadian gold coin — piece by piece — that was stolen from a museum in the German capital.
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The U.S. Treasury Department has branded Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators while putting China and nine other countries on a watch list in an annual report designed to halt countries from manipulating their currencies to gain unfair trade advantages.
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A Russian bitcoin expert at the center of a multicountry legal tussle was sentenced in Paris on Monday to five years in prison for money laundering and ordered to pay $121,000 in fines in a case of suspected cryptocurrency fraud.
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The Turkish lira firmed against the dollar on Monday a day after the finance minister, who is also the son-in-law to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced his resignation on social media.
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Businesses in the European Union should accept cash, but countries are allowed to place their own restrictions on currency usage, an adviser to the EU’s high court said Tuesday.
Read moreAir passengers whose flights have been cancelled or severely delayed are permitted to demand compensation, as outlined in the European Union’s air passenger rights regulation, “in the national currency of their place of residence,” the European Court of Justice ruled.
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