Offbeat Dude… where’s my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files
Off-Prem Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS
Offbeat Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users New users promised $68, but briefly saw multi-million-dollar balances
Cyber-crime UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence
Cyber-crime China hates crypto and scams, but is now outraged USA acquired bitcoin from a scammer A new theory from the agency that brought us ‘America hacked itself to blame Beijing’
Legal FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules
Legal £5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run Zhimin Qian recruited takeaway worker to launder funds through property overseas
Security Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks PLUS: Bluetooth mess leaves cars exposed; Bitcoin ATMs attacked; Deepfakers imitate US secretary of state Marco Rubio; and more
Personal Tech Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order With no allowance to sell and little room to buy, and markets on the slide, it's UB40 time: Red, red, whine
Bootnotes Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up More than a decade on, waste experts say the odds of finding those coins are next to nil
Cyber-crime Bitfinex heist gets the Netflix treatment after 'cringey couple' sentenced Streamer's trademark dramatic style takes on Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde
Cyber-crime Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M Digital money laundering pays, until it doesn't
Cyber-crime Bitfinex burglar bags 5 years behind bars for Bitcoin heist A nervous wait for rapper wife who also faces a stint in the clink
Cyber-crime Dark web crypto laundering kingpin sentenced to 12.5 years in prison Prosecutors hand Russo-Swede a half-billion bill
Security Alleged Bitcoin crook faces 5 years after SEC's X account pwned SIM swappers strike again, warping cryptocurrency prices
Bootnotes 'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive To Wales now, where crypto bro sues to be allowed to excavate landfill site
Offbeat Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect 'If I was Satoshi I would have destroyed my ability to prove I'm Satoshi'
Security Craig Wright admits he isn't the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK Aussie definitely not Satoshi Nakamoto, faces £6M legal bill and possible perjury trial
Offbeat Oklahoma saddles up bill of rights for crypto wranglers and miners Bitcoin cowboys now have guaranteed freedoms
Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career
Offbeat Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder Hint: If someone says they're an assassin on the dark web, they're probably not
Cyber-crime Cryptocurrency laundryman gets hung out to dry Bitcoin Fog washed hundreds of millions for criminals
On-Prem Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high
Cyber-crime SEC Twitter hijacked to push fake news of hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETF approval Buy the hype, sell the, wait, what do we do now?!
Personal Tech Bitcoin's thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite A single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe
Cyber-crime Poloniex crypto-exchange offers 5% cut to thieves if they return that $120M they nicked White hat bounty looks more like a beg bounty
On-Prem China's top crypto-mining hardware-maker reportedly furloughs staff Bitmain's 'Antminers' dominate the market – but customers aren't buying
Systems Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin It's not a broken business model if the subsidies make up for cratering market and flagging demand
Cyber-crime Guy who ran Bitcoins4Less tells Feds he had less than zero laundering protections What? Yogurt Monster isn't really a legitimate customer's name?!
Cyber-crime Couple admit they laundered $4B in stolen Bitcoins after Bitfinex super-heist A man, a plan, and Razzlekhan fought the law – and the law won
Cyber-crime Unsealed: Charges against Russians blamed for Mt Gox crypto-exchange collapse What a blast from the past, the past being a year before the pandemic
Cyber-crime North Korea's Lazarus Group linked to Atomic Wallet heist Users' cryptocurrency wallets look unlikely to be refilled
Personal Tech EU passes world's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrency Gone are the days of unlicensed exchanges and anonymous transactions – for EU citizens, at least
Security Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5 million in crypto cash Terminal maker General Bytes shutters its cloud business after second breach in seven months
Cyber-crime Bitcoin mining rig found stashed in school crawlspace Don't blame the kids! Ex-city employee charged with $17k power theft
Cyber-crime More victims of fake crypto investor scam speak to The Register UK-based Coin Publishers were conned out of $206,000 after meeting in a Barcelona hotel
Software Craig Wright's crypto wallet claim against Bitcoin SV devs back before judges Another of the self-proclaimed BTC inventor's lawsuits rumbles onward
Software Crypto mixer Sinbad looks uncannily like a remix of North Korea's notorious Blender Lazarus Group’s favorite digi-dollar launderer may have risen again
Cyber-crime Scammers steal $4 million in crypto during face-to-face meeting Demand to display wallet full of coin facilitated mystery heist
Networks Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too Fintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff
Networks ‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman argues for centralized infrastructure Inventor of the spanning tree protocol gets heretical about blockchain, crypto, and why the broken internet is a blessing in disguise
Security Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red Little fish lured into the market help whales cash out
Systems Intel plans to cut products — we guess where they’ll happen To help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose
On-Prem Bitcoin energy consumption a feature, not a bug, says crypto-miner But it's OK because we use non-carbon energy, argues CEO
Personal Tech America, use Bitcoin instead of old-school money? Not likely, says Fed It's all about the Benjamins, says Michael Barr
PaaS + IaaS Google Cloud to accept cryptocurrencies as payment Plus: AI services, security tools and more from Google Cloud Next this week
Science Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists Researchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact
Software China's central bank declares victory over online lenders, Bitcoin speculators Just in time for the Party Congress, whatever the reality of the situation
Personal Tech America taps 150+ prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime As President Biden rolls out a blueprint for future regulations
Systems US warns cryptominers must cut power use to avoid busting US carbon goals Datacenters or digicash - what's the bigger boon to society?
Cyber-crime US treasury whips up sanctions for crypto mixer Tornado Cash Being the money launderer for North Korea’s Lazarus Group comes at a price
Personal Tech One way Bitcoin miners can make money: Selling electricity back to Texas Beats screwing around actually crafting these unloved tokens
Software Tesla jettisons 75% of Bitcoin holdings, boosting cash balance by $936m Estimates suggest it could take a $460 million hit on the exchange
Systems Intel ships crypto-mining ASIC at the worst possible time Chipmaker finally ahead of schedule only to find it arrived too late
Personal Tech Investors start betting against Bitcoin with short-trade products Some crypto-bros keep the faith in the face of market onslaught
Offbeat Bill Gates says NFTs '100% based on greater fool theory' amid crypto cataclysm Plus: Non-fungible tokens for dummies
Personal Tech Crypto market crashes on Celsius freeze, inflation news Not a good moment to look at that digi-coin portfolio, fam
Research Clipminer rakes in $1.7m in crypto hijacking scam Crooks divert transactions to own wallets while running mining on the side
Software Despite ban, China surges back to second place on bitcoin mining charts Miners behind the Great Firewall may never have downed tools, say Cambridge crypto-boffins
Cyber-crime US brings first-of-its-kind criminal charges of Bitcoin-based sanctions-busting Citizen allegedly moved $10m-plus in BTC into banned nation
Personal Tech Don't hate on cryptomining, hate the power stations, say Bitcoin super-fans We're not the ones telling them to burn fossil fuels, top names write in response to probe request
Networks Wiki community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations Cryptocurrencies make up less than 1% of wiki donations, but as member points out, that $130k could pay a salary
Systems Crypto inferno: Intel's Bitcoin-mining Blockscale ASIC to arrive in Q3 Gelsinger's firm drops details on crypto chip – including hash rate of up to 580GHps
Personal Tech Europe advances crypto-coin regulation – without potential ban on Bitcoin Vote held after red-tape targeting proof-of-work assets removed
Systems Intel blasts Bitcoin mining, unveils own mining kit Gelsinger believes his chip won't make quite a hash of the climate
Security India's Reserve Bank deputy governor calls for crypto ban Labels digital currencies wreckers of sovereignty, worse than a Ponzi scheme
On-Prem Intel chases after Bitcoin miners with dedicated chip Silicon giant thinks there's real money to be made in the web metaverse 3.0 chain hype
Security FBI seizes $3.6bn in Bitcoin after New York 'tech couple' arrested over Bitfinex robbery Ilya Lichtenstein and partner cuffed via blockchain records
Security Indonesia bars financial institutions from offering crypto services Advises citizens to avoid 'Ponzi schemes'
Security Russia's Putin out the idea of a broad cryptocurrency ban Central bank worries that block-bucks reduce government control and are used by crims
Security Crypto.com now says someone tried to drain $34m from hundreds of accounts Won't reveal net loss, says it stopped some withdrawals and has reimbursed those who had funds taken
Legal I own that $4.5bn of digi-dosh so rewrite your blockchain and give it to me, Craig Wright tells Bitcoin SV devs Oh look, another High Court sueball over cryptocurrencies
Legal Bitcoin 'inventor' will face forgery claims over his Satoshi Nakamoto proof, rules High Court COPA load of that
Personal Tech International Monetary Fund warns crypto-related risks could soon become systemic Wants comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated regulation to avoid instability
Networks Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining because while hydroelectric power is cheap, they need it for other stuff Lighting and warming homes in winter, or ransoming encrypted files and buying drugs? Hmmm
Personal Tech For the nth time, China bans cryptocurrencies Coin prices drop after People's Bank reiterates crackdown
Security Thief hands back at least a third of $600m in crypto-coins stolen from Poly Network It was just a prank, bro
Software US proposes tracking digital cash and taxing it to pay for, you know, roads and stuff Uncle Sam wants digital asset brokers to log customer info but didn't clarify who counts as a broker or not
Personal Tech Europe mulls anonymous crypto-wallet ban, rules to make transfers more traceable Won't someone please think of the ch, er, money laundering
Legal Malaysian Police crush crypto-mining kit to punish electricity thieves Because in Miri District, that's how they roll
Security Three things that have vanished: $3.6bn in Bitcoin, a crypto investment biz, and the two brothers who ran it We got hacked and we'll be right back, duo said ... two months ago
Legal China announces ‘crackdown’ on Bitcoin mining and trading Cryptos mentioned on lists of risks to financial system to be avoided
Security Business-intelligence-company-turned-Bitcoin-addict MicroStrategy grabs another $10m crypto-coin fix Who's recommending investment? The man who already has a $1bn stake
Personal Tech Elon Musk hits the brakes on taking Bitcoin for Tesla purchases CEO wakes up to BTC's connection to coal, holds onto the stash until mining becomes more eco friendly
Personal Tech Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’ says famed investor Charlie Munger Berkshire Hathaway’s annual Q&A also smashed Robinhood, tweaked Elon Musk, fawned over Apple
Software The bank of Bitcoin: MicroStrategy's share price rides high on the back of cryptocurrency investment Deposits $1bn+ real world greenbacks into digital dosh, may borrow to buy more
Legal Hey, maybe we should all be cat-faced eco-warriors on our daily video chats IT can be measured to a high degree of accuracy – and what the world needs now is accurate data
Personal Tech Bitcoin surges, exchanges flooded after Tesla says it bought $1.5bn in BTC, hopes to accept it as payment soon Musk continues public love affair with cryptocurrencies
Bootnotes Attack of the cryptidiots: One wants Bitcoin-flush hard drive he threw out in 2013 back, the other lost USB stick password A combined total of $575m deleted... and counting
Science Business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy reveals it’s bought a billion bucks of bitcoin Better capital returns than cash and all allowed under company rules
Security No, the creator of cURL didn't morph into Elon Musk and give away Bitcoins. But his hijacked Twitter page tried to Daniel Stenberg tells The Reg he's baffled by profile hack
Science Bitcoin value jumps as PayPal says it will accept cryptocurrencies... once it has the kinks worked out Online payment goliath wants to encourage global use of virtual dosh
Security This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height
Security Twitter admits 130 A-lister accounts compromised to promote Bitcoin scam after 'social engineering' attack
Science Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty again after cryptocurrency flop broke laws set up to stop him
Security Twitter mass hacking: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Biden, Obama, more hijacked to peddle Bitcoin scam
Security Typosquatting RubyGems laced with Bitcoin-nabbing malware have been downloaded thousands of times
Science It's Terpin time: Bloke who was SIM jacked twice by Bitcoin thieves gets green light to sue telco for millions
Science Talk about making a rod for your own back: Pot dealer's seized €54m Bitcoins up in smoke after keys thrown out with fishing gear
Science Er, hi. Small Q. Where's our billion-ish dollars gone? We summarize Bitcoin exchange's subpoena requests
Security Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home
Security Thanks-thanks to TalkTalk teen hacker: UK cops' first auction of ill-gotten Bitcoin nets £240k
Security Now Uncle Sam would like a word with Brit teen TalkTalk hacker about a huge crypto-coin heist
Science Bloke who claimed he invented Bitcoin must hand over $5bn of e-dosh in court case. He can't. He's waiting for a time traveler to arrive
Science Remember that crypto-exchange boss who mysteriously died after his customers' coins disappeared? Of course he totally stole them
Security Digi-dosh exchange Coinbase: Someone tried to pwn our staff via this week's Firefox zero-day security hole
Security Protip: No, the CIA will not call off a pedophilia probe into your life in exchange for Bitcoin
Science Bitcoin drops 7 per cent on New York Attorney General's allegations of $850m fraud by Bitfinex
Science While this CEO may be stiff, his customers are rather stuffed: Quadriga wallets finally cracked open – nothing inside
Science Crypto exchange in court: It owes $190m to netizens after founder 'dies without telling anyone vault passwords'
OSes AWS has a security hub, OpenSSL has a new license, London has a problem with cryptocoins, and more
Science Dollar for dollar, crafting cryptocurrency sucks up 'more energy' than mining gold, copper, etc
Security C'mon, if you say your device is 'unhackable', you're just asking for it: Bitfi retracts edgy claim
Security When SecureRandom()... isn't: JavaScript fingered for poking cash-spilling holes in Bitcoin wallets
Security T-Mobile US let hackers nick my phone number, drain my crypto-wallets, cries man who lost $20k
Science Why is Bitcoin fscked? Here are three reasons: South Korea, India... and now China clamps down on cryptocurrencies
Science Stop us if you've heard this one before: Tokyo crypto-cash exchange 'hacked' for half a billion bucks
Science Hey, look who's rushing to weigh in on crypto-coins. Hello, United Nations and European Commission!
Science Cyber-coin crackdown continues: Commission charges couple crypto-currency company chiefs concerning 'conned' customers
Security Someone checked and, yup, you can still hijack Gmail, Bitcoin wallets etc via dirty SS7 tricks
