(Natural News) Russia’s financial regulator has proposed a ban on cryptocurrency-related activities such as trading and mining in the country. To back this proposal, it released a report outlining crypto’s potential use for criminal activity and the high energy requirement of crypto mining. The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) publicized its crypto report on Jan. […]

(Natural News) A San Francisco-based programmer who owns $220 million worth of bitcoins is now unable to access his money because he lost his password. While this doesn’t seem like that big a story, especially with how easy it can be to recover passwords with most services these days, Bitcoin’s decentralized nature complicates things for Stefan […]

(Natural News) In case you missed it, a major Canadian cryptocurrency exchange went belly-up earlier this year after its CEO was reported to have “died,” supposedly taking with him “to the grave” nearly $200 million worth of other people’s crypto assets. QuadrigaCX, as the exchange was once called, had, at one point, been the largest […]

(Natural News) A Canadian cryptocurrency exchange is reportedly filing for bankruptcy following the highly questionable “death” of its CEO and corresponding “loss” of nearly $200 million worth of customers’ crypto assets, once again raising the question: Is there anything legitimate going on in the crypto world that isn’t a total scam? QuadrigaCX, which had been […]

(Natural News) A major cryptocurrency exchange known as BitConnect has shut down its trading platform and reverted to just a storage wallet following recent crackdowns by state authorities for the alleged unauthorized sale of securities. In a recent blog post published to the company’s website, BitConnect also pointed to “bad press,” which it says eroded […]