South Korea's National Tax Agency added a photo of a hardware wallet in a press release, which also listed its mnemonic seed phrase. This led to an unknown user using the code to recover the wallet and steal over US$4.8 million in crypto seized by the government.

The authorities found out about the theft of 22 BTC from the Gangnam Police Station during the investigation of another case of missing Bitcoin from government custody.

BTC Ponzi scheme yields 20 years in prison for mastermind

A South Korean crypto exchange mistakenly issued 15 times its holdings in Bitcoin during an ill-fated promotional effort, drawing the ire of regulators during a sensitive period for crypto legalization in the country.

Only 0.3% of cryptocurrency exchange transaction clients got rich as a result of a major error.

The central government is closing loopholes that allowed some of its citizens to use cryptocurrencies despite the 2021 ban.

The police have picked up four people suspected of the theft of multiple NFTs amounting to 1.4 million Euros or US$1.65 million. The group was released after interrogation, but their house, cars, data carriers, and cash were seized as part of the investigation.

Jefferies Global Head of Equity Strategy Christopher Wood said that quantum computing could break Bitcoin sooner rather than later, and that the debate between crypto developers and quantum computing will only be a "long-term positive for gold."

2025 saw the largest revenue generated through crypto scams to date with an estimated $17 billion stolen from victims worldwide.

Superheat was at CES 2026 to showcase what it describes as “a water heater that pays for itself.” Instead of a resistive heating element, it warms your H2O with heat generated by a Bitcoin ASIC miner.

The FBI reported that Americans lost $333 million to scams via crypto ATMs, and that the number of victims constantly rose from 2020 to 2025.

The Russian government plans to penalize 'illegal' mining of cryptocurrency to prison terms of up to five years.

On December 18, 2013, a cryptocurrency investor felt compelled to pen a message rallying his fellow shellshocked troops on the Bitcointalk forums. Thus, the 'HODL' strategy was born.

Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis says DPRK has set a record for 2025, with the regime expected to execute more sophisticated attacks in the future.

The presumed pseudonymous Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, disappeared without a trace on this day in 2010.

The largest South Korean crypto platform was hit by a hack just hours after a massive deal to acquire it was announced.

A solo miner running just 6 terahashes per second of computing power has overcome odds of about one‑in‑180 million to mine a full Bitcoin block via the CKpool pool.

The U.S. government is looking into Bitmain to see whether its products pose a risk to its national security.

Bitcoin falls to below $90,000 for the first time in recent months, largely driven by sell-offs by leveraged investors.

A Chinese scammer who duped almost 130,000 investors out of around $5.6 billion was handed a nearly 12-year prison sentence in a London court.