Crime

White hat hackers targeted Blocksteam's Liquid sidechain, taking over 4,000 bitcoins. They want to keep some of the bitcoins as a reward. Blockstream isn't happy.

The 22-year-old criminal ringleader led one of the biggest bitcoin heists in U.S. history.

France is already the epicenter of wrench attacks, where investors are targeted and forced to hand over their crypto.

Court documents allege that Patrick Steven Yaroch was planning on going abroad with the stolen crypto.

At the Bitcoin 2026 Conference, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel outlined a shift in the U.S. government’s approach to digital assets like Bitcoin.

Americans lost over $11 billion to crypto fraud in 2025, with investment scams driving the majority of losses, according to the FBI.

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned a Russian network for buying stolen government cyber tools with crypto and reselling them, the first action under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act.

Binance France CEO David Prinçay was targeted in a failed home invasion near Paris on Feb. 12. French police arrested three suspects.

The search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie has escalated after TMZ reported receiving an alleged ransom note demanding millions in Bitcoin, complete with a deadline, threats of harm, and a verified wallet address.

Rosa María González, a key figure in the collapse of Argentine crypto firm Generación Zoe, was arrested in Venezuela.