Department of Justice

This marks the first criminal tax evasion prosecution centered solely on bitcoin.

The DOJ has charged the exchange with facilitating more than $700 million in illicit transactions tied to Russia, money laundering and criminal activity.

Justice officials are reportedly deciding whether they have sufficient evidence to bring charges against the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.

The FBI has seized 63.7 bitcoin that are allegedly part of a ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline to hacker group DarkSide.

In an ongoing trend, someone has been sentenced for conducting unlicensed money exchanges through peer-to-peer exchange service LocalBitcoins.

A two-year investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russia has found that an intelligence branch of the Russian government used bitcoin to fund cyberwarfare efforts and traced this bitcoin to a U.K. exchange.

A bitcoin trader has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $800,000 “for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

For the first time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals.

In a nationwide bust, U.S. federal officials have confiscated some 2,000 bitcoin (valued at just over $12 million) from 35 dark web drug lords and arms dealers.

In an effort to create more dialogue between regulators, law enforcement, and digital currency companies and organizations, the U.S. Department of Justice convened...