[photo1]Joel KhaliliAs cryptocurrencies rise and fall, there's one number that just keeps going up. Whenever somebody loses money to a crypto scam or hack, the Grift Counter on Molly White's blog, Web...
Joel Khalili"I think it's funny--that's it!" says Ace, an investor in meme-based cryptocurrencies from Toronto, Canada. The point of meme coins, he explains, is that there is no point. It's all one bi...
[photo1]By Mike OrcuttThe pitch sounds like an echo from the distant crypto past, when the blockchain was not only going to fight climate change but also cure cancer. Log on to Minecraft clone OPCraft...
Today, the European Union approved a comprehensive set of cryptocurrency regulations seeking to lay the groundwork for how crypto is regulated globally. The rules--which make providers liable if they ...
[photo1]Since 2014, U.S. tax law recognizes cryptocurrencies not as foreign currencies but property, like tulips. On Notice 2014-21, the IRS stated that part of the reason for its decision was that vi...
Kenya is proposing new taxes to tap the growing digital economy in a bid to grow domestic revenues and narrow its fiscal deficit in response to the ongoing cash crunch.The East African country plans t...
[photo1]Andy GreenbergA decade ago, US law enforcement was content to swat down a dark web black market for drugs and send its dealers and buyers scrambling to the next biggest anonymous online bazaar...
[photo1]Joel KhaliliSomething needs to be done about crypto. In 2022, billions of dollars were lost to crypto bankruptcies and hundreds of millions more to hacks. The mess has spilled over into tradit...
[photo1]Yaling JiangBefore Covid-19 shut down Guangzhou, authorities in the province in China's subtropical south were preoccupied with another virus: dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that cause...
[photo1]Joel KhaliliOn March 22, Coinbase, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges, was sent a notice by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warning that the regulator planned to sue, ...
(Image by MazRx via Wikimedia Commons)Like it or not, Elon Musk has a lot of influence. He's the second richest man in the world, is the (bumbling) head of one of the largest public forums in the worl...
[photo1]The last week has brought some bad news for the crypto scene. Several well-known (or infamous) names have been sued and even criminally charged. Despite this, the values of well-known cryptocu...
Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryption tool for MortalKombat, a months-old strain of ransomware targeting predominantly cryptocurrency users.MortalKombat, named after t...
For years, the cryptocurrency economy has been rife with black market sales, theft, ransomware, and money laundering--despite the strange fact that in that economy, practically every trans...
[photo1]* Google doesn't think much of the government's antitrust action. It might want to try a quick Bing search on antitrust law. [Reuters]
* Asking ChatGPT to write a poem about being a law stu...