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John McAfee, the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Who Died in a Spanish Jail
John McAfee
made a fortune estimated at more than $100 million from antivirus software for computers in the early 1990s and…
China Orders Ant Group, State Banks to Root Out Cryptocurrency-Related Activities
China’s central bank ordered the country’s largest banks and payment processors to take a more active role in curbing cryptocurrency trading and related…
Why Crime Could Kill Crypto
The strongest argument against cryptocurrencies used to be that they had yet to show they were much good for anything. Now the strongest argument against…
Bitcoin on the Balance Sheet Is an Accounting Headache for Tesla, Others
Elon Musk’s
curious
Twitter
war with bitcoin is expected to hit
Tesla…
How the FBI Got Colonial Pipeline’s Ransom Money Back
After Colonial Pipeline Co. on May 8 paid roughly $4.4 million in cryptocurrency to hackers holding its computer systems hostage, the Federal Bureau of…
El Salvador Becomes First Country to Approve Bitcoin as Legal Tender
El Salvador passed a new law on Wednesday that would make the small Central American country the world’s first to deem bitcoin legal tender, a move…
WSJ News Exclusive | JBS Paid $11 Million to Resolve Ransomware Attack
JBS USA Holdings Inc. paid an $11 million ransom to cybercriminals who last week temporarily knocked out plants that process roughly…
Colonial Pipeline Chief to Testify in Senate Panel on Ransomware Hack
WASHINGTON—The chief executive of the pipeline company hit in a multimillion-dollar ransomware attack last month is expected to…
MicroStrategy to Sell New Bitcoin Bond
MicroStrategy Inc.
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is borrowing $400 million in junk bonds to buy more bitcoins, adding to…