Cryptocurrency 226 Stories

Cash rules everything ... but maybe not for much longer. The age of cryptocurrency is upon us. Decentralized digital tokens now underpin money systems that don't need central banks or governments.

A graphic interpretation of a paper $100 bill turning digital.

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We just glimpsed how a “digital dollar” might work, thanks to coronavirus

A proposal for a new kind of government-run payment platform didn’t make it into the US Congress’s coronavirus relief plan. But it won’t be the last we hear of the idea.

by Mike Orcutt
2020-03-26T14:11:00-04:00

North Korean students use computers near portraits of the country's later leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and his son Kim Jong Il at the Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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This is how North Korea uses cutting-edge crypto money laundering to steal millions

Hackers working for Kim Jong-un have become experts at covering their tracks on the Bitcoin blockchain.

by Mike Orcutt
2020-03-05T13:42:59-05:00

Swedish paper currency

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Sweden is now testing its digital version of cash, the e-krona

by Mike Orcutt
2020-02-20T14:28:25-05:00

Michael Bloomberg, during a speaking event, with the stripes of the American flag in the background.

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Michael Bloomberg has taken Andrew Yang’s place as the cryptocurrency candidate

by Mike Orcutt
2020-02-19T11:14:35-05:00

People walking on a busy commercial street at night in Shibuya, Japan.

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Japan should launch a digital yen to counter China’s digital currency, say lawmakers

by Mike Orcutt
2020-02-13T14:01:59-05:00

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks into a microphone during a recent political conference in Pyongyang.

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North Korea appears to have expanded its crypto-mining operation

by Mike Orcutt
2020-02-11T10:17:01-05:00

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A new money-laundering rule is forcing crypto exchanges to scramble

by Mike Orcutt
2020-02-06T13:20:08-05:00

Play money from the board game Monopoly.

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Millions of people fell for crypto-Ponzi schemes in 2019

by Mike Orcutt
2020-01-30T13:31:51-05:00

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects fighter combat readiness of Unit 1017 of the Air and Anti-aircraft Force of the Korean People's Army, in an unknown location in North Korea.

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How the North Korean hackers behind WannaCry got away with a stunning crypto-heist

The so-called Lazarus group has used elaborate phishing schemes and cutting-edge money-laundering tools to steal money for Kim Jong-un’s regime.

by Mike Orcutt
2020-01-24T14:38:00-05:00

A street vendor in Tanzania with signs showing that they accept Vodafone's M-Pesa digital payment system.

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Vodafone is the eighth company to quit Facebook’s digital currency project

by Mike Orcutt
2020-01-22T13:34:32-05:00

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