Binance floated a similar idea in 2019 after losing 7,000 BTC worth about $40 million in a hack. CEO Changpeng Zhao suggested a coordinated reorg with mining pools to erase the theft, but he quickly ...

Mark Karpelès submitted a pull request to Bitcoin Core that would redirect coins that have remained untouched since 2011 to a recovery address controlled by the MtGox trustee, reigniting the oldest ...

After leaking the entire database of Chivo users in early April, the hacker group CiberInteligenciaSV started releasing the wallet’s code. The saga of El Salvador’s state-operated Bitcoin (BTC) wallet ...

Alabama resident Eric Council Jr. was sentenced to 14 months in prison for his role in the January 2024 hack of the Securities and Exchange Commission's X account. Hackers used the SEC's account to ...

According to a post by CoinMarketCap, the ex-CEO of Mt. Gox, Mark Karpeles, proposed a hard fork for Bitcoin [BTC] on the 27th of February, which died in only 17 hours. The proposal was to redirect 79 ...

Former Mt. Gox CEO proposes a hard fork to unlock 79,956 Bitcoin. The plan sparks debate over protocol rules and creditor repayment.

The FBI has arrested Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old Alabama man, in connection with the January 2024 hack of the Security and Exchange Commission’s X account falsely stating Bitcoin ETFs were ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama man was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account that led the price of bitcoin to spike ...

The FBI arrested an Alabama man Thursday in connection with the January hack of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) account on social platform X that briefly caused the price of bitcoin to ...