A Swedish national wanted by the United States will serve a 15-year prison term after running a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, defrauding over 3,500 victims of more than $16 million, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday.

The Bitcoin fortune left behind by Mircea Popescu after his untimely death could be lost forever if no one has access to his digital assets.

South African brothers are now being hunted down after disappearing with close to $3.6 billion worth of bitcoins after the value rose in April. Both are still at large.

The world's largest meat producer reveals how they paid about $11 million to hackers after their operations were severely hampered by a recent hacking.

California man Scott Berkett reportedly hired a hitman, who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, paying $14,000 in bitcoin and cash to kill a woman he briefly dated. 

As a part of the symbolic gesture of proposing to one’s wife, a man in Indonesia gave his wife 2 Bitcoins worth over $125k.

Despite the recent turmoil facing Bitcoin in the past weeks, the company has opened its Latin American headquarters in Argentina: Bitpay.