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Cryptominer with palm-sized $179 ASIC hits the jackpot with $206,000 in Bitcoins
By Jowi Morales published
An individual miner successfully mined a complete block using a small, open-source Bitaxe miner with ~500Gh/s hash rate, winning approximately $206,000.

Mt. Gox customers benefit from 3500 percent increase in value, recoup losses despite only 15 percent of coins being returned
By Jowi Morales published
Although only 15% of cryptocurrency has been recovered, the massive increase in bitcoin prices means customers are getting much more than they lost in 2014.

Missing CryptoQueen bounty hiked to $5 million
By Mark Tyson published
Ruja Ignatova disappeared in 2017 and is now on the FBI's ten most-wanted list.

Bitcoin Mt. Gox creditors will soon benefit from $9 billion payback
By Christopher Harper published
Mt. Gox begins paying back users, ten years after it began collapsing in February 2014.

Bitcoin wallet with 20-character password cracked open by researchers
By Dallin Grimm published
Two hackers helped a netizen in need who had lost his Bitcoin wallet password back in 2013. The 10-year wait was thankfully worth his while.

Brothers charged with stealing $25 million in Ethereum in 12 seconds — Cryptocurrency heist exploited transaction validation process
By Jeff Butts published
The pair allegedly used their education in mathematics and computer science to exploit a weakness in the Ethereum blockchain.

Translucent orange Web3 gaming handheld mines and stores tokens while you game, will cost $500
By Christopher Harper published
A dubiously-priced "Web3 gaming" handheld with play-to-earn mechanics appears on the market, using cheap hardware akin to machines less than a fifth of its asking price.

Despite Ban, China-based cryptocurrency investors made $1B in gains during 2023
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
Will this encourage GPU-based mining farms to flourish?
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