Business & Tech Shocker: California Leads the Nation in Cryptocurrency Fraud, According to FBI More than 20% of all cryptocurrency fraud happened right here in California last year, and the FBI San Francisco Field Office was kept busy, dealing with a staggering $260 million in crypto scams in 2023 alone.
SF News Woman Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Chico Murder-For-Hire Case Where She Paid in Bitcoin A 2016 murder-for-hire case in Chico has resulted in a five-year prison sentence for the woman who ordered the dirty deed, and moreover, the hired “killer” merely took her money in Bitcoin and did no actual murdering.
SF News John McAfee Back in the News After Arrest In Spain Onetime Bay Area kook turned global kook/accused murderer and tax evader John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and will apparently be extradited to the U.S. soon to face tax evasion charges.
SF News Video: Peek Inside Potrero Hill's Cryptocurrency Commune There's a house full of cryptocurrency gurus in San Francisco, and it's like a modern-day commune from CNBC. A group of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and enthusiasts live inside a three-story home in Potrero Hill
SF News Mission's New Bitcoin ATM Open Until 2 AM, Ensuring Good Late-Night Cryptocurrency Decisions We've all been there: It's late, the bars are closing, and you really want to party through it but your techno-utopian drug dealer only accepts bitcoin. What's a guy/gal to do? Before,
SF News Video: Techie Newlyweds Spend Miserable Honeymoon Living On Bitcoin Alone One pioneering couple who can bravely afford to treat money as a fun little experiment is ready to premier their revolutionary new documentary, Life on Bitcoin, next week at the Internet Archive. Bitcoin,
SF News Two Feds On Silk Road Case Charged With Pocketing So Much Bitcoin Two federal agents may have gone a little native while investigating the Silk Road, USA Today reports. Carl Force of Baltimore, 46, a former special agent at the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Shaun
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Gets Its First Bitcoin ATM At FiDi Cafe Workshop Cafe (180 Montgomery Street) just became the first place in the city to have a BTM or Bitcoin Teller Machine on premises. The machine actually allows owners of bitcoin to convert the
Arts & Entertainment @SFHiddenBitcoin Is @HiddenCash For Nerds Yep. Someone is hiding bitcoin "wallets" around San Francisco now and giving out clues via Twitter, @SFHiddenBitcoin. The fun started on July 1, and so there have been eleven wallets worth about $20
SF News Accused Silk Road Founder Still Trying To Say Bitcoin Isn't Money; Judge Not Having It Remember how accused, still incarcerated Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was trying to argue last December that he should get all his bitcoin back because, since it's not actual money and only exists
SF News Two Bitcoin Banks Close After E-Heists; Bitcoin Exchange CEO Commits Suicide In Singapore Though these three incidents are not necessarily interrelated, there has been some major drama in the bitcoin world this past week. First, Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, recently the largest of the existing
SF News Bitcoin Startup Funded With Winklevoss Money Busted By Feds In Silk Road Sting The ongoing saga of The Silk Road investigation and the trial of its alleged founder Ross Ulbricht gets more interesting as we learn that there's a Winklevoss connection. The much despised twin brothers
SF News 'Starving Student' Uses BART Station QR Code To Panhandle For Bitcoin In what must be some sort of cosmic sign, a cash-strapped entrepreneur has taken to posting QR codes in BART stations requesting Bitcoin in exchange for "good karma." Verge reporter Casey Newton spotted
SF News Massive Online Black Market Silk Road Raided By FBI, Proprietor Arrested In San Francisco Silk Road, a popular online black market for buying drugs and other illicit services, has been shut down by the FBI. The site's proprietor Ross Ulbricht, whose identity remained a mystery until today,
