Will kidnapping be rampant with cryptocurrency?

The first was being seen by the apartment building's surveillance camera, which helped to confirm he was behind the kidnapping. He also boasted the very next day about being a cryptocurrency player. read more

On Tuesday, cryptocurrency expert Pavel Lerner was snatched by an armed gang wearing ski masks near his office in Ukraine. It was a kidnap-for-ransom scheme, but with a high-tech twist: instead of asking for easily traceable paper money, the kidnappers demanded to be paid $1 million worth of bitcoins. read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday warned that internet-based bitcoin and cryptocurrency ponzi schemes are now running rampant. read more