LATimes (the story focuses on whether the executive is impermissibly running a side business mining bitcoin in Colorado, but):

[He] secured an economic development deal with Colorado Springs Utilities, a publicly owned electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater services utility, in 2018, to get a reduced rate for electricity.

[He] said he chose to invest in Colorado Springs because he was able to get “a one-of-a-kind building.” He secured a “very low” rate in Colorado Springs for electricity, he said.

In 2018, the general manager of energy supplies at Colorado Springs Utilities was [a man who worked with the DWP executive] at the DWP before [the man] was hired by Colorado Springs Utilities in 2015.

[That man then] rejoined the DWP last year as its chief operating officer, the No. 2 position at the utility.

The Verge:

Grand designed his program so that if and when the glitch worked, his computer would call out: “Hack the planet!” — a nod to the 1995 film Hackers. When the time came to do the hack for real last May, Reich flew to Portland for two days. They spent the first day getting everything set up — they filmed the hack with a professional crew — and the next day, Grand launched his script.

Then they waited. And waited some more. Then they ate pizza and waited some more.

After nearly three and a half hours, the computer finally called out

(27:00)

AP:

With so many alleged pyramid schemes, Cabo Frio came to be known as the “New Egypt.” And as the town’s top dog [he] was dubbed the “Bitcoin Pharaoh.”

Police say [he] began trading in Bitcoin after leaving his job as a waiter in 2014. A one-time evangelical preacher in training, he enlisted clients from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Brazil’s largest neo-Pentecostal group, who earned a referral fee for bringing in fresh recruits and kicking back money to G.A.S., police documents say.

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Rio state police have also linked two attempted killings to [him] and what they called his “extermination team.”

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Prosecutors have identified at least 27,000 G.A.S. victims

Long Island Express:

[He] has been employed by Suffolk County since 2000, and he is currently the assistant manager of information technology operations for the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office.

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Investigators executed search warrants at the County Center on Aug. 19, resulting in the seizure of 46 cryptocurrency mining devices. The devices were found hidden in six rooms throughout the building in various spaces, including underneath removable floorboards, on top of or inside server racks, and inside an unused electrical wall panel.

“One of these rooms housed critically important computer servers, secure data storage systems, and communications equipment for the entire county government, and when investigators entered the room, an alarm was going off that indicated the temperature was too high,” [the District Attorney] said. “Within hours of the devices being shut down, the temperature in the room dropped 20 degrees. 

It is amazing, when Number Go Up, their systems seem to run flawlessly. But when Number Go Down, every cryptocurrency exchange seems to have problems. https://t.co/BW6rptnqw4

— Nicholas Weaver (@ncweaver) September 7, 2021

Brian Krebs:

In 2018, [the plaintiff] was digitally mugged for approximately $1 million worth of bitcoin. After several years of working with investigators, [he] says he’s confident he has located two young men in the United Kingdom responsible for developing a clever piece of digital clipboard-stealing malware that let them siphon his crypto holdings. [He] is now suing each of their parents in a civil case that seeks to extract what their children would not return voluntarily.

MarketWatch:

The hacker behind one of the largest cryptocurrency heists ever started returning the stolen assets Wednesday.

On Tuesday, decentralized-finance platform Poly Network said it had been hacked, with losses estimated around $613 million in various crypto assets, and pleaded with the hacker to contact the company and return the haul.

On Wednesday, the hacker apparently did just that — and at last count had returned about $260 million of cryptocurrencies, tokens and stablecoins from three separate blockchains

CNBC:

A blockchain is a ledger of activities upon which various cryptocurrencies are based. Each digital coin has its own blockchain and they’re different from each other. Poly Network claims to be able to make these various blockchains work with each other.

Poly Network is a decentralized finance platform. DeFi is a broad term encompassing financial applications based on blockchain technology that looks to cut out intermediaries — such as brokerages and exchanges. Hence, it’s dubbed decentralized.

The most cyberpunk thing you'll see this year—#Bitcoin mining machines recycling gas that would otherwise be vented into right the atmosphere. pic.twitter.com/WxOLPCUlir

— Documenting Bitcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) July 25, 2021

PCGamer:

it's been suggested that this release had many of the hallmarks of a "pump and dump" scheme, a colloquial term for getting high-profile buyers to promote and push up up the value of a token ahead of launch before selling as quickly as possible, extracting as much money out of it as possible before its value crashes.

Kotaku:

Faze Clan, a video game group known for its vlogs and streetwear releases, is under hot water over cryptocurrency endorsements that have cost fans money. While a scam has not been outright proven, many are questioning whether or not members of the group capitalized on their fame to put a bad investment in front of millions of young and impressionable followers.

The investigation has been spearheaded by YouTuber SomeOrdinaryGamers in a lengthy video that points out a number of strange coincidences. While the YouTuber starts the investigation with a disclaimer that he is not calling this a straight-up scam, it is clear that what transpired involved a lapse in judgment from multiple Faze Clan members.

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— Matthew Graham (@mattysino) June 24, 2021

TIL about the mountain in Wyoming that likely arrived where it is by traveling 25 miles in half an hour across a nearly-flat plain, possibly by dint of hovercraft pic.twitter.com/wCDhksj7YH

— Rafi (@rafi_dot_net) June 25, 2021

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Engadget:

Cryptocurrency investors in South Africa may have lost nearly $3.6 billion in Bitcoin following the disappearance of two brothers associated with one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. 

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Complicating any recovery attempt is that South Africa’s Finance Sector Conduct Authority can’t launch a formal investigation into the incident because cryptocurrency isn’t legally considered a financial product in the country.

Yahoo:

The incident would make it one of South Africa’s biggest ever incidents related to crypto

Here's a thread about the company's investor presentation. 

Africrypt claimed to have grown from a one man operation to "one of Africa's largest & most successful AI trading companies"

Ever heard of them? Nobody did. That's the start of any great scam. pic.twitter.com/0oP2j1cTwB

— Don Petty Cash (@iamkoshiek) June 23, 2021

Forbes:

"I got hit like everyone else. Crazy part is I got out… [Then] Bam," Cuban tweeted late Wednesday about Iron Titanium's crash. The plunging prices exposed a flaw in the token's design that created an arbitrage opportunity, effectively allowing investors to make unlimited money by buying and selling the token, which drove prices down further.  

Finished another zoetrope. This time I wanted to make a tribute to one of the greatest animators, Hayao Miyazaki. #StudioGhibli #totoro #catbus #stopmotionanimation #vfx pic.twitter.com/viMGhFVsEZ

— marvelous media engine (@EngineMarvelous) May 19, 2021

It's a walk-in camera obscura. A pinhole in the roof creates an inverted image of the tree canopy and projects it onto the interior. pic.twitter.com/opxuvHcaEB

— Adam Morgan (@adamm0rgan) May 20, 2021

My latest Cryptoart poster for the upcoming Satoshi Roundtable is now out. It was a blast doing some retro futurism! https://t.co/3rsyR8nAgb

— Alix Branwyn (@AlixBranwyn) February 7, 2020

Another of my Cryptoart pieces released today! https://t.co/dAYJPMQyvH

— Alix Branwyn (@AlixBranwyn) July 19, 2019

DW:

Turkish news agency HaberTurk said Thodex suspended trading after running a promotional campaign that sold Dogecoins at a rebate but did not allow investors to sell.

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Turkish security officials have released a photo of [Thodex's founder] going through passport control at Istanbul airport on his way to an unspecified location.

Reply All: The Bitcoin Hunter.

Planet Money: Bitcoin Losers.

Prompted by this article:

yo this is incredible https://t.co/dXbOVx7g4B pic.twitter.com/sOFR166jYB

— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) January 12, 2021

The value of the stash from the time it was seized until now has grown roughly from $1 million to $70 million.

Vice on a wallet that had been dormant since 2015:

On Tuesday, whoever is in control of the Bitcoin address "1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx" transferred all its contents—a staggering 69369.16716000 BTC or roughly $964,000,000. At this point, it's impossible to know whether this was a heist or just the long-dormant owner of the wallet moving out their savings to another wallet. 

That wallet has been an object of speculation for cryptocurrency enthusiasts for years, and until the transfer it was one of the most valuable Bitcoin addresses in existence. More recently, several hackers have been trying to break into it, trying to bruteforce the passcode that protects the wallet in an attempt to steal the funds. 

Security incidents have been reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, while a similar intrusion is rumored to have also happened at a high-performance computing center located in Spain.

In early 2017 Clifton Collins, an Irish drug dealer, had a dilemma: where to hide the codes of his illicit €55m (£46m) bitcoin fortune.

His solution was to print them on to an A4 piece of paper and stash it in the aluminium cap of a fishing rod case kept at his rented home in Farnaught, Cornamona, County Galway. It seemed a good idea at the time.

Then three things happened.