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Cost of a single Bitcoin exceeds $50,000 for first time

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — The seemingly unstoppable rise of Bitcoin continued with the cost of a single unit of the digital...

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Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, will accept as payment soon

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Tesla says it has invested more than $1 billion in Bitcoin and will accept the digital currency...

GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss region that has billed itself as a hub for high-tech finance said Thursday that it plans to accept cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ether for tax payments starting next year....

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A digital currency company announced the closure of its Montana data center and the initiation of bankruptcy proceedings.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A judge sentenced a Michigan man to one year in prison after he scammed two Montana men out of more than $200,000.

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A cryptocurrency mine in Butte is back in operation after being shut down following the arrest of its majority owner on charges of a $722 million cryptocurrency investment...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. judge has appointed a receiver to oversee a Bitcoin plant in Montana after the majority owner was indicted on federal charges alleging he was running a Ponzi scheme...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A minority owner and the operator of a cryptocurrency server farm in Butte are working to keep the operation open after the majority owner was indicted in a $722 million Ponzi...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A Colorado man facing federal charges for defrauding investors of $722 million in a cryptocurrency investment club has majority ownership in a bitcoin mining operation in...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The mother of a Russian man jailed in Greece pending three extradition requests for alleged bitcoin fraud has appealed for his release, ahead of another legal bid to end his...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague suspended a program Wednesday that allowed the use of cryptocurrency, bitcoin, for business tax payments.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man has agreed to plead guilty to running a $25 million money laundering operation whose clients included darknet drug dealers.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union's police agency says authorities in the Netherlands and Britain have arrested six people suspected of involvement in a cryptocurrency theft worth...

BERLIN (AP) — In a story June 13 about the carbon footprint of bitcoin, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the electricity required for a bitcoin transaction results in hundreds of...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook plans a cryptocurrency-based payment system that it could launch for billions of users worldwide.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's state treasurer says only two tax payments have been made using bitcoin through the recently-launched option to pay taxes using the cryptocurrency.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Silicon Valley company has donated $2 million to the University of Kansas to support research related to cryptocurrency and digital payments, such as Bitcoin.

The university says in a news release that the donation from Ripple will provide $400,000 each year for five years. It will go to the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center at the Kansas School of Engineering.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is now accepting the cryptocurrency, bitcoin, for business tax payments including sales tax.

State Treasurer Josh Mandel's office announced Monday that businesses can sign up for the program through OhioCrypto.com .

Businesses will pay their taxes through a third-party processor called BitPay, which will convert the digital currency into dollars that go into the state's accounts.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's campaign watchdog arm says political donations can't be made with cryptocurrency such as bitcoin.

The Fair Political Practices Commission voted 3-1 Thursday to ban such donations.

The origin of cryptocurrency may be hard to track and raise questions about transparency.

EPHRATA, Wash. (AP) — A utility in central Washington has increased electricity rates for cryptocurrency miners.

The Capital Press reports that Grant County Public Utility District commissioners adopted a new rate for so-called mining operations. Those firms use stacks of computer servers and a lot of electricity to produce Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies that exist electronically.

CHEVY CHASE, Md. (AP) — Men in a wealthy Washington suburb have been receiving letters threatening to expose their dark secrets to their wives.

The problem, The Washington Post reports , is some of these men don't even have wives.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Candidates for political office in North Carolina will not be allowed to accept campaign donation in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

In a July letter, State Board of Elections Executive Director Kim Westbrook Strach told Emmanuel Wilder that cryptocurrencies cannot be valued reliably, and state campaign finance laws are written with monetary limits defined in U.S. dollars.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California woman dubbed the "Bitcoin Maven" for illegally laundering the digital currency has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.

Theresa Tetley was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles.

Prosecutors say the former stockbroker laundered millions of dollars' worth of bitcoins through an unlicensed bitcoin-for-cash service. Authorities say she had customers around the country — including one client who's suspected of selling drugs on the dark web.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — France has joined the United States and Russia in seeking the extradition of a Russian cybercrime suspect who was arrested in northern Greece last summer.

Greek authorities said France wants to put Alexander Vinnik on trial for alleged cybercrime, money laundering, membership in a criminal organization and extortion.