Bitcoin Legal issues and Risk

More than 10 percent of funds raised through "initial coin offerings" are lost or stolen in hacker attacks, according to new research by Ernst & Yo... (2018)

The exchange lost a legal battle and now Bitcoin’s tax problem is coming to a head. (2017)

2017: "With the quickly growing cryptocurrency industry, the IRS is demanding to see the records of thousands of Coinbase users. Cryptocurrency h... (2017)

In many jurisdictions, a buyer of stolen goods does not acquire their legal title. This principle, “nemo dat”, often applies regardless of whether ... (2017)

TechCrunch, 2017: “European Union financial regulator, the ESMA, has become the latest regulatory body to issue a warning about the risks of buyin... (2017)

The Gottfried Lindauer paintings were stolen from an art gallery in New Zealand in April. You can now buy one on the dark web for £500,000. But is ... (2017)

Joseph Grundfest, now a law professor, called funding efforts using virtual currency the most “notorious violation of federal securities laws since... (2017)

Take a look at the channels used to coordinate "pump and dump" schemes, which artificially inflate the price of cryptocurrencies. (2017)

In what should be an interesting beginning to the coming avalanche of ICO failures, the SEC has come down hard on Munchee, a company that built a $... (2017)

This is not good. "A bug in Parity, a popular wallet for the cryptocurrency and decentralized application platform Ethereum, may have resulted i... (2018)

BitConnect said it’s closing the company’s cryptocurrency exchange and lending operation after receiving two cease-and-desist letters from state au... (2018)

Today the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that it has filed a federal civil enforcement action against three virtual currency ope... (2018)

Coincheck, a major cryptocurrency trading exchange in Tokyo, has been hacked into and has lost about 58 billion yen ($534 million) worth of virtual... (2018)