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How Bitcoin Mines Were Airlifted From China to the US
After China banned Bitcoin, an exodus of mining computers made their way all over the globe.
How Cryptocurrency Gave Birth to the Ransomware Epidemic
Ransomware gangs are targeting everyone from large and small businesses and government agencies to hospitals and schools.
Meet the Father and Son Team Breaking Into Crypto Wallets
Crypto Asset Recovery is in the business of helping people recover fortunes lost on the blockchain.
Sex Workers Banned from Banks Turn to Crypto
Some say cryptocurrency is a lifeline for sex workers who are discriminated against by banks, while others remain skeptical.
This Father-Son Team Helps People Brute-Force Their Lost Bitcoin Wallet Passwords
Hundreds of people have lost access to their cryptocurrency, and recovering those lost Bitcoins has become a lucrative business.
This ‘Decentralized Finance’ Millionaire Moved to Puerto Rico to Avoid Taxes
Memecoins and DeFi are two of the riskiest, but potentially most profitable, plays in crypto. Now investors are moving to Puerto Rico to skip a hefty tax bill.
Inside a Bitcoin Mine at a Natural Gas Well In Texas
Bitcoin miners are turning gas that would otherwise be flared into the atmosphere into electricity and tapping into Texas' wind boom to make bank.
Unearthing the Bitcoin Tapes
Nine years later, we’re finally publishing footage from one of the first major Bitcoin conferences.
We Filmed at a Bitcoin Conference in 2013. Here's What Those People Are Doing Now
It’s been a wild ride for Bitcoin’s earliest investors—in the first episode of CRYPTOLAND, we publish never-before-seen footage from one of the earliest Bitcoin conferences, and catch up with the people who were there.
Introducing CRYPTOLAND, Motherboard's New Documentary Series About All Things Crypto
With our colleagues at VICE News, we shot all over the world to find out what cryptocurrency is doing to our culture, politics, economies, society, the planet, and physical infrastructure.
Crypto Private Island Posting Through Widespread Backlash
Cryptoland has spent the past few days responding to criticism by posting through it on Twitter and censoring the project's Discord.
Cryptocurrency Investors Try to Turn Private Islands Into Blockchain Utopias
Cryptoland and Satoshi Island believe they'll become paradises where the cryptoeconomy can flourish.