More than $5.6 billion was lost nationally due to cryptocurrency scams last year, a significant increase from 2022 and 2021. According to the FBI, Michiganders lost $79,894,360 in cryptocurrency scams in 2023.

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency that uses cryptography and a decentralized network to enable secure transactions without a central authority like a bank or government.

Residents in Detroit will be able to pay their taxes and other city fees using cryptocurrency next year, officials announced.

More than $5.6 billion was lost nationally due to cryptocurrency scams in 2023, a 45% increase from 2022 and more than double the number reported in 2021.

Cryptocurrency payments helped FBI agents discover that a Grosse Pointe Farms man had 722,000 highly organized child porn files.

A major software change to the cryptocurrency ethereum holds the potential to dramatically reduce its energy consumption and resulting climate effects.

The cryptocurrency company Circle says it will start issuing its first euro-denominated cryptocurrency, a stablecoin known as Euro Coin, later this month.

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Cade McNamara, the starting quarterback on the Michigan football team, has signed an endorsement deal with the cryptocurrency company MORE Management.

A juvenile in Canton Township and six other men have been identified as members of “The Community,” an international group that hacks into people’s cellphones -- often bribing or tricking mobile phone companies -- to steal millions of dollars in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, officials said.

Bitcoin is the most common form of cryptocurrency on the market but there are many others to choose from and different exchanges to trade them.

The Michigan Law Firm, PC based in Birmingham is now accepting cryptocurrency in exchange for legal services, the business announced in a press release issued recently.

GENEVA 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. Switzerland's Zug canton joins its eponymous main city and several Swiss towns in agreeing to take tax payments in cryptocurrency. Taxpayers who want to pay in cryptocurrency would notify tax authorities, who in return would send a digitized QR code that allows for such payments. Other places have explored accepting cryptocurrencies for tax payments. A former treasurer in the U.S. state of Ohio launched OhioCrypto.com in 2018 for business tax payments.

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