ANNAPOLIS — Maryland will have to consider how its current laws interact with the new and occasionally wild frontier of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies, a state commission was told Tuesday. More than 200 cryptocurrency exchanges operate within the United States ...

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Earlier this month, the Nebraska Ethics and Advisory Committee handed down Opinion 17-03 concluding that it was ethical for lawyers to accept bitcoin as payment for legal services. It was the first opinion to address this issue but most certainly ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former undercover drug agent pleaded guilty Wednesday to extortion and other charges after authorities said he used his position to steal more than $700,000 in digital currency, most of it siphoned from an online drug ...

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One of two former U.S. agents charged with pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital money during the investigation of the illegal Silk Road Internet drug emporium reached a plea agreement with prosecutors. Shaun Bridges, who worked for the ...

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For companies delving into an industry where legal regulation is in flux — such as the digital currency known as bitcoin — developing a thriving business while navigating federal and state requirements can be a daunting task. “It’s all kind of in this state of development where the technology is ahead of the law,” said Jeremy Garner, a corporate and tax attorney with Bowie & Jensen LLC in Towson. "Lawmakers are trying to determine, do our existing laws apply, how does this fit within our existing laws and do existing laws adequately cover it?"

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Two former federal agents are accused of using their positions and savvy computer skills to siphon more than $1 million in digital currency from the illegal black market Silk Road website while they and their agencies were operating an undercover investigation of the online drug bazaar.

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The federal government on Thursday announced its first bitcoin securities fraud case, accusing a Texas man of engineering a Ponzi scheme by getting people to turn over their bitcoins in return for promises of high interest rates and the ability to recoup their investment at any time.

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With a quick flash of their smartphone, Fells Point bar-goers will be able to exchange their beer money for bitcoins.

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(AP) One of the world’s largest charities says it will begin accepting donations in the virtual currency bitcoin. United Way Worldwide said Monday that it will accept bitcoin donations for the charity’s innovation fund through the San-Francisco-based wallet service Coinbase. ...

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A former drug vendor on the Silk Road website, Jacob Theodore George IV, 33, of Edgewood, Maryland, on Friday was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to six years in prison. According to his plea agreement, from at least ...

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