CRYPTOCURRENCY

The Miami-based co-founder of a cryptocurrency company was among five men charged in a $2 million “manipulation scheme,” federal prosecutors said Monday.

MiamiCoin was worthless on Wednesday, but this didn’t stop Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez from going on a national network to defend it again.

Federal agents in Miami arrested the founder of a cryptocurrency exchange Tuesday night, accusing him of running a “vast” money laundering operation, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

Cryptocurrency giant FTX filed for bankruptcy Friday, leaving a number of unanswered questions, including a big one here in South Florida: what will happen to its naming rights deal for Miami’s FTX Arena and the money it was set to pay Miami-Dade County over the next two decades?

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.

As cryptocurrency value took a major plunge this week, with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies losing value, Miami’s own cryptocurrency, MiamiCoin has seen its own declines.

A Florida man who is also the CEO of Mining Capital Coin, a purported cryptocurrency mining and investment platform, is facing charges for allegedly orchestrating a $62 million global investment fraud scheme, federal prosecutors announced on Friday.

Cryptocurrency has officially gone to the dogs.

The City of Miami will be debuting a cryptocurrency this summer to help raise additional funding for local projects.

Bitcoin 2021 has officially kicked off on Friday, June 4, at Mana Wynwood with Twitter and Square co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, Nick Szabo, Michael Saylor, Senator Cynthia Lummis, and professional skateboarder Tony Hawk as headline speakers.

E11even Miami says that when customers pay for tables, drinks, or merchandise at the nightclub, they will have the option of using cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin.