In pictures: Australia's first Bitcoin ATM pops up in Sydney
Get ready to buy and sell Bitcoin at the mall. ABA Technologies has launched Australia's first Bitcoin ATM machine in Sydney.
Hackers stole bitcoin worth US$41 million from Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, the company has said, the latest in a string of thefts from cryptocurrency exchanges around the world.
The Australian Taxation Office is ingesting bulk records from local cryptocurrency businesses as part of its compliance efforts.
Although Bitcoin may have lost much of its lustre among speculators, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has revealed that in 2018 it and other cryptocurrencies remained popular among scammers.
Although a large number of initial coin offerings (ICOs) have either skirted laws to illegally raise funds or, in some cases, been outright scams, with the right regulatory settings they may offer a range of opportunities for Australian businesses, consumers and investors, according to a new government consultation paper.
Patent applications for blockchain related innovations are booming worldwide and Australia is ‘punching above its weight’ according to a report from the ACS and IP Australia’s Patent Analytics Hub.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency miners have created a dearth of mid-range and high-end GPU cards that are selling for twice as much as suggested retail. The reason: miners are setting up server farms with the cards.
Politics collided with the world of technology this year as stories about U.S. government spying stirred angst both among the country's citizens and foreign governments, and the flawed HeathCare.gov site got American health-care reform off to a rocky start. Meanwhile, the post-PC era put aging tech giants under pressure to reinvent themselves. Here in no particular order are IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 tech stories of the year.
It's not an exaggeration to say that the recent Wikileaks scandal has shaken the Internet to its core. Regardless of where you stand on the debate, various services have simply refused to handle Wikileaks' business -- everything from domain-name providers to payment services -- and this has led to many questioning how robust the Internet actually is.