PG&E is asking customers to be more vigilant about scams this holiday season as the number of utility customers being targeted is “alarmin…
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I’ll admit I’m long overdue for my Youth Clipper Card — and with only a year of discounts left in me, I had never felt compelled to procure on…
China has been expanding use of digital currencies as it promotes wider use of its yuan, or renminbi, to reflect its status as the world's second-largest economy. It also wants to challenge the dominance of the U.S. dollar in international trade and finance. Restrictions on access to Chinese financial markets and limits on convertibility of the yuan, or "people's money," are big obstacles blocking its global use. Still, Hong Kong already has stablecoin regulations and some Chinese experts are pushing for regulations to prepare for a possible stablecoin pegged to the yuan. Such moves follow President Donald Trump's signing last month of a law regulating stablecoins.
Inside San Francisco's Embarcadero station, Mayor Daniel Lurie, BART general manager Bob Powers, and several other local officials on Tuesday …
PG&E customers in the Bay Area have fallen victim to a growing wave of utility scams, with over $190,000 in losses reported so far this ye…
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Public transit agencies across the Bay Area experienced fare payment malfunctions on Tuesday morning following a regionwide malfunction of the…
California is in the process of passing several bills designed to further its crypto regulation and acceptance within the state. The Golden St…
At least it wasn’t the ‘FBI’: Someone claiming to be the IRS rang a doorbell on Buoy Lane in Redwood City, it was reported 6:10 p.m. Thursday,…
The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves seeking digital assets. The alleged attempted robbery is known as a "wrench attack." It's a name popularized by an online comic that mocked how easily high-tech security can be undone by hitting someone with a wrench until they give up passwords. Wrench attacks are on the rise thanks in part to cryptocurrency's move into mainstream finance, experts say.
