TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — For months, Better Call Behnken has investigated criminals using Bitcoin ATMs to trick elderly Floridians out of money. Now, new state legislation aimed at protecting consumers ...

Florida lawmakers recently passed legislation designed to help protect consumers from schemes involving Bitcoin ATMs, and the governor has now signed the bill into law.

Bitcoin was supposed to cut out the middleman. Instead, it's become a middleman's dream for scammers. In 2025 alone, Americans lost more than $330 million to bitcoin ATM scams, according to FBI data, ...

Just inside the front door of a Circle K convenience store, the district manager glared at a small kiosk. Yet another elderly victim had just fed thousands of dollars into the device after being ...

Brian Schwalb, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, recently filed a lawsuit against Athena Bitcoin Inc, a company that operates more than 4,000 Bitcoin ATMs across the country. The lawsuit ...