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The world’s most powerful computer network is being wasted on Bitcoin.
…and all those loose wires are giving us a headache.
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posted 13 May, 2013
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Popular competitive gaming league ESEA caught sneaking a Bitcoin miner on their clients machines.
Basically this is about as bad if not worse than Sony’s rootkit fiasco years ago. A competitive gaming league which charges its members 7 dollars per month and has 15000 active members snuck a bitcoin miner onto the gaming client which activates 10 minutes after a system goes idle.
Bitcoin goes corporate at this year’s CES
There are thousands and thousands of companies making a showing at this year’s CES, but one surprise appearance is by Bitcoin. The digital currency, once a thing of only hackers and underground internet drug dealers has been trying to go legit lately, and their booth at CES highlights this emergence from the dark web.
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posted 11 January, 2013
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Bitcoin Central approved to operate as a real bank
Even though Wordpress now takes Bitcoins as payment, the rest of the world hasn’t taken Bitcoin seriously as real money. That may begin to change, now that Bitcoin Central, the hub from which all Bitcoin exchanges are transacted, has been approved in France to operate as a real bank.
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posted 08 December, 2012
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WordPress starts accepting Bitcoins as payment
While most of the world sees Bitcoins as Monopoly money, WordPress has made the decision to accept Bitcoins as real, actual payment for its services through WordPress.com.
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posted 18 November, 2012
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Is digital currency the new way to buy drugs?
Cash is great, cash is mostly untraceable, but cash can also be a liability in some situations. These days, it appears more and more drug dealers and more buyers are using digital currency to transact business, either with BitCoin, PayPal or Venmo.
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posted 03 October, 2011
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Bitcoin value plummets as main exchange is hacked
Last week there was news of people getting their Bitcoin wallets hacked and today, the main exchange was compromised, causing the value of a Bitcoin to plummet like a box of lead weights. See that chart up there? That’s the value of someone’s Bitcoin money being reduced to almost zero.
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posted 20 June, 2011
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Major Bitcoin theft and now a Bitcoin trojan. That’s a problem.
A couple weeks ago, we told you about the deep internet site The Silk Road, in which people could buy all sorts of illegal drugs using Bitcoin currency. This in turn prompted US lawmakers to look into how to block or take down Bitcoin, but it could be that Bitcoin could take itself down.
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posted 17 June, 2011
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US Senators want an investigation into Bitcoin. Of course they do.
With the story of the deep web encrypted site The Silk Road hitting such high profile sites as Wired and Gawker last week, you knew it was only a matter of time before the US Senate started looking into things like Bitcoin, the decentralized, nearly untraceable cryptocurrency.
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posted 10 June, 2011
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