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Bitcoin Prices Plummet on Hacked Exchange

The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly...

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Bitcoin’s Comeback: Should Western Union Be Afraid?

The last time we wrote about Bitcoin, in October, the currency’s future looked grim. A series of security incidents had created an avalanche of bad press, which in turn undermined public confidence in...

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GoDaddy Faces Boycott Over SOPA Support

GoDaddy, the net's largest registrar of domain names, faced a backlash Thursday over its support of a controversial bill expanding the rights of copyright holders to take down domain names. A proposed...

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Feds: We Can Freeze Megaupload Assets Even if Case Dismissed

The feds say that even if they can't criminal prosecute Megaupload the corporation, since its not registered in the United States, they still get to keep all the assets they seized in January when they...

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