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The Department of Homeland Security has apparently shut down a key mobile payments account associated with Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange. Chris Coyne, the co-founder of online dating service OKCupid, tweeted out an e-mail he received from Dwolla this afternoon. The e-mail stat...
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating Mt. Gox , the largest Bitcoin exchange, for violating laws on US money exchange and money transfers—and it's grabbing the exchange's money in the process. DHS officials refused to comment on the ongoing investigation, but they did p...
It might have passed you by, but an essential part of the Internet's infrastructure took a heavy knock last week. The Silk Road—you know, the website where you can buy any drug imaginable "—was subjected to a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Calling the Silk Roa...
Apparently, I'm a Bitcoin miner now, and it looks like I'm actually pretty good at it. Ars is currently in possession of one of the elusive but very real Butterfly Labs Bitcoin Miners . It's a tiny little black box that fits in the palm of my hand, and it contains a specialized ASIC a...
The American financial regulator for derivatives trading has told multiple news outlets that it is considering new rules for Bitcoin. "Here's what I know for sure: we could regulate it if we wanted. That is very clear," Bart Chilton, one of five commissioners at the Commodity Futures ...
More than two weeks after the Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor closed its virtual doors , many customers are still waiting to get their money back. One tally of 78 Bitfloor users on reddit found that Bitfloor owed them $267,000. The number might be much higher once all users are accounted fo...
Competitive video gaming community E-Sports Entertainment Association secretly updated its client software with Bitcoin-mining code that tapped players' computers to mint more than $3,600 worth of the digital currency, one of its top officials said Wednesday. The admission by co-found...
In February, we reported on a major deal between Mt. Gox, the Japanese firm that runs the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, and the American startup CoinLab. Under the terms of the agreement, CoinLab would take charge of Mt. Gox's operations in the United States and Canada. CoinLab pr...
