Remember LulzSec ? British law enforcement does. They are still looking for a missing sixth leading member of the Anonymous-allied hacking group, whom they say retains over $180,000 worth of bitcoins donated to the group. LulzSec launched a series of hacks in 2011, titled “the 50 Days...
What is the Facebook profile of a suspected kidnapper and rapist like? Pretty boring, actually. On Tuesday night, the New York Times ’ The Lede blog uncovered the social network profile of Ariel Castro , the man suspected of kidnapping three women and keeping them locked up in the bas...
Thanks to an April Fools' joke gone wrong, members of one of the world's most popular competitive gaming sites just spent the past two weeks mining Bitcoin . E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) runs competitions in games like Starcraft 2, Counter-Strike, and League of Legends for a communit...
If you’re looking for an armadillo or a first edition of Romancero Gitano, pumpkin seeds or Chuck Taylors, you can always try BitSpend , a kind of Bitcoin-fueled personal shopper (with decent reviews on r/Bitcoin). Bitcoin merchant services company BitPay has signed up over 4,000 merc...
Bitcoin has experienced no shortage of growing pains lately, but a game changing development could be on the horizon. During an interview with Bloomberg TV Wednesday, PayPal President David Marcus indicated his company's interest in pursuing the experimental, digital currency. "So I’v...
Today the digital currency Bitcoin spiked in value, increasing almost 70 percent in two days. Most analysts credit the ongoing Cyprus banking crisis as forcing the price up. One Bitcoin entrepreneur, however, believes recent actions by the U.S. Department of Treasury has legitimized t...
Bitcoin , the most popular form of self-contained digital currency , has inspired an almost evangelical zeal in its proponents and users. Created in 2009, it's long been favored in the online underground for its disconnection from governments and capitalist financial systems, but it h...
Last month we reported on plans to put ATMs in retail locations that would turn dollars into the digital currency Bitcoin . A new company plans to do the same , but in an interesting place, according to to Jeff Berwick of Dollar Vigilante . The possible failure of Cyprus’s banking sys...
