Bitcoin

  • BusinessAOL

    Bitcoin exchange hacked, $65 million lost

    The exchange for digital currency bitcoin was hacked on Tuesday causing the price to fall and resulting in billions being stolen. Hong Kong based digital currency exchange, Bitfinex, said the hackers were responsible for the loss of $65 million

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  • TechnologyAOL

    Bitcoin doesn't feel like money

    John Lanchester landed on the bestseller lists in 2012 when he published Capital, the story of a London street whose residents receive unsigned postcards marked: "We Want What You Have," and whose lives are all somehow transformed by

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  • BusinessAOL

    'Scrutiny needed' in Bitcoin market

    Companies promoting the crypto-currency Bitcoin have been advised to avoid playing cat and mouse with regulators. As fears subside about the use of digital cash in the black market, money laundering and hacking, a senior official at the Central

  • TechnologyAOL

    Apple may allow Bitcoin payments

    iPhone and iPad maker Apple has changed its app policy so that virtual currencies like Bitcoin could be approved for the first time. Until now, the Cupertino technology giant has rejected or removed any apps that facilitated the movement of

  • BusinessAOL

    Exchange to launch Bitcoin scheme

    A British second-hand exchange is replacing the pound with virtual currency Bitcoin for three days in one of its stores, making it the first retail outlet in the UK to let customers receive the virtual coins for products. CeX, the high street

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    Bitcoin backed for online spending

    More than a third of Britons believe virtual currency Bitcoin is the future of spending, according to a new survey. The research, by an independent price comparison website, found that 34% of those asked viewed it as the future method of paying

  • EntertainmentAOL

    Lily Allen turns down Bitcoin fortune

    Lily Allen has confessed missing out on a fortune by turning down a gig for which she'd have been paid in Bitcoins. She was asked to perform on the Second Life 'virtual world' website in return for payment in the then-fledgeling