Hackers have stolen bitcoins from digital wallets and hijacked computers to create new bitcoins — the equivalent of minting money.  Last week, hackers attacked Mt. Gox, the most popular Bitcoin exchange, taking the site offline by flooding...

The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler are laying claim to a new title: bitcoin moguls. The Winklevii, as they are known, have amassed since last summer what appears to be one of the single largest portfolios of...

Another day, another Bitcoin-related investment, and further affirmation that VCs are hungry to invest in the ecosystem surrounding the decentralized digital currency. OpenCoin, better known as the developer of open source payment protocol, Ripple, announced that it...

Coinsetter, a New York City-based startup looking to launch a new Forex trading platform for Bitcoin, announced today that it has raised $500,000 in seed capital. The round was led by Tribeca Venture Partners and SecondMarket founder...

There is some debate around whether Bitcoin is a currency or commodity. The issue there is whether people are converting fiat money into Bitcoin in order to profit off its current meteoric rise in value, or whether...

On March 16th, the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who’d been in office for about a month, announced a strategy to solve the country’s banking crisis. This plan met with instantaneous and violent opposition from the country’s citizens....