At the same time, even as many remain mystified by how it works, the payment alternative has enjoyed rapidly growing?acceptance?among online businesses and, particularly in recent weeks, surging popularity and value. At the time of ...
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Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing. The Japanese company, which is rated as the largest exchange for bitcoins, was hit by a DDoS ...
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Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing. The Japanese company, which is rated as the largest exchange for bitcoins, was hit by a DDoS ...
Tags: Bitcoin, cryptographic system, DDoS
Bitcoin, which calls itself 'the world's first decentralized digital currency', is either a great way to avoid the debilitating effect of national governments debauching their currencies through quantitive easing and inflation - or it's a ...
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The largest bitcoin exchange in the world will have a presence in the U.S. starting next month, a move intended to make it easier for people in the U.S. and Canada to buy the virtual currency. The exchange, called Mt. Gox, is working with ...
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Mega will accept the virtual currency bitcoin for subscriptions for more storage space on the file-sharing service, cofounder Kim Dotcom announced on Twitter. Mega is the second prominent website in a week to say it will accept payment in ...
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The popular social-news site Reddit said it will now accept bitcoins, following blogging platform WordPress in embracing the four-year-old virtual currency. Reddit, which lets users submit and vote on popular Web content, already uses ...
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Security researchers have identified a botnet controlled by its creators over the Tor anonymity network. It's likely that other botnet operators will adopt this approach, according to the team from vulnerability assessment and penetration ...
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Bitcoin is an almost 4-year old digital crypto-currency that runs via a peer-to-peer network with no central authority. The distributed nature of the currency makes it conducive to the online gaming industry that has for years struggled ...
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A small New York-based company that specializes in exchanging Bitcoins is back online after hackers stole about $250,000 worth of the virtual currency earlier this month. Roman Shtylman, founder of BitFloor, said by phone from London on ...
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Hackers stole about$250,000 from BitFloor,a BitCoin exchange,on Monday and it does not have the money to reimburse account holders,according to the website's founder. BitCoins are an electronic currency that are generated as computers ...
IDG News Service-PricewaterhouseCoopers said Wednesday it has not found evidence of unauthorized data access despite a group's claim that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns were stolen in a late-night office theft. ...
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