Bitcoin Digital Currency

Bitcoin backer gets two years prison for illicit transfers to Silk Road

Charlie Shrem, an outspoken supporter of bitcoins, was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for indirectly helping to send $1 million in the digital currency to the Internet black-market bazaar Silk Road.

Hackers compromise Bitcoin site, make off with over $1 million in digital currency

It may no longer be safe to store Bitcoin, the digital currency that we have been hearing a lot about, on the Internet...