As the rumors of a crackdown by the People’s Bank of China have solidified over the past few days, Bitcoin prices have been hit hard.
This week saw more developments in the Mt. Gox bankruptcy, while major banks and regulators continue to struggle to understand the digital currency.
The latest Bitcoin news for the week of March 2-7.
…most of the Bitcoin community has moved on from Mt. Gox, but the severity of the collapse ensures it will never be forgotten.
With the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange offline… a primary concern of customers who had accounts there is getting back lost bitcoins – can they be retrieved?
Now that the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange has gone dark, rumors are that the digital currency’s future looks dark – but …
The recent data breach at Target is one of the worst breaches of credit card information ever. But if those millions of Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) customers had been using Bitcoin instead of credit cards, the thieves could not have stolen any of their personal data.
The thieves who stole the credit card data from Target customers took the information from Target’s own computer systems. They got credit card numbers, names, and home addresses. In short order, the Target thieves were selling this data to other criminals over the Internet.
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Bitcoin has been in the news a lot lately, but few people – even those talking about it in the media – really have a solid grasp on this groundbreaking digital currency.
