Bitcoin startups get hotter: BitPay nabs $2M from Founders Fund & others

There's no shortage of money being thrown at digital currency Bitcoin. Now relatively young Bitcoin startup BitPay has announced that it has raised $2 million more in funding

Bad news for Bitcoin: CoinLab sues Mt. Gox for $75M after partnership fails

Back in late February, top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox struck a deal to let Seattle startup CoinLab handle its U.S. operations. But now what looked like it would be a beautiful friendship has turned into an ugly mess.

Hotshot investor Chris Dixon says ‘second wave’ of Bitcoin startups is on the way

Prominent entrepreneur and Andreessen Horowitz investor Chris Dixon is known for being ahead of the curve. The next thing he has his eye on: Bitcoin startups.

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken offline yet again by ‘stronger than usual’ DDoS attack

Leading Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been knocked offline in another coordinated distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack just hours after the exchange re-opened following a huge price decline.

Mt. Gox is the biggest hurdle to Bitcoin’s legitimacy

Interest in the virtual currency Bitcoin has surged in recent months, but Mt. Gox -- the largest exchange -- is (for now) holding back Bitcoin from stability and legitimacy.

Top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox halts trading following massive price decline

Top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which facilitates more than 70 percent of trades, has halted trading for 12 hours following a gigantic decline in Bitcoin prices.

Bitcoin prices collapse over $100 in a matter of hours

Virtual currency Bitcoin has seen a massive rise in prices in the past few week, but today that growth was halted with a precipitous price decline of more than $100.

Don’t understand Bitcoin? This video explains it in less than 4 minutes

If you're new to the virtual currency Bitcoin, you've probably got a lot of questions. This video can answer most of them.

Bitcoin prices plummet following Mt. Gox outage & Instawallet hacking

The price of Bitcoin has been on a tear, with prices surging from $100 a few days ago to $145 earlier today. But an outage of the largest Bitcoin market and an unrelated Bitcoin hacking incident have knocked the price down to $115.

Bitcoin wallet service Instawallet hacked, shuts down ‘indefinitely’

Bitcoins are a hot commodity now, but are your Bitcoins actually safe? The Bitcoin wallet company Instawallet has suspended its service "indefinitely" after being hacked.

Expensify adds Bitcoin support, lets companies reimburse international workers without the PayPal fees

Popular expense report startup Expensify now lets employers reimburse international workers with virtual currency Bitcoin.

Bitcoin prices hit record high after Mt. Gox exchange agrees to move to the U.S.

Virtual currency Bitcoin has hit new highs in value after Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, struck a deal to let startup CoinLab handle its U.S. operations.

Y Combinator-backed Coinbase now selling over $1M Bitcoins per month

Customers of Coinbase, a platform for buying and selling digital currency Bitcoin, have bought or sold more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin in the past 30 days.

A win for Bitcoin legitimacy: WordPress now accepts Bitcoin payments

Blogging platform WordPress will now accept bitcoin as a form of payment, the site announced yesterday.

Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins

Ready for the most outlandish story of your morning? Here we go. Today, a hacker allegedly stole Mitt Romney's tax returns, is demanding $1 million in Bitcoins for silence, and sent a USB drive and letter to the GOP and Democratic party offices in Williamson County, Tennessee as proof.

Camp BX aims to make Bitcoin trading legit

Bitcoins, a web-based virtual currency, are traded pretty fast and loose these days. Camp BX, an online trading site for the Bitcoin currency that launched Tuesday, wants to do things a little bit differently.

Camp BX founder Keyur Mithawala launched …

Bitcoin-stealing trojan spotted in the wild

A trojan horse virus that steals Bitcoins, a digital currency that people can use for transactions online, has been spotted in the wild, according to computer security software firm Symantec.

The trojan, called Infostealer.coinbit, finds a Bitcoin owner’s “digital wallet”, …