Bitcoin

Karpeles has denied the charges.

Shaun Bridges belonged to a Baltimore-based federal task force that investigated Silk Road.

The bitcoin network is running out of spare capacity, and two increasingly divided camps disagree about what, if anything, to do.

It may be that there is no viable middle ground between a centrally controlled and an entirely decentralized media platform.

Users can pay any person or merchant who accepts bitcoin without ever holding bitcoin themselves.

Approval would make itBit the first bitcoin company to be regulated as a bank in the United States.

The two agents were part of a task force investigating the Silk Road underground marketplace.

The objective is to allow people to transfer cash or make payments instantaneously using this technology.

The twins believe institutional investors like mutual funds and pension plans will be interested in a bitcoin exchange-traded fund.

Nick Bilton has been working on the book for the past year in partnership with the online publication Epic Magazine.

The move could increase trust in the digital currency among U.S. consumers and perhaps bring more stability to the price of each unit of bitcoin.

The announcement comes as the bitcoin ecosystem faces turbulence amid a year-long slide in the value of the digital currency.

Even camera film lost less in value than bitcoin.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper, who won nearly all of the 30,000 Bitcoins in the United States Marshals Service’s first Bitcoin auction, snags just 2,000 in the second.

Investigators will monitor “misuse of virtual currencies to facilitate criminal activity” at a national and international level.

Plus, who’s still using Ello?

The new investment is expected to total $40 million to $60 million.

Plus, poor Mark Zuckerberg, what happened to Windows 9 and the iOS Autocomplete Song.

Plus, Facebook looks to share the anonymity market, Steve Ballmer ranks his regrets and Google launches camel-cam.

The collective loss to investors was close to $150 million.

The move is not expected to extend to PayPal or eBay, at least for now.

Get ready for September 9.

“What if the Winklevosses just walked in right now?”

Joe Cool looks over the field at Demo Day.

Plus, Yahoo’s search for tech cred, Steve Ballmer’s hardcore retirement and disturbing revelations from a self-driving car survey.

Plus, douchebag commenter curation, neckbeards and that ice-bucket thing.

Plus, a Square meal of Caviar, and Elon Musk worries about Skynet.

The fact that Africa skipped landlines -- and will skip PCs in favor of smartphones -- is a fascinating statement about technological evolution.

Companies that want to sell, buy or store virtual currencies would need to apply for a new type of license called a BitLicense.

Also, funding for school Wi-Fi and buying a beater with bitcoin.

Young car marketplace Beepi starts accepting the virtual currency.

And he’s not keeping it all ...