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Bitcoin Payment Processor BIPS Attacked, Over $1 Million Stolen

Payment processor and free online wallet service BIPS suffered a major attack that saw 1,295 BTC (over $1m) stolen.

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Korean Startup Coinplug Raises $400k, Half in Bitcoin, Half in Fiat

Korean wallet startup Coinplug takes bitcoin for half its $400,000 seed round investment.

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Alpha Technology Announces ASIC Miners for Litecoin are Coming Soon

Alpha Technologies will start developing purpose-built ASIC mining hardware for Litecoin in partnership with Indian manufacturer Dexcel Designs.

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Gaming Company to Pay $1 Million for Secretly Using Customer Computers for Bitcoin Mining

Gaming company reaches $1m settlement with Attorney General after admitting to injecting bitcoin mining code into users' computers.

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Litecoin Spikes to $200 Million Market Capitalization in Five Hours

Litecoin caught the market’s attention earlier this year when it spiked approximately 10,000% in a few weeks.

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Travelers Box Turns Leftover Foreign Currency Into Bitcoin at the Airport

Weary travelers across the world will soon be able to convert their leftover change into bitcoin at the airport.

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Bitcoin Wallet App Developer Hive Purchases Android App Bridgewalker

Hive, a company that developed a stylized bitcoin wallet for Mac OS X, has acquired Android bitcoin app Bridgewalker.

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KnCMiner sells $3 Million of bitcoin mining equipment in just four days

KnCMiner sold a whopping $3m worth of bitcoin mining equipment over the course of just four days last week.

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Is bitcoin broken? Gavin Andresen responds to mining vulnerability paper

Gavin Andresen today formally addressed the recent paper titled 'Majority is not enough: bitcoin mining vulnerable'.

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Hackers steal $1.2 Million of bitcoins from Inputs.io, a supposedly secure wallet service

Approximately $1.2m worth of bitcoin have been stolen from a wallet service intended to be high-security.

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