BITCOIN

The currency plummeted in value over the weekend, but that might not be a bad thing.

Reddit planning a new cryptocurrency? You bet, after $50 million in fundraising.

PayPal customers can buy digital products with bitcoin through third-party payment processors.

Google said the hack involving nearly 5 million accounts wasn't the company's fault.

Gmail users are warned not to check if they're named in the database, but to change their password.

The global payment service joins a handful of high-profile companies in accepting the controversial digital currency.

U.S. authorities shut down Silk Road last year, though a new version bearing the same name was launched soon thereafter.

FBI and Apple investigators are trying to determine who is responsible for leaking hundreds of nude photos belonging to A-list celebrities.

Charlie Shrem will admit unlicensed money transmission, his lawyer says.

Overstock.com customers shopping from outside the U.S. will be able to pay in bitcoin starting in September.

Bitcoin's price has been in a virtual free fall recently, losing about half the value it had last year. Today it has surged more than 8 percent.

The Treasury report expected this fall will highlight benefits and downsides associated with bitcoin and other digital currencies.

Finding the current bitcoin price and conversion rates can now be done entirely in the Google search engine.

The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust (COIN) would become the first virtual asset-based exchange traded fund.

The crypto-currency is legal to trade in Europe, but operating an unregistered bitcoin exchange is not.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper revealed himself as the sole winner of the nearly 30,000 bitcoins put up for auction by the U.S. Marshals Service.

The U.S. Marshals Service held an auction on Friday for 29,655 bitcoin seized during a raid on Silk Road, an Internet black-market bazaar where authorities say illegal drugs and other goods could be obtained.

Many are praising California's easing of its currency laws, but some fear it could pose a security risk for the tech-focused state.

Friday's auction was the first of its kind -- and one bidder says the bitcoins could go for 20 percent less than market price.

A leaked list, a test run and a sleepless insider. “It’s just one of those big plays that you have to be involved with if you’re a big player,”

Bitcoin interests will get a previously unimaginable marketing opportunity when two college football teams kick off the 'Bitcoin Bowl.'