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U.S. third bitcoin auction spurs more demand with 34 bids

March 5, 2015 admin 13-9-million, against-sellers, alibaba, auction, bitcoins-seized, government-had, marshals-service, online, paper-wallet, previous, representative, selling-illegal, six-hour-online

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S.

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Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp suspends service after security breach

January 6, 2015 admin bitcoin, bitcoin-reserve, digital, digital-bitcoin, largest, maison, majority, paper-wallet, paris, picture-taken, posted-on-its, security-breach, slovenia, slovenia-based, small-fraction

LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Bitstamp, one of the largest exchanges for trading the digital bitcoin currency, said it has suspended its service after a security breach on Sunday, resulting in loss of around 19,000 bitcoins. The breach represented a small fraction of its total bitcoin reserve and the majority was held in secure offline systems, the Slovenia-based firm posted on its website on Tuesday.

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Twitter says timeline delivery issue resolved

January 6, 2015 publisher bengaluru, bitcoin-reserve, digital, digital-bitcoin, editing, its-website, largest, late-on-monday, majority, paper-wallet, paris, posted-on-its, security-breach, slovenia, slovenia-based

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said it has fully resolved an issue with a delay in tweets appearing on users' timelines from 1651 PST to 1830 PST on Monday (from 7.51 p.m. ET to 9.30 p.m. ET).

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Texan charged in first bitcoin securities fraud Ponzi case

November 6, 2014 creative attorney-preet, bitcoin, bitcoin-savings, citing-people, francisco-based, his-investors, investors, louisiana, mobile-gaming, paper-wallet, recent-breach, san, texas, words, york

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin-related Ponzi scheme. Trendon Shavers, 32, of McKinney, Texas, was charged with misappropriating about 146,000 of the 764,000 bitcoin, then worth more than $4.5 million, that he raised from September 2011 to September 2012 by promising investors “absurdly high” interest rates, U.S.