Japan's bank mired in Mt Gox bitcoin suit2014-03-17
Mizuho Bank, one of Japan's largest lenders, has became ensnared in a North American legal fallout from Mt Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, which collapsed last month after losing nearly half a billion dollars worth of customers' digital currency.

US judge freezes assets of bitcoin exchange boss2014-03-12
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday temporarily froze the U.S. assets of Mt. Gox chief Mark Karpeles and allowed alleged victims of the shuttered bitcoin exchange to demand evidence of what they claim is a massive fraud.

Alleged Bitcoin millionaire gets $28,000 donations2014-03-10
Bitcoin enthusiasts donated about US$28,000 to Dorian S. Nakamoto, a 64-year-old physicist who denied a report last week by Newsweek magazine that identified him as the digital currency's creator.

Bitcoin creator said found as enthusiasts regret unmasking2014-03-07
The Bitcoin world reacted with a mixture of acceptance and resignation to a Newsweek magazine report that the creator of the digital currency is a 64-year-old Japanese-American man living in the Los Angeles area.

First physical bitcoin store opens in HK2014-03-03
The world's first physical retail store selling the controversial virtual currency bitcoin has opened in Hong Kong.

Porn sites accept Bitcoins on Valentine's Day2014-02-17
The site Iknowthatgirl.com has begun to accept Bitcoins. Now access to the porn site can be paid for in crypto-currency. The site belongs to the Marvin company, the world's largest producer of content for adults.

Bitcoin nothing else but economic bubble: Nobel Laureate2014-01-27
Robert Shiller, 2013 Nobel Prize winner in Economics for the research into market prices and asset bubbles., says that the tremendous jump of the virtual currency was a 100 percent bonified "bubble".

Cumbria becomes 1st public university to accept fees in bitcoin2014-01-23
A university in the UK has become the first public university in the world to allow students to pay their tuition fees with the digital currency bitcoin.

China's largest online marketplace to ban trade of Bitcoin2014-01-09
China's largest online marketplace, Alibaba Group's Taobao, said Wednesday that it would ban the trading of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies from January 14.

Bitcoin price goes beyond $1000 again2014-01-06
The price of one Bitcoin briefly broke back through $1,000 on the Mt. Gox exchange today.

Bitcoin price dive after China warning2013-12-06
China's financial and payment institutions should not accept Bitcoin as legal tender, Chinese authorities said on Thursday, warning of the risks related to the digital currency.

China becomes largest Bitcoin market2013-12-04
Bitcoin has seen another round of price surges worldwide this week, and researchers have said its popularity among Chinese investors may be contributing to the bull market.

Bitcoin fever spreads to Silicon Valley2013-12-03
Bitcoin has been making headlines in recent weeks, as the value of the virtual currency skyrockets beyond US$1000 each. The Bitcoin fever has already spread to Silicon Valley.

Is 'dama investor' trend pure speculation?2013-12-02
Chinese housewives with disposable incomes have been nicknamed "dama investors" (dama means aunts in Chinese) by the investment sector for their boldness and high-stake speculating, such as their frantic buying of gold bullion and jewelry earlier this year amid low gold prices, which scared off Wall Street profiteers.