Bitcoin bursts: Hacker currency gets wild ride

Bitcoin bursts: Hacker currency gets wild ride

In this April 3, 2013 photo, Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token at his shop in Sandy, Utah. Caldwell mints physical versions of bitcoins, cranking out homemade tokens with codes protected by tamper-proof holographic seals, a retro-futuristic kind of prepaid cash. With up to 70,000 transactions each day over the past month, bitcoins have been propelled from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use, a remarkable breakthrough for a currency which made its online debut only four years ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

LONDON (AP) — The Bitcoin cybercurrency — a type of electronic cash beloved by hackers — has come to the …read more

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