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Bitcoin Currency Exchange Hacked

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Though its seems a bit suspect, we won’t comment on the confluence of events that might spell the end of Bitcoin, the open-source, peer-to-peer digital currency. Venture Beat is reporting that Mt. Gox, a popular Bitcoin exchange was hacked, just a little over a week after U.S. senators Charles Schumer and Joe Manchin pressed Attorney General Eric Holder and the DEA to move on the company, amid allegations that the digital currency is being used to support black market drug trade. READ MORE »