Bitcoin Stories for 2014

Early Bitcoin Adopters Facing Extortion Threats 106
Bitcoin Exec To Spend Two Years Behind Bars For Silk Road Transactions 69
Will Ripple Eclipse Bitcoin? 144
Microsoft Quietly Starts Accepting Bitcoin As Payment Method 107
MasterCard Rails Against Bitcoin's (Semi-)Anonymity 111
Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous After All 115
Tracking a Bitcoin Thief, Part II: Illustrating the Issue of Trust In Altcoins 46
US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins 119
Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands 77
Court Order: Butterfly Labs Bitcoins To Be Sold 66
Tracking a Bitcoin Thief 64
The Great Robocoin Rip-off 117
Bill Gates: Bitcoin Is 'Better Than Currency' 130
PayPal Integrates Bitcoin Processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin 56
Paypal Jumps Into Bitcoin With Both Feet 134
Satoshi Nakamoto's Email Address Compromised 65
The Apache Software Foundation Now Accepting BitCoin For Donations 67
Hal Finney, PGP and Bitcoin Pioneer, Dies At 58 40
Euro Bank Santander Commissions Study On Bitcoin's Impact On Banking 50
Early Bitcoin User Interviewed By Federal Officers 92
Ross Ulbricht Faces New Drug Charges 102
Are Altcoins Undermining Bitcoin's Credibility? 267
Network Hijacker Steals $83,000 In Bitcoin 101
Inside BitFury's 20 Megawatt Bitcoin Mine 195
US States Edge Toward Cryptocoin Regulation 172
New Digital Currency Bases Value On Reputation 100
Dell Starts Accepting Bitcoin 152
New York State Proposes Sweeping Bitcoin Regulations 121
Finnish National TV Broadcaster Starts Sending Bitcoin Blockchain 73
Judge Shoots Down "Bitcoin Isn't Money" Argument In Silk Road Trial 135
Investor Tim Draper Announces He Won Silk Road Bitcoin Auction 115
Winners of First Seized Silk Road Bitcoin Auction Remain Anonymous 88
California Legalizes Bitcoin 162
Venture-Backed Bitcoin Miner Startup Can't Deliver On Time, Gets Sued 120
US Marshals Accidentally Reveal Potential Bidders For Gov't-Seized Bitcoin 101
Mt. Gox CEO Returns To Twitter, Enrages Burned Investors 281
Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool 281
Expedia To Accept Bitcoin 87
US To Auction 29,656 Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road 232
NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin 220
Man Who Issued Securities For Bitcoins Settles With SEC 56
As Crypto Mining Grows, Data Centers Begin Accepting Bitcoin 94
Sifting Mt. Gox's Logs Reveals Suspicious Trading Patterns 143
AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail 449
BitPay, Toshiba Partnership Brings Bitcoin To 6,000 New Merchants 85
New Cologne Answers the Question: "What Does a Bitcoin Smell Like?" 61
US Government To Study Bitcoin As Possible Terrorist Threat 210
Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks 404
Bloomberg's Trading Terminals Now Providing Bitcoin Pricing 119
MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student 107
DarkMarket, the Decentralized Answer To Silk Road, Is About More Than Just Drugs 251
How Silk Road Bounced Back From Its Multimillion-Dollar Hack 50
Cody Wilson Interview at Reason: Happiness Is a 3D Printed Gun 207
Mt. Gox Ordered Into Liquidation 44
MtGox's "Transaction Malleability" Claim Dismissed By Researchers 92
China Cracks Down On Bitcoin, Cuts Off Exchanges' Bank Access 100
DVRs Used To Attack Synology Disk Stations and Mine Bitcoin 75
Square Market Now Accepts Bitcoin 94
Mt. Gox Questioned By Employees For At Least 2 Years Before Crisis 134
Mt. Gox Working With Japanese Cops; Creditors Want CEO To Testify In US 62
Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins 275
IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency 273
Researchers Find Problems With Rules of Bitcoin 301
Cryptocurrency Exchange Vircurex To Freeze Customer Accounts 357
MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet 227
Bitcoin's Software Gets Security Fixes, New Features 173
Kaspersky: Mt. Gox Data Archive Contains Bitcoin-Stealing Malware 169
Dorian Nakamoto Officially Denies That He Created Bitcoin 102
Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse 263
Singapore To Regulate Virtual Currency Exchanges 51
The Future of Cryptocurrencies 221
US Court Freezes Assets of Mt. Gox CEO 132
Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins 228
The Tangled Tale of Mt. Gox's Missing Millions 191
Satoshi Nakamoto Found? Not So Fast 182
Should Newsweek Have Outed Satoshi Nakamoto's Personal Details? 276
Police Say No Foul Play In Death of Bitcoin Exchange CEO Autumn Radtke 126
Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek 390
Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft 704
MtGox Sets Up Call Center For Worried Bitcoiners 240
MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection 465
WV Senator Calls For Ban On All Unregulated Cryptocurrencies 240
Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? 631
Mt. Gox Shuts Down: Collapse Should Come As No Surprise 232
Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World 695
Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work 156
Amazon Coins and How the Definition of 'Crypto-Currency' Is Getting Too Loose 115
Silk Road 2.0 Pledges To Compensate Users For Stolen Bitcoins 84
More Bitcoin Exchanges Forced Out of Sync After Massive DDoS Attack 135
Surrogate Database Key, Not Bitcoin Protocol Flaw, To Blame For Mt Gox Problems 81
Mac OS X Bitcoin Stealing Trojan Horse Called OSX/CoinThief Discovered 108
On the Practicalities of Counterfeit-Proof Physical Bitcoins 121
Florida Arrests High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers For Money Laundering 149
Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades 249
Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht's Next Court Date Set For November 77
Russia Bans Bitcoin 207
The Bitcoin Death Star: KnC Plans 10 Megawatt Data Center In Sweden 250
Would Linus Torvalds Please Collect His Bitcoin Tips? 231
Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charlie Shrem Arrested On Money Laundering Charge 330
Google Says It Has "No Current Plans Regarding Bitcoin" 157
Marc Andreessen On Why Bitcoin Matters (And A Critique) 332
Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall 209
Porn Will Be Bitcoin's Killer App 216
US Government To Convert Silk Road Bitcoins To USD 408
Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' 351
Bitcoin Payments Go Live At Overstock — Two Quarters Early 182
A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin 396
How To Create Your Own Cryptocurrency 203
Twister: The Fully Decentralized P2P Microblogging Platform 169
There's Kanye West-Themed Crypto-Currency On the Way 237
Congressman Accepts BitCoin For His US Senate Run 165