Bitcoin

• LONDON, April 2 (Reuters) - Financial traders have a new toy: Bitcoin, a digital currency variously dismissed as a Ponzi scheme or lauded as the greatest invention since the Internet.
(Huffington Post)
• Bank robberies of the future may not reveal the traditional security camera shot of the ski-masked gun holder but rather we will watch them evolve slowly in front of our eyes as the money hops around the globe.
(Forbes)
• There's a lot of talk about dongles recently. Square has always relied on a dongle and now PayPal is sporting a fancy triangle-shaped dongle, nicknamed the 'Blue Dorito'.
(Forbes)
• Virtual currency Bitcoin could be an alternative to mobile phone payment systems in Africa, such as M-Pesa, say experts. Bitcoin transactions occur when a buyer uses software to encrypt a specific number of virtual coins with a code.
(ITWeb)
• Recent months have not been kind to proponents of Bitcoin, the virtual peer-to-peer currency that soared to a value of over $30 last summer on a surge of public interest and media reports. The currency operates over the Internet with no central control.
(MIT Technology Review)
• Security researchers have disabled the latest botnet created with Kelihos malware, stopping a 116,000-bot-strong operation devoted to Bitcoin hacking and other crimes.
(Ars Technica)
• I wrote on Monday about Swedens move toward an ever-more-cashless society: The country is pointing the way -- with other European and North American countries following its lead -- toward ever-more-digital financial transactions.
(Atlantic Online)
• Thing Seven: Bitcoin Of The Realm: The hot new toy/Ponzi scheme/weapon of financial destruction sweeping Wall Street is something called Bitcoin, which is fake online money that some people think will become a new global currency.
(Huffington Post)
• It also had the capability to generate and steal Bitcoins from user wallets. Bitcoin is a virtual currency that is untraceable once lost.
(PC Magazine)