Digital Currencies Shape a New Monetary Landscape

Are Bitcoins for real? Just ask UK techie James Howells, who recently tossed out a long forgotten computer hard drive, only to realize – far too late – that the device contained $7.5 million worth of Bitcoins, the digital currency that’s been making headlines as it...

Can Cryptocurrencies Escape Shutdown?

Led by the Bitcoin, digital alternative currencies continue to quietly make inroads into the consumer economy worldwide. But the very qualities that keep these “cryptocurrnecies” circulating may also make them the target of government and corporate efforts to shut...