“I am Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin.” Since that pseudonymous figure first released bitcoin’s code on January 9th, 2009, Nakamoto’s ingenious digital currency has grown from a nerd novelty to a kind of economic miracle. As it’s been adopted...

Souvent présenté comme l’eBay de la drogue quand ce n’est pas l’Amazon de la drogue, le site créé il y a deux ans seulement n’était pas un petit point de vente confidentiel. D’après Télérama, "The Silk Road tenait plus de la machine de guerre que du petit...

In the global arms race known as bitcoin mining, there’s success, and then there’s an excess of success. That’s what a company called CEX.io discovered yesterday when it abruptly stopped accepting new machines into its consortium of bitcoin miners. The...