H4cked off: Of Bitcoins and Beenz

clock

Bitcoins won't be the currency of the post-financial apocalypse, as commentators such as Max Keiser have suggested

Crazes always seem so enduring - until the bubble bursts and people claim that they never had anything to do with them in the first place. Today, thankfully, the internet will preserve for all-t...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

You may also like
Google moves point to net zero's growing importance amid AI boom

Green

The tech giant is hiring a person to identify new carbon reduction opportunities

clock 13 March 2024 • 3 min read
SEC's X account hacked in embarrassing security lapse

Hacking

Propagated fake news about bitcoin

clock 10 January 2024 • 2 min read
HM Treasury and Bank of England announce plans for a digital pound

Finance

It would be a new form of sterling which would be used by people and businesses for their routine payments requirements.

clock 09 February 2023 • 3 min read

More on Internet

Microsoft accused of illegally sourcing Google Chrome's data

Microsoft accused of illegally sourcing Google Chrome's data

Edge is playing up, again

Muskan Arora
clock 31 January 2024 • 1 min read
Russia further ramps up internet censorship

Russia further ramps up internet censorship

Federal agency plans to build database of location data

Penny Horwood
clock 19 January 2024 • 2 min read
Mozilla Review Checker to launch in November

Mozilla Review Checker to launch in November

Firefox users will be able to shop on key sites in the knowledge that product reviews have been checked for integrity

Penny Horwood
clock 11 October 2023 • 2 min read