Bitcoin Price Watch: Currency Backtracks by $100

Bitcoin has taken a small tumble since yesterday’s figure of $6,800. At press time, the price has fallen by about $100 and bitcoin sits at just over $6,700. The fall may have occurred for several reasons, one being the recent hack of privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Verge. The attack was noticed by a bitcointalk.org user, who claimed that “several bugs” were used to infiltrate Verge’s code. The hacker than rewarded himself (or herself) with anywhere between $15,000 and $1 million worth of coins. Verge later tried to downplay the attack on Twitter, reporting that the problem had been removed and all was

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