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At both Linden Lab and his new company Coffee & Power, Philip Rosedale took a radical approach to bonuses: He let employees decide how to give them out.

Digital security firm Symantech has discovered a new type of viral exploit that tries to crack open a user's Bitcoin wallet and steal its contents--the virtual answer to the old-fashioned bank heist. But what's a Bitcoin, and why would anyone want one when there are gold bricks and paper dollars still ripe for a swindle?