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Florida's state authorities announced last Thursday that three men faced criminal charges stemming from their running illegal businesses, in which they moved large amounts of cash in and out of the Bitcoin virtual currency.

An investigative report published by independent news organization Mother Jones said most federal judges are not keen to consider piracy claims based on computer Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which are often used as proof to identify potential thefts.

Peter Johnson and Jonathan Mathew, who had worked as rate submitters at Barclays PLC, and trader Stylianos Contogoulas will be officially charged by Serious Fraud Office of the UK for fraud-related charges in relation to the London interbank offered rate manipulation, a Wall Street Journal report said.