Wired gets strung up here regularly for sensationalization.

While evidential, neither of your sources can be considered _factual_. In fact, the first four references of your wikipedia article all point to... that article in Wired, which doesn't attribute its sources at all.

So you've got one possible source- not the definition of a public story.

Mind you, I have no stake in this matter. I don't care for Magic or Bitcoins. I'm just here as a philosopher.