Paedophiles sell child abuse images for bitcoin

Almost 40 websites reported to Internet Watch Foundation for trading child sexual abuse content for cryptocurrency

Paedophiles are using the digital currency bitcoin to buy child sexual abuse images online, according to the Internet Watch Foundation.

In its annual report for 2014, the group, which is tasked with attacking the problem of child abuse images online, said a number of the "most prolific commercial" child sexual abuse websites started accepting the currency as a payment for images last year. It discovered 37 websites selling the images for bitcoins between January and April 2014.