Two decades ago, Nexon helped invent the concept of digital currencies in videogames. Now the Japanese-Korean online games maker is using some of its cash to buy a different kind of digital currency—bitcoin. In an interview with The Information, Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney said the company has used about $100 million of its more than $5 billion in cash and cash-equivalents to buy 1,717 bitcoins....
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