Until Closed Update: A new group buy has opened here. Fantastic news, due to changes of the rules of ASICMiner Group Buy’s we no longer need to reach 300 in order to buy the devices, we only need 50! That means we…
Until Closed Update: A new group buy has opened here. Fantastic news, due to changes of the rules of ASICMiner Group Buy’s we no longer need to reach 300 in order to buy the devices, we only need 50! That means we…
I am pleased to announce that after hundreds of hours of testing by hundreds of testers and goodness knows how many hours of my time MinePeon is out of Alpha and has been released as Beta 1, code named ”Butterfly Bob”. Feel free to…
A new contender in the Bitcoin ASIC mining world has announced their intentions to produce a with what I have to say is the best looking piece of bitcoin hardware I have seen yet. The Cryonic FrostBit™ ticks all of the boxes for people wanting to mine bitcoins in…
With the bitcoin conference going on there has been a renewed bout of interest as to the identity of Satoshi. While I personally have no idea who the inventor of bitcoin is the famed IT Sociolosopher and creator of such terms as ”hypertext” and “hypermedia” Ted Nelson thinks he knows…
It happened, ever since last month when Josh from Butterfly Labs let slip that a developer unit of their new 5 GH/s ASIC bitcoin miner might be on its way to me I have had trouble sleeping. I have spent the days…
About the author: John Vandivier is a graduate student at George Mason with formal credentials in policy, economics and political science. He also dabbles in philosophy and apologetics. His blog discusses all of the above at www.thegenerallifeblog.blogspot.com. In this article bitcoin…
It has been just over two months since the bitcoin block chain was rocked by a near disastrous fork causing the bitcoin price to crash. The culprit of the crash was found to be a bug that prevented pre version 0.7.1 bitcoin clients accepting large blocks that could…
Ever since Friedcat from ASICMiner announced the new 300 MH/s Block Erupter USB devices I have been wondering how I can get my hands on some. The terms of their sale is that you need to buy a minimum of 300…
Correction: Josh from Butterfly Labs has emailed me, there was no intrusion of any sort. They were testing some of their systems and adding new features. While it did appear to be nefarious it seems that I jumped the gun, for that I…
Or at least that is what the mail says and since developers and reviewers have already been receiving 5 GH/s units it looks like we can believe it this time. Hopeful miners have been reporting that they have been receiving email from Butterfly Labs asking them to…