Even though they may be last to ship in the ASIC race, Butterfly Labs is certainly geared up to start production.

As you may be aware cgminer developer Kanoi is currently on an expenses paid trip to the offices of Butterfly Labs, Kansas City in the United States.  While …

After weeks of waiting another Avalon ASIC bitcoin mining device has been delivered,  now there are a total of three Avalon ASIC Miners units in operation.  The other two are the one delivered to Jeff Garzik and another that was delivered to The Bitcoin Foundation.

This seems to confirm the …

In a similar event that happened at the beginning at the week with a 800 GH/s user at BTC Guild that later turned into the monstrous 3 TH/s user 67717, now known to be ASICMiner.  There is now another user that has joined the ozcoin pool and started …

It has been less than a week since user 67117 started bitcoin mining at BTC Guild at 800 GH/s .  It was no surprise when it was later revealed to be ASICMiner bringing their new ASIC bitcoin miners on-line.

What has come as a bit of a surprise (at least …

3 months ago, around the time that Wordpress added bitcoin support  Reddit CEO Yishan Wong revealed that they are considering Bitcoin as a payment method.  Yishan even started a thread in /r/bitcoin to gauge interest.

Months have passed since then and apart from the redditor built Reddit Bitcoin Bot …

In a post on BitcoinTalk Friedcat has just confirmed what we have all been suspecting and the 800 GH/s that we first saw a few days ago that has subsequently grown to over 2 TH/s is indeed ASCIMiner starting to deploy their bitcoin ASIC mining farm.

It does …

There has been no official confirmation on who it is yet, but if you head over to BTCGuild and check on their Hall Of Fame page you will see a user, called 67117 that is mining at a ground breaking 800 to 900 GH/s (or 800,000,000,000 …

After increasing pressure on their own forums Butterfly Labs representative BFL_Josh has announced that they are planning on sending out vouchers to people that have pre-ordered over six months ago.

Under the plan, pre-orders in the first month (June 23rd - July 24th) will receive  a one-off voucher for a 25 …

The website for BTCFPGAs ASIC offerings (http://bitcoinasic.net/) has been taken down today after weeks of controversy involving strange forum posts, guaranteed shipping dates, claims of hacking, Asian Buyers, Buyers from Iraq and finally claims of fraud from the same Iraqi buyers.

The WhoIs data (contained below) says that …

Friedcat has made his weekly update post on BitcoinTalk  and I must confess, I think they are very close to deploying their ASICMiner ASIC bitcoin mining devices.  While it is still unknown exactly how much hashing power they are about to unleash on the bitcoin network form the second image below, it seems that it will be a lot.