[] With the recent press activity surrounding Bitcoin ASIC miners I thought it time for an article explaining what they were and what might soon to be available.  I say might because as so far as I can tell even the supposed suppliers of these ASIC devices have not seen a …

In a not totally unexpected move Butterfly Labs have pushed back the delivery date of their next generation ASIC bitcoin mining products. In a statement on the Butterfly Labs Forums dated the 10th of December BFL_Josh writes “After talking with our liaison tonight and still having not received a final …

For every person that advocates bitcoin it seem there is at least one person who will tell you that it is a colossal waste of electricity, effort and time as well as being some sort of scam.  If you are one of those people, this article is for you.

There …

In an announcement on BitcoinTalk earlier today Bitcoin-Central revealed that they have partnered with Aqoba and Credit Mutuel to begin operations as Payments Service Provider (or a PSP).  While not quite exactly the same as a bank a PSP falls under all the regulatory restrictions and requirements as a bank …

As the bitcoin Reddit users will tell us, Reddit has taken the plunge into the bitcoin world with its new feature, the bitcointip bot.

After last months post from Reddit CEO Yishan Wong saying that "So - no promises, but we're looking into it.".  The expectation was that if anything was …

One of the predictions that I posted might happen when the mining reward dropped from 50 BTC to 25 is that GPU Miners will get switched off because the price in electricity to run them would far outweigh the bitcoin reward they generate, I proposed that this would lead to …

The chatter is a buzz in the bitcion community,  the 210,000th bitcoin block has been mined, there are now 10,499,925 bitcoins and the reward miners receive from solving a block has dropped from 50 to 25 bitcoins.  At precisely 2012-11-28 15:24:55 UTC a miner called …

Just a quick note, at 15:24:38 28th of November 2012 GMT the 210,000th bitcoin block was mined by laughingbear at  Slush's pool .  From now on the reward will only be 25 bitcoins or less.

As I have mentioned in previous posts the next few days are liable …

According to the Bitcoin Clock it is estimated that in less than 12 hours the bitcoin block count will reach 210,000 and mining reward will half from 50 bitcoins to 25 as was discussed in a earlier post.

I say estimated because the rate that blocks are solved, while …

With the bitcoin Halving Day quickly approaching I received a quite a few emails from people asking where to find market data and a few asking for where to buy some bitcoins.  I am not going to go into the purchase of bitcoins at the moment, perhaps I will go …