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 watching the courier van come and go, my friends, family and co-workers have even noted to me how down I look.

I had begun to think that Josh and Butterfly labs were running some cruel geek version of the classic Pavlov's dog experiment on me.

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 of the devices at 1.99 BTC each …

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 apologize   Josh assures me "everything is and …

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 telling them …

The hacks continue, less than 24 Hours since the news that Slush's pool had been compromised Bitcoin Central's man page has been changed to one that reads "We have been compromised, please do not send any funds to your wallet."

This is not the first time Bitcoin Central has been …

It seems that hackers have decided to start to target bitcoin related services in earnest as the latest organisation to fall prey is the very popular Slush's bitcoin mining pool that usually resides at https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ .

Slush's pool is the oldest mining pool and it started with a …

The day has arrived,  the Butterfly Labs forum Latest Update reads "Jalapeños are making their way to their new homes. http://ow.ly/i/1WUo4".

They have even provided us with a photo of a few of the ASIC bitcoin miners sitting on a trolley presumably waiting to be picked …

Dave at the excellent bitcoin blog codinginmysleep.com has just received a developer version of the Butterfly Labs 5 GH/s miner and has done a very complete boxing video.

Enough from me, Dave's video is here;-

Go check out what Dave has to say on his blog, it sounds …

An announcement on BitcoinTalk by Ozcoin mining pool operator Graeme Tee says that they will be temporarily suspended while he works out a payment issue.

According to Graeme the problem originated when he made a mistake with calculating the PPS payout (Pay Per Share) for the pool.  Apparently the last …