BTCGuild, one of the oldest mining pools that first opened on the 9th of May 2011 issued a statement on their websiteand redditthat the pool will be closing on the 30th of November 2014.

The full statement from the website follows.

It was quite possible we may have never found out who won the US Marshal Service  auction for the 30,000 Bitcoin (just under 20 Million USD at today's rate).  It was quite possible that the next time we saw any movement from the address containing the bitcoin (1a8LDh3qtCdMFAgRXzMrdvB8w1EG4h1Xi) it …

MinePeon users have been asking for this for a while and I am finally glad to announce, MinePeon has been ported!

For now it is just for the BeagleBone Black and while it is very Alpha but it appears very stable. Plans for he x86/64 version are still in …

You, and many others (including me) may be wondering where your ButterFly Lab's Monarch's are.  If you anything like me you paid \$4,680.00 plus shipping six months ago and have yet to see a single hash!

In these six months the price has dropped by more than half …

CoinTerra have been at it again and added a new product to their line up, the "GSX I™ – PCIe Bitcoin Mining Card".

I can already hear people asking, "Wait a sec, where is my TerraMiner that I ordered last August?", but lets not go there for now.  That is a totally different story that appears to have no answer (I am still digging).

It seems that all is not well at CoinTerra.

After last weeks announcement that they were shipping things were looking up for CoinTerra, it seemed that they had managed to squeeze into their revised January 2014 release schedule for their ASIC bitcoin miners.  However, if you go check their site …

After yesterdays news about CoinTerra getting ready to ship it only seems fair to mention, Butterfly Labs are also about to unleash their latest 28nm 600 GH/s Monarch bitcoin miner.

Forum representative BFL_Josh has been keeping a tread open keeping us informed as to the progress of the Monarch …

While only achieving 80% of their performance target, CoinTerra have released photos and a short video of their new ASIC bitcoin miners in action.

They not achieved its full 2 TH/s performance yet they seem confidant that the goal will be achieved saying  “We hope you’ll appreciate that …

After yesterdays news that the bumping process is taking longer that expected BFL_Josh from Butterfly Labs has a few photos of what is meant to be the test wafer now at the ASIC testing plant getting ready to be cut.

The plan is to sacrifice one of the wafers that …

BFL_Josh has posted another update about Butterfly Labs progress.  Unfortunately the update is that they are still waiting on the bumping facility to ship their chips.

Josh seems very aware that this update will be a disappointment to most and admits "Since Friday we have been, in a word, agonizing …