It is in truth a minor milestone but for those who like "large whole numbers" block 310001 has just been mined by Ghash.IO pushing the total amount of bitcoin to 13,000,000.

That means that there only another 8 million to be mined over the next 140 years …

We have been waiting and here it is, the 29,658.80112195 Confiscated FBI Coins held in 1Ez69SnzzmePmZX3WpEzMKTrcBF2gpNQ55 have started their move.

It is not into the eventual 30,000 BTC blocks from the auction yet but I will keep an eye on them and update this post as it …

We did not expect the US Marshals Service to release information about the auction of Silk Road bitcoin last week but in the absence of information speculation both on the markets and on the internet is building.

First Barry Silbert, Founder of SecondMarket and BitcoinTrust has tweeted that they were …

As early as last September there has been talk in the bitcoin community about concerns with BitMarket.eu.  BitMarket was one of the very first exchanges in the European Union and began operating on February 25th, 2011,  just under two years ago.

There have been a few issues with BitMarket …

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 …