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 …
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Yesterday my story on halving day was picked up by one of my favorite sites of all time
Fortunately my web & data server did not fall prey to the Slashdot Effect (server work is my job, if it did I would not be able to show my face around the office for weeks).
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Built into the design of bitcoin is a mechanism that rewards miners (like us) for solving blocks. Every block solved rewards the miner or pool 50BTC plus any transaction fees included in that block, it serves two functions;-
It seems that Bitcoin is gaining more traction as a payment method. Today WordPress, the leader in blog software and used by a whole host of popular blogs and sites (including this one) announced that Bitcoin will be accepted as a payment method.
I wonder who will be next to …
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For those of you that weren't aware a few months ago a hacker alleged that he had managed to "retrieve" then-presidential candidate Romney's tax returns and unless \$1,000,000 USD worth of bitcoin's were transferred to the bitcoin address 1HeF89wMjC[shortened] he would release them to the press.
He …
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In a recent article on siliconANGLE they point out that in a recent thread Reddit CEO Yishan Wong revealed that they are considering Bitcoin as a payment method.
For those that have not used Reddit it is a "Social News" site that users contribute links to. The links contain anything …
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Today
I hit the publish button and go forward with MineForeman.
I have been mining for bitcoin's for some time now and have been helping out friends and acquaintances to do the same.
With the new ASIC devices about to hit the market quite a few of us have put …
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