Timothy C. Draper won all of the FBI SilkRoad Bitcoins
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 …
29,658.80112195 Confiscated FBI Coins on the move
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 …
more ...Silk Road 30,000 bitcoin auction causing stirs, what happens when it's 144,341 bitcoin
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 …
more ...BrainWallet.org exploited and bitcoins stolen
It has long been known that JavaScipt's Math Functions are not up to a good enough standard to be used in Cryptography. In particular the random function has many documented flaws easily available with a quick google search.
It appairs that someone has exploited the weaknesses and stolen bitcoins from …
more ...Another Credit Card breach, please use Bitcoin!
It
has only been six months since Target
Customers
had their credit card details sold on rescator[dot]so and today we have
news of another Credit Card breach at P.F.
Chang’s with
users details once again up for sale on the nefarious website.
While it cannot be …
more ...Review: Spondoolies-Tech SP10 Dawson (Part Two)
In
the previous part of this
review
I discussed how I ended up receiving my Spondoolies-Tech SP10
Dawson.
This time around I am going to go a deeper into the Operating System
that runs Spondoolies-Tech miners.
The SP10 Dawson comes with a modified version of the MinePeon user interface that …
more ...Review: Spondoolies-Tech SP10 Dawson (Part One)
MinePeon for BeagleBone Black Alpha
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 …
more ...ButterflyLabs, sweeten the pot for long outstanding orders.
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 …
more ...