Being the author of MinePeon the Linux mining appliance for the Raspberry Pi usually involves late nights debugging strange errors submitted by one of it's thousands of users, compiling software and upgrading packages.  While it is far from a thankless job, every now and then the perks are even better …

Avalon today announced that they are back in the game and will start to release information on their generation 2 chips to open source developers.

It  seems that Avalon will be going ahead with their plans not to make bitcoin mining devices but to focus solely on building the ASIC …

After yesterdays update that KnCMiner where about to start shipping the official KnCMiner thread on BitcoinTalk burst into life with over 500 post by people speculation about when, where or even if we will see a KnCMiner device.

In a news update, posted at 9:04:00 PM September the …

Several bitcoin mining pools are reported to be under attack from an unknown source. The affected pools are under a heavey DDOS(Denial-of-service attack) causing unusually high loads on their pool servers and shares are being lost.

It was first brought to my attention this morning when several of my …

KnCMiner fist announced that they will be entering the Bitcoin ASIC marked back on April  the 9th of this year.

Their first line up of miners was an impressive one at the time, ranging from the Mercury 100 GH/s bitcoin miner up to the Jupiter 400 GH/s miner …

It seems there has been another ASIC manufacturer has failed to deliver.

TerraHash originally entered the market on May 8th of this year with the goal to manufacturer the Klondike Open Source Mining Board coupled with Avalon ASIC processors.

TeraHash today announced on BitcoinTalk that "Some events happened last week …

In their latest news letter KnCMiner has responded to the increasing difficulty and new products being announced by their competitors by dropping the price on their core line of miners.

They have discontinued the Mercury 100 GH/s line of miners all together leaving only the Jupiter 400 GH/s …

It seems that Butterfly Labs have come up with an interesting plan to move clients from one pre-order queue to another.

In their most recent news letter they have announced that if you are still waiting for your Butterfly Labs device as they work through their back orders you now …

Lately the amount of inquirers/requests/suggestions that MinePeon is generating via forums/emails/PMs/IMs has grown to such a level that I have absolutely no hope to keep up with them all (and that annoys me, I feel everyone deserves an answer).

To that end, I have decided …

Update time again!

There are so many changes underneath the hood that the change log is huge (see below for the full details).  You don't need to re image, but if you don't your going to be missing out on quite a few improvements, some of which cannot be distributed …