MinePeon 0.2.2 release

Download it HERE.

I was not planning a release today but a user has come across a serious bug.  It seems when switching pools on BitcoinTalk user klotzenhotz's miner hang instead of completing the operation and ended up mining for the wrong account (the donation one, I am so embarrassed …

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MinePeon Beta 1 - code name "Butterfly Bob" Released

MinePeonLogoI am pleased to announce that after hundreds of hours of testing by hundreds of testers and goodness knows how many hours of my time MinePeon is out of Alpha and has been released as Beta 1, code named "Butterfly Bob".

Feel free to skip my ramblings and ignore the …

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Does Ted Nelson know who Satoshi Nakamoto is?

BCLogoWith the bitcoin conference going on there has been a renewed bout of interest as to the identity of Satoshi.

While I personally have no idea who the inventor of bitcoin is the famed IT Sociolosopher and creator of such terms as "hypertext" and "hypermedia" Ted Nelson thinks he knows …

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Butterfly Labs Bitcoin ASIC mining device arrives in New Zealand

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It happened, ever since last month when Josh from Butterfly Labs let slip that a developer unit of their new 5 GH/s ASIC bitcoin miner might be on its way to me I have had trouble sleeping.  I have spent the days watching the courier van come and go, my friends, family and co-workers have even noted to me how down I look.

I had begun to think that Josh and Butterfly labs were running some cruel geek version of the classic Pavlov's dog experiment on me.

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Bitcoin Valuation as a Fiat Hedge With Information and Substitution Effects

BCLogoAbout the author: John Vandivier is a graduate student at George Mason with formal credentials in policy, economics and political science. He also dabbles in philosophy and apologetics. His blog discusses all of the above at www.thegenerallifeblog.blogspot.com.*

In this article bitcoin is valued by predicting the approach …

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