Correction: Josh from Butterfly Labs has emailed me, there was no intrusion of any sort. They were testing some of their systems and adding new features.
While it did appear to be nefarious it seems that I jumped the gun, for that I apologize Josh assures me "everything is and …
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at least that is what the mail says and since developers and reviewers
have already been receiving 5 GH/s units it looks like we can believe it
this time.
Hopeful miners have been reporting that they have been receiving email from Butterfly Labs asking them to telling them …
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The
hacks continue, less than 24 Hours since the news that Slush's
pool
had been compromised Bitcoin
Central's man page has been changed
to one that reads "We have been compromised, please do not send any
funds to your wallet."
This is not the first time Bitcoin Central has been …
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It
seems that hackers have decided to start to target bitcoin related
services in earnest as the latest organisation to fall prey is the very
popular Slush's bitcoin mining pool that usually resides
at https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ .
Slush's pool is the oldest mining pool and it started with a …
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day has arrived, the Butterfly Labs forum Latest Update reads
"Jalapeños are making their way to their new homes.
http://ow.ly/i/1WUo4".
They have even provided us with a photo of a few of the ASIC bitcoin miners sitting on a trolley presumably waiting to be picked …
more ...Dave
at the excellent bitcoin blog
codinginmysleep.com has just received a
developer version of the Butterfly Labs 5 GH/s miner and has done a very
complete boxing video.
Enough from me, Dave's video is here;-
Go check out what Dave has to say on his blog, it sounds …
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For
some time ASICMiner
has been promising to sell their ASIC bitcoin mining technology. Some
possible products included the 300 MH/s
USB
mining dongle announced earlier this week.
Finally today, ASICMiner representative Friedcat has opened an auction thread on the bitcoin community site BitcoinTalk for people to enter bids …
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ASICMiners
latest
update
by representative
Friedcat has
created a bit of a stir in the bitcoin community, it seems that they
will be releasing USB ASIC bitcoin miner devices sometime in the future.
Pictured to the right is the "not-yet-assembled" 300 MH/s mock-up that ASICMiner is proposing to start …
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Due
to the large amounts of issues at
MtGox caused
by the recent influx of new traders to bitcoin MtGox has
announced
that they have suspended trading for 12 hours in order to clear the
backlog and let things calm down.
The fill update (quoted below) halted trading at \$124 …
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