Butterfly Labs has re-opened a feature that we managed to get a brief (unintentional) preview of last month.  This time they have done it on purpose though.

In a blog post customer support representative BFL_Jody does warn though that "there are still a few orders that we are working on …

Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen has made a post on BitcoinTalk to bring users attention that the threshold of  blocks that are version 2 and comply with BIP 34 is about to be reached and version 1 blocks could soon be considered invalid and orphaned from the chain.

BIP 34 …

Since PrimeAsic first announced that they were in possession of 80 GH/s ready to ship and for sale at € 1,249.00 back on March the 4th the bitcoin community has treated them with a great deal of scepticism.

In the official announcement thread on BitcoinTalk by Jr. Member …

 After last weeks fork the bitcoin development team are taking proactive steps to ensure that the problem will not happen again while still being able to push forward with the 0.8 series of updates and upgrades to the bitcoin system and network and have released their official plan.

What's …

As many of you already know there was a 'hiccup'  in the bitcoin network this week.  It caused a flurry of articles, some good, some panicked and others that were outright alarmist.

To be honest, while I was aware of the issue as it transpired it did not register with …

BFL_Jody the customer service representative from Butterfly Labs has made a blog post asking people who have pre-orders with trade-ins to please start sending their FPGA bitcoin miners back to Butterfly Labs for processing adding "With Josh's return today with chips in hand, I feel comfortable with talking about trade-ins …

BFL_Josh and the team over at Butterfly Labs seem to be hard at work, and while they have not made a update post yet they have posted photos of ASIC chips on their PCB Boards.

BFL_Josh has a short but positive update for us today, the chips are at the packers.

According to the post they should be done sometime today or tomorrow before they are shipped back to Butterfly Labs for final assembly.

While the actual post is very light on any information this …

UPDATE: Please read this article.

AUTHORS NOTE: Please read the comments at the end, as of yet no one in the bitcoin community has been able to verify PrimeAsic's devices.

AUTHORS WARNING: It has now been in excess of a week since the PrimeAsic announcement and despite repeated attempts to …

While details are still somewhat sketchy it seems that another 3 Avalon ASIC bitcoin miners have been delivered.

BitcoinTalk user libertybuck  posted the picture below in the Avalon Update thread showing his three new units being unpacked.  It finally seems that the disruptions caused to shipping by Chinese New Year …