After increasing pressure on their own forums Butterfly Labs representative BFL_Josh has announced that they are planning on sending out vouchers to people that have pre-ordered over six months ago.

Under the plan, pre-orders in the first month (June 23rd - July 24th) will receive  a one-off voucher for a 25 …

Friedcat has made his weekly update post on BitcoinTalk  and I must confess, I think they are very close to deploying their ASICMiner ASIC bitcoin mining devices.  While it is still unknown exactly how much hashing power they are about to unleash on the bitcoin network form the second image below, it seems that it will be a lot.

The chatter is a buzz in the bitcion community,  the 210,000th bitcoin block has been mined, there are now 10,499,925 bitcoins and the reward miners receive from solving a block has dropped from 50 to 25 bitcoins.  At precisely 2012-11-28 15:24:55 UTC a miner called …

According to the Bitcoin Clock it is estimated that in less than 12 hours the bitcoin block count will reach 210,000 and mining reward will half from 50 bitcoins to 25 as was discussed in a earlier post.

I say estimated because the rate that blocks are solved, while …