New ASICMiner rack pictures

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.

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Dissecting Bitcoin Block 210,000

Bitcoin Logo 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 …

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