In a continuation of today's earlier news that Satoshi's email account has been compromised it now seems that the perpetrator has used the email account to compromise other Satoshi accounts.

First, Satoshi's P2P Foundationaccount posted a message warning Satoshi that some of his information was being sold on the …

Satoshi Nakamoto, much revered and currently missing inventor of bitcoin seems to have had his email address compromised by an unknown agent.

You may or not remember, Satoshi exclusively used one email address when he was active in the bitcoin community, [email protected]. If you have a look at …

New Zealand bitcoin exchange site bitnz.com has been taken by the administrator leaving the message "bitnz.com under maintenance. Apologies for the inconvenience (contact(at)bitnz.com).".

It seems that last monday at 3am New Zealand time 39 bitcoins were transferred from the exchange by an unknown party.

Bitnz …

It has only been six months since Target Customers had their credit card details sold on rescator[dot]so and today we have news of another Credit Card breach at P.F. Chang’s with users details once again up for sale on the nefarious website.

While it cannot be …

Much to my surprise on my way home yesterday I received a call from NewstalkZB.

One of the producers (sorry, I forgot her name in my nervousness) wanted to ask if I would not mind going on air with Larry Williams on his Drive afternoon show.  Apparently Andrew Taylor, the …

I don't often write about subjects that are not directly related to mining but this morning I will make an exception.

During my morning reading of Slashdot an article caught my eye, it was entitled "Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking" and it linked to an interesting article on …

With 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 …

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.

About 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 …

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 …