BTC Guild who has been climbing in hash power ever since ASICMiner unleashed their monster 6,898.84 GH/s ASIC bitcoin mining farm have voluntarily decided to limits their own hash rate hash rate.

After having a very lucky day for the pool that netted 30% more blocks than …

UPDATED: Response from Butterfly labs at the bottom.

After the bad news last week that Butterfly Labs missed their power estimates for the new range of BitForce SC ASIC bitcoin miners and the under performing glance Luke-Jr showed us of an actual device hashing Butterfly Labs has shocked the bitcoin …

As the price for bitcoin soars to new heights it seems that it has gained some unwanted attention.

It seems that the black hat fraternity has decided that the time was right to hack a slew of affiliated sites including Bitcoin-Central, Instawallet and Paytunia bringing all sites offline, permanently in …

If you keep a close eye on bitcoin and bitcoin related sites as I do, you may have noticed that Avalon ASIC seem to have opened a new branch in Europe to sell their bitcoin ASIC mining devices.

Luke-Jr developer of the popular BFGMiner bitcoin mining software has spent a bit of time at Butterfly Labs headquarters working on driver support for their new ASIC bitcoin mining devices and has released photos today on BitcoinTalk showing us photos of what he says is a prototype Butterfly Labs Little …

After what seems like an eternity of silence the latest update from Butterfly Labs is not good.  BFL_Josh reveals in the update that both the power requirements and hashing rate of the new bitcoin ASIC miners are not what they expected, and not in a good way.

It seems that …

[]If you had been wondering what Avalon where up to with their line of ASIC devices you would not be alone.

If you had subscribed to their mailing list though you will find that your have received an update, for those who are not subscribed though the update is below …

This was covered a few days ago, but with the disruption of a hard fork so fresh in our minds I though it pertinent to bring up again.  Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik even though it important enough to post to BitcoinTalk to add to a post made earlier this week …

Gavin Andresen bitcoin lead developer, Bitcoin Foundatation member and person behind the closed Bitcoin Faucst has made a post on BitcoinTalk saying "I decided a good use of Bitcoin Faucet funds would be compensating miners who had blocks that were orphaned in last week's Bit Chain Fork."

This is a …

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 …