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Post fork plan. Upgrade your bitcoind client to 0.8.1 by 15th of May.

 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...

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PrimeAsic client feels he has been scammed.

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...

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Version 1 bitcoin blocks will soon be orphaned.

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...

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Butterfly Labs re-open their Web Order System

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...

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Orphaned blocks from May the 11th to be paid

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...

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Bitcoin BIP 34 Survival Guide

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...

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Avalon ASIC update – Batch Three may be used to mine for Avalon

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...

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Butterfly Labs March 28th Update there are power issues

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...

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Bitcoin makes it into space.

One of the things I like to do is keep the MineForeman’s live overview in Google Analytics’s open so I can get a feeling about what is going on, what stories are popular and where my readers are from....

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Luke-Jr shows off the first Butterly Labs ASIC bitcoin miner

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...

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Avalon Europe site confirmed, its not Avalon ASIC

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. Click...

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Bitcoin-Central and Instawallet Hacked

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...

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Butterfly Labs increases prices and decreases hash rates on the ASIC bitcoin...

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...

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BTC Guild voluntarily limits their hash rate

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...

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Pre Bitcoin Fork warning, Upgrade your bitcoind clients now

In less than a months time the fix put into place to prevent a fork like the one on the 11th of March will no longer be in place and miners will again be able to make large blocks that will be rejected...

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MtGox halts trading

Due to the large amounts of issues at MtGox caused by the recent influx of new traders to bitcoin MtGox has announced that they have suspended trading for 12 hours in order to clear the backlog and let...

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ASICMiner to release USB ASIC bitcoin mining devices

ASICMiners latest update by representative Friedcat has created a bit of a stir in the bitcoin community, it seems that they will be releasing USB ASIC bitcoin miner devices sometime in the future....

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Avalon batch two starts to ship, over 51% of the network hashrate soon to be...

According to their most recent mail out Avalon has started shipping their second batch of 65 GH/s ASIC bitcoin miners to waiting customers that have paid the 75 BTC asking price. The second batch of...

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ASICMiner auctioning 10 of their 10 GH/s “Block Erupter blades”

For some time ASICMiner has been promising to sell their ASIC bitcoin mining technology.  Some possible products included the  300 MH/s USB mining dongle announced earlier this week. Finally today,...

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Ozcoin mining pool payouts suspended

An announcement on BitcoinTalk by Ozcoin mining pool operator Graeme Tee says that they will be temporarily suspended while he works out a payment issue. According to Graeme the problem originated when...

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