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...
View ArticlePrimeAsic 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...
View ArticleVersion 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...
View ArticleButterfly 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...
View ArticleOrphaned 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...
View ArticleBitcoin 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...
View ArticleAvalon 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...
View ArticleButterfly 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...
View ArticleBitcoin 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....
View ArticleLuke-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...
View ArticleAvalon 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...
View ArticleBitcoin-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...
View ArticleButterfly 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...
View ArticleBTC 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...
View ArticlePre 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...
View ArticleMtGox 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...
View ArticleASICMiner 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....
View ArticleAvalon 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...
View ArticleASICMiner 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,...
View ArticleOzcoin 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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