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Bitcoin Self-Defense, Part I: Wallet Protection

May 16, 2013 | | 2 Comments
Wallet security has always been a primary concern in the Bitcoin development community. Although no other payment system in existence grants you the same level of freedom and control over your money that Bitcoin doe... Read More ...
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Technical
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Last Forking Warning

May 13, 2013 | | One Comment
It has been just over two months since the bitcoin block chain was rocked by a near disastrous fork causing the bitcoin price to crash. The culprit of the crash was found to be a bug that prevented pre version... Read More ...
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Technical
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btcd: A Full Alternative Bitcoin Implementation, Written In Go

May 9, 2013 | | 2 Comments
Conformal, a company focused on building open-source software for privacy and security, has revealed their latest project: btcd, a full Bitcoin reimplementation in Google’s programming language Go. The impleme... Read More ...
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Technical
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Introducing Carbon Wallet

May 6, 2013 | | 7 Comments
Carbon Wallet, a new service seeking to be the next great innovation in secure online wallets, is launching today. Currently, there are two major types of online wallet: server-side controlled wallets and client-sid... Read More ...
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Technical
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Bitcoin Developers Adding $0.007 Minimum Transaction Output Size

May 6, 2013 | | 3 Comments
Clarifications: 1. This is NOT a change to the Bitcoin protocol, it is a change to default transaction inclusion and propagation rules. If you can get your transaction to a miner willing to bend these rules, you wil... Read More ...
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Politics & Law
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Silk Road Under DDoS Attack

May 1, 2013 |
Update: Silk Road is now back online. The Silk Road, the world’s largest online anonymous market famous for its wide collection of illicit drugs and its use of Tor and Bitcoin to protect its users’ priva... Read More ...
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Technical
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OzCoin Hacked, Stolen Funds Seized and Returned by StrongCoin

April 24, 2013 | | One Comment
OzCoin, one of the larger Bitcoin mining pools, has reported that an unknown attacker managed to hack into their server, defacing their website and database and stealing 923 BTC ($135,000) from their Bitcoin wallet.... Read More ...
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Technical
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Butterfly Labs Ships First Finished ASIC For Review

April 22, 2013 | | 5 Comments
After nearly six months of delays, Butterfly Labs has finally released a copy of what appears to be the final version of one of their long-awaited ASIC mining products. Similarly to how Avalon first shipped a sample... Read More ...
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Technical
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The Bitcoin Crash: An Examination

April 13, 2013 | | 9 Comments
April 10 was perhaps the most eventful day on the Bitcoin markets in nearly two years. The price started the day at roughly $200, briefly spiked up to an all-time high of $266, and then precipitously crashed, droppi... Read More ...
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Technical
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Bitcoin-Mining Malware Spreads Through Skype

April 13, 2013 |
Using botnets to mine bitcoins is nothing new or interesting, but the latest entry in this wide category seems to be spreading quite rapidly through the Skype network. This iteration in the Bitcoin-mining-as-virus t... Read More ...
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