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mining Archives - Bitcoin Magazine
Kenilworth Exploration: Bitcoin Crowd Investing Meets Real-World mining
June 14, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | One CommentBitcoin-based investment platforms have had a long and colorful history in the past two years. The idea first started with the Global Bitcoin Stock Exchange, launched in April 2011. The exchange picked up quickly, w... Read More ...
Read MoreOzCoin Hacked, Stolen Funds Seized and Returned by StrongCoin
April 24, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | One CommentOzCoin, 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 ...
Read MoreButterfly Labs Ships First Finished ASIC For Review
April 22, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 5 CommentsAfter 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 ...
Read MoreBitcoin-Mining Malware Spreads Through Skype
April 13, 2013 | David PerryUsing 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 ...
Read MoreBitPay Processes $5 Million in March, Eclipses Silk Road
April 2, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 2 CommentsA week ago, BitPay CEO Tony Gallippi announced that his payment processing service had set a new record: a transaction volume of $2 million in the first twenty five days of March. Now, however, Gallippi has revealed... Read More ...
Read MoreBitcoin Developer Confirms Butterfly Labs ASIC
April 1, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 9 CommentsBitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has confirmed that a prototypes Butterfly Labs ASIC is now hashing. The device is still far from full capacity, pushing out only 25 GH/s at a power consumption of 180 watts, but this is... Read More ...
Read MoreASICMiner Starts Hashing
February 14, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 9 CommentsToday, ASICMiner, one of the three major developers of ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit)-based Bitcoin mining hardware, has announced that they have turned on their chips, and are outputting 1.7 TH/s of... Read More ...
Read MoreWorking Avalon ASIC Confirmed, Hashing At 68 GH/s
January 31, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 27 CommentsPhoto taken by Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik has just received the first ASIC mining computer to hit the consumer market, and has confirmed on Bitcoin IRC that the machine functions as expected. Even after Avalon announce... Read More ...
Read MoreASIC Mining Updates: bASIC Hanging On a Thread, Butterfly Delayed to February
January 15, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | One CommentUpdate: rumors of bASIC’s demise have been, at least for now, grossly exaggerated.
Updates on the Bitcoin ASIC mining scene are coming faster and faster as the shipping dates for all three leading contenders a... Read More ...
Read MoreASIC Mining Updates: ASICMiner Deploying, Butterfly At CES
January 8, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 3 CommentsAfter over three months of delays from all major competitors, it seems as though the race to develop the first ASIC-based Bitcoin mining computer is finally drawing to a close. Less than three weeks ago, Avalon ASIC... Read More ...
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