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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
thief

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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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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Technical
tape

Bitcoin’s Security Coming of Age

March 11, 2013 | | 2 Comments
One of the greatest technical challenges in working with Bitcoin has always been finding an effective way to secure it. Although financial security is a serious and complex issue regardless of the underlying financi... Read More ...
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Business
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The Next Year in Bitcoin: What 2013 Has in Store

January 3, 2013 | | 4 Comments
2012 has been an exciting year for Bitcoin. We have seen BitPay grow from near-irrelevance to processing transactions for over 2000 merchants around the world, Coinabul expand its gold-selling business from nothing ... Read More ...
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Technical
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Instant Transaction Fraud: An Explanation

December 17, 2012 | | 3 Comments
A few hours ago, a poster on the Bitcointalk forum announced that he was able to successfully reverse an unconfirmed transaction against the popular Bitcoin gambling site SatoshiDice. The attacker’s strategy w... Read More ...
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Business
bitcoinica

BitFloor and Bitcoinica Refunds Showing Signs of Progress

December 5, 2012 | | 3 Comments
BitFloor and Bitcoinica Refunds Showing Signs of Progress The Bitcoin exchange platforms BitFloor and Bitcoinica, the two largest institutional victims of digital theft in Bitcoin history, have finally shown their f... Read More ...
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Bitcoin Review
miTdP

Slush Operator Announces USB Wallet Project

November 8, 2012 | | 6 Comments
Marek Palatinus, commonly known under his forum handle Slush as the operator of mining.bitcoin.cz, the oldest mining pool in the Bitcoin community, has just announced that he, in collaboration with Pavol Rusnák (st... Read More ...
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Business
thief

Bitfloor Hacked, $250,000 Missing

September 4, 2012 | | 7 Comments
Bitfloor, the fourth largest exchange dealing in US dollars, has just announced[1] that it has been hacked, and the service has taken a loss of 24,000 BTC, worth about $250,000 at the time of the theft. As Roman Sht... Read More ...
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Cypherpunk
safe

Use Secure Passwords for your Self-Generated Private Keys

August 11, 2012 | | 2 Comments
One of the lesser known features of Bitcoin is that the private keys, which form the basis for a Bitcoin address, do not need to be generated randomly; instead, one can generate a Bitcoin address, fully compatible w... Read More ...
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