Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin
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Intersango Shuts Down USD Trade

This morning, users of the Bitcoin exchange Intersango were greeted with an email from support stating that Intersango would soon be shutting down all USD-denominated trade on the exchange:Intersango’s...

Butterfly Labs Offers Lifetime Warranty, ASIC Competition Surges On

About three months ago, Butterfly Labs was the first to announce a specialized Bitcoin mining device based on a technology with the potential to massively increase the computing power...

Bitcoin Usage for Political Donations Expands to Vermont

About a month ago, New Hampshire State Representative Mark Warden pushed forward the legitimacy of Bitcoin in two very significant ways. First, he was the first major political candidate...

A Recap of Mega-Corporate and Government Attention on Bitcoin This Past Year

Attention on Bitcoin has increased considerably in 2012 based on a number of sources. Although the Google Trends volume, a rough indicator of the number of eyeballs looking for...

Annual Bitcoin Conference Takes Place in London

Following the success of the first Bitcoin conference in 2011 in Prague, another conference organized by the Bitcoin Consultancy has just finished in London. This conference was much larger...

Ogrr Merges with MMOExchange, Quintuples Userbase

After months of stagnation, the virtual goods trading forum Ogrr has just announced a move that will dramatically increase the size of its userbase: a merger with MMOExchange.net. Ogrr,...

BitPay Exceeds 1,000 Merchants | An Interview with Tony Gallippi

BitPay first opened its doors in the summer of 2011, seeking to help solve what founder Tony Gallippi believes to be one of the greatest problems preventing consumers and...

Mitt Romney Blackmailed for Bitcoins

An anonymous poster published a messageclaiming to be in possession of all of Mitt and Ann Romney’s tax records for several of the most recent tax years, demanding $1...

Bitfloor Hacked, $250,000 Missing

Bitfloor, the fourth largest exchange dealing in US dollars, has just announcedthat it has been hacked, and the service has taken a loss of 24,000 BTC, worth about $250,000...

BitInstant’s Debit Card – The Final Push to Critical Mass

Recently, BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem announced that his company would be releasing a new product: a Bitcoin prepaid debit card. The product is scheduled to come out in six...

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