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Bitcoin Core Developers Weigh in on Side Chain Proposal

Would bitcoin benefit from having multiple extra blockchains? Two influential figures think so.

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Bitcoin Core Version 0.9.1 Fixes Heartbleed Vulnerability

Bitcoin Core Version 0.9.1 is out and it has addressed the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability, also known as CVE-2014-0160.

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Gavin Andresen Steps Down as Bitcoin's Lead Developer

Andresen will focus on his Bitcoin Foundation work, leaving the lead developer role to Wladimir van der Laan.

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CrowdCurity 'Capture the Coin' Contest Rewards Bug Finders With Bitcoin

The novel bug-finding scheme rewards security researchers for locating private bitcoin keys hidden within a website.

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Cloud Hashing CEO on Hardware, Network Growth and the Threat of Pools

Emmanuel Abiodun describes his flexible attitude to mining hardware and says big pools are nothing to worry about.

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Professor Susan Athey: 'If People Use It, Bitcoin Has Intrinsic Value'

The economist explains what gives bitcoin value, its worth as an investment and the purity of the protocol.

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Why Goldman Sachs Got it Wrong on Bitcoin

The company says bitcoin is just a promising payments technology. It is that, and much more, says Ariel Deschapell.

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UBS: Banks Could 'Absorb the Benefits' of Bitcoin

In a new report, UBS indicated it sees bitcoin's technology as capable of reducing financial costs while improving security.

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Study: Mt. Gox May Have Lost Just 386 BTC Due to Transaction Malleability

Researchers at ETH Zurich University question whether transaction malleability played an extensive role in Mt. Gox's bitcoin losses.

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Developers Battle Over Bitcoin Block Chain

Third-party service developers want bitcoin's developers to open up the blockchain.

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