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Bitcoin Foundation funds DIY bitcoin wallet Coinpunk

The Bitcoin Foundation has awarded its second 2013 grant to Coinpunk, a DIY bitcoin wallet service.

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Litecoin creator Charles Lee has left Google to work at Coinbase

Litecoin's creator Charles Lee has left Google to go and work on Coinbase full time.

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Reviewed: Bitcoin apps for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone

CoinDesk takes a look at the top bitcoin apps that are currently available on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone.

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Bitcoin activists propose hard fork to Bitcoin to keep it anonymous and regulation-free

Two anonymous authors have published what amounts to a manifesto for preserving decentralized control in Bitcoin.

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Inside Butterfly Labs: The ASIC bitcoin mining arms race

CoinDesk visits Butterfly Labs and looks at the factors involved in the bitcoin mining arms race.

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Trezor shield turns Raspberry Pi's into bitcoin wallets

Trezor has announced a Raspberry Pi accessory that will turn it into a Trezor wallet.

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Discount code and Primecoin mining enthusiasm cause cloud server overload

Miners of Primecoin, a new digital currency, caused DigitalOcean, a cloud server provider, to restrict sign ups.

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Inside Butterfly Labs: The challenges of producing bitcoin mining hardware

CoinDesk visits Butterfly Labs and reports on how they've managed customer expectations and why they don't mine themselves.

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Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik on altcoins, ASICs and bitcoin usability

Jeff Garzik, one of Bitcoin's core developers, shares his thoughts on alternative currencies, ASIC miners, and bitcoin usability.

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Instawallet closes claims process and Bitcoin-24 encounters problems in Poland

Instawallet has officially closed its claims process and Bitcoin-24 has some news for its customers.

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