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Banning, Dumping and Attacks on Mining: Could Bitcoin be Hijacked?

Has bitcoin reached a point where its technology infrastructure is safe from attack? Or is it still vulnerable?

By Daniel CawreyJul 13, 2014

In this week's roundup: PeerNova gets new funding while BitFury enters the investment game with a new venture fund.

By Stan HigginsJul 11, 2014

During the second day of CoinSummit in London, miners talked nomenclature while exchange operators discussed banking.

By Joon Ian WongJul 11, 2014

Could there be better uses of cyrptocurrency proof of work rather than just solving arbitrary cryptographic problems?

By Daniel CawreyJul 3, 2014

An indie game developer hopes to marry gaming economies and cryptocurrencies. But he needs dollars first.

Litecoin is experiencing its biggest price slump ever, less than two months after it effectively parted ways with bitcoin.

Industrial bitcoin miner MegaBigPower is seeking to aggressively expand its operations through a new franchise program.

By Stan HigginsJun 30, 2014

At 0.75 BTC, the AntMiner S3 claims to deliver up to 478GH/s while consuming 366W of electricity.

Vault of Satoshi has announced a new cloud mining feature while Alpha Technology and Bitmain have released ASIC updates.

By Stan HigginsJun 27, 2014

Plaintiffs say CoinTerra distorted the technological capacity and energy consumption of its bitcoin mining products.

By Stan HigginsJun 24, 2014