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BitHub Pays Open-Source Developers in Bitcoin

WhisperSystems has announced a service called BitHub as a way to fund open source security systems for mobile devices.

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Telegram Offers $200k in Bitcoin for Cracking its Encrypted Messages

Telegram is offering a $200,000 prize in bitcoin to anyone who manages to beat its encryption protocol.

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Online Thief Steals Amazon Account to Mine Litecoins in the Cloud

An enterprising fraudster who stole an Amazon Web Services account ran up a $3,420 bill mining litecoins.

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BitGo Safe Aims to Secure Bitcoin Wallets With Multi-Signature Transactions

BitGo's bitcoin wallet offers multi-signature transactions, designed to protect bitcoins from being stolen, and private keys from being lost.

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BTC-e: Our Recent Issues Were Caused By a Surge In Users

Recent transaction delays at bitcoin exchange BTC-e were caused by a sudden influx of users, according to its founders.

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Bitcoin Talk Hacked Again, Members Urged to Change Passwords

BitcoinTalk was recently hacked, and the administrators have posted a note regarding the possibility of compromised passwords.

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UK Banking Safeguards: Can They Protect Bitcoin Consumers?

Digital currencies like bitcoin may need safeguards against fraud and guarantees against retail disputes to succeed long-term.

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Crowdcurity brings crowdsourced hacker testing to bitcoin

Crowdcurity wants to reward those who find security holes in bitcoin sites.

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Why bitcoin is as anonymous as you want it to be

CoinDesk examines how anonymous bitcoin is and could be.

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Rogue transaction cripples casual bitcoin software users

A mistake made by a bitcoin wallet developer stopped people restarting their bitcoin client software this week.

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