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McAfee Report: 'Futile' Mining Botnets Are Going Mainstream

Security firm McAfee has issued its latest quarterly report, which focuses on emerging threats such as cryptocurrency mining botnets.

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Julian Assange: I Told Google's Eric Schmidt to Embrace Bitcoin

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Google chairman and then-CEO Eric Schmidt discussed bitcoin in 2011.

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Bitcoin Foundation Forms Committee to Create Bitcoin Unicode Symbol

The foundation is seeking volunteers for its Standards Committee, which will be tasked with finding bitcoin's Unicode symbol.

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Israeli VC Fund Offers $50k Bounty for Cost-Cutting AppCoin

Venture capital fund Aleph announced the developer bounty for code to reduce transaction costs on its new Karma platform.

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KnCMiner Unveils First 20nm Neptune Chips, Sets Shipping Date

Swedish cryptocurrency mining hardware developer KnCMinuter has received the first batch of its new 20nm ASICs.

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Bit-Wallet Launches Italy's First Home-Grown Bitcoin ATM

A new brand of bitcoin ATM from Italy is tested and ready for shipping worldwide, says manufacturer Bit-Wallet.

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Winklevoss Price Ticker Makes Debut on Bloomberg

The WinkDex will also get a number of new features over the coming weeks, including an API.

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How Block Chain Technology Could Usher in Digital Democracy

Could block chains facilitate Internet-based voting? Despite early promise, there are obstacles ahead.

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Ghash.io: We Will Never Launch a 51% Attack Against Bitcoin

CEX.IO has issued a statement addressing the mining pool's growing size and influence over bitcoin's core infrastructure.

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'Sigsafe' Key Tag Brings Bitcoin Payments to NFC Devices

Designed to balance on-the-go payments with storage, Sigsafe is an electronic key that allows bitcoin transactions between NFC devices.

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