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Ripple plan to make its software open source on September 26

Ripple, OpenCoin's decentralised payment system and currency, is to be open sourced at the end of September.

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UNOCS altcoin partnership dismantled following Feathercoin pullout

UNOCS, the partnership designed to take several altcoins mainstream, has been dismantled following the departure of Feathercoin.

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Butterfly Labs COO responds to detractors amid company struggles

CoinDesk spoke to BFL COO Josh Zerlan to talk about the delays, the Monarch ASIC and Bitcoin Forum complaints.

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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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Robocoin bitcoin ATMs to be installed in Canada

Bitcoin ATMs are coming to five Canadian cities in the next three months.

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BitMonet unveils free bitcoin paywall function for publishers

By hooking up with BitPay, BitMonet hopes to revolutionize microtransactions for publishers.

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Bitcoin development team patches its own security patch

Bitcoin's dev team has fixed several security flaws in the client, including two introduced by its last security patch.

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What should we do with stolen bitcoins?

If we can track stolen bitcoins, should we take them out of commission, or stop them being mined?

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Raspberry Pi used in new bitcoin-operated pool table

Games room specialist Liberty Games has created a bitcoin-operated pool table that runs on Raspberry Pi.

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Feathercoin secures its block chain with advanced checkpointing

Feathercoin has announced advanced checkpointing in its block chain to protect against 51% attacks.

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