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Does Google Wallet's slow adoption bode badly for bitcoin?

Google is having issues getting people to actually use Wallet. Will bitcoin face the same issues in becoming a conventional payment method?

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Bitcoin blockchain grows to 8GB

The blockchain, the ledger of all bitcoin transactions, has now reached a portly 8GB in size.

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Green address – the solution to slow Bitcoin transactions?

One of the reasons why Bitcoin has experienced success over other digital currencies is its ability to overcome what is known as the double-spend problem.

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Butterfly Labs ship first Bitforce SC 60 bitcoin miner

Butterfly Labs has shipped its first Bitfofce SC 60 bitcoin miner, as reports a Butterfly Labs forum user

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Exponential leap in Bitcoin hash rates

Bitcoin has just seen its biggest jump in hash rates and accompanying difficulty of cryptogrphic calculations

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Butterfly Labs launches new charity while still behind on shipments

Butterfly Labs announced they have started a charity to help the Bitcoin community, but everybody just wants to know when they will finally get their ASIC.

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Ripple turns on giveaway faucet

Five days after the giveaway began, Ripple is still trickling its XRP currency into the market, a thousand ripples at a time.

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UK firm promises Skype-style Bitcoin exchange

A company is promising to launch a decentralized exchange that's all about the client software, rather than the server. What are regulators going to do now?

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Lamassu Bitcoin machine aims for 'cash to bitcoins'

Lamassu's Bitcoin Machine isn't exactly a Bitcoin ATM -- instead, it's designed to enable one-way exchanges only: cash to bitcoins.

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Bitcoin's biggest impact may not be financial

For all the fuss about Bitcoin, its most important impact might have nothing to do with money at all.

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