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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

Increase of hash rate, click image for source.

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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.

Ripple homepage

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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.

Lamassu Bitcoin Machine

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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.

Networked Sphere

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BitVegas: Gambling, Minecraft, pigs and zombies

What happens when Bitcoin meets Minecraft? BitVegas, an online casino for lovers of digital currency who are also fanatical about Minecraft.

BitVegas Minecraft Roulette

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Mycelium promises Bitcoin card with a brain

Bitcoin Card will offer a way to transfer bitcoins without a smartphone or laptop, say the founders of the Mycelium network, which is backing the idea.

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Lamassu, RoboCoin Bitcoin ATMs show their stuff in San Jose #Bitcoin2013

Two machines for changing dollars to bitcoins were on the show floor at the Bitcoin 2013 show in San Jose.

 A Lamassu bitcoin ATM

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Bits of Proof launches 'Red Hat for Bitcoin'

Bits of Proof has launched an enterprise software server for Bitcoin to make it easier for companies to get up and running with their Bitcoin apps.

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