Photo: Ariel Zambelich / Wired Bitcoin took another step toward the mainstream Tuesday with the announcement of at least $350,000 available for Bitcoin-focused startups participating in the next class of Silicon Valley-based accelerator Boost VC . If first generation companies were fo...
We’ve set up own little digital mint in the corner of our office, and you too can share in the magic of Bitcoin mining, thanks to our BitCam. It’s a live feed of the Bitcoin miner that the folks at Butterfly Labs shipped us last week. This small black box, which looks like a beefed-up...
We’ve set up own little digital mint in the corner of our office, and you too can share in the magic of Bitcoin mining, thanks to our BitCam. It’s a live feed of the Bitcoin miner that the folks at Butterfly Labs shipped us last week. This small black box, which looks like a beefed-up...
An Air Force brochure on sexual assault advises potential victims not to fight off their attackers. “It may be advisable to submit [rather] than resist,” reads the brochure (.pdf), issued to airmen at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, where nearly 10,000 military and civilian per...
Photo: Hobbies on a Budget /Flickr While some argue that a truly ubiquitous, digital currency is many years from becoming a reality, behaviorally , we’re already well down money’s evolutionary path: credit cards, direct deposits, e-transfers, micro-donations, mobile payments. And now ...
I don’t know whether Bitcoin can fix its most severe engineering error, however: the use of a work function that can be done faster by dedicated hardware. Bitcoin depends on there being too many nodes in the system mining, to control them all. That means leveraging the world supply of...
If you’ve been playing Counter-Strike on the ESEA gaming network, you’ve been doing a lot more than tossing virtual hand grenades and firing virtual machine guns. You’ve been mining Bitcoins for an unnamed staffer inside the company that runs the network. The mining started on April 1...
If you’ve been playing Counter-Strike on the ESEA gaming network, you’ve been doing a lot more than tossing virtual hand grenades and firing virtual machine guns. You’ve been mining Bitcoins for an unnamed staffer inside the company that runs the network. The mining started on April 1...
Bitcoin miners, we understand your envy. Wired has taken possession of a 5-Gigahash per second Bitcoin Miner, built by Butterfly Labs — a.k.a. our very own digital money printing press. Or something like that. We’ve powered up the miner and can confirm that its little red light turns ...
Bitcoin miners, we understand your envy. Wired has taken possession of a 5-Gigahash per second Bitcoin Miner, built by Butterfly Labs — a.k.a. our very own digital money printing press. Or something like that. We’ve powered up the miner and can confirm that its little red light turns ...
Bitcoin miners, we understand your envy. Wired has taken possession of a 5-Gigahash per second Bitcoin Miner, built by Butterfly Labs — a.k.a. our very own digital money printing press. Or something like that. We’ve powered up the miner and can confirm that its little red light turns ...
Avalon Asics CEO Yifu Guo. Photo: Avalon There’s more than one way to make money from the Bitcoin craze, which has seen the value of the digital currency increase more than six-fold over the past few months. You can do it the old-fashioned way: buying low and selling high. But for the...
Avalon Asics CEO Yifu Guo. Photo: Avalon There’s more than one way to make money from the Bitcoin craze, which has seen the value of the digital currency increase more than six-fold over the past few months. You can do it the old-fashioned way: buying low and selling high. But for the...
Avalon Asics CEO Yifu Guo. Photo: Avalon There’s more than one way to make money from the Bitcoin craze, which has seen the value of the digital currency increase more than six-fold over the past few months. You can do it the old-fashioned way: buying low and selling high. But for the...
Let’s say you believe that the price of gold is going to go through the roof (as opposed to where it has been going lately: the basement). To capitalize on that belief, do you run out and invest in mining or smelting equipment companies? Or do you just buy gold? (You buy gold.) But th...
Let’s say you believe that the price of gold is going to go through the roof (as opposed to where it has been going lately: the basement). To capitalize on that belief, do you run out and invest in mining or smelting equipment companies? Or do you just buy gold? (You buy gold.) But th...
Maybe it’s a sign of the Bitcoin bubble. Criminals are trying to take control of PCs and turn them into Bitcoin miners. According to antivirus seller Kaspersky Lab , there’s a new Trojan — spotted just yesterday and spreading via Skype — that takes control of infected machines and for...
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Charlie Shrem’s Bitcoin ring. Photo: Charlie Shrem. Two weeks ago, Charlie Shrem got hacked and robbed, Bitcoin-style. Criminals got into a brokerage account used by his transaction services company, Bitinstant, and emptied more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency. Banks can so...
Charlie Shrem’s Bitcoin ring. Photo: Charlie Shrem. Two weeks ago, Charlie Shrem got hacked and robbed, Bitcoin-style. Criminals got into a brokerage account used by his transaction services company, Bitinstant, and emptied more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency. Banks can so...
Charlie Shrem’s Bitcoin ring. Photo: Charlie Shrem. Two weeks ago, Charlie Shrem got hacked and robbed, Bitcoin-style. Criminals got into a brokerage account used by his transaction services company, Bitinstant, and emptied more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency. Banks can so...
A Bitcoin transaction services company says that hackers broke into one of its brokerage accounts last week, nabbing more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency. That attack knocked Bitinstant offline over the weekend. The company says that while it lost Bitcoins, no customers wer...
A Bitcoin transaction services company says that hackers broke into one of its brokerage accounts last week, nabbing more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency. That attack knocked Bitinstant offline over the weekend. The company says that while it lost Bitcoins, no customers wer...
A Bitcoin transaction services company says that hackers broke into one of its brokerage accounts last week, nabbing more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency. That attack knocked Bitinstant offline over the weekend. The company says that while it lost Bitcoins, no customers wer...
A Bitcoin transaction services company says that hackers broke into one of its brokerage accounts last week, nabbing more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency. That attack knocked Bitinstant offline over the weekend. The company says that while it lost Bitcoins, no customers wer...
A 3-D model of a bitcoin - not an actual bitcoin, which is purely digital. Photo: Trader Tim /Flickr The FBI sees the anonymous Bitcoin payment network as an alarming haven for money laundering and other criminal activity — including as a tool for hackers to rip off fellow Bitcoin use...
Year of the Gadget Startup at CES? 10:16 AM PST posted by Alexandra Chang I just attended a breakfast with Indiegogo and a few companies with campaigns on the crowdfunding site. Indiegogo CEO and co-founder Slava Rubin suggested that CES 2013 is the year of the little guy, of the gadg...
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Bob Stuart is being charged with promoting illegal gambling over a commercial software program he licenses to online casinos and bookmakers. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos...
Lockheed Martin tests its Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton. Photo: Lockheed Martin The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin calls “mutant powers...
