• We’ve got a Butterfly Labs Bitcoin miner, and it’s pretty darn fast

    mukpin.com 11 May '13, 4am

    We’ve got a Butterfly Labs Bitcoin miner, and it’s pretty darn fast apparently, i'm a bitcoin miner now, and it looks like i'm actually pretty good at it. ars is currently in possession of one of the elusive but very real butterfly labs bitcoin miners. it's a tiny little black box...

  • Top Bitcoin exchange hit with $75 million suit over failed partnership

    mukpin.com 04 May '13, 3am

    Top Bitcoin exchange hit with $75 million suit over failed partnership in february, we reported on a major deal between mt. gox, the japanese firm that runs the world's largest bitcoin exchange, and the american startup coinlab. under the terms of the agreement, coinlab would take cha...

  • Study: 45 percent of Bitcoin exchanges end up closing

    mukpin.com 28 Apr '13, 5am

    a study of the bitcoin exchange industry has found that 45 percent of exchanges fail, taking their users' money with them. those that survive are the ones that handle the most traffic—but they are also the exchanges that suffer the greatest number of cyber attacks. computer scientis...

  • Bitfloor, number four Bitcoin-based exchange, shuts down for good

    mukpin.com 19 Apr '13, 7am

    Bitfloor, number four Bitcoin-based exchange, shuts down for good on wednesday evening, bitfloor, the number four bitcoin-based exchange (behind mt. gox, btc-e, and bitstamp) announced that it is closing its doors “indefinitely.” “unfortunately, our us bank account is scheduled ...

  • OKCupid partners with Coinbase to become the latest Web service to support Bitcoin

    mukpin.com 17 Apr '13, 5am

    OKCupid partners with Coinbase to become the latest Web service to support Bitcoin the world and his brother — well…the media, at least — has gone bitcoin crazy in recent times, and the latest company to cash in on that attention ride that wave is dating site okcupid, which is n...

  • E-mail outage hits Singapore government agencies

    mukpin.com 07 May '13, 1am

    E-mail outage hits Singapore government agencies "some users in government agencies experienced intermittent network access this morning. access to the network has mostly been restored. public e-services are not affected," said a spokesperson from the infocomm development authority of...

  • Bitcoin prices plummet following Mt. Gox outage & Instawallet hacking

    mukpin.com 05 Apr '13, 11am

    Bitcoin prices plummet following Mt. Gox outage & Instawallet hacking the price of bitcoin has been on a tear, with prices surging from $100 a few days ago to $147 earlier today. but an outage of the largest bitcoin market and an unrelated bitcoin hacking incident have knocked the pri...

  • Bitcoin value triples in a month to all-time high of more than $100

    mukpin.com 02 Apr '13, 3pm

    at the end of february, bitcoins hit an all-time trading high of just over $33. that suddenly looks like chump change, with the value of bitcoins today moving past $100. you can see nearly real-time changes in the value of bitcoins at coinlab and track the currency's steady rise over ...

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