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Speaking at the most recent CoinSummit London conference, at a summit intended to address the 51% threat to Bitcoin, controversial mining pool GHash.io publicly committed not to reach or exceed 40% of the total hashrate of the Bitcoin network, while at the same time calling for a...

A number of the services that we regularly cover are in one way or another trying to get around a major, fundamental issue with Bitcoin, which is that, for all of its convenience and security once you actually have some, buying Bitcoin with fiat money is a colossal pain in the...

Namecoin is the very first of all the altcoins — I know, you heard it was Litecoin. It’s not. The specs are going to be very easy to go over, so I’ll start there: – Identical to Bitcoin for block time, reward, total coins, etc. – Fair, open-source, public...

Recently evidence has begun to emerge that ButterFly Labs may have purchased ButtCoin.org, a website that satirizes Bitcoin, about two months ago. In order to understand why this might be the case, let’s take a step back and look at how we got to this point. The Story Thus...