Bitcoinis the first, most important and well-known “digital currency” and some call it the version of Internet money. More specifically it is a criptodivisa or cryptocurrencybecause it is based on…
How to mine Bitcoins: a simple guide for beginners
So, you want to become a miner… Always dreamed of spending your days with a helmet on your head, excavating the depths of the earth with a pickaxe? Then…
New company Krater offers rigs built with Avalon ASICs either from its stock or yours
Krater, a new bitcoin mining rig builder, is offering a clone of the Avalon ASIC mining rig. Krater says it has purchased 10,000 Avalon ASIC chips and plans to…
Portrait of a Bitcoin miner: How one man made $192K in virtual currency
For all the attention that Bitcoin receives in the news, the most interesting peculiarity of this crypto-currency has largely been ignored. Sure, we’d all like to know whether the…
Inside Butterfly Labs: The challenges of producing bitcoin mining hardware
CoinDesk’s Daniel Cawrey recently visited and toured the facilities at Butterfly Labs, one of the most prominent and written about producers of bitcoin mining technology. In this first part…