Author Archives: Aaron 'BingoBoingo' Rogier

RockMiner R4 Devices Seized at Customs, One Person Detained

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Four Rockminer R4 Bitcoin miners were seized by the Customs Service in Chita, Russia along with the Russian Citizen transporting them according to a report by Coinside.ru's Maxim Primakov. According to the report this action may be supposed to be the beginning of a practical campaign against Bitcoin by the Russian Government following longstanding rhetorical opposition to Bitcoin by elements of the Russian Government.

Coinside's report offers hope that Customs officials along the European border may be less capable or inclined to seize Bitcoin mining devices, but cautions their readers about having mining devices delivered by Russian Post as the time taken to receive a Bitcoin miner is a critical factor that affects its possibility to mine profitably.

Silk Road Lawyers Challenge Justice Department "Leaky Captcha Theory"

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The defense team for Ross Ulbricht is challenging the assertion by the prosecution in a filing last month that the Silk Road servers and eventually the alleged Silk Road mastermind was found due to a leaky misconfigured captcha on the site. Among the documents released challenging the Government's assertion are configuration files and traffic logs according to Brian Krebs.

Darkcoin: Value Drops while going Open Source

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On Monday Darkcoin was finally open sourced and its value plunged. This isn't the first sense defying price movement in Darkcoin's history, the coin rallied on the eve of a hard fork that introduced "master nodes" onto their not entirely open sourced coin's network. Completely befuddling phenomena surrounding DarkCoin include important questions such as: Continue reading →