Payment processor Stripe has terminated their business relationship with Cody Wilson, an activist who designs 3D printed firearms and milling tools for completing AR-15 lower receivers. His charity Defense Distributed currently has listed for sale in their online store a t-shirt, a sticker, a PVC patch, and a nail suitable for use as a firing pin in a 3d printed firearm. Defense Distributed also sold out its limited pre-order of the tabletop CNC mill named "Ghost Gunner" which is the product for finishing lower receivers, though will also support an open design format so that it may also be used for other aluminum milling purposes.

In a new development in the Case against Butterfly Labs, the Court overseeing the case has ordered bitcoins held by Butterfly Labs to be turned over to the Court appointed temporary receiver. The order also gives the receiver  authorization to convert the bitcoins "to cash on a systematic and reasoned basis." The justification for this measure is at least to ostensibly create reserves with which refunds for Butterfly Labs customers may be paid from. Continue reading →

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If 2013 was the year of "the other 6 billion", 2014 is the year of "blockchain technology". This hysteria, culminating with the Wall St Journal's latest piece which goes so far as to just drop the name Bitcoin altogether in favour of Blockchain¹, is yet another attempt to do the impossible – stop Bitcoin. Continue reading →

1. An attempt to remove Bitcoin from the vernacular. ↩

The Canadian privacy company SurfEasy, which markets itself as a no-log VPN provider, today announced they have teamed up with BitPay to enable customers to pay using bitcoin when purchasing the privacy based products it offers. Continue reading →