Winning Poker Network Roll Out Bitcoin Deposit/Withdrawal Option

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Winning Poker Network has announced on the twoplustwo poker forum1 that it will once again accept bitcoin deposits and that bitcoin withdrawals will soon follow. Skins which currently operate on WPN include America's Card Room, True Poker, BetCRIS Poker, BetDSI Poker, FabPoker, BookMaker Poker, Betcoin Poker and Ya Poker. Continue reading →

  1. It is not unheard of for poker sites and networks to make announcements via that forum. ↩

New All Time High In Difficulty Forces Out Cloudmining Service CEX.IO

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Off the back of yet another increase in the Bitcoin mining difficulty to an all time high of 43,971,662,056 comes news that CEX.IO has suspended their cloud mining services. CEX.IO state that the increasing difficulty coupled with the recent drop in the price of bitcoin lead to its decision. An update posted to the CEX.IO blog reads: Continue reading →

Use Riseup.net And Read Books? That's A Paddlin'

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Last December, Qntra was the first English language news site to report on the raids by Spanish police at the cybersquat known as Kasa de la Muntanya and while police raids and squats are typically of no import, this raid was notable for the squat's association with a Bitcoin wallet project known as the Dark Wallet. Vice's Motherboard has now posted an update which contains quotes which would be hilarious if not for the fact they were made by the Judge presiding over the matter. Continue reading →

Yet Another Silk Road Marketplace Launches

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An as yet unknown1 individual or group has taken up the mantle of DPR and launched the next iteration of the Silk Road marketplace, but this time around it's not accessible via Tor. SilkRoadReloaded, which promotes security as being its number one feature, launched a few days ago on the I2P network and is currently being promoted throughout various dark marketplace and other subreddits by someone assumed to be connected to the new service. Continue reading →

  1. At least to the public. ↩

The Hard Fork Missile Crisis

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As previously reported, Gavin Andresen proposed increasing the block size and later attempted to describe the economic and political implications of such a proposal. In both instances he was met with furious backlash from the community.

Today Gavin posted on his personal blog an article titled "Looking before the Scaling Up Leap", stating "My goal is to prove that it is safe to raise the maximum block size from 1MB to at least 20MB" along with "I'll argue we should schedule a hard fork." Reddit soon blindly praised Gavin for his work, with comments such as "Fork it hard." Continue reading →

Summary of MPEx Stocks and Funds December 2014

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Monthly statements from stocks listed at the MPEx exchange have been released for December. Official reports are available at Trilema. Here are some highlights:

MPEx (S.MPOE) continued to derive most (93.6%) of its revenue from new account sign-ups. While the large amount of income from sign-ups represents the vast majority of the income, the company would still be profitable without these one-time payments; the December expenses only amounted to 59% of the revenue from trading fees. The company reported a total profit of 647.8 btc. This represents the highest profit reported by the company since August of 2013. Continue reading →