In the heady days of 2013, when the world was agog over the promise of bitcoin, a few companies were racing to develop special hardware used to “mine” new value from the virtual currency. One of the ...

January has been an exciting month for Bitcoin. We have seen a number of news articles about Bitcoin from various mainstream media sources, nearly... For the past seven months, application-specific ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CN) - The Federal Trade Commission claims in court Bitcoin mining machine vendor Butterfly Labs failed to deliver real goods. The FTC sued BF Labs dba Butterfly Labs and Butterfly ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. court has temporarily shut down Butterfly Labs, a Missouri company the Federal Trade Commission alleges deceptively marketed computers designed to produce ...

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