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Reminder: upgrade your Bitcoin client before May 15

If you’re running Bitcoin-qt or bitcoind, check to make sure that you have the latest version before May 15th. Running old versions after May 15th will cause you problems. Bitcoin.org explains why this is necessary: A bug caused a temporary block chain fork on 11 March, 2013. After investigating that bug, we determined that the bug can […]

WordPress bitcoin ticker plugin, anyone?

A few days ago, I decided that a blog about cryptocurrencies needed a bitcoin ticker. So I went looking for a WordPress bitcoin ticker plugin widget. To my great surprise, entering “bitcoin ticker” into the WordPress plugin repository search box returned zero results. Almost 25,000 plugins and nobody has released a simple bitcoin ticker yet? […]