Archive for 2013

Marketwatch: Digital currency threatens gold’s value

A Marketwatch commentary posted today claims that the most significant long-term threat to gold’s value as an investment is the rising popularity of digital currency, such as Bitcoin. From the article: If you just wanted a reliable place to stash your cash, you had two options — deposits in banks in a currency controlled by […]

WSJ blogger asks: “Are Litecoins the next big thing?”

At least one Wall Street blogger believes that Litecoins are the next big thing. The author’s post hits on the standard litecoin vs. bitcoin differences, but mostly focuses the success of CipherMine, a Litecoin-mining company that went public a few weeks ago on the LTC Global Exchange. From the post: Shares in CipherMine, a company […]

Happy 4th!

Happy Independence Day to those of you in the US! Also, just a reminder that today is the last day to purchase one of my custom mining rigs at $76 off!

Mt. Gox resumes USD withdrawal service

Mt. Gox has announced that they’ve resumed processing USD withdrawals, via a new transaction backend. There is apparently a backlog for them to work through, so withdrawal requests might still take some time.

CryptoBadger’s custom mining rigs $76 off until 7/4

I just got a shipment of riser cables in, for those of you who were interested in purchasing a custom rig from me. I’ve also decided to take $76 off the purchase price of each rig until July 4th (or until I run out of risers again!), in celebration of Independence Day here in the […]

Techcrunch: people increasingly familiar with bitcoin; majority trust it

Techcrunch posted an interesting article that examines the results of a recent international survey around Bitcoin. It turns out that over a quarter of the people surveyed in the US have heard of Bitcoin, and the majority of those people trust the digital currency. From the article: So what do U.S. consumers make of Bitcoin […]

Mt. Gox temporarily suspends cash withdrawls

Mt. Gox today announced that they’re temporarily suspending USD cash withdrawals, due to their existing processes being unable to adequately accommodate increasing activity. Mt. Gox expects withdrawals to be unavailable for about 2 weeks, during which time they’ll be working to increase capacity. Deposits, transfers, and withdrawal requests for currency other than USD are not […]

Australian retailer now accepting Bitcoin and Litecoin

Gizmodo is reporting that Australian electronics retailer Millennius is now accepting both Bitcoin and Litecoin as forms of payment on its website. While quite a few global retailers have already adopted Bitcoin, Millennius believes that they’re the first to accept Litecoin. Good news for cryptocurrency, and especially Litecoin—hopefully more retailers follow suit in the coming […]

AMD 7990 GPUs available at Amazon

Amazon has some of the new Radeon 7990 video cards available. These behemoths are essentially two 7970 GPUs on one card, but require less power than two individual 7970s. That package should make it quite a good choice for cryptocurrency mining, if you can stomach the price tag (although it currently comes with vouchers for […]

Business Insider: Litecoin is the silver to Bitcoin’s gold

Litecoin is starting to get attention in mainstream news as a complementary cryptocurrency to the more established Bitcoin. Business Insider posted a short piece today describing Litecoin as the “silver to Bitcoin’s gold”. The article is short and largely inaccurate on the technical details, but any press that raises public awareness of digital currency is […]