Considering a bitcoin mining hardware purchase? Make a more informed decision with our Bitcoin Mining Dashboard. UPDATE (4/20): The winners have been announced, and paid ฿75-76 each for each of the cards. This netted shareholders an estimated 0.00188 per share. Friedcat has announced this is only the first of a series of auctions so ASIC Miner share holders can expect these special dividends more frequently in the coming weeks. Update 2 (4/27): The second round of auctions just completed. 50 blades were sold in a price range of 50 to 65 BTC each.   ASIC Miner, the first public ASIC mining company, has …

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As a generally accepted best practice, don’t click and/or install executable files from odd sources, especially if they’re supposed to be an image. An abundance of folks around the globe not knowing that has led to the latest hiccup in the world of Bitcoin. Wired reports that a new trojan, spreading primarily via Skype, gets the targeted PC to mine Bitcoin for the trojan’s creator. Naturally, this draws down processing power from the victim’s computer and slows all applications on the machine. Though standard CPUs are known to be ineffective at Bitcoin mining, with thousands of them all working for …

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