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| Feb 7, 2014 | Mt. Gox Halts ALL Bitcoin Withdrawals, Price Drop Follows | UPDATE (7th February, 11:25 GMT): Users with bitcoin withdrawals in limbo have reported that the amounts are being returned to their Mt. Gox wallet balances. Japan-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, the third-largest for trading the US dollar ... |
| Jan 13, 2014 | What Happens To Lost Bitcoins? | James Howells of Wales is one of the Bitcoin community’s most tragic figures. Last June, Howells inadvertently tossed a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins, which he had mined back when they were worth very little. Now that a bitcoin is wo... |
| Dec 3, 2013 | India Wakes Up to Bitcoin | You know Bitcoin has finally gotten some traction in India because a hair salon in Chandigarh, a city in Northern part of country, is now accepting the virtual currency in exchange for a bit of the snippity-snip. This makes the salon, Castl... |
| Nov 14, 2013 | Coinsetter launches private beta to 'make bitcoin trading quicker and more flexible' | New York-based exchange Coinsetter opened up its private beta this week, serving an international audience. CEO Jaron Lukasiewicz started sending out around 100 private invitations each day to individuals as of Tuesday. He is positioning th... |
| Oct 18, 2013 | Chinese whispers, Chinese hackers and Chinese goats | Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 18th October 2013 – a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host … John Law. That ... |
| Sep 17, 2013 | Bitcoin mining difficulty soars as hashing power nudges 1 Petahash | The hash rate of the bitcoin network has exceeded (or is very close to) 1 Petahash per second (PH/s), according to various charts online. TradeBlock, which runs its own mining dashboard, reported that the computational power on the bitcoin ... |
| Aug 23, 2013 | Feds Seize Another $2.1 Million From Mt. Gox, Adding Up To $5 Million | Bitcoin exchange service Mt. Gox‘s financial troubles are even more worrying than anticipated. On Monday, GigaOm reported that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had seized $2.9 million from Mt. Gox’s Dwolla account. But The Genesis B... |
| Aug 12, 2013 | All Android-created Bitcoin wallets vulnerable to theft | Xurxo Martinez reader comments 47 with 28 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Bitcoin.org released a security advisory over the weekend warning the Bitcoin community that any Bitcoin wal... |
| Jul 16, 2013 | Bitcoin Transactions Rise As Economic Unrest Hits Argentina | Bitcoin has created an interesting solution for problematic economies. Because it allows seamless extraction of wealth out of a bank account and into the cloud, Argentinians have been ramping up usage of the cryptocurrency in an effort to s... |
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What has the press written about The Genesis Block?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning The Genesis Block, among them “Mt. Gox Halts ALL Bitcoin Withdrawals, Price Drop Follows” (Feb 7, 2014) and “What Happens To Lost Bitcoins?” (Jan 13, 2014).
Is The Genesis Block still active?
The Genesis Block is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 8, 2014.