Have you ever wondered how much bitcoins the big wallets on the blockchain contain? In the below link, this is exactly what you see: https://bitinfocharts.com/de/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html Yes, that is over a billion USD with the current rate in the 1st wallet. Quite some asset. Most likely the big wallets are the cold wallets of the exchanges … [Read more…]
Bitcoin flying high
Checking currently coinmarketcap.com, Bitcoin reached a new all time high way over 5500USD; currently it shows it as 5626.48USD for a bitcoin which is an increase of about 9% compared to the last peak. Roughly 75% more then what the rate was a little over a month ago. Hope you all invested back then. Reasons … [Read more…]
Bitcoin price hit over $1500
The Bitcoin price hit over $1500 in the last days which is a new all time high for the crypto currency. Reason for it? That is the big unknown currently and probably everybody would be interested in. It could be that Bitcoin is getting more attraction also within mainstream medias and hence gains in popularity. … [Read more…]
Review free bitcoin faucet: btcclicks.com

Overview BTCClicks.com is another free bitcoin faucet site paying Satoshi’s to view their clients ads. It got standard and premium memberships, offers to rent referrals and more to earn more then a standard user. And it works actually pretty well in my experience so far after testing it for a couple of weeks. How … [Read more…]
BitLendingClub.com to close their doors in 2017

BitLendingClub.com sent a message to all of its clients the other day where they stated that they have to close their doors due to regulatory pressure in 2017. This is the message they sent to all customers: BitLendingClub Closing Soon Due to Regulatory Pressure Dear Customers, We’ve worked extremely hard to build a platform … [Read more…]
Review: Moon Bitcoin (moonbit.co.in) – Free bitcoin faucet

Moon Bitcoin Overview Moon Bitcoin (moonbit.co.in) is a free bitcoin faucet. Like on many other faucet sites you can get bitcoins (almost) for free. As many of these sites are more or less trustful, at least that was how I was feeling, I thought I give a little deeper insight, if a site worked successful … [Read more…]
Cloud mining

This new article is about mining in the cloud, instead of buying and maintaining your own infrastructure and hardware. Various providers are offering their services in the meantime. Worth comparing prices and services. In other words: No complex setup of hardware and software, no loud coolers running in your basement, or even worse, in your … [Read more…]
New section: Investing Bitcoins

As more and more platforms with Bitcoin investment possibilities show up across the globe, I try to list here the most interesting companies where either my research resulted into overall positive impression I made positive experience myself If you got other got investment tips, I am very happy to hear about it. The page into … [Read more…]
bitcoin.org: 0.13.0 Binary Safety Warning
This message is directly coming from bitcoin.org to raise awareness of a potential state sponsored attack and about possible mitigation: Summary Bitcoin.org has reason to suspect that the binaries for the upcoming Bitcoin Core release will likely be targeted by state sponsored attackers. As a website, Bitcoin.org does not have the necessary technical resources to … [Read more…]
Prepare a PC power supply to use with a mining device

Many mining devices do not have an internal power supply (PSU) hence they depend on an external one. In most cases it is a standard PC PSU. All modern power supply are intended to be used within a computer and switched on via the power button. As you your miner does not have such a … [Read more…]