Tripamang
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We had a thread for this previously on foh~ Not really sure if this should be in general or technology, this seems as good a place as any.
Bitcoins just hit $17.40 US today passing their 2012 high of $16. Theres now a few thousand vendors taking bitcoins as payment, as well as word press now accepting them. It's now possible to have a bank account in the EU (France specifically) backed by bitcoins and places like Iran have citizens bank their money away in bitcoins as a way of protecting them against inflation. The currency by all accounts seems to be taking off with 2013 being a huge year for it.
Next-gen mining hardware (ASICs) is starting to ship with Avalon shipping a couple units of their 66Gigahash, but who knows when the rest will ship. Mid-Feb should see all the different butterfly labs hardware shipping to initial pre-orders. I have myself setup to get a Single SC (60Gigahashs). Over the next couple months this is going to be insanely disruptive to coin generation and effectively destroy GPU mining.
Litecoins are also taking off as well as an alternative to bitcoins, and I imagine it'll get even more people backing it as GPU mining will still be profitable. (ASIC miners can't do the math for litecoin generation).
It's definitely interesting times ahead in terms of online currencies.
Bitcoins just hit $17.40 US today passing their 2012 high of $16. Theres now a few thousand vendors taking bitcoins as payment, as well as word press now accepting them. It's now possible to have a bank account in the EU (France specifically) backed by bitcoins and places like Iran have citizens bank their money away in bitcoins as a way of protecting them against inflation. The currency by all accounts seems to be taking off with 2013 being a huge year for it.
Next-gen mining hardware (ASICs) is starting to ship with Avalon shipping a couple units of their 66Gigahash, but who knows when the rest will ship. Mid-Feb should see all the different butterfly labs hardware shipping to initial pre-orders. I have myself setup to get a Single SC (60Gigahashs). Over the next couple months this is going to be insanely disruptive to coin generation and effectively destroy GPU mining.
Litecoins are also taking off as well as an alternative to bitcoins, and I imagine it'll get even more people backing it as GPU mining will still be profitable. (ASIC miners can't do the math for litecoin generation).
It's definitely interesting times ahead in terms of online currencies.
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