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Following the Money: Are Bitcoin Black Market Purchases Really Anonymous?

Researcher Sarah Meiklejohn discusses whether Silk Road's users can be prosecuted and if illegal bitcoin transactions are truly 'anonymous'.

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Following the Money: Researcher Tracks Bitcoin Movements and Anonymity

CoinDesk interviewed a University of California researcher to talk about where bitcoins are being used and moved.

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Questions for Cash, Chains of Command, and with this Coin, I Thee Rob

John Law ponders BTC-e's credentials, block chain security and hiding bitcoins from divorce lawyers in his weekly review.

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Core Developer to Launch Bitcoin Node in Space

Jeff Garzik's space nodes would 'provide stability for block chain data' and 'limit attacks on the network'.

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Directory.io Prank Proves Bitcoin Protocol's Strength

A website that listed bitcoin private keys with corresponding public addresses has been revealed as a prank.

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194,993 BTC transaction worth $147 Million sparks mystery and speculation

Bitcoin internet hangouts were buzzing today after noticing someone had shifted 194,993 BTC in one transaction.

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Bitcoin Core Development Update #5 brings better transaction fees and embedded data

Forthcoming updates to bitcoin software will make for less confusion over transaction fees, and the ability to trade property.

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Feathercoin secures its block chain with advanced checkpointing

Feathercoin has announced advanced checkpointing in its block chain to protect against 51% attacks.

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MasterCoin to create new altcoins in Bitcoin's block chain

The Mastercoin protocol layer gains community support to create a new generation of altcurrencies on the Bitcoin block chain.

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