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B is for Bitcoin, a Book About Bitcoin for Children

30, Aug 2018

“B is for Bitcoin” is an ABC book for children about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency written by Graeme Moore, and it’ll be available for purchase on Amazon in September. On the official website you can subscribe to get notified when the book is available for purchase. Could be a great way to educate children about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in an easy to understand way. This definitely marks another milestone in the history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

– Visit the official book page for more details when it will become available…

lolMiner 0.43 AMD and Nvidia OpenCL Multi Equihash GPU Miner

30, Aug 2018

If you are mining any of the popular Equihash variants for GPU you might want to check the latest lolMiner 0.43 as it is an OpenCL miner for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs that supports Equihash 144.5 (ASF, BTG, BTCZ, LitecoinZ, HeptaCoin, Safecoin, Snowgem, ZEL), Equihash 96.5 (Minexcoin) and Equihash 192.7 (ZERO & SafeCash). The main feature of the latest version is the addition of support for the 192.7 algorithm used by oins such as Zero (ZER) and SafeCash (SCASH), there are of course multiple fixes and improvements applied as well. You can find the full changelog of the lolMiner 0.43 below. The lolMiner 0.43 is a closed source miner available wih binary only releases for Windows and Linux. Do note that there is also a built-in developer fee, Equihash 144.5 and 192.7 should have 2% fee and Equihash 96.5 is with 1% fee.

lolMiner 0.43 Changelog:
– Added 192/7 Algorithm (Zero and SafeCash)
– Added support for zergpool Equihash 144.5 auto profit switching
– Added switch to disable memory check ( This allows 144.5 and 192.7 mining on Nvidia 3G and 4G GPUs )
– Fixed support for open source Linux drivers
– Fixed a bug with miner not starting without config file
– Fixed a bug with miner not starting up (hanging in setup)
– Shortened the target printing to the first 16 characters
– Added some colors (very subdued )

– For more information and to download the latest lolMiner 0.43 OpenCL Equihash GPU miner…

Coldcard, a New Open, Cheap and Secure Hardware Crypto Wallet

24, Aug 2018

Coinkite, the creators of the Opendime USB Bitcoin Stick are back with another interesting piece of hardware for crypto users. Enter Coldcard, a new Bitcoin hardware wallet that is easy to be used, cheap, ultrasecure and open source… what more can you want from a hardware crypto wallet. The Coldcard wallet features a large 128×64 OLED display and full-sized numeric keypad to make it easy for you to operate it and it can be used completely offline as it accepts standard PSBT transaction (BIP 174) stored on an MicroSD card and there is no special software needed on your computer either. The Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet is currently available for $69.99 USD and you can order yours now if you are interested from the official project website.

– For more information about the Coinkite Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet…


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