Cspan Bitcoin is back at new all-time highs as the Senate wraps up a hearing on digital currencies. The price on the Mt. Gox exchange were at $700 and rising. The hearing began with three law enforcement officials discussing their agencies' successful crackdowns on the currency. Howeve…ce to try and play by the rules, " Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) said in his published opening remarks. "That’s difficult to do if the rules or proper authorities aren’t clear or if the future is uncertain. It’s also difficult if a large number of bad apples are allowed to spoil the bunch.”

Something BIG is happening in Argentina… From December 7 through 8,Bitcoin enthusiasts and those interested in learning about this digital,decentralized phenomena will gather in Buenos Aires,Argentina for the first Latin American Bitcoin Conference hosted by the Fundacin Bitcoin Argent…,Fundacin Bitcoin Argentina (FBA) formed when the three founding members decided to give a proper framework to their ongoing efforts to promote and inform about bitcoin. Now the FBA has over 97 volunteer collaborators and has hosted over 14 meetups,some of them with over 150 attendees.

06 Nov 13 CryptoLocker Crew Ratchets Up the Ransom Last week’s article about how to prevent CryptoLocker ransomware attacks generated quite a bit of feedback and lots of questions from readers. For some answers — and since the malware itself has morphed significantly in just a few day’…survey and asked how many [victims] had paid the ransom with Bitcoins, and almost no one said they did, Abrams said. “Most paid with MoneyPak. The people who did pay with Bitcoins said they found the process for getting them was so cumbersome that it took them a week to figure it out.”

Program:Win32/CoinMiner is a mining client for Windows. This little program generates digital currency by performaing complex calculations. This program creates digital coins for the decentralized BitCoin economy. BitCoin is a project which is created to develop a P2P network tracking …t means that even though the program might not be that dangerous by itself, due to the components that come along with the client, you might end up being infected with even more serious threats and eventually even your personal data of financial nature might be leaked to a third party.

An ATM machine that trades cash for Bitcoin attracted plenty of hoopla when it went live in a Vancouver coffee shop last week, but how many people actually used it? Now we have some numbers: According to the ATM maker, Robocoin, the machines did over $100, 000 worth of business and rac…al days to link an online bank account. He added that at current rates, the Vancouver Bitcoin owners will recoup their investment in less than a year. We’ll see. I’ll be in Vancouver in late December and let you know firsthand whether North America’s first Bitcoin ATM is still humming.

Ten days ago, AMD launched its new R9 290X GPU, neatly undercutting Nvidia’s GTX 770 and GTX 780 (then priced at $400 and $650 respectively), and setting itself up as the go-to solution at the $550 price point. Last week, Nvidia responded with sharp price cuts that left both those card…h none are shipping at this time. AMD’s cooler for the R9 290/290X can best be described as “highly effective, ” which is another way of saying “very loud under load.” Like the R9 290X, it supports two dual-link DVI, one HDMI, and one DisplayPort. Next page: Let’s do some benchmarking!