bfl wired – Buttcoin Foundation http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org Buttcoin - It's Bitcoins with Butts! Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:27:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 Wired burns virtual currency to troll bitcoiners http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/wired-burns-virtual-currency-to-troll-bitcoiners http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/wired-burns-virtual-currency-to-troll-bitcoiners#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 23:20:51 +0000 http://buttcoin.org/?p=1448 Wired got sent a bitcoin miner from Butterfly Labs�and they put it through it’s paces. Wired then decided to setup the most boring “Let’s Play” and start livestreaming the thing just hashing away, a mind numbing endless stream of random numbers on a screen. Since Wired is a journalistic entity and it would probably be […]

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]]> Wired got sent a bitcoin miner from Butterfly Labs�and they put it through it’s paces. Wired then decided to setup the most boring “Let’s Play” and start livestreaming the thing just hashing away, a mind numbing endless stream of random numbers on a screen.

Since Wired is a journalistic entity and it would probably be very unethical to profit off the mining of a free review unit sent by a company, Wired decided to destroy the keys to the wallet file used to store the bitcoins.

But in the end, the answer was obvious. The world

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