A new report has determined that London was the most likely place Satoshi Nakamoto worked on Bitcoin (BTC) between 2008 and 2010. Report author Doncho Karaivanov reviewed several factors in order to justify the conclusion, including an analysis of timestamps of Satoshi’s published materials, his use of regional colloquialisms and word spellings, and the fact that The Times headline embedded in the genesis block was specific to England’s print version of the periodical. The idea that Satoshi was British is not new, as hundreds of journalists, sleuths and investigators have thoroughly pored over traces of the Bitcoin creator’s activity and …

A former Bitcoin miner hobbyist has stumbled on an old wallet containing 1,000 Bitcoins, in addition to many Bitcoin forks. On March 10, a thread was posted to Bitcointalk by a self-described “newbie” making their first return to crypto after a “long hiatus,” seeking advice on accessing an old Bitcoin stash. Former GPU hobbyist miner discovers wallet on a thumb drive The user “whoamisoon” claimed to have mined some Bitcoin “a long time ago” using a GPU and had recently located the wallet.dat file on a USB storage device. The former-miner sought advice on how to move the Bitcoins to …

Reuters has today, August 30, published an investigative report into Venezuela’s national oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro (PTR), attempting to square government claims with facts on the ground and evidence of the Petro’s transaction history to date. Reuters dispatched reporters to the central Venezuelan hamlet of Atapirire, which sits at the heart of the 380-square-kilometer territory that the president has said can provide the 5 billion barrels of petroleum needed to back the new cryptocurrency. Amid rampant hyperinflation in the Venezuelan economy, President Maduro last week introduced a rebranded fiat currency – the sovereign bolívar, which will have five fewer zeros …

The popular cryptocurrency forum Bitcointalk.org is currently inaccessible for the second time in two months. No pages of the forum are currently obtainable, and tweets from the forum’s official Twitter account suggest an ongoing problem relating to handling of user-generated information. “Some disks seem to have failed. Expect extended downtime. I will post updates here,” a post from earlier today reads. This was followed by an admission that user posts made in the preceding nine hours “may be lost,” and that Bitcointalk was “still trying to recover them.” Some disks seem to have failed. Expect extended downtime. I will post …

In a move no less curious than its previous attempts, China has blocked a popular Bitcoin website from being accessed on its domestic servers – but why? China’s ‘Great Firewall’ has long been the subject variously of wonder and bewilderment, and now it is the turn of arguably the most active Bitcoin forum, Bitcointalk.org, to have the lights turned off. According to a Reddit thread, requests submitted to the testing site greatfirewallofchina.org came back unsuccessful from all provinces’ IP addresses at present. The shift in accessibility came as a surprise to many, especially as it seems to be a one-off …

The decentralization boom has now reached the process of exchange. MasterCoin with a help of a public fundraiser made almost 5 BTC and spent it on creating a feature that would even further increase the privacy of cryptocurrency exchange. Distributed or Decentralized The MasterCoin team, or should I say MasterCoin’s Distributed Exchange team is as all other by-projects of MSC works around Bitcoin protocol to make another layer where new currencies and digital coins could exist using the original creation of Satoshi Nakamoto. The concept is called CoinJoin and it arrive half a year ago on Bitcointalk forum, where it …