Hash Fast Fraud? -- Banks study Bitcoin -- DVRs attempt Mining -- Reddcoin PoSV Basics

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1.) Meet HashFast, yet another mining manufacturer accused of fraud
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20...

2.) Bitcoin Breakthroughs Studied by Banks
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05...

3.) Infecting DVRs with Bitcoin-mining malware even easier than you suspected and just as pointless!
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/...

4.) Reddcoin's Proof of Stake + Velocity Algorithm
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddCoin/comm...
http://www.reddcoin.com/papers/PoSV.pdf

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