{"id":10737,"date":"2014-04-23T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10737"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:07:59","slug":"digging-for-answers-the-strong-smell-of-fraud-from-one-bitcoin-miner-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/digging-for-answers-the-strong-smell-of-fraud-from-one-bitcoin-miner-maker","title":{"rendered":"Digging for answers: The \u201cstrong smell\u201d of fraud from one Bitcoin miner maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/author\/cyrus-farivar\/\" rel=\"author\">Cyrus Farivar \u2014 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/amendment-to-conde-nast-user-agreement-privacy-policy\/\">Ars Technica <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/> For many crypto-minded libertarians, Bitcoin is the future of money. But that dream hasn\u2019t been helped much by the numerous high-profile legal cases involving the currency in recent years: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/07\/texas-man-raised-over-4-5m-in-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme-feds-allege\/\">The Bitcoin Savings and Trust hedge fund<\/a> collapsed; uncertainty fueled the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2014\/02\/having-lost-463-million-in-bitcoins-mtgox-files-for-bankruptcy-protection\/\">implosion of Mt. Gox<\/a>, the currency\u2019s largest exchange; and the high-profile <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/series\/the-silk-road-bust\/\">Silk Road takedown<\/a> is a treacherous story combining Bitcoin, drugs, and alleged murders.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, one company sits above all others when it comes to cultivating a new level of direct customer mistrust in the Bitcoin community: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterflylabs.com\">Butterfly Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2014\/04\/digging-for-answers-the-strong-smell-of-fraud-from-one-bitcoin-miner-maker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyrus Farivar \u2014 Ars Technica For many crypto-minded libertarians, Bitcoin is the future of money. But that dream hasn\u2019t been helped much by the numerous high-profile legal cases involving the currency in recent years: The Bitcoin Savings and Trust hedge fund collapsed; uncertainty fueled the implosion of Mt. Gox, the currency\u2019s largest exchange; and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64989,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions\/64989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}