Five of China's biggest mining pools — AntPool, F2Pool, BTCChina, BW Mining, and Huobi —
have mutually agreed to a raise of the block size limit to 8 MB. They collectively rejected
Bitcoin core developer Gavin Andresen's proposal to raise the limit from 1 MB to 20 MB,
and instead presented a compromise.

BTW, these pools jointly account for some 55% to 60% of all hashing power on the Bitcoin network.

/qbqp33x]USA Freedom Act is no reason to celebrate?

Both privacy advocates and the NSA are celebrating the USA Freedom Act that passed the Senate on June 2.
The act legalized and simplified the collecting of phone metadata for the NSA. Meanwhile Skype continues to collect voice,
chat, video and other data, and deliver it to the Five Eyes international spy coalition.

“What no one wants to say out loud is that this is a big win for the NSA, and a huge nothing burger for the privacy community.”

The bitcoin-fiat exchange market has exploded over the last year, but it isn’t alone.
In 2015, amid currency swings in the Russian ruble and the Euro among others,
an increasing number of traders are looking to gold as a natural fit for their bitcoin holdings.

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Here's what they wrote in their blog https://blog.coinjar.com/2014/09/30/how-the-new-ato-guidance-affects-coinjar-users/

Man's bitcoin mining leads to police raiding his home for using a suspicious amount of electricity