In a rebuffal of bitcoin’s fungibility, Dutch API-provider BlockTrail yesterday launched its Mint exchange , which swaps “old” coins for newly mined ones. In a first of its kind, users can buy bitcoins that came straight from a mining pool, and therefore have the shortest possible transaction history of any coins on the open market.
BlockTrail believes that freshly mined coins – coins that are awarded to the miner of a new block through the […]