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Ok what is a live Linux and an airtight computer? 
You can pick any live distro... But Tails is known to be one of the most secure ones out there.
The "air tight" part, i presume, means that it's not connected to the internet... Basically: unplug any utp cable, and make sure wlan is disabled.
Hi,
I first want to thanks Byteball creator, his technology is my dreamed digital currency. I have disagreement only with initial distribution.
I know my question looks like crazy, but how to make a Byteball fork, or clone ?
With my current knowledge my project may be impossible, whatever I want to try
I have time to learn and it's a pleasure, I'm not hurry.I think Byteball's white paper and github is very good start. But for exemple, how to make genesis transaction ?
Thanks for your help
It looks like byteball isn't forked from the bitcoin codebase, so you'd basically have to re-read the full sourcecode, and edit a lot of parameters to make it a unique coin
1) fork the code on https://github.com/byteball/byteball
2) read the full sourcecode, try to understand how everything works and which parameters you have to edit
3) compile
Why year? I get 1$ every 10 day from one desktop with equihash
That's possible, but AFAIK, the discussion is about mining bitcoin using a desktop PC (which is close to impossible). Equihash means you're mining altcoins, which is fine to, but such discussions belong in the altcoin mining subforum.
What you mean by negative profit? If I am getting electricity for free, then there will be no loss, right? Anyway, I don't care if I get any profit or not. Mining will be fun, and I want to experience it.
I mean that mining with a good, new i7 + decent GPU PC 24/7 will net you less than a dollar a year at current diff, block reward and BTC price.
Even if you get free electricity, i doubt that you'd find a free PC + network equipment + ISP + power for $0 a year. As soon as you pay $10 for a new power cable or a new PC keyboard, you'll never be able to recuperate this cost by mining, hence you'll make a negative profit.
As soon as you decide to mine with an old "free" PC, do realise that you won't even come close to $1/year... It'll probably only be a small fraction of this.
Next to this, the concept of "free" power is pretty confusing. Either you're stealing power, or somebody is paying for it... Either you yourself (maybe it's calculated into your monthly rent), maybe your parents, maybe your employer,... But somebody is footing the bill, and one way or another, most of the time, the bill is passed on to you (maybe your parents make you do chores, maybe your employer sees your power consumption as part of your salary, maybe your rent gets higher after a couple of years because the landlord pays so much for his power bill,...).
I need some advice regarding mining using Desktop. I can continuously run my desktop for up to 20 hours a day. But please tell me whether I should go for Bitcoin mining, or altcoins such as Dash or Litecoin. Which one is more profitable?
Did you read the rest of this topic before making this post?
It has been pointed out by tons of people that you can not make a profit mining for BTC using your desktop.
Litecoin uses scrypt, there are ASIC's available, so you can not make a profit mining Litecoin using your desktop.
Dash uses X11, baikal generated an ASIC to mine X11, so you can not make a profit mining Dash using your desktop.
Since you asked the question, you'll lose the least money by mining Dash, since the X11 asic is pretty scarce, so using a GPU might still give you a small negative profit, while mining scrypt or sha256d will give you a big negative profit.
Thank you very much for your taking your time to reply and giving me useful information 
After following your information and searching a bit more i also think my initial plan would not work.
(though my initial plan was not to give 1 user a full reward block but 10% of the total miners get rewarded instead. but this still seems not possible)
Do you have any thoughts on algorithms like CryptoNight and the advantage that cpu's have over gpu's and asics?
(though i found some sources saying gpu are more efficient atm but there are still no asics right?)
My main focus is too have a coin algorithm where no asics are available for yet. Where anyone with a cpu can mine, creating a more even distribution of coins.
So does anyone have any input regarding CryptoNight or any other algorithm that doesn't and will not have asics in the near future?
Thanks again for reading and i will continue the search myself as well of course
After following your information and searching a bit more i also think my initial plan would not work.
(though my initial plan was not to give 1 user a full reward block but 10% of the total miners get rewarded instead. but this still seems not possible)
Do you have any thoughts on algorithms like CryptoNight and the advantage that cpu's have over gpu's and asics?
(though i found some sources saying gpu are more efficient atm but there are still no asics right?)
My main focus is too have a coin algorithm where no asics are available for yet. Where anyone with a cpu can mine, creating a more even distribution of coins.
So does anyone have any input regarding CryptoNight or any other algorithm that doesn't and will not have asics in the near future?
Thanks again for reading and i will continue the search myself as well of course
I couldn't help you there, i have a basic understanding about the bitcoin protocol, but i haven't got any knowledge about cryptonight.
However, satoshi's idear was: 1 cpu = 1 vote. His idear was for every bitcoin owner to run his own wallet, and use his cpu to mine for BTC... Asic creation basically ruined this idear, centralising mining to companies that have big resources and low enegery prices. Using an ASIC resistant hashing algo would be going back to the original idear the creator of bitcoin had, so i personally like it
I'm not an expert, but i don't think your initial plan would work unless you code a new coin from scratch.
Coins created with the bitcoin codebase as a basis all start from the principle that a miner starts with an empty block, then adds the coinbase transaction with the correct reward + miner fees to an address from his own wallet (he also fills the block with the other transactions in order to claim the fees).
He then creates a merkle root from the transactions, add info from the previous block header and then starts changing this header and hashes it each time, untill he finds a hash that is better than the current difficulty.
Why would a miner add somebody else's address a the coinbase and still devote cpu cycles to mining this block?
I'm positive that if i had to give the full reward to somebody else, i would stop mining altogether...
source: https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/goodbye-mike-and-some-thoughts-about-bitcoin
Coins created with the bitcoin codebase as a basis all start from the principle that a miner starts with an empty block, then adds the coinbase transaction with the correct reward + miner fees to an address from his own wallet (he also fills the block with the other transactions in order to claim the fees).
He then creates a merkle root from the transactions, add info from the previous block header and then starts changing this header and hashes it each time, untill he finds a hash that is better than the current difficulty.
Why would a miner add somebody else's address a the coinbase and still devote cpu cycles to mining this block?
I'm positive that if i had to give the full reward to somebody else, i would stop mining altogether...
source: https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/goodbye-mike-and-some-thoughts-about-bitcoin
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Change your password
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Clients who use API keys should generate a new set of keys
You should similarly change your security credentials for other websites that use Cloudflare (see link below for a list of possibly affected sites). If you are using the same password for multiple sites, you should change this immediately so that you have a unique password for each site. And you should enable two-factor authentication for every site that supports it.
The Cloudflare bug has now been fixed, but it caused sensitive data like passwords to be leaked during a very small percentage of HTTP requests. The peak period of leakage is thought to have occurred between Feb 13 and Feb 18 when about 0.00003% of HTTP requests were affected. Although the rate of leakage was low, the information that might have been leaked could be very sensitive, so its important that you take appropriate precautions to protect yourself.
The problem is thought to have only started 6 months ago and 2FA or API keys generated before that time are probably not affected, but we recommend changing them anyway because the bug existed for years.
https://github.com/pirate/sites-using-cloudflare/blob/master/README.md
From this topic
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1802851.0;topicseen
Seems to sum up the problem
Is it still possible to mine for bitcoins using a normal desktop computer nowadays?
ofcourse you can , but your main aim should not be bitcoin mining .With the bitcoin mining I am making 30-40$/ month without spent any money .
First I started mining of bitcoin at cryptopia ( which is a exchange of altcoin with respect to bitcoin ) .
I made download of software for CPU miner from the github and and tried with my pc it was working but I usually not using my pc open more then 1-2 hours .
Then a idea comes in my mind ( that can be used by anyone ) .
I created worker for the mining and puted the softwares in the about 10 computer of my area in cyber cafe ( use task manager to open your software of cpuminer .bat file )
Now I am making money easily from the mining . Here all the software are free to use , So try at once
So you're telling us that you make $30-$40/month running a cpu miner on 10 desktop computers... I find this hard to belief, any proofs to back this up?
Blockchain size right now is 6073 MB, and will be much larger on the next year because of the bitcoin population is growing larger and larger every day. Expect that in the next year, blockchain would be larger than it's size right now since the bitcoin population is rapidly growing each day that passed by because bitcoin really helps people in many ways.
du -sh ~/.bitcoin/
117G /home/[snip]/.bitcoin/
Where did you get the number 6073 Mb if i might ask? Maybe you've got a pruned blockchain?
Btw: the size of the blockchain has nothing to do with how many people use bitcoin, and everything to do with the size and number of transactions.
What's the best pool to mine? I have Bitmain AntMiner S3+ 453Gh/s.
I am new so also have few other questions.
1) I am using slush pool but the payout is every one week for like 5$.. Will I even profit?
2) IS there anyother way to profit? I have heard of links to sign up on they pay you?
3) I am a newbie member and I have seen others post where they pay you a certain amount on this site to do certain tasks but won't accept any newbies, how do I rank up?
4) How is trust gained?
I am new so also have few other questions.
1) I am using slush pool but the payout is every one week for like 5$.. Will I even profit?
2) IS there anyother way to profit? I have heard of links to sign up on they pay you?
3) I am a newbie member and I have seen others post where they pay you a certain amount on this site to do certain tasks but won't accept any newbies, how do I rank up?
4) How is trust gained?
http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/bitcoin-mining-calculator/?h=453&p=2600.00&pc=0&pf=0.00&d=317688400354.03400000&r=12.50000000&er=913.79000000&hc=0.00
1) $5/week... Are you sure? At current diff, price, block reward, the estimated income WITHOUT energy costs or HW costs is about $2.3/week... If you get $5, you're doing something special
2) sure, you should tell the forum about your skills tough. That way members can advice alternative earning methods for you
3) make high quality posts and wait... You get a maximum of 14 activity every 2 weeks
4) be honest, be helpfull and have patience
I now there there is already at least one bitcoin escrow website but if I was to setup a new one what would you what it to have so that you might use it and trust it ? is there any escrow on here that would like to work with me on this service if so pm me
I think you're getting into a very hard market. It would take an enormous amount of trust to start using such an external website. Personally, i would only consider trusting an external site if it was either owned or operated by a long-term, extremely trusted bitcointalk member, or if a long-term, extremely trusted bitcointalk member kept enough collateral from you in order to repay everybody in case you ran with the escrowed funds.
I was trying to sell my old website http://bitcoindownlines.com but I can't find any buyers. So I want to bring it up to date.
The question: What are some good Bitcoin earning programs that have affiliate programs? Must be free to join.
If you leave me your affiliate link, I'll sign up under you if I'm not already a member. I just want this website to be useful and profitable to the members (there are over 2000). Thanks for any input!
The question: What are some good Bitcoin earning programs that have affiliate programs? Must be free to join.
If you leave me your affiliate link, I'll sign up under you if I'm not already a member. I just want this website to be useful and profitable to the members (there are over 2000). Thanks for any input!
Allmost all faucets make use of affiliate reflinks... It's micro-earning potential tough.
Other than that, i've seen bitlox having an affiliate program, also a couple of casino's (but neiter of those two are btc earning programs)... There are plenty opportunities out there, good luck
Looking for funny Pizza-Eyes Smile coin, there was one seen on whattomine previously... wondering, where is it now
This list seems to be pretty good:
https://www.cryptocoincharts.info/coins/info
https://www.cryptocoincharts.info/coins/info/101-to-1000
https://www.cryptocoincharts.info/coins/info/1001
I don't think all altcoins ever created are listed tough, but you have a reasonable chance of finding the coin you're looking for here
Re: Do you 'express' your interest in Bitcoin to the public?
I've actually tried expressing my intrest, but even between my collegues, i seem to be an outsider (i work in a really big IT department, only one other guy actually used to mine BTC a long time ago)
Re: PP0C 100% confirmed scammer try use FAKE escrow (Proof inside)
He even took the time to rip monbux's thread, put it on a different host and add his own btc address to the copy if his thread...
Have you contacted monbux, since his reputation is being abused?
Have you contacted monbux, since his reputation is being abused?
If you would, what capabilities would you want the network to have?
I'm already using bitmessage, i think it's pretty nifty. A new network should at least have the same features to begin with...