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Title: Newb Questions on; Bitcoin-QT Client / Server, wallets, Calculator Post by: Protagonus on April 08, 2013, 02:54:37 AM Hiya all, great site here. Suppose I'm now with the larger group now investigating bitcoins more intently. Upon reading up on this recently; I realized that I HAD looked into mining briefly a couple years ago. Believe I turned away at that time from low value (I know, tend to have bad timing like that).
To try not rambling I'll get to some questions; I'm having trouble finding. If there's a post already covering this, could you please refer me? 1. I DL'ed and synced the Bitcoin-QT client. I DID encrypt and have backed that wallet up (0 btc). I then tried starting the -server; I noted a NEW sync and my one pre-made address was different. This worried me, so I shut off server and went to normal client. Shows encrypted and sync'ed. I then checked AppData to see there is still ONE copy of wallet.DAT. Questions: -Does the QT client AND sever both SHARE a single wallet? -will there be conflicts to this? -Should I run client wallet on a separate PC than server? 2. In order to see if my client was working I've generated, copied and pasted an address to a couple faucets (.0001 or something). My hope is to see some sort of transaction to confirm I'm doing it right. None so far though. Questions: - Do I generate a new address for every transaction to receive? - Is using faucets a good way to see if I'm setup correctly? (as no transactions shown in yet) 3. I note people using / suggesting calculators and have plugged in some Mh/s numbers to see they payout in coin or dollars per day. Question: - Are these calculators figuring payout in a Pool? - If someone is solo, am I correct that they award these coin blocks, not partial units? Sorry to ramble, I'm sorry for super noob questions as well. I'm sure I'll have many more; but am trying to read what I can. Thanks for any help one can offer EDIT: removed question on bitinstant as I found support thread for it Title: Re: Newb Questions on; Bitcoin-QT Client / Server, wallets, Calculator Post by: Protagonus on April 08, 2013, 04:36:12 PM sorry to bump; I've been looking online for answers to some of these and still not found. Could anyone possibly help on a couple of these.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Protagonus |