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Why not just use electrum or something like that? Much easier.
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Welcome to Shanghai.
Thanks eranbtc, will you make it to the meetup? |
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no. I disabled the desktop on bootup and just run cgminer.
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about 4 months, 1Gh/s. Mostly I mine alt-coins but sometimes I'll get some btc dust.
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so far I have never heard of block erupters catching fire.
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anyway just because the price falls doesn’t really mean it falls, functionally it's the same thing that it was last week.
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Well it's not just Americans, you get a lot of that shit in the UK and they never shut up about it, normally when a memorial day of some sort comes on I make sure never to go near a television, they only ever give a shit about how many of 'their' soldiers died, they don't give a crap about how many civilians they got killed or how many enemy soldiers were killed.
I've been living and working in Europe for awhile now, originally from the US, and I was surprised how nationalistic and weird some of the British are, almost just like in the US. |
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I've never directly bought bitcoin and I don't know what these three answers even are.
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Privacy, not having to share your personal information is a good reason. However, the vast majority of people don't care about sharing their personal information while making most of their transactions.
You don't want to share your personal info with a merchant that you don't trust. But would you want to make an irreversible payment to that merchant that you can't trust?
How will the average consumer deal with the complexities of keeping a wallet safe, transaction fees, confirmations, change addresses? We certainly need abstraction layers such as e-wallets.
How will anyone trust their money with an e-wallet that can't guarantee the safety of people's money? That is the most bountiful target for hackers and criminals?
The volatility is making people steer away from holding the bitcoins even if they receive bitcoin for the services/products they provide. Hence the success of Bitpay. So the idea that you are more likely to spend Bitcoin if you get paid in Bitcoin is not happening.
How will we make Bitcoin the future if we can't solve these and get mom and dad to pay with Bitcoin?
Simple answer is that it will take time, right now most people aren't ready and neither is the software / services. |
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Actually I've been mining alt-coins since difficulty was 25 million, but the pool I'm with was down for a few days so I decided to try bitcoin again, to my surprise I am still able to mind bitcoin with my tiny mining rig.
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Yeah they are disabled on purpose but really the option should be hidden or at very least it should be stated somewhere that they are not available.
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Hello all,
I have a family member who is thinking about getting a new computer and I'm thinking about suggesting that they either just reformat their old one with Ubuntu (actually I would do it) or install Ubuntu after they buy the new computer. Now this family member is in their 50s and is not really that great on computers beyond facebook and other online games. So I'm sort of the IT guy in the family and my question is, should I suggest Ubuntu for this person or just the standard windows 8 which they would otherwise go for? My thinking is that it, Ubuntu, will work great actually because they spend 99.9% of their time in the browser. Thoughts?
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I think it's a good idea to buy a little but be not much. However that is just my gut feeling, no real idea of course.
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I think it will become more stable when there are not large new sets of people finding out about it.
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44. No law mandating the technical implementation
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To evade tax  I think that is fair for 43. Or maybe better said, to evade criminals and thieves |
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Thanks for the suggestion but I ended up solving it in another way. I had another computer with an updated block chain, so I just took the wallet off the computer which had the problem and put it onto the computer which was working. Finally I sent the coins over to the electrum wallet as I wanted.
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Hi all,
I just tried to start up my qt client for the first time in a couple of weeks, after some hours of downloading the block it's now giving me the message "failed to write block" and it then closes the application. This is the latest version of the client on ubuntu 13.04. And actually I just want to get my coins into electrum because I'm tired of all the blockchain downloading business. any ideas?
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I like using linux mostly just because I like Linux better in general. But one thing I do like is that I don't have to boot up into the graphical desktop, which I think will use less resources.
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