Why not just learn how to do a search and replace? Then you can clone as many coins as you want and do it for free.

Now have 45,000 IMP. WTS all for 0.2 BTC. Offer of finding a hero member for escrow purposes still stands.

Edit: Now have 49,818 IMP. Will be at 50,000 within the hour. Price still stands at 0.2 BTC. Offer to find a hero member for escrow still stands as well.

New Edit: Sold. 50,000 IMP for 0.2 BTC. Looks like we have our market price...

maybe sell it WITH a copy of the source code that can be reviewed before using it. that way, people like me that don't just blindly trust a closed-source program to not steal their coins can put our minds at ease.

I have 10,000 ImperialCoin (IMP) that I would like to sell for 0.05 BTC. We can find a reputable Hero Member for escrow purposes if you want. Let me know if interested.

I'll give you 17,000 satoshi for the lot. Seems like a fair price to me. Let me know if interested.

why not just buy on coinedup? current price is 22 litoshi (less than 1 satoshi)

Not open source. 10/10 would not trust with API keys.

that REALLY depends on what altcoin you want to mine. just about EVERY coin has at least one, if not multiple, pools to choose from. And with new altcoins being released quite literally on a daily basis, new pools are springing up every day as well. however, to simplify things a bit, you could check out coinex.pw. they are an exchange and mining pool all in one. they offer several options in the way of mining different coins. they have traditional pools that mine individual coins and they also offer two switchpools (sha-256 and scrypt) which automatically switch back and forth between coins to mine the coin which happens to be the most profitable at the moment. seeing as how you want to get into gpu mining, i would HIGHLY suggest choosing a scrypt based coin or the scrypt switchpool. sha-256 coins are just too fast and put too much wear and tear on your cards to mine efficiently with video cards. As for choosing a card to mine with, I would suggest purchasing an R9 280X. you can pick one up right now on amazon.com for around $300 (well within your price range). with one R9 280X, you will be able to pull somewhere in the range of 700-750 kh/s mining scrypt algorithm coins. and if you're willing to spend around $600 and buy two of them, you can be at over 1 mh/s. right now, those cards seem to be the best bang for the buck when it comes to gpus.

for a comparison of mining equipment, you can visit https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

there are currently several r9 280x's for sale on amazon.com. you can view a list of those here http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_4?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=r9%20280x&sprefix=r9+2%2Caps%2C191
if you do decide to purchase one, i would suggest going with one made by MSI. they have extremely good cooling systems and are just overall well-built cards.
if you decide you want to build a dedicated mining rig, i suggest you also buy a good motherboard that's built for the task. the Asrock H81 is built specifically for mining purposes and is extremely cost effective at around $100 per unit. the H81 has space for 6 gpus to be installed. it has 1 main slot for a card to be mounted directly to the board and then 5 auxiliary slots for extra cards to be connected via PCI-e riser cables. you can view the listing for that motherboard here: http://www.amazon.com/ASRock-H81-BTC-Litecoin-motherboard/dp/B00HEUIS2G/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1394797815&sr=8-5&keywords=asrock

anyway, i hope all this info helps and doesn't overload you too much. good luck!

it's possible that you are a victim of the pony botnet. it contains a keylogger, wallet.dat stealer, and i believe a RAT all in one. make sure you run a full virus/malware scan and do a boot-sector scan as well as deep-field scans on all files and partitions on your machine. basically throw everything you can at it and you'll probably turn something up. look for virii, trojans, malwares, botnets, rootkits, odd registry entries, etc... (anything out of the ordinary or that you don't recognize, really)

The majority of power in WA comes from hydroelectric sources, which makes electricity EXTREMELY cheap to produce. I'm sure if you look at non-peak hours, you can get your power costs down pretty low. But, I'm fairly certain that $0.02/kWh is a bulk rate given to large corporations (i.e. Microsoft, Boeing, etc...) who buy their power in massive quantities and therefore are able to get deeply discounted prices from the power companies that supply them. If you're not a large corporation that's buying power at a rate of 100 megawatts or more per day (which would be enough to power a small city), you're not going to get that kind of rate.

Not true at all. A few of my associates and I tried to launch a coin using the name/likeness of a semi-famous personality a couple months ago. We asked said person for their public endorsement of the coin BEFORE we were supposed to launch and even offered them a cut of all profits generated. Know what we got in response? A cease & desist request. Needless to say, that coin never launched (We didn't want to get sued). It's really too bad too, we had a good following and had hundreds of people pre-registering for the pools.

Is it closed source or open? I'm not sure I would trust something with my trading API keys unless I could view the source code first to make sure there isn't anything fishy going on.

lol... www.trustecoin.com doesn't even exist as a website

I placed three withdrawal requests totaling ~280 million CENT on Feb 9th and, to this day, I still haven't received my coins. I've been going back and forth with support this entire time. They started by saying that their wallet was "under maintenance" and I would receive my coins as soon as that was complete. Now they're insisting that my withdrawals have been processed, but I can assure you that I have not received them and the TrxID numbers they gave me still don't show up in the CENT blockchain (which means they haven't left the cryptsy system). As of now, I haven't heard from them in the last eleven days which is the last time they posted a response to my ticket. Opportunities to sell these coins are passing me by and they are seemingly doing nothing to resolve my issue.

On a related note... Over the past few months, I've noticed some strange goings on at cryptsy via certain complaints that people are making about them that lead me to believe that they may have become insolvent and are just trying to cover their asses.

There is an email phishing scam that has been going around recently coming from support@coinex.ws. They are trying to impersonate staff from coinex.pw. The email claims that CoinEX is increasing their security and is requiring all users to create a fund password. If you click the link provided in the email, you will be taken to their phishing site's login screen where they are hoping you will enter your coinex.pw login info. If you do fall for it and enter your login info, they will then log in to your account and drain it of all the coins they possibly can. Anybody who believes they may have fallen for this scam should immediately change their passwords for all accounts they own (CoinEX, other crypto exchanges, email, mining pools, online banking, etc.) and enable two-factor authentication on all accounts. Anybody who has tried to sign up for predictcoin.info (also a phishing scam and owned by the same people that are sending this phishing email) has (or will) receive this email at some point or another.

Below is a copy of the phishing email being circulated.


The link provided in the email leads to http://coinex.ws/?create_fund_password (their phishing page)

Any communications coming from CoinEX will only EVER come from an @coinex.pw email address. They will never come from another other address such as @coinex.ws

Please be careful and make sure you verify that any emails you receive from somewhere are actually legitimate.

Well i personally have not received payouts for 6 days of mining. sooooo... probably about 750,000 coins... somewhere in that area. herpes.

anybody know what's going on with the validerror pool? they said they've been "investingating issues in the backend" and that all shares and hashrates are safe. they seem to be working now, but i haven't received any payout for the last three or four days of mining there. herpes.

i'm lasterer! you should give me the BTC
send it here: 13QkiRAj7jonoZn7HBquWFAydHWy4NdWc5

pssst... i'm poor and actually NEED it.

Why not just use Multibit or Electrum for your BTC wallet and keep everything offline? Or if you need the daemon for your system to work, just download the QT and let it sync. These options seem much more secure than leaving your funds in an exchange wallet. Seems like ANY site that's handling user funds should be using their own offline wallet and not trusting their private keys to anybody.

Amusing parody from Ledra Capital: what if government and media looked at paper money the way they do at Bitcoin?

Excerpts, though the whole thing is comedy gold if you are a Bitcoin maven:

Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide



World governments announced a plan today to allow citizens to anonymously carry parts of their wealth on their person and exchange it with others using small pieces of colorful paper printed with nationalistic and Masonic imagery along with numbers that purportedly represent the amount of wealth each piece of paper represents (if the paper is not a counterfeit). These pieces of paper are formally a "note" from each nation's central bank, but they are also called "cash" by many - this is a technical matter that is too complex to cover in our basic primer; Suffice it to say, that it is representative of the complexity and user-unfriendliness of this new system....

In what will come as a surprise to generations who have grown up with calculators and computers, ‘bills’ only come in fixed denominations, requiring users to maintain a large number of these pieces of paper that must be aggregated to execute a transaction and then re-aggregated to ‘make change,’ a complex process of returning to the payee the excess of the payment using yet other bills.  (Don’t worry if this sounds complex, we had trouble understanding it ourselves at first and it is certainly not ready for the average consumer in its current form.) ...

The launch of cash has provoked an immediate reaction from law-enforcement agencies worldwide that universally condemned the development.

“Cash is a 100% anonymous and untraceable payments technology.   It is like a weapon of mass destruction launched against law enforcement,” said Mike Smith, the recently confirmed FBI Director.  “It is the perfect payment mechanism for criminals, drug cartels, terrorists, prostitution rings and money launderers....

Banking Superintendent of New York State, Mike Smith had the following to say: “I can’t think of any reason that a law-abiding individual would want to use cash. At a bare minimum, we believe there should be a licensing procedure for individuals or businesses that plan to use cash, a ‘Cash-License’ as it were...."

Others have concerns about forgery and counterfeiting.  “Ultimately, even with all the fancy inks, cash is just a piece of paper.   We fully expect criminal groups and rogue nation states to print fake cash in order to profit or to disrupt the economies of their enemies,” said Mike Smith, an analyst at Stratfor.  “In the interim, we are certain that cash will trade a discount in the real-world, given the risk to a counterparty of accepting a forged piece of paper; no doubt cash is a huge step back from the modern cryptography in place throughout our current financial system.”.....

Though hard to imagine, cash operates with no consumer protection at all.   If your ‘bills’ are stolen or lost, they are gone forever....

Sure, some people may market "wallets" that will supposedly protect your cash, but:

But some early adopters have reported that the hardware wallets have security flaws.   “I was out in Bangkok two weeks ago at a bar and I forgot my Gucci wallet there,” said Mike Smith, a visiting tourist.    “When I returned the next morning, my wallet was there but my cash was gone!”  We contacted Gucci regarding this hacking attack, but a spokesperson would not comment “about confidential customer financial matters.”


Even criminals have not been immune to the risks of cash.   The notorious “Silk Road” drug-dealing marketplace, where vendors and customers left envelopes full of cash (on which they had very clearly written their names) in an anonymous drop-box that managed the exchange, mysteriously closed last week, citing ‘theft of the cash due to a bug in the envelope sealing process.’ ....'

In what might be most unusual limitation on cash, it only works for payments within 36 inches or less (or the so-called “arm’s length transaction” as hackers in the community have colorfully titled it) as it has to be handed from one (human) party to another to execute the transaction.

This requirement is widely thought to be a fatal flaw of cash by traditionalists.

Mike Smith, VP of Retail Banking at Chase said: “A form of payment that cannot be used at a distance, cannot be used for e-commerce, cannot be used by mobile devices, cannot be used for machine based transactions, cannot be scripted or programmed, cannot be thought of as a payment system....

Remarkably, if you attempt to use cash in a different country from the one that issued it, it will categorically be rejected....

Economists are flabbergasted that lawmakers have allowed cash to be adopted....

Environmentalists expressed concerns about the impact of cash on the environment.  “You would have thought that in 2014, we would have moved beyond pesticide and water intensive cotton farming [retracted: cutting down trees], treating the cotton with dangerous inks and transporting it with fossil fuels, only to represent a value like “20” that can be represented electronically at effectively no cost....."