Crackfoo,

Did you remove scrypt from Hashtap? I can't select it anymore for new taps, though the one I have keeps going and another one changed to sha256t.

Thanks - psycodad

I'll try to move the chain once a day and hope the multipools come back when the diff is low enough.

HTH

P.S.: Novaexchange works fine for SBC, I stopped using Cryptopia whenever possible as too many wallets there are not connected or in maintenance.

Question from a Byteball-newb: What files do I backup to be able to restore the wallet on another computer (i.e. 'wallet.dat' in other coins) ?

TIA - psycodad

Same here since about a week. Stopped mining EAC for the moment.

That might seem like a stupid question, but did you check if you have enough free space in the partition where /home is?

HTH

Slimcoin has been mentioned in the below article as an example for Proof of Burn:

http://www.coindesk.com/short-guide-blockchain-consensus-protocols/

I've noticed the fedoracoin.xyz domain (web and one of the explorers) is down, so the windows wallet is not available anymore.

Also obviously cryptoid BE has expired too, so currently there is no block explorer running.

Does anybody have an original copy of the windows wallet from fedoracoin.xyz?

They say "Blockchain broken.".

I guess it has to do with the insanely low 8 block to maturity. At 60s blocktime this just asks for unintentional doublespends when short forks happen.

I'd still vote for Novaexchange, seems like it is growing steadily.

P.S.: Thank you for 4.7, some nice additions and improvements!

I am very sorry if my honest questions came over as spreading FUD, I do take offense from your statement to a certain degree as I supported this project by mining since the very first day. And you seem to keep honest questions for FUD while all the factless shilling going here obviously doesn't bother you much.

I have made my research before I asked and from that little research I concluded that the below excerpt represents roughly what the recognized experts in this field think:
from: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf

From my understanding when a quantum computer is available it allows integer factorization in a much much faster way, rendering all ECC based signing algos insecure by easily deriving the private key from the public key. As I get it, Bitcoin is doomed if you have a quantum computer.

In a blogpost from 2015 Bruce Schneier says:

So I have to conclude you have very very big things in your hands and I completely understand that you will not spill all the beans just because I asked. After all this futuristic quantum computing stuff is a multi-billion dollar thing, though I would have avoided to be as noisy about it as you were. If you sit on knowledge on making a quantum computer within the next 5 years some 3-letter agencies will probably make you guys "job offers you just can't decline".

I did my research before I posted and came up with questions which, given the nature and high level profile of your undertakings, understandably can't be replied in a satisfying way without giving away the recipe for the secret sauce. So I will refrain from asking more stupid questions and will impatiently wait to see quantum computing benefitting BTA and making us hodlers all Lambo owners on the way.

Let me first say, that I have been very impressed by your decision in 2015 to relaunch BTA when you found out there was an unfair instamine by one miner. Since then you have been a really responsible, community-focussed and upright honest dev. That's, especially here in the bct swamps, seldom enough and highly appreciated!

The information about new developments and directions for BTA in the last days so far have been mildly confusing to say the least. I have currently no more idea what bartering, entangled coins, DAO, drug discovery and PQC will have to do with the future BTA and where that ship is sailing to currently.

The last days I tried hard to do my own research on EntangleIT, Richard Hein, PQC and some of the marketing buzzwords that appeared here. I am not the wiser. Even so my lousy english and my limited intellectual resources as simple plumber joe may be keeping me from seeing that big picture, I suspect many other long term fans of BTA feel the same level of confusion.

I am just trying to make sure, you see where my seemingly stupid questions are coming from.

Please allow me some questions so I can get hopefully a better understanding what this current hype is (rather was) about and if I want to further stay onboard this ship:

• What has quantum computing to do with all this?
• You quoted Richard Hein saying "BTA is now Entangled with Bitcoin - Believe it or Not", you left it standing alone as if it was speaking for itself. Can you explain what this entanglement means in practice (please consider explaining it like to little children so that I really get it)
• Can you or Richard Hein explain what advancements the Blockchain brought or will bring to drug discovery? I just struggle to make that link.
• Can we get some more details about what "auditing and healing" blockchains means in practice or simply how the linking/entangling with Bitcoin or nthcoin will benefit BTA technically or economically?
• What is that splitting into 12 coins about? (Again, please consider the childish and intellectually challenged among us when explaining)

Thanks in advance for your time and no matter if I end up getting a clue or not, I wish you success.

Thanks for your quick reaction, will give it another whirl later this week.

Orphans happen from time to time, no matter if mining or staking. Check your transactions, I am quite sure these have been orphaned.

HTH

Alternative facts?
People that actually have a L3 say something different:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1734098.msg17561765#msg17561765

And with 5-10$ you can make an A2 or A4 as silent as a purring cat. You need a soldering iron though, but when you run a Titan you probably already have one.

Wanted to give it a try, deposited 0.01 BTC but I seem unable to find out how to rent scrypt miners, scrypt is not under the algo list though it is listed with a hash tap price on the right.

For what you sell your Titans is your business no need to justify your price, but honestly I couldn't stop rolling on the floor laughing when I read about "made in Europe and Chinese garbage" - seriously, I mean really?
The Titan is certainly a nice miner for the time when it came out, but it is lousy designed and poorly build from controller to cube to spell it politely. Designed by swedish ignorants that think they are not bound to Ohms law.

Oh wait, you named it already: European quality. Reminds me of the fire extinguisher "made in Britain" in the TV series IT crowd.

Good luck with your sale anyway, just sell it at good price but stop claiming everything else is garbage.

恭喜发财!

I haven't tried to build any coind under OpenBSD yet (but will try to soon), I expect it to be pretty hairy compared to building on an Ubuntu or Debian.

Though I wouldn't say OpenBSD or BSD is not for developers or compiling/coding. For example building the complete OpenBSD (kernel and userland) from source is a very straightforward process.

Hope your OpenBSD tryout will be as refreshing and surprising as it was for me back in 1999.

OpenBSD comes with a secure-by-default setup and it is lightweight. Though, if you did not already setup linux at the time when you had to partition your disk yourself and configure your network manually you might find it very painful to get started with OpenBSD (but there is excellent guidance out there [1, 2] and the effort pays out if you want a highly secure and stable platform!).

The setup/install has been simplified a lot since I started with version 2.6 sometimes 1999 but it is still not "insert disk and click OK three times to accept some defaults"

On the plus side:

• High quality man pages (Linux improved there in the last years, but so many man pages in Linux are still just useless and I have yet to find a bad one in OpenBSD).
• Most system components are audited and fixed by highly capable people in the OpenBSD team.
• Integrated firewall (pf) that I would argue is the best open source packet filter out there and compared to the huge mess that iptables ruleset are it is almost natural to read the rules.
• OpenBSD is the home of OpenSSH and comes with strong and robust crypto
• OpenBSD team is strictly commited to Open Source principles, they never accept borked license agreements, things that do not comply with their BSD license are kicked out.
  
• OpenBSD team boasts about "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!". This is impressing compared to every other OS.

Personally I'd recommend OpenBSD for servers or workstations that need that extra bit of security and confidence meaning you are ready to go an extra mile (or two, sometimes three ) to get the job done and you value security and stability over performance and bleeding edge features. But then you can lean back and just let it hum along. The OS might look ancient because it lacks a lot of features, but then again everything that's in OpenBSD has been done right from the beginning.

I'd say OpenBSD is the most secure OS in the world. But like with the most secure car for example, you should not expect it to be the fastest or the most beautiful car. If you have an old pc or can launch a VM with 256MB RAM and 4G disk I'd recommend to give it a try. It's not just a different linux distro - it's BSD and it can be fun.

HTH

The BSD family (OpenBSD, FreeBSD etc.) is missing from your list.

I prefer OpenBSD and Debian, I try to avoid Ubuntu and all Redhat based distros since Redhat decided to cripple openssl in them. Though the switch to systemd makes me enjoy more and more OpenBSD installations over Debian.

I've never used Mac and my last Windows WS was Win2000.

2000 confirmations for deposit on Poloniex seem a bit over the top for me. That's ~2days, 18 hours...