Yes, but a cat with a straw in its mouth would do a better job at protecting your wallet. If your yubikey is keylogged, it can actually be re-used by an attacker due to the way BC.info decided to support Yubikeys (the wrong way).

Now compare that to the thousands of merchants that accept BTC.

I completely do. I don't buy BTC and hope that the value goes up, I buy BTC to spend.

Let me ask you this, what other reasons is there to buy LTC, other than hoping the value goes up?

Also, I'd just like to point out that I don't hate Litecoin, in fact I used to use it back when it was a true CPU chain & it was being accept for products/services, but now I honestly fail to see the point of it, I don't think there is a big enough market for altchains that directly compete with Bitcoin at the moment.

So, then setup slush as a backup pool on your miners? most mining applications support this (cgminer for one).

Slush has been using this reward system for years now, I don't think he has any plans to change it even though it is slightly unfair by design.

You're right, so we aren't even in violation of any licensing agreements (I was sure there was some sort of license, apparently not),

Just setup one machine as a P2Pool relay node and then you can use that as a normal pool for the rest of your miners, or if you don't want to do that, connect to someone elses node, bitpop had a fee-free tx-paying node a while ago that was hosted on amazon cloud & had amazing connectivity & uptime,  not sure if he's still running it though.

This is actually easier than using a normal pool as you don't even need to setup workers or even an account at the pool, just use your BTC address as your username and your done.

EDIT:

p2pool node list: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66182.0

Setting up your own relay node: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0

You weren't scammed. Having worked with SMS payment gateways many times before, I can tell you for a fact that SMS payments are seriously unreliable & break all the time. This looks like a problem with Blockchain's SMS payment provider. I'm sure BC.info will get back to you and resolve this soon, just give them a bit more time.

I can't believe people still pay fees to pools, why isn't everyone using p2pool, or one of the various no-fee, tx paying, super low stale p2pool nodes?

There is no way of converting. some GPU's will be faster than others because Scypt is so different to SHA256 (for example LTC mining uses your GPU's RAM while BTC mining doesn't really use your GPU's RAM at all).

You need to look-up your hardware here:

http://wiki.litecoin.net/index.php/Mining_hardware_comparison

Nope, much much lower.

Bitcoin uses SHA-256 as its hashing algorithm, while Litecoin uses Scrypt.

The short answer is Scrypt is slower. One Scrypt hash needs much more processing power to compute than one SHA-256 hash.

The total Litecoin network hash rate at the moment is estimated at: 713Mhash, thats all the Litecoin miners together, just to put things into perspective.

Does anyone know if MtGox Yubikeys work with the Yubikey personalization tool?

IE, can I reprogram them like normal yubikeys?

If so I may be interested in this as I'm about to order a bunch of Yubikeys direct from Yubico.

Sure it uses SHA-256 which was developed by NSA, but so does EVERYTHING. Banks & fortune 500's use SHA-256, Facebook use SHA-256 for its password database, many Linux distro's store user password's using SHA-256, heck even the software that is running this forum (SMF) has an option to use SHA-256 to hash the password database & I would assume this is the option that is currently being used.

You're totally right about it being property of the US government & AFAIK you technically need a license to use it which obviously we don't have, that isn't a huge problem though, take a look at Linux, many distro's violate a bunch of software patents & licenses and nothing happens from it.


I'd love to know what you think it really means.

IMO, litecoin is kinda pointless. There are very few services that accept them & it has very few advantages over Bitcoin. 99% of litecoin users are using it as a get-rich-quick scheme by either mining the crap out of it (using GPU's even though its original purpose was to be unprofitable to GPU mine on) or just buying and hoping the value goes up.

You'll most likely need an admin account to do this, also, unless your campus has a few million PC's (or a relatively new ATI gaming GFX card) I doubt you'll ever generate a coin in total doing this.

Or just wire money to an exchange?

LOL. That's going in my sig.

Export the private keys from your current wallet software and import them into MultiBit.

It all depends on what you're trying to do.

If you're trying to test the strength of your router by sniffing packets, doing packet injection, and then using said captured packets to decrypt a WEP or WPA key, I'd use Kismet to gather information on the AP & aircrack-ng to capture packets, do injection & crack the key.

Its been 4 years since I played with any of this stuff, but back then Kismet was useless at packet injection IIRC.

I've never heard of Grimwepa before, but it looks like the dev team have abandoned the project, it looks like a nice easy to use tool, have no idea if its any good though.

Hey MPOE-PR, can you explain whats going on here?

http://www.freelancer.com/projects/Data-Processing-Data-Entry/Wordpress-Related-Data-Entry-Plenty.html

http://www.freelancer.com/job-search/polimedia/

TAILS is based on Debian, it should work fine, you can use the .deb install package to save you the hassle of having to compile the code yourself.