Build Avira rescue disk, boot from it and see what you can find. When your windoze is not running, even the smarter viruses cannot hide.

Same here. I really hope that the bot has good logs, else Marco will have a lot of ppl to check.

I use Digital Currency Widget, it tells me the price of BTC and of the altcoins I need to know.

I don't spend too much, so I don't use wallet on android. Safer too this way.

Yes, but you will cry if in a couple of years your son will see some dusty HDDs and will sell them to buy some booze, you know...
That's why best is to wipe your data before you forget about that.

Big amounts and small amounts are kept safe in the same way.
If you make yourself a good number of paper wallets and fill them with random amounts, it's already a good start.
If you own a lot of BTC, you can afford the best hardware wallet for the daily expenses.

I suggest you read (a lot) more on this subject, since your questions show that you are complete newbie.


Actually any deleted file in normal ways is still there on HDD for quite some time and somebody can retrieve it if he has access to the computer.
However, nowadays there are virtual computers you can make, use, then destroy and it's just fine.
Of you can just wipe the free space after deleting the files.

Yes. Gamble with faucet pennies at freebitco.in . It's the only place I know you are not allowed to deposit. Don't expect to win much though. But it's safe and you cannot lose.
Make sure you never gamble anywhere else, cause you'll start depositing your own money

1. China market has fallen. Some may have bought Bitcoin instead.
2. The normal fluctuations, pump and dump.

It's such a small change you should not care too much about.

Let's say your altcoin is named ALT.

Let's say 1BTC = X$
Let's say 1 ALT = YBTC

Then 1 ALT = YBTC = Y*X$
1 ALT = X*Y$
Simple math.

Now, this is aproximative, because there's for each one the SELL price and the BUY price. But the difference is not that big to matter.
So if the ALT price in BTC is constant, and BTC price in $ grows, then ALT price in $ also grows.

Actually coins like XMR, where only the owner and the bank has view keys and nobody else (unless the bank or the owner shares the view key) can see the funds in that wallet could make more sense.
And however, there are plenty of established coins, why pick the most expensive?

But this doesn't make sense. Because the whole idea of these coins is decentralization, meaning the opposite of what banks do.


What banks can do is to use the blockchain. Colored coins, side chains, store of information, even transfer of value... there are plenty of good uses for it.

Banks and paper money are the government's tools to protect their politics. If you look in history, paper money decreases the value constantly over long periods of time.
Banks are deeply tied into governments, the only way to make all the banks get extinct is to change the way the politics, the democracy and the governments work.
Some of banking businesses will disappear because of Bitcoin.
However, this will happen in generations, not in a few years, so please don't hope too much

Halving means that starting with one certain moment miners will get half of the money they got in the previous days (simplified).
This means that halving happens in an instant, will not get there gradually.

Halving is a very good moment for pump and dump, but on various altcoins it didn't actually affect the price significantly.

On the news. If I remember correctly somebody stole some big amount of BTC.
It was a few months before MtGox "crash". I even tried to make account there, but changed my mind when they asked for ID scan

If you only want to learn, try to find an altcoin which is either just started existing, either has a rather small community.

Or you can try XMG, which is designed to drive off the big miners.
Now, laptop is not good for mining, since you'll use it 24/7 and the laptop components are not great on continuous heavy use.
A CPU that can do AES (I think gen 2+ i5/i7) will already do OK. Or a good gaming GPU.

Mining is hard to do. Keep in mind that all this hardware will get you pennies/day and may not pay for the electricity. So it's only for learning indeed.

Just a thought, please don't shoot me if I'm wrong: maybe it's a MultiDoge key file and not MultiBit?

Bitcoin debit card may be a solution, though not the cheapset option....

If your electricity is dirt cheap, you have a small chance for it.
But you'll need the rather expensive hardware....

Please also take the coming halving into account and the fact (not very likely, still not impossible) bitcoin drops a lot again.

Unfortunately for you, bitcoin is 440$, not 250$. And that's how people will do the math....

Good luck though...

Go to Network and Sharing and see if your network cards are all there and enabled.
Maybe your current OS has no good drivers for your old PC....

Wow, this is the best news for me today!
Is this one of the reasons for the new wave of price increase?

Google keeps an eye on crypto for quite a while (I remember the April 1st Dogengineer ad some years ago too), telling good things about Bitcoins on such a channel is a very big thing.

You may be able to get more than that with rather small effort on Poloniex lending area. And it feels more legit too.