In my opinion is it not that important with a new addy for each transaction. If using escrow then must the addy be in OP too, that asshole has pulled out the same trick pretending to be Yankee.

If someone start a collecting a bounty that we can put on this guys head, then will I tip in. He has scammed the community of at least 10 BTC. He might have gotten lazy and transfer loot directly to exchange or trader on localbitcoins. In that case would it be pretty easy of a bounty hunter to track him down.

Sorry bitguy for hickjacking the thread.

OT:
bitguy101 has a beautiful MS65 error coin for sale.

If you want to try out a PoS coin, and minting your own coin - then is buying MINT a great time. There is a whole new management and dev team in place, looks very promising (imo).

By the way, it take approximately 20 days for your coins to mature, which means if you transfer MINT to your mint-wallet today, then will it take ~20 days before you can earn the interest your own coins.

It is not decided if or how the spec should be changed, at this point is there an open discussion about it, feel free to share your opinion.

About the "the speed of the coin", if you mean the confirmation time, then have I not heard about any suggestion to change this. The stake reward is independently of the block confirmations.

+1

All of us really need to do this. We need to make it standard when selling coins here - to protect the potential buyers.

I have seen so many newbies being scammed by this horrible trick, and it makes me same sick in my stomach each time.
If you get scammed like this when trying to buy your first physical coin, you would most likely not attempt to do it again, which is such a shame.

Absolutely, it was good times. Much pool, many coin - wow 

Oh you are serious ...  

The antminer U2 can be used to mine SHA-256 based coins.
Litecoin is a scrypt based algorithm, so you cannot mine litecoin with antminer U2.

Here is a good place to start:
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency  

However the calculations does not take difficulty into consideration...

I can see that you knowledge-wise are almost starting from scratch, you could consider getting a used graphic card, I have seen a R9 280X sold for less than $100. And then mine a bit and get some experience. You will not make a profit, but you can make some experience, and after you will still have a ok graphic card to play games with.

Alternative strategy would be to invest in a PoS coin, like MINT or BC. Then use your normal PC to stake coins. But getting into altcoin is also a risky business.

But really, you should HOLD ON TO THOSE BITCOINS and not spend them.

touché

Are you planing on mining litecoin with a antminer u2?   

Thanks for the reply DJ. I will not bid on this one, little too special for me. I hope you will get more than 1 BTC for the coin.
Good luck with the sale

How "cleaned" is the holo? if you can ask such a question. Has the holo print been "cleaned" away, or has it just been wiped with a cloth?

Thanks for the update, he properly cashed out.
Nevertheless I have nothing bad to say about pronoob, like I said he was always very friendly and helpful to me.

coolbeans94 made the stake graph in OP, I believe he still have the source - try sending him a PM.

Oldest trick in the book 

Awesome - big applause.

The transparency is so great.
I admire that the team is not anonymous (like 99% of all other altcoins).

Absolutely, a MRI scan of the entire hand or body is much more secure than a fingerprint. But as said before, biometric is not deterministic, which make them poor to use for encryption and message signing.

But seriously, encrypt your private keys and use a password that is impossible to guess or brute force. Save the encrypted files in the could. That should do it.

one solution to this would simply be to destroy your private key, then is it impossible to steal the funds from you...

Congrats on your first bitcoins

My best advice to you is to SAVE them. You will most likely be better of not mining.  
Spend your time reading and learning how to safely store you bitcoins, instead of reading how to mine bitcoins.

Hide them away safe, promise your self not to spend them. In a few years will you be happy about that decision.

For mycelium, yes. But I rarely keep more than $100 in my mycelium wallet, use it primarly for micro transaction.
Just like I would rarely have more than $100 on me in cash.

If I need to spend big bucks, then will I need to have access to my cold storage.

What happen to Probooob?
I know there is a lot FUD - but he was always very helpful and polite to me, with solving mining issues.