BBQCoin

That's funny, I don't usually consider scamming people to be "work". Ironically, the scammers did pretty much none of the work this time (PersonX made the code changes, and PersonY helped compile it - both of whom are helping foil it now).

Meh, I don't deserve credit for shutting down this scam. I just did the fun part, writing the code.

Guys who are actually mining with it: Good job!

Ironically, the majority of the BBQCoin creators support this BBQFoil project

Edit: The troll starting this thread is completely wrong on the reason for the BBQFoil project. The purpose is more like white blood cells: to eliminate a harmful substance in the body. In this case, those who would turn Bitcoin into a pyramid scheme scam.

Sure it's possible. Just accept SHA256 merged mining.

But seriously, I was joking. I'd get my FPGAs merge-mining empty blocks if Litecoin did this.

Maybe you should enable merged mining so miners can mine Litecoins without losing out on Bitcoins...  

I used exactly this setup when Sandy Bridge first came out. What you need to do is create a separate xorg.conf for each GPU, then start the Radeon's X server with the options "-sharevts -novtswitch :2" (ideally without any applications on it); then, just export DISPLAY=:2 before you start your miner.

Just thought I'd point out Console2 for Windows users who don't like the limitations of Microsoft's command window.

WFM

It is impossible to design a proof-of-work that cannot be specialized (eg, ASICs). Designing them to be resistent to existing technologies increases the security risk such specialization presents. Simple proofs like SHA256 (in Bitcoin) have proven to work well, since it scales up in tiers (CPU -> GPU -> FPGA -> ASIC).

Litecoin is a scam - there is no such thing as a "CPU coin" and never can be. I think Con is only doing this because he's being paid - in Bitcoins

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Litecoin#Criticism

Because that's how Satoshi did it. sipa's ultraprune may elminate giant blk000*.dat files though.

Correct.

Huh?

+1

I didn't take anything from anyone else.

I didn't DDoS anything. And yes, I foiled their fraud plans. Doesn't change the fact that they outright robbed me.

FWIW, they outright robbed me a number of months ago.

I built a "final-state" blk0001.dat with the first 188529 blocks (0 to 188528), in order with no orphan blocks. I loaded it into a bitcoind with BlueMatt's transaction-index-pruning code, and produced a 151 MB blkindex.dat to go with it.

This accomplishes reducing the overall disk space used by my 19 (!) bitcoin data directories:

• This blk0001.dat can be hard linked between them all - saves about 36 GB
• blkindex.dat is much smaller, since it has all the spent transactions pruned

So here it is for anyone else who wants it (thanks to jrmithdobbs and wizkid057 for 100mbit and gigabit seeds!):

• Installation instructions
• PGP signature
• Torrent download (magnet)

Tip: If you copy your current blk0001.dat into your download directory and rescan, you may be able to skip a large chunk of the download.

I intentionally did not compress blk0001.dat; since you need this file anyway, the remaining data (compressed) only takes up 64 MB - please continue to seed!

Edit: Please note that if you use git master (0.7+), you must not use the included blkindex.dat, or it will break getrawtransaction - use the 0.7 instructions in the INSTALL.txt file!

All legal (if they really are just backups...). Besides,

• you just confessed to having all that publicly
• having illegal copies of stuff isn't criminal in most jurisdictions, so only copyright holders care, not prosecutors

Because most of the people competent to sit on a jury are too lazy to do it and often evade it?

Also, the laws regarding child pornography are pretty ridiculous in "developed nations"; you don't need to have ever intentionally done anything, if it ever touched your hard drive in some way or another, you're guilty.

LOL'd