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exactly, kinda tossed them around like popcorn heh
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Congratulations dude I am very happy for your happy ending. I haven't had any old wallets of mine to recover but I have heard a lot of horror stories of people throwing away their obsolete HDD drives from desktop and laptop machines.
thanks. I dont even know if I still have the laptop I ran that Ubuntu wallet on. might be in the shed somewhere but I recycled a few laptops and towers a couple years back. but I do pull drives from anything I recycle and toss them in the Stuff box. got a couple RLL and MFM 5.25s in that box. Ive been smiling all day. my wife too. |
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yeah thats why I looked back over my transaction list, to see what the 1st transaction was. it was from Slushs pool mined on an HD4850  Woow it's really cool, seems like cloud mining was profitable, you are so lucky,first you are the early adopter and just found 5 bitcoin on your old wallet, such a great story. Anyway the only thing that i just wondering is how much bitcoin that faucet site give to the peoples? it must be high rewards, isn't it? no, slush is a pool. it still exists. when I 1st did bitcoin Slushs pool had clearer instructions on setting up GPUs and the bitcoin wallet than anywhere else. so Slush was the 1st place I mined. the HD4850 I mined with was low powered at that point but since I had it I used it to prove bitcoin worked. once I sold the coin, converted it to USD and transferred it to my bank account, I then grabbed some modern cards (modern at that point was the HD6xxx series). used mtgox and dwolla to convert to fiat. luckily I saw the red flags at mtgox and split. |
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And I am totally new to the world of bitcoin, my bitcoin wallet is about a few months older, I have created it on this year 2016 and the first transaction to it was from faucetbox.
yeah thats why I looked back over my transaction list, to see what the 1st transaction was. it was from Slushs pool mined on an HD4850 |
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Personally I have never found a wallet lying around because I always make sure that I know where the current wallet is, and I always pack the wallets together when doing backups and put them in different places but I always remember where the wallets are, so no chance for me to find some forgotten wallets.
my backup plan is more organized now. FreeNAS rig in the basement with ZFS Z1 (like RAID 5). but back then it was "copy anything important everywhere you can" type of thing. now after this as i find old wallets Im putting them in one place to check them out. most are copies of the main wallet but namecoin and litecoin wallets are there too. |
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[...]even if i have used them a long time ago the addresses are imported in blockchain.info as watch only to inform me about their balances thats a good idea for sure. Im still running the same wallet from 2011 on my daily driver PC. made some others on various offline machines just to move them out of the main wallet around when wallets were not encrypted. now most btc are in paper wallets but slowly moving some to the trenzor. |
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its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion price around aug 2011 was around $10. hmm even if i bought some random currency online for fifty bucks. im definitely sure I'd remember it lol. Although i remember finding a really small amount amount of bitcoins in a wallet that i stored on my old USB drive. have no clue when i got those. I probably just figured Id transfer it out again to my main wallet, just never got around to it. back then when it was new to me I was testing things to see how it worked. this wallet originally was on an old laptop I ran ubuntu on. |
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Do you guys think cloud storage is good for backups or an external drive is better?
both. but I like local. redundant, rolling and multiple backups is whats saved me on more than one occasion. one is always in a bank safe deposit box. all encrypted of course. heh this wallet was so old it was before encryption was in core. |
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so just happened to scroll back through my wallets history. its the original wallet I made back in 2011. one transaction said "sent: Ubuntu". never remembered it. with no corresponding "received from Ubuntu" well.. I back things up like crazy and sure enough look through old backups and theres a file named "Ubuntu.wallet.dat". oh yeah.. rename my current installs wallet.dat, copy the ubuntu one in, rescan and there it is. 5.0 bitcoin. exactly that one transaction. nothing else. its kinda like finding a couple grand under the sofa cushion price around aug 2011 was around $10. so, anyone else find old btc you forgot you had? talk about HODLing |
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+5.5 = FUBAR-BDHR I gave you a + value
+5.7 = vapourminer your 5.5 was taken I gave you 5.7
ingiltere the 5.6 is a substitute
vapourminer the 5.7 is a substitute
both of you can keep them or change them before picks end.
Also to vapourminer you are welcome it has been work, but a lot of fun.
phil sorry for not paying attention *cough* oops 5.7 is good for me |
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+5.5 = FUBAR-BDHR I gave you a + value
+5.7 = vapourminer your 5.5 was taken I gave you 5.7
ingiltere the 5.6 is a substitute
vapourminer the 5.7 is a substitute
both of you can keep them or change them before picks end.
Also to vapourminer you are welcome it has been work, but a lot of fun.
phil sorry for not paying attention *cough* oops 5.7 is good for me |
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i like the same 5.5 i had last pick..
+5.5 = vapourminer
and thank you phil for your time effort and BTC so therefore making this fun
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id kinda like to see the trenzor stay more focused on btc.
more code = more opportunities for bugs. sure open source vetted and such but i like devices that handle money to be simple, somewhat specialized to their purpose (as opposed to general propose do it all) and reliable.
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I am new to linux and bitcoin mining and I am having some issues. Heres what I am working with:
Raspberry Pi 2 with Raspbian Wheezy (fully up to date as of yesterday)
1 GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer currently plugged directly in the the RPi USB (not a powered hub/no cooling)
cgminer 4.9.2 all set up following Novaks guide on this site for cgminer-gekko
can the rpi 2 actually put out enough current to its usb port? the compac generally needs .5 amp or more depending on its speed and voltage settings. what are you powering the rpi with? most all of us that run rpis as controllers run the compacs on powered hubs |
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a r9 390 is on its way.
what kind of internet bandwidth does eth need?
It does not need much internet bandwidth for mining. 1Mb/s is enough for the data transmission. You need low latency. 1 Mb/s seems high? cgminer on btc is like a few Kb/s I think. I was hoping much less as Im wireless internet (think 3g). Ill be just mining and trading eth for btc as I go. hope not to need the full blockchain. guess Ill find out |
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a r9 390 is on its way.
what kind of internet bandwidth does eth need?
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@vopourminer, how many 290 cards are you able to get and what are they costing you? My 290 hashes at about 23.5 and my 289X's at 21.5. In my area the 280X costs about $200 and the 290 about $300 making the 280X pay itself of faster. Canadian $
dunno yet. newegg/amazon is my goto place now looking at 380Xs $235ish I have two. I like 380x very much better then 280x. thankyou all very good info, this is just the fastest to quote, i have read with great interest the other posts below this one but this specifically lists the 380X from one who has two. good good from VR standpoint. one (possibaly two) will be mine soon. because ya know if one is good, two must be better lulz |
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@vopourminer, how many 290 cards are you able to get and what are they costing you? My 290 hashes at about 23.5 and my 289X's at 21.5. In my area the 280X costs about $200 and the 290 about $300 making the 280X pay itself of faster. Canadian $
dunno yet. newegg/amazon is my goto place now looking at 380Xs $235ish |
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thanks for el fasto answer
i can have the 290 on its way and here by next weekend
any other want to chine in?
heres another followup question r9 390 is better yes? |
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