It takes forever for AML certification (10 business days), but once I have that I can do it in one transaction into the US.

Try, perhaps, coinbase.com or blockchain.info.

If it was on a site that traded USD or currency as well, it could be mt. Gox, or Bitstamp.

The bandwidth graph has what units? Kilobits/sec? Kilobytes/sec? Something else?

I think there should be one or a small set of trusted intermediaries if someone seeks to donate only a small amount. Or would that still go through to a student in need?

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I think the Mt. Gox/Mt. Sox thing is going to be a bit of a problem for some people. In addition, as the questions are scrambled, it may ask you about how many bitcoins were seized from Silk Road, allowing one to then easily answer the question about what the shutdown illegal organization was.

Anyway, it was quite fun, and I am waiting to be topped.

Anyway, you should add more technical questions about transaction fees, mining pools, et cetera.

Erm, ask in the appropriate altcoin thread.

3 khash/sec isn't going to help you either, no matter the coin. It's just too small to even hope for a price per hashing power imbalance to help. Mine on a real GPU.

No, this is most definitely not:


Having wallet.dat on a USB stick and unencrypted isn't a good idea. Having keys in Excel and on loose sheets of paper under the keyboard is even worse.

The Live CD is going to help you get around keyloggers, but the way you're making it, it just opens a new security hole. Get an antivirus or use something like Trezor.

That's what I do. I keep public keys for my cold storage addresses on blockchain, and private/public pairs for my day-to-day addresses. That way, I can keep track of my possessions online, but only actually use them with cold-storage access.

25khash is far too slow. I'm just getting by at 27 Mhash, which is barely enough BTC to use for experimentation in the system, let alone for actual profit. I'd invest in better hardware or into coins directly on an exchange.

Already sold yesterday

Anyway, I hate to speculate. I just needed fiat from my bitcoin services so I cashed out on Gox.

I'll gladly check it, but you have no way to know that I'm not taking your private keys and absconding with the loot. An open-source tool or hand-checking is probably your best bet.

Speaking of blockchain.info, I'm not an idiot, and I do not reuse passwords. If you do reuse passwords and have a sizable sum in Coinbase or Blockchain, you kind of are asking for your coins to be phished out of your hands.

That I wouldn't know. I only use Ubuntu and its close relatives, Debian and Backtrack.

Having a stranger run a tool that can recover keys given your data poses the risk that your would-be rescuer may abscond with the keys and steal your money.

Quite simply put, their history would not be accepted by the majority of the network. Mining must occur sequentially where each block is based on the previous in a chain. If the rouge servers try to mess with this their blocks won't actually validate as part of the chain when cryptographic checks are done.

They could start a new coin system, however, separate and not trying to interfere with the main chain. That is called an altcoin. Many examples exist like Namecoin (NMC), litecoin (LXC), et cetera.

Bitcoin prices vs fiat have been screwy recently, in my humble opinion. Some faucets that operate fiat-pain ads and buy btc just may not be able to sustain buying enough BTC for reasonable faucet transactions, leading to a grinding stop to faucet operations until the situation with the transactions or economics becomes more workable for that faucet.

Perhaps a fat-finger or other sort of human error?

Mobo would be the least of your worries. You may need to get GPU drivers. The drivers with Ubuntu are generally open-source stand-ins, with minimal functionality and most likely no bitcoin mining. You'll need to use the additional drivers feature of software center(a standalone tool on older Ubuntu versions) to install nvidia-common or fglrx for nVidia and ATI, respectively. Don't forget drivers for any ASICs or FPGAs.

Heat can also be an issue. Ubuntu has spotty fan control, so watch your temps and be ready to reconfigure BIOS to force fans to high if anything goes wrong. Most of the time fans should be fine, or may be forced to full power--noisier but safe, though overheating from moribund fans that are being requested to run at low speeds by the OS is not unheard of.

Nonsense, I made $270 mining on this piece-of-junk laptop I'm using at 27 Mhash/sec, just recently.

That's the point of 2-factor. That it can't be stolen that way. Using strong crypto, 2-factor creates a new key each time, and invalidates it. If a hacker steals your 2-factor token it would have already expired due to your using it, so I wouldn't worry too much. Still, make sure you're using software from official sources/sites.