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Q2: Can old machines be used to pool mine bipcoin? I am going to try to use an old 2Ghz system with 3GB RAM running a single core AMD 64 bit CPU. It's pretty snappy with Ubuntu 14.04 but that CPU is quite old. Tho mobo in that system has an integrated GPU, so if the wolf miner will work on that system it might produce a better hash rate than a CPU miner would.
Don't bother. To say the result will be disappointing is an understatement. Even core 2 chips are not worth it, as is the case too with anything older than sandy bridge. Also, cryptonight GPU mining is not that much more efficient than cpu, even for dedicated cards, which is why such coins are a favorite among cpu miners. I doubt that integrated gpu will even work for mining. Thanks for the info. From my research Sandy Bridge came out in 2007, so that is 10 years old now. My source is wikipedia, so it could be inaccurate / wrong. I had my doubts about mining with this old system. It might be good to put a few words on the bipcoin mining page stating mining isn't practical on systems older than X years. Sandy Bridge being 10 years old is a rather big age limit, but you'd be surprised how many people squeeze out every last drop of use from old systems. |
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Unlike many coins, we spend a lot of time on writing high-quality and easy to follow tech tutorials to simplify explaining things most coins don't bother explaining.... Perhaps for Windoze noobs, but there are gaps in the steps for linux users on how to mine, like how to select the correct YAM file to download off mega-dl site for the CPU being used to mine with. Q1: Why do you use the proprietary YAM miner in your tut? According to Atithasos it takes 2.5% of the proceeds. Atithasos says the lucas jones (wolf miner) can also be used, but it's a GPU miner not a CPU miner. I'll check into it. It requires compilation but that should be no problem. I do understand why you don't get into detailed instructions for linux users, most of whom probably already know how to mine, compile and use cmd line tools. A few words might be nice for those that are new to it tho. Q2: Can old machines be used to pool mine bipcoin? I am going to try to use an old 2Ghz system with 3GB RAM running a single core AMD 64 bit CPU. It's pretty snappy with Ubuntu 14.04 but that CPU is quite old. Tho mobo in that system has an integrated GPU, so if the wolf miner will work on that system it might produce a better hash rate than a CPU miner would. |
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 We're considering adding DNS-type functionality. We made MeowBit, the dot-bit system-wide resolver for Namecoin, and have a lot of ideas about why Namecoin failed and what could be done to fix it.  Hey Michael, how's it going these days, long time since we've crossed paths. I actually just posted this article about it on Steemit if you want to refresh your memory. Anyway, glad to see you're thinking about DNS alternatives. Rather surprising nobody has seriously proposed a solution / alternative since MeowBit and the Firefox plugin. I just heard the advert on LRN about BipCoin so I came online to do some research and stumbled onto this. |
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Man like I don't need this aggravation!
Went to pay my hosting service like I've done many times before and now Electrum pops up a message saying "Certificate has expired".
I get nothing else. I have no idea if it's Electrum's certificate or the full node it's trying to connect with. I changed the connect option from "automatic" to a specific server and I get the same error.
I did a google search with keywords electrum and certificate and found very little. One link was a guy saying he felt Electrum uses SSL rather insecurely.
What is going on, and how can I access my balance so I can make some payments?
I just installed version 2.6.4 and it produces the same error.
Thanks!
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Did you try apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module No I never found that info. I got it installed finally. Debian is a bit different, requires a "sudoers" file in addition to the sudo group. Once I got that I did the install from my normal users account but using sudo and it installed OK, replacing the launcher's 1.9.8 with 2.5.3. Didn't have any issues sending after that. The python install/setup script apparently has enough smarts to do things that require root as well as the things that don't and does the right thing for both. That's why it didn't fully work trying to install using the root account but does with sudo (path differences etc). Of course the install totally fails with just a normal user account without sudo. |
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Having trouble with the upgrade. It partially works but seems to have permission issues, probably due to python. I installed 1.9.8 with apt-get, but it's not available (unless from a PPA which I don't want to use for this) for Debian 8.2. I downloaded from electrum site ( https://download.electrum.org/2.5.3/Electrum-2.5.3.tar.gz), but from there I am not clear the "right" way to proceed. The instructions use pip to install Electrum. It will not install unless installed with a root account, which I did and it runs, I imported wallet, no issues. UNTIL I went to send a transaction. First one managed to get broadcast, but didn't show up in history. After a restart of Electrum it did, but merchant timed out waiting for it (I guess, that's how it appeared). Tried to send a second time, similar issue. Here's what the console reported: (process:4084): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
This is rather frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! |
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Stan the Man!
Sounds awesome! Thanks for putting the referral incentives into perspective.
Things are going to get real interesting this fall!
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How exciting! The crypto world could really use this positive news right now, thanks for posting this!
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Im a music producer.
You should be able to tell me this idea in a few sentences.
If I cant figure it out, and I'm in the industry how the hell is someone from the public going to? Its not that theres anything bad. I just dont see where the focus for mass adoption is. That is what you absolutely need, and there is no doubt the music industry has way bigger potential than the porn industry for using crypto coins. But its not going to happen if artists, labels, and the public have to jump through hoops to do it. Right now its incredibly easy to buy music, or listen to it, or even take it. Anything remotely more difficult than the current methods simply wont happen.
I also feel you have it the wrong way around. THE PROBLEM with the music industry now is there is no filter down money effect. It now stays at the top. Masses of small, niche, and indie artists wont see a royalty check worth a damn ever. They are where your focus should be first. Getting them on board (which wouldnt be that hard) would then get their fanbases involved etc.
The point is the vast majority of music artists make next to nothing these days contrary to what the general public believes. So any avenue or possible means of income like this would be wholly embraced.
Then again to be honest it doesn't need what seems to me a centralized system which I gotta say is very complicated to understand for newcomers to crypto like me.
this guy seems to talk sense He does have a point regarding the target of the DAC promo campaign, that it might make for faster adoption if it were marketed to the artists rather than the fans. But why does he think that's not happening? I thought the OP was very comprehensive and dealt with EVERYONE equally. The one thing this guy doesn't get is that the BitShares Music DAC is the very OPPOSITE of centralization. Perhaps he didn't read the OP fully or doesn't understand blockchain technology. He's here so there's still hope it will one day "click" and he will see how decentralized the BitShares Music DAC is, and even more secure than BitCoin's POW blockchain tech is. Finally I think this music producer dude is typical of the fast paced microwave world we all live in when he says: You should be able to tell me this idea in a few sentences. Oh really? Let me hear you tell me "in a few sentences" how the electric grid works, or your cell phone, or nuclear power or ... blockchain technology. Why do you expect difficult things to be made so simple? It devalues the accomplishment. If it was easy to explain it would be easy to do and it just isn't. And jumping through hoops is what we all have to do to play in the crypto world, at least to some degree. It's an evolving industry and convenience will come with time. Compare blockchain technology to the introduction of the Internet. How many years did it take the Internet to evolve to be user friendly and convenient. Darpa started the internet (ARPANET) way back in the 1960s. I began using it for email in the 1980s, and the WWW wasn't invented until the 1990s. So your microwave, A.D.D. short attention span, give it to me in a few sentences attitude doesn't sound very realistic IMO. The guy may be right that it will take awhile to realize the design goals of decentralized freedom blockchain technology promises as long as we have to "jump through hoops" to participate in it, but it's gonna happen baby, count on it. The human race cries for freedom, and financial freedom is long overdue! |
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Is there a chart somewhere showing the time it takes to get the 1st confirmation as a function of transaction fee % or transaction amount?
What is the average BTC transaction time and what other factors influence it significantly?
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What is the minimum number of posts required to vote or other requirements?
Where can I find the account position levels (newbie, jr. member, full member etc)?
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I created the new wallet, entered a pw, selected auto server and it says connecting... in a gray box all alone. Seems to be locked up, unless that process takes very long to complete. I'll check mem & cpu with ps... Seems to be blocked. No memory increasing, no cpu use. Also, I'm running electrum from the src as normal user not root. Wondering what the differences are between pkg install, like menu item installation, docs, man page etc. --- Decided it was taking far too long so I killed the process. I restarted it but appended an "&" to run in background. Here's what happened: a-man /usr/local/src/Electrum-1.9.8 $ ./electrum &
[1] 23391
a-man /usr/local/src/Electrum-1.9.8 $ "sni-qt/23391" WARN 15:06:48.753 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE
**8 addresses were printed, first 5 were the same as listed in the gui plus 3 more** The main gui started, but I'm not confident this is an install I can trust. |
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 Thanks Tachikoma, it seems to run, at least I get the initial dialog to create a new wallet. Who knows if slowaes is really a dependency on all platforms. It doesn't seem to be, but you may hear more from me when I proceed through the GUI and create the wallet. I suspect slowaes has to do with key generation, but there may be several algorithms to do that, slowaes being only one. As I said, stay tuned as I proceed through the installation. Thanks for your help!
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This is really strange. Could you try just downloading and extracting the source and running ./electrum ?
Sure, with a little guidance. From what url? Use wget? Are you talking about a python script or compiling the source for electrum? |
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Could you try the following? apt-get purge python-pip
wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
pip install slowaes
Ran into error on last line, pip isn't in the path. python get-pip.py
Downloading/unpacking pip
Downloading pip-1.5.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.2MB): 1.2MB downloaded
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip
Cleaning up...
a-man # pip install slowaes
bash: /usr/bin/pip: No such file or directory
So... # which pip
/usr/local/bin/pip
a-man # /usr/local/bin/pip install slowaes
Downloading/unpacking slowaes
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement slowaes (from versions: 0.1a1)
Cleaning up...
No distributions matching the version for slowaes
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log
a-man #
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In trying to install I have a missing dependency - slowaes. If anyone here can help I'd truly appreciate it. As root here's how I attempted the install: apt-get install python-qt4 python-pip All seemed to go OK, no errors reported. Then I did: pip install https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-1.9.8.tar.gz#md5=e3918fec0254267f08e41a1fb8691382 and got: Downloading/unpacking https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-1.9.8.tar.gz
Downloading Electrum-1.9.8.tar.gz (860kB): 860kB downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package from https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-1.9.8.tar.gz
Including all files
Downloading/unpacking slowaes (from Electrum==1.9.8)
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement slowaes (from Electrum==1.9.8) (from versions: 0.1a1)
Cleaning up...
No distributions matching the version for slowaes (from Electrum==1.9.8)
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log
Log file: Downloading/unpacking slowaes (from Electrum==1.9.8)
Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/slowaes/
URLs to search for versions for slowaes (from Electrum==1.9.8):
* https://pypi.python.org/simple/slowaes/
Analyzing links from page https://pypi.python.org/simple/slowaes/
Skipping link https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.4/s/slowaes/slowaes-0.1a1-py2.4.egg#md5=f1371
dc6d46230f3d22b2dfae6f9050e (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/slowaes/); unknown archive format
: .egg
Skipping link https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/slowaes/slowaes-0.1a1-py2.5.egg#md5=5fb70
1750887fa4d85b61f92cb439330 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/slowaes/); unknown archive format
: .egg
Skipping link https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/slowaes/slowaes-0.1a1-py2.6.egg#md5=2877d
c9c31352d812bfa390e0d84fc8a (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/slowaes/); unknown archive format
: .egg
Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/slowaes/slowaes-0.1a1.tar.gz#md5=eafee95a
788a795403e972a35e80ce4f (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/slowaes/), version: 0.1a1
Ignoring link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/slowaes/slowaes-0.1a1.tar.gz#md5=eafee95
a788a795403e972a35e80ce4f (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/slowaes/), version 0.1a1 is a pre-r
elease (use --pre to allow).
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement slowaes (from Electrum==1.9.8) (from ver
sions: 0.1a1)
Cleaning up...
Removing temporary dir /tmp/pip_build_root...
No distributions matching the version for slowaes (from Electrum==1.9.8)
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 134, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 236, in run
requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1085, in prepare_files
url = finder.find_requirement(req_to_install, upgrade=self.upgrade)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/index.py", line 309, in find_requirement
raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions matching the version for %s' % req)
DistributionNotFound: No distributions matching the version for slowaes (from Electrum==1.9.8)
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Hey thanks for your replies. I heard a podcast regarding cold storage and that leads me to believe it's not a trivial topic to digest.
It's kindof funny really, the mix of info saying bitcoin "is easy" vs. "it's a deep topic". But then nothing unusual about that, typical of popular topics on the net these days.
It does therefore warrant caution, and to give myself plenty of time to discern and absorb the correct info from the fire hose stream.
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I'm a btc newbie, trying to find an entry into all this knowledge. I'm a software engineer with decades of experience in many fields. That said I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed on this forum and am looking for some basic help.
In reading the "New to Bitcoin, Start Here!" sticky I clicked on the link for the question "How can I store bitcoins securely?" and wasn't able to find the actual 14 steps of the post's title, only the comments about it. Why is that? I went to the first and last pages but no luck. What am I missing, why is that so confusing? Did Vladimir create a "red herring" title to frustrate newbies like me?
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