you know, ThePlanet was providing DDOS protection almost 10 years ago (probably 2004) - I have used it and it worked flawlessly. I didn't even have to pay extra for it. And yet, in 2013 a site that has to be making a killing on fees, can't do it?
And it is a bit shady that they only really had issues when the price was falling.
I understand you can backup your wallet.dat file and save it on a usb. Does it save all your future transactions you continue to do on the client program or do you have to keep backing up the wallet.dat file everytime you make a transaction. Hope it makes sense.
Thanks.
Yes, you DO need to back up once in a while.... new addresses are created behind the scenes when you spend and the client keeps about 100 spares at all times... so after 100 sends your wallet would be out of date
That's one of the biggest barriers to Bitcoin being widely accepted. Easy ways to change fiat into BTC and reliable exchanges to then handle transactions.