I've been working in IT for around five years now, and one thing I've noticed is that a lot of people in this business didn't really plan to be here. How did you get into the IT profession? Was that the plan all along or did you somehow just end up here?

does anyone know if there are any btc meetups or anything in Shanghai?

The one good thing about missing the bitcoin riches boat is that no one can accuse me of only supporting bitcoin because I'm trying to get rich.

hi all,

I want to install a few alt-coin clients on a linux machine and I've never done it before, can anyone help me out?

Does anyone know who to set the language? Also is it possible to change the path to where I want to store the block chain? I'd like to put it on an external hdd.

I wanted to add an avatar but it seems it's not keeping the selection. is there a restriction on number of posts or something like that?

Hi,

We are small in population in these areas but maybe we can get some people together for a bitcoin meetup!

http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Meetup-Switzerland/events/149332012/

Could it be riding the wave of bitcoin? or are people starting to see it as a useful tool?

http://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/

Are there any highly technical based bitcoin podcast out there? I like it when Let's talk bitcoin goes into a technical discussion but that's not all the time of course. Other than that the few other ones I've listened two were really lacking in this area.

I wanted to make this poll after seeing the thread below:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=309601.0

Does anyone else have the problem where the blockchain.info app won't work when on wifi?

Hi all,

I've been working on this project for the last few weeks. Anyway I thought I should share the project with everyone. My main documentation is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_aS8ibiplEprVMEj58Uv1u1eaaE3sMuAybTZJg-wqw/edit

wallet address: 1GtaPezXJnAcXhMy5Cq7QYuva463PYhRyR

Also I'm running it on ustream for a bit, in case anyone wants to add a little btc and watch it work. (beware it looks like ustream has at least a 20 second delay)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bitcoin-on-raspberry-pi

Bruce

Hi all,

What I want to do is install a wallet on my rasberry pi and have the amount of bitcoins in that wallet displayed on a LED or LCD screen. Is there a wallet that can pass information to another program that can then display on the 16X2 LCD screen for example.

Thanks,
Ecurb

Hi,

I'd like to move all that block chain data off my profile and onto an external hard drive. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Ecurb

Hi all,

I'm using windows putty to ssh into my linux machine which is doing some mining, however I would like to use screen to leave the session running while closing the putty software. The problem is whenever I use the commands I see in the guides to switch screens for example, ctrl+a+n, it seems to be taking these key strokes in the windows application, not the linux terminal. So I have screen installed on the linux machine, I can run "screen" but I can't seem to actually use it. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ecurb

Hi all,

Yesterday I started mining for the first time. My setup below:

-Regular desktop computer
-Intel quad core, 2.5GHz
-4 GB ram
-no hard drive
-OS is ubuntu 13.04 running on an 8GB USB stick
-regular Ethernet cable for DSL internet connection
-no monitor, connected with putty on my windows laptop

I tried using cgminer with my old 4350 GPU but I didn't have any luck with even getting cgminer working, so after a lot of time messing with it I tried using cpuminer. Almost right away cpuminer started working! I let it run over night and during the day while I was at work. During that time I made a total of  .011 something litecoins. Of course thats really slow and not even worth the electricity which it cost to run the computer all that time, but I'm still in the learning phase so I'm happy. So far I have two questions.

1. Can I shutdown the putty ssh session and keep mining? Because as it is I'm actually running two computers
2. A example of my log is below, it is mining but with all these "Stratun connection timed out" messages, is this slowing me down? Is there anything I can do?

[2013-07-30 23:23:51] thread 0: 205828 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:24:51] thread 1: 224892 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:24:51] thread 2: 224888 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:24:51] thread 0: 224904 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:24:51] thread 3: 224876 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:25:51] thread 1: 224904 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:25:51] thread 2: 224892 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:25:51] thread 0: 224908 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:25:51] thread 3: 224868 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:25:51] Stratum connection timed out
[2013-07-30 23:25:51] Stratum connection interrupted
[2013-07-30 23:25:51] Stratum detected new block
[2013-07-30 23:26:52] thread 3: 224860 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:26:52] thread 1: 224900 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:26:52] thread 0: 224896 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:26:52] thread 2: 224884 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:27:05] Stratum detected new block
[2013-07-30 23:27:05] thread 2: 46660 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:27:05] thread 0: 46676 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:27:05] thread 3: 46716 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:27:05] thread 1: 46680 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:27:47] Stratum detected new block
[2013-07-30 23:27:47] thread 3: 160704 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:27:47] thread 1: 160700 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:27:47] thread 2: 160684 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:27:47] thread 0: 160700 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:28:01] thread 3: 50564 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:28:01] accepted: 12/12 (100.00%), 14.99 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2013-07-30 23:28:47] thread 0: 224892 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:28:47] thread 2: 224868 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:28:47] thread 1: 224896 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:29:01] thread 3: 224896 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:29:47] thread 0: 224904 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:29:47] thread 2: 224876 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:29:47] thread 1: 224888 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:30:01] thread 3: 224900 hashes, 3.75 khash/s
[2013-07-30 23:30:01] Stratum connection timed out


Thanks,
Ecurb