There are plenty of opportunities in Crypto.  Don't get distracted by all the new coins with fancy use-cases and ICO this and Whitepaper that.  If you are relatively new to Crypto I would suggest looking at some of the older coins and see how they have done over the years.

 Feathercoin - Fast transactions, the algorithm has changed from Scrypt to Neoscrypt to make it GPU-friendly.
 Unobtanium - Very rare, merge mined with BTC.
 Peercoin - Pretty sure this coin was the first staking coin.
 Terracoin - Another staking coin, now with masternodes. 

 Each one of these coins is still around and active.  Don't be caught up in the hype of new coins without looking at some of the old coins.

 

 I discovered the Castle Airdrop Project a few months ago and found it very interesting.  Their platform allows other projects to use them to distribute their coins via airdrop.  If you hold CSTL in your wallet you are eligible to receive airdropped coins.

 This model is different than the "spam your twitter followers and post your Eth address" or the "You get X coin for every BTC you hold".  It is dependent on the coins you hold but the cost of entry is LOW when compared to needing to hold BTC or Eth. 

 For me at least the bonus is that I don't have to spam social media to qualify for the airdrops.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Castle_CSTL
Discord: https://discord.gg/sfaU8Ey
Web: https://projectcastle.tech/

 

 I've seen a lot of posts asking for help when something goes wrong with a mining rig.  I've been a 'computer guy' since the mid-nineties, and one of the best tools you can have in your toolbox is a power supply tester.  If all you have is one computer or rig you probably won't get much use out of it, but it becomes increasingly more important the more rigs you have.  When you have a problem being able to eliminate or identify the power supply as the problem quickly will let you get back to earning profits quickly.  Fans on one of your GPU's not spinning?  Check the power cables instead of switching cards around.  Won't boot?  Check the motherboard power cable.  And so on.

 They only cost anywhere from $10-$20 and will save you time if you ever need to troubleshoot your rigs.  Also, wouldn't hurt to have a spare PSU around either in case you do have a failed unit.

 The price is moving up.  The current distribution method is pretty interesting.  Weekly airdrops to registered wallets that hold more than 10BTX.  The airdrop amount right now is 3% of your wallet balance every Monday.  In December, that rate goes up by 1% so it will be 4% every Monday until January when it goes up again.  They are raising the airdrop percentage by 1% each month.  They will do this until the remaining coins have all been distributed.  

 Because of the math involved, and the nature of the airdrop, I believe it encourages people to HODL their BTX instead of selling after the airdrop (look at Byteball).  Weekly airdrops, compound interest with an interest rate that goes up.  21,000,000 Max coins, like BTC.  

I think this coin will continue to move up because no one wants to sell due to the fact that they will just get more coins next week.  If you're a whale and have like 10000, this means next airdrop you would be getting 300 BTX @ $25 per coin.  That's around 1 BTC.

What do you think?

From Slashdot...

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/07/07/0326213/Lawyer-Attempts-To-Trademark-Bitcoin?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

A lawyer named Michael Pascazi filed the trademark application.  His website looks like it was put together by a two-year-old.

http://pascazilaw.com/


EDIT: Here's a little blurb/press release? he put out -

http://www.pascazilaw.com/files/New_Coin_of_the_Realm_062311.pdf

EDIT: Removed - see below edit.

EDIT:  Above edit wasn't the right Magellan.  As pointed out by Isepick below " The "Magellan Capital Advisors, LLC" on the trademark app is registered to the same exact address the law office is, in Fishkill, NY. This is a one man operation."

I have has GUIMiner installed for a few weeks now and have had no problems so far.  Just a few minutes ago Bitdefender warned me of the following -

 Trojan.Generic.KD.273364 in GUIminer/miners/ufasoft/bitcoin-miner.exe


 To my knowledge Bit Defender has scanned this system several times since I installed GUIMiner and hasn't given me any hits until today.  GUIMiner is presently up and running as normal and I never went in and ran bitcoin-miner.exe.

 I don't know if this was a false positive or something to be worried about, but I wanted to pass along just in case.  Does anyone else have problems with false positives or real trojans?

 Edit - just read on another post where it's a false positive. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=15765.0

 So I read the article on CNN about bitcoins days are numbered ( http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/17/the-clock-is-ticking-on-bitcoin/ ) and the Mario/Matrix comment got me thinking.  I can exchange USD for Sony Station Cash, Microsoft Points, Facebook Coins and thousands of other different virtual currencies out there.  I can then use those Rubies/Smurfberries/Zombie Brains to buy items for that particular game.  To me, the only difference between BTC and these other currencies is that they are able to be used in many more places.  Of course I am speaking from the point of a consumer and not as someone who is mining or excited about the technology and its implications.
 
So if my assumption is correct and they are no different, won't the government also have to get bent out of shape about all those other virtual currencies too?