I have created a small web app that I want to share with you that I am using to check the balance of my bitcoin addresses.

The application stores your addresses in local storage (and is therefore only compatible with modern browsers) and checks the balance directly against blockchain.info. Your addresses are never sent to my servers!

It also calculates your net worth, based on currency information from Mt.Gox. You have the option of seeing either the last, high, low or weighted average price that is returned from Mt.Gox and also which currency you want to use.

Besides this you can also select the number format you want to use (for us Europeans) and the bitcoin unit you want to use.

I have posted all the code on github ( https://github.com/icellan/mysatoshis ) so you can see that I'm not doing anything sinister. Feel free to fork or copy or do whatever you want with it, I just want to contribute to the bitcoin ecosystem.

Some screenshots:



I hope it's useful to someone!

PS: I would love to remove the mtgox.php proxy script from the app. If someone can tell me how to get the currency info directly from Mt.Gox in javascript (without cross domain issues), I would be grateful.

Hi All,

I am new to the bitcoin community. I have known about it for years, but never got involved, until now that it's getting more press, I finally dug in and I am really excited.

I have been trying to do some mining at home, but with very little results. My old GPU rig is ancient is getting very low MHash/s.

Does it make any sense, at this point in time, to get into the mining game without an ASIC?

Thanks.