My list of questions(with a small reward)

[HasHe]

Hi! long time lurker first time poster! I have a few questions that I have and it would be great for some insightful input! I can only give out 1 litecoin and one darkcoin. the two best posts will be awarded a litecoin or darkcoin!

I'm not very tech savvy so bear with me! Excuse my poor grammar as well -_-!

1) How do you deal with viruses/malware or any other bugs? I've recently been so paranoid of downloading anything, this includes wallets for new coins or mining software. Is there a sure way to know that im not downloading anything I should not be?
(super noob question, is it possible to get malware/virus just by visiting a website, or does a download and execution have to occur?)

2) Can I mine a decent amount of newly announced coins with a  gtx680 or a CPU i7-3930k?

3) I have a miner set up that I used for litecoins but have it up for sale, it includes 3 hd7950 radeons, sempron cpu and a decent motherboard with a good power supply. Can I use those miners to mine other coins aside from only scrypt based coins such as cryptonote, x11, x13, blake and others.

4) Ive seen some mentions of people renting hashing power to mine different coins, how does that work? What are some legitimate sites that I could check out?

5) How do you scout for newly announced posted coins? I couldnt find a way to order the threads from newest to oldest, only found it to order from the latest post in the thread. This is also where my paranoia comes in, downloading new wallets and mining software. How to I protect myself in that situation?

Thanks in advance!

[pedrog]

1) Learn how to use linux and never worry about that again, plus always check suspicious files and/or links at virustotal.com.

2) Depends on how many people start mining when the coin is released, if it's popular many people will and you won't make much with that hardware.

3) Yes, you can.

4) Check these websites:

https://www.betarigs.com/
https://leaserig.net/
https://www.miningrigrentals.com/

5) Add Alternate cryptocurrencies section to your Watchlist, ID is 67.

Use dual boot with a Windows installation just for wallets or create virtual machines for that purpose and always check the files at virustotal.com.

[HasHe]

1) Learn how to use linux and never worry about that again, plus always check suspicious files and/or links at virustotal.com.

2) Depends on how many people start mining when the coin is released, if it's popular many people will and you won't make much with that hardware.

3) Yes, you can.

4) Check these websites:

https://www.betarigs.com/
https://leaserig.net/
https://www.miningrigrentals.com/

5) Add Alternate cryptocurrencies section to your Watchlist, ID is 67.

Use dual boot with a Windows installation just for wallets or create virtual machines for that purpose and always check the files at virustotal.com.

How is linux safeproof? Also, would I be able to mine more with the 3 hdradeons for newer coins rather than using my nvidea and CPU? I was getting around 1700 when I was mining litecoins.

[pedrog]

How is linux safeproof? Also, would I be able to mine more with the 3 hdradeons for newer coins rather than using my nvidea and CPU? I was getting around 1700 when I was mining litecoins.

Linux is not safeproof but you wont find much malware available to it, plus if you don't install software outside your chosen distribution packages it will be very hard to have your system compromised by malware.

Check this page for hardware comparison:

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

[HasHe]

How is linux safeproof? Also, would I be able to mine more with the 3 hdradeons for newer coins rather than using my nvidea and CPU? I was getting around 1700 when I was mining litecoins.

Linux is not safeproof but you wont find much malware available to it, plus if you don't install software outside your chosen distribution packages it will be very hard to have your system compromised by malware.

Check this page for hardware comparison:

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

thanks, whats your ltc or drk address?

[pedrog]

How is linux safeproof? Also, would I be able to mine more with the 3 hdradeons for newer coins rather than using my nvidea and CPU? I was getting around 1700 when I was mining litecoins.

Linux is not safeproof but you wont find much malware available to it, plus if you don't install software outside your chosen distribution packages it will be very hard to have your system compromised by malware.

Check this page for hardware comparison:

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

thanks, whats your ltc or drk address?

Xy2fBqPHx5aZno4jWtTA8aYsdyjRiFG3qE

Thanks.

[HasHe]

is that ltc or drk?

[pedrog]

is that ltc or drk?

It's DRK.

[poornamelessme]

Hi! long time lurker first time poster! I have a few questions that I have and it would be great for some insightful input! I can only give out 1 litecoin and one darkcoin. the two best posts will be awarded a litecoin or darkcoin!

I'm not very tech savvy so bear with me! Excuse my poor grammar as well -_-!

1) How do you deal with viruses/malware or any other bugs? I've recently been so paranoid of downloading anything, this includes wallets for new coins or mining software. Is there a sure way to know that im not downloading anything I should not be?
(super noob question, is it possible to get malware/virus just by visiting a website, or does a download and execution have to occur?)


5) How do you scout for newly announced posted coins? I couldnt find a way to order the threads from newest to oldest, only found it to order from the latest post in the thread. This is also where my paranoia comes in, downloading new wallets and mining software. How to I protect myself in that situation?

Thanks in advance!

What I use for most wallets is a virtual machine. And yeah, you can still get viruses there, but at least it's safe from your main data. Always do backups of wallets too, just in case the VM crashes or something. For cheapo coins, I just leave them on exchanges ... which of course isn't ideal, but it saves time from downloading a million wallets, and probably aren't worth a ton anyway even if the worst happens.

As for new coins, coinssource has a little section on it (link in my sig too). For what coins are popular, I like how bittrex set up their coin page, so you can easily see how volume ranks. It's a good was to see what is popular at the moment ... which isn't really of that much use, as ideally you'd buy or mine coins before they become popular. But at least it keeps you up to date somewhat.

Edit:

And yeah, you can get malware just by visiting some websites. I like to use this: https://www.malwarebytes.org/antiexploit/