Hi, forgive me for asking, but i dont understand even after reading on various sites, what the purpose of this Bitcoin Core - Wallet is?
Its a wallet and a full node. Thus running it you dont rely on anyone else, the client confirms all information on its own.
I have a Bitcoin address with a site called Luno (not Luna).
It is a long number starting with .....
... with? 1, 3 would be common prefixes for addresses, 5, L and K for private keys.
SO now how and what is the use of this Bitcoin Core application, it is just another means of how to get a wallet?
You currently use a service, not a wallet. You have no control over your private keys. If the company offering the service is gone tomorrow, so are your coins. Its no different than a bank, well a bank probably has more laws to follow than a bitcoin service. This is not only true for bitcoin core, which requires you to download the entire blockchain, but also for other wallets like e.g. electrum and multibit hd.
I dont know what they mean when they say YOUR WALLET ADDRESS on those command line utilities.
I mostly get authentication errors, such a pain to work with.
Sorry its an all-sorts post.
"Command line utilities"? Not sure what your question is, can you rephrase?
So i think i understand you better.
Do you mean that i can have the Bitcoin Core wallet installed on my desktop and then that provides me with a coin address?
So i do not have to use the Luno.com bitcoiin id ?
Not sure i know how to set it up...
I have allowed the program to stay open for a few hours and i can see now the synchronization is complete...it doesnt say 5 years behind anymore so i take it that is a good thing.
I have tried so many utils now and some are being up by my antivirus as a Artemis! trojan/virus ...not sure.
I have downloaded them from sites that look kosher and or also from github so i take it this is a false positive.
As for using them and actually making them work , what a bloody head ache.
I can not get any of them to work, the only one wihch does seem to work is Minderd.exe and Cudaminer.exe which are running through a gui i downloaded called Easy miner. I am also using a pool called litecoinpool. It has something like stratum+tcp://litecoilpool.org:3333 as the host name to mine against.
It seems to like my log in also.
Now as for the other tools like SGMiner and CGMiner God knows whats going on , all sorts of errors or warnings about SETX or SET and environment variables and then it doesnt even connecgt or it looks like it does and then it sits there doing something or nothing? and then i dont know why the heck the screen clears and also why it doesnt tell u anything is wrong.... only when i press control-c then it shows me the error like could not connect.
I need some guidance here please, i am going nuts i cant handle this i dont know what i am doing wrong and maybe i am following the wrong sites or tutorials.
Either the guide is outdated and my version is different and then i also noticed with Slushpool they say that only certain utilities work with them and then again when you use the guis like nicehashminer they seems to work BUT how the hell does it know how u are? because u could be mining for nothing.
I really dont understand this , its driving me mad, i really just want to give as much detail as i can to whoever is going to help me and get me on my feet with this.
I also want to report enhancements or experience to the developers of these tools because im sure they can make them more robust .
Thanks for reading
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