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[just_me]

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[xt5]

seems a little overhead to have so many client, specially if all of them looks like use a common codebase.

is there any project intend to support more than one cryptocurrency?

[btcidea]

Seems to me, I would be exposing my computer to substantial amounts of risk to be involved with many of the crypto-currencies.

I am leary of downloading even one of the clients, to begin with.

How am I to know if the client is safe to download, or if it is spyware or what?
Who made the clients? and whY?

Is there any way to check these clients out first before trying to download any of them?

You could run them off of a live cd and have the data directory be a usb stick or something. The risk of viruses would be small in that case.

[milkman1]

short answer: yes

Only answer

Also, unasked for advice: don't run them on the machine you have your bitcoin wallet on. They are not as 'proven'/trustworthy  yet.

[gybliano]

Yes..

[Singlebyte]

When you say "client", do you mean:

Wallet....then yes you need different programs.


If you mean Miner....than you can use one (like cgminer)

[Rex_Heston]

Yes, you do. And as far as security goes, there is some risk inherent to downloading anything. Someone  else could give you specifics about what to watch for, but the nice thing about having the source code be open source is that the more technical minded coder can check it out and let people know it is not doing anything hinky. It can't do nything it isn't coded for, so you'd have to download a compromised binary or source code for that to be a problem, since the P2P nature of the system makes it difficult to attack individual nodes, from my understanding.

[seishin]

i have searched a lot last night to overcome this problem, and the problem to connect via rpc to a daemon server, so far there is an abandoned project called multicoin which would allow for multiple blockchais run through one piece of software...but it seems to be dead...and as client to remote server i discovered bicoin-js-remote, but again single coin stuff

[Lambert]

I just use Vircurex, it functions like an online wallet/exchange for multiple coins, although I wouldn't leave a lot of coins on there just in case.

Here's my link if you're interested in checking it out:
https://vircurex.com/welcome/index?referral_id=721-18273

[seishin]

vircurex does not allow mining as each other ewallet...beware of that!

[Panifier]

No. Try Ufasoft Coin

[Lambert]

vircurex does not allow mining as each other ewallet...beware of that!

Very true, don't use it directly for mining, only transactions.