Does Linux need a Bitcoin OS?

[daybyter]

I think there are several USB-Stick distros for mining? That is more or less a btc OS?

But I think, we need something for mobiles, so people can buy and exchange btc everywhere? Like a p2p system, that more or less works like localbitcoins. Combined with the GPS functionality of smartphones, it would be easy to find someone near you to get btc?

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[jdbtracker]

how would we build it?
Programming language?
capability?
Connective capability?
Distributed?
A.I. based?
etc?

[israfelwater]

The idea of a secure os rocks. But perhaps it should be created from scratch. Even though I worked on unix for many years, it never seemed to be an ideal operating system for most things. Sort of like Pascal. And I've never quite understood why everyone raves about the latest hardware advances in CPUs, cell phones and laptops, and then raves about coupling that gorgeous, ultra fast, ultra capable new hardware with a 45 year old dinosaur operating system. Thus I end up with quad core galaxy note 2 that can't handle real-time multi-track recording ... that a 30 year old atari would have pissed on.

Why can't a Galaxy Note 2 do multitrack recording? I've working in the audio layer of Android and I can say building a multitrack recorder on top of the Android API would be a joke, but buiding something in the Native layer shouldn't be that difficult. I know there is support in the NDK for openAL.

how would we build it?
Programming language?
capability?
Connective capability?
Distributed?
A.I. based?
etc?

AI based would be awesome. There is so many cool machine learning algorithms which a kernel could use to optimize processes. And as far as programming languages, how does everyone feel about javascript? I love the language, but it needs to be compiled into ASM, forget JIT.

Maybe when the computer goes to sleep it would analyze what it has done and calculate how to do it better   

[faiza1990]

Maybe something Cyanogen could add in future versions?

[JLM]

Wouldn't it be great if everyone started using bitcoins. And wouldn't it be nice if everyone stopped using Windows and Macs. Maybe we can combine these two movements and start a bitcoin OS for everyone.

I put together Bit-OS on sourceforge, but I am more interested in what you think. Everything is set up out of box to make using and trading bitcoins more user friendly. Do you think the world needs a bitcoin OS? Do you see how these two ideas coincide and would make the world a better place?

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I think the answer is yes.

We have an example: MinePeon.

A "Bitcoin distro" should have as native or inside or whatever:

- Wallet (Bitcoin-qt)
- Drivers to OC GPU´s and run FPGA and ASIC.
- Miners (CGMiner and BFGminer are in MinePeon, could be enough)
- USB run and ARM base run
- Schedule for Updates (without human operation), static of mining, auto re start (power cut´s, i living in Argentina and that happends)
- Probably an screen to set (relative easy): SHH, Pool or solo, OC (Gpu), multiple coin mining management , multiple system (script, Sha, prime) management, resource aplication management (GPU to Scrypt, Asic to sha, etc)
- Wish or "Wonderful" features: e-mail and/or SMS notification

[manic]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65915.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233453.0

[tkone]

could one use tails OS on a USB along with a private key, to sign transactions without leaving any traces?

[Carlton Banks]

could one use tails OS on a USB along with a private key, to sign transactions without leaving any traces?

It's not possible to leave zero trace, otherwise the transaction wouldn't be possible 

For your purposes though, this is indeed a suitable avenue: a security-hardened OS, preconfigured to run all TCP/IP through Tor, and Bitcoin client also packaged and configured to communicate over Tor. Then you could verify the checksum of the ISO before burning, therefore narrowing the potential sources of infecting your Live OS with internet nasties while doing your manual transaction signing (bitcoind being the only source, as per my example in the other thread).

[jubalix]

A minimalistic linux with tor and bitcoind and armory, plus a version with no network connection and armory, for offline wallets, something like Ubuntu Privacy Remix with Armory added. Yes it could be useful.

for an offline armoury, it would have to operate on a decrypted partion or virtual sandboxed os or soemthin like that where the gap could not be electronically bridged