Alternative Block Chains : be safe!

[cryptomad]

Thanks Gavin Andresen Much appreciated.

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[zikomoto]

i'm always worried when a new feature is released for an altcoin and this feature doesn't pass the whole sanity check process

[BootstrapCoinDev]

most people forget that "fork" doesn't mean "permanently branched away from" - for example, if enough people decide that SolidCoin is better because of the more frequent retargets, that's a change that can be rolled into the official client at some point. Forking the block chain is permanent, forking the project to experiment with new features isn't

[BIT-Sharon]

It just feel like Gavin is a modest and cautious master who always brings a brief but in-depth suggestion to us. It deserves a try when you are interested in a new cryptocurrency and keep calm on it.

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[MoscowAlliance]

It just feel like Gavin is a modest and cautious master who always brings a brief but in-depth suggestion to us. It deserves a try when you are interested in a new cryptocurrency and keep calm on it.

+1 for Gavin

[Sobranie59]

It just feel like Gavin is a modest and cautious master who always brings a brief but in-depth suggestion to us. It deserves a try when you are interested in a new cryptocurrency and keep calm on it.

+1 for Gavin

for sure!

[Exther2]

Why would anyone try alternative blockchains?

1. No, it's a scam 100%
2 - read 1
3. no, read 1.

Thank you for advice, but there is no worry if you "don't touch too much".

[GigaBit]

Fail to plan = plan to fail

[TYPEcoin]

Good one,
But the only safe is VM with VMware or vagrant
I keep my coins safe,blockchain is only for fun I think.
I'm using it for small amount of coins

[uszaty43]

In the next sic months many big investors will let darkcoin and start to use Navajo system to send their many.Darkcoin was the first one but it is not brilliant.

[maheshmahi]

Thanks for the information.really helps.
Today bitcoin has widely expanded that we cant believe each and everything on everyone.

[MaryJ]

Future is looking very bright for btc

[bimasena25]

nice, I was looking for alternatives other than using
bitcoin wallet blockchain

[herzmeister]

yes, Gavin, please be safe with your XT fork!  

[kelsey]

oh the hypocrisy of Gavin being the OP 

[Snail2]

oh the hypocrisy of Gavin being the OP 

Well, quite ironic indeed .

[The Sceptical Chymist]

This might be off topic, but reading through these posts from 2011 has me asking the question: when the fuck did everyone on this board stop being able to write English correctly?

[DickSwagger]

No harm in taking every precaution with new software involving money.

[mangox]

I haven't seen anybody post about what would be my biggest worry if I were trying out alternative block chains. I realize this may be perceived as "Gavin is FUD'ding anything that isn't bitcoin!"  (FUD == Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt)  But I think some of you might be forgetting some basic computer security fundamentals in the excitement to be early adopters.

When I first heard about bitcoin, my questions were:

1) Can it possibly work (do the ideas for how it works make sense)?
2) Is it a scam?
3) If it is not a scam, could it open my computer up to viruses/trojans if I run it?

I answered those questions by:

1) Reading and understanding Satoshi's whitepaper.  Then thinking about it for a day or two and reading it again.
2) Finding out everything I could about the project.  I read every forum thread here (there were probably under a hundred threads back then) and read Satoshi's initial postings on the crypto mailing list.
3) Downloaded and skimmed the source code to see if it looked vulnerable to buffer overflow or other remotely exploitable attacks.

If I were going to experiment with an alternative block-chain, I'd go through the same process again. But I'm an old conservative fuddy-duddy.

If you want to take a risk on a brand-new alternative block-chain, I'd strongly suggest that you:

1) Run the software in a virtual machine or on a machine that doesn't contain anything valuable.
2) Don't invest more money or time than you can afford to lose.
3) Use a different passphrase at every exchange site.

Very valuable material- Thank you Gavin