The right way to start a Daemon on Debian wheezy is with an init script rather than using /etc/rc.local as we did in the instructions for running bitcoind. Today I went searching for a good init script for bitcoin and again I found a few that were slightly broken (bealers,…
[UPDATE OCTOBER-2017: the developer of Electrum recommends ElectrumX as the server of choice these days and the easiest way to install it is with Johan Bauer’s installer script] [ I setup a Debian virtual machine over the weekend with the goal of creating an Electrum server. The instructions I found involve running…
[ I setup a Debian virtual machine over the weekend with the goal of creating an Electrum server. The instructions I found involve running bitcoind over tor, but they were full of minor typos and strange characters that broke things when I copied & pasted commands, so I decided to clone them here…
Some of the numbers are a little old, today mining 1 block will earn 25 bitcoin and 1 bitcoin is currently worth ~$US125.
Find out more, here: http://theriseandriseofbitcoin.com/
DiabloMiner doesn’t seem to support the stratum protocol yet so I decided to give cgminer a try. This is what worked for me on Mountain Lion 10.8.3: Install Xcode by Apple Install Xcode Command Line Tools: Run Xcode and go to Preferences -> Downloads -> Components -> Command Line Tools … and click…
N.B 1 BitCoin is worth around $US90 at the time of this post. More info: The definition of Bitcoin on WikiPedia The Bitcoin Wiki bitcoin.org Explore the blockhain and get a web wallet at blockchain.info The largest Bitcoin exchange at the time of this post is Mt.Gox Bitcoin charts Generate…