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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Getting a wallet!


Perhaps I have put the cart in front of the horse. Or maybe more accurately in this case I have put the glass over the faucet. But before you can use a faucet, you need to have a wallet!.


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Not that kind of wallet silly! I mean a cryptocurrency wallet. Well how do you get one? It is easy! But before you dive in, you may want to consider a few things. First, there are different types of wallets for different purposes. The least space consuming is a light wallet, like these (http://multidoge.org/ , https://multibit.org/ ). This wallet simply skims the blockchain, rather that downloading the whole thing. As a result, it is faster to download and updates more quickly. I recommend this wallet for most users. It does have some drawbacks. For instance, if you are going to mine, you can not use this wallet. It will not be able to keep up with the number of transactions. Instead you should use a QT wallet. 


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Such Wallet

A QT wallet downloads the whole block chain (http://dogecoin.com/ ,https://litecoin.org/ ). Many smaller coins only have QT wallets. This wallet is great for recieving tons of transactions. However, it is also growing all the time. As more transactions are processed, the blockchain grows. Each growth needs to be downloaded onto your local wallet. So, the wallet will take up more space. It also takes longer for it to sync to the network ( in other words, to download all the blocks since it was last updated).

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Ode to Satoshi (the best Bitcoin song : )

I am not a fan of country music. But, this is perhaps the best bitcoin song I have heard. Enjoy!



Thursday, May 7, 2015

The best way to get free bitcoin, dogecoin, litecoin, and earthcoin.

Before, I did some articles on various sites I use to get free cryptocurrency. Today, I'm going to put that list together to show my routine.

Up to once an hour, or whenever I feel like it, I use ( they pay about 15 doge/ 800-1000 Satoshi):

About once every two hours if I really want Doge, I use http://www.dogefaucet.com /. Its payout isn't nearly as good though.

If I really want earthcoin, I sometimes use this site. It has annoying pop ups, and it really doesn't pay much.

Every few days, I will use these sites:




Other sites of note:

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Get 5 doge for each caption you approve or disapprove!

There is also  a bunch of labor sites on reddit! I might discuss them more later, but for now:

http://www.reddit.com/r/DoItForTheCoin/
http://www.reddit.com/r/dogeservice/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Jobs4Bitcoins/
http://www.reddit.com/r/jobs4dogecoins/