Sold 0.5BTC

Bought ps4.

Sweet!

This poor guy though, lost so much after spilling a cup of tea on his laptop:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-25134289

I got some bitcoin somewhere - think on a old hard drive - less than 1 coin - how do I go about retrieving it?

Quote from: Eggtastico on November 29, 2013, 09:08:58 AM
I got some bitcoin somewhere - think on a old hard drive - less than 1 coin - how do I go about retrieving it?

Sweep the drive for wallet.dat, fire up the bitcoin client, let the blockchain update.

Whatever you do back the wallet.dat up pronto, lose that, lose your coins.

Quote from: matt5cott on November 29, 2013, 13:40:57 PM

Quote from: Eggtastico on November 29, 2013, 09:08:58 AM
I got some bitcoin somewhere - think on a old hard drive - less than 1 coin - how do I go about retrieving it?

Sweep the drive for wallet.dat, fire up the bitcoin client, let the blockchain update.

Whatever you do back the wallet.dat up pronto, lose that, lose your coins.

cheers - its only fraction of a coin I have anyway... will do some searching. Now where is my stack of drives

Quote from: Eggtastico on November 29, 2013, 15:33:11 PM

Quote from: matt5cott on November 29, 2013, 13:40:57 PM

Quote from: Eggtastico on November 29, 2013, 09:08:58 AM
I got some bitcoin somewhere - think on a old hard drive - less than 1 coin - how do I go about retrieving it?

Sweep the drive for wallet.dat, fire up the bitcoin client, let the blockchain update.

Whatever you do back the wallet.dat up pronto, lose that, lose your coins.

cheers - its only fraction of a coin I have anyway... will do some searching. Now where is my stack of drives

No worries, 0.05 is still £40 odd, so well worth a quick rummage

TBH I'd just create a secure wallet and just stash it.

Quote from: matt5cott on November 29, 2013, 15:44:50 PM

Quote from: Eggtastico on November 29, 2013, 15:33:11 PM

Quote from: matt5cott on November 29, 2013, 13:40:57 PM

Quote from: Eggtastico on November 29, 2013, 09:08:58 AM
I got some bitcoin somewhere - think on a old hard drive - less than 1 coin - how do I go about retrieving it?

im trying to think where my stash of drives are. Think I might have sold them off to buy bigger drives.
Or it is still in the computer that packed up a year ago.... now where is that computer.


Sweep the drive for wallet.dat, fire up the bitcoin client, let the blockchain update.

Whatever you do back the wallet.dat up pronto, lose that, lose your coins.

cheers - its only fraction of a coin I have anyway... will do some searching. Now where is my stack of drives

No worries, 0.05 is still £40 odd, so well worth a quick rummage

TBH I'd just create a secure wallet and just stash it.

At this point I have to say I am f**king gutted I sold my 20 coins

I don't understand why they are so valuable.

People attach a value to them because they can be used as a method to avoid transactions you fulfill being scrutinised. Why they are so expensive, I have no idea.

word is that some chinesees are using them to get currency in/out of the prc without the authorities knowing.

really wish i'd bought one at 250. watching them every couple of days, but i think the time to make a stash of cash has gone.

not trying to call the top or anything... in fact anything could happen really - price might increase 10 fold again or could crash and burn a bunch of people before the end of the year.... there are far too many uncertanties

at the moment the increases are potentially not to dissimilar to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

I realise I'm probably a bit late to this party, that the difficulty has gone up and will continue to give up, but I've decided to give this ago, on the premise of a bit of fun and not take it too seriously.

I can see that the major choice any new person has to make it whether to invest in ASCI chips or GPU's, if bitcoin's ever fall over, then those chips are all but worthless, I can't believe the hardware business that has comeout of this, i.e butterfly labs, at least with GPU's, you can sell them on.  But for power consumption and practicality reasons, I've decided to take a stab at an inexpensive USB stick.

A PS4 would certainly be a first great goal. 

haven't looked at them for ages (I had a quick look when I got a 7990 which coincided with bitcoin price rises)

but there's a few web pages showing a cost/performance comparison for different gpus/usb thingies/other chips etc...


and from what I saw.... anything below £6000 of hardware is pretty worthless :-(

You'd be better off mining Litecoin instead of Bitcoin. I'm currently getting $15 worth a day on my 2 x R9 280x GFX cards. Also, there are no ASICs systems for Litecoin yet, meaning the best way to mine is with GFX cards