Antbleed Backdoor
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How to Set Up Your Own Bitcoin Mining Pool
Averaging to smooth out the results.
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Claiming your BitCoin Cash SpinOff from BitCoin – Bitcoin Cash Wallets
Bitcoin Cash claims and wallets
Anyone who held bitcoin at August 1, 2017 @ 12:20 p.m. UTC should have an equivalent amount of BCH attributed to their Bitcoin private keys.
….so now the question is do I need a wallet specifically for BitCoin Cash? Probably. Will update when I claim.
Research Links
- Google: how do I claim my bitcoin cash
- A Beginner’s Guide to Claiming Your Bitcoin Cash and Selling It
Wallet Links
- G: bitcoin cash core software
- Reddit: Bitcoin cash core wallet/node – types of wallets
RansomWare Attack in Europe based on Petya
Was notified by a friend in the USA that their company is under ransom ware attack and the miscreants are asking 300 USD equivalent in BitCoins to free each device. They mentioned Petya. With all this being so wide spread I did a cursory check to see what is going on. It is notable to me that I keep hearing about hospitals being affected. Perhaps some of those cheap Indian I.T. workers that hospitals are using are moonlighting?
Research Links
- ZeroHedge: "Massive Cyberattack – Spreads Across Europe, Hits Ukraine, Russia, UK, Denmark
- Google: Petya
- Petya ransomware running rampant: how to turn off SMBv1 in Windows to make sure you’re safe – this arty suggests that turning off smb1 saying it is antiquated and vulnerable. Versions SMB2 & 3 exist.
- Wikipedia: SMB – Server Message Block
- How to enable and disable SMBv1, SMBv2, and SMBv3 in Windows and Windows Server
- No SMB entries in Windows 7 Registry – Is it normal?
News
In windows 7 there are no hooks in Control Panel to turn smb1 on and off. They suggest editing the following registry key. To enable or disable SMBv1 on the SMB server, configure the following registry key: When I attempted this there was no entry for SMB1. I created it and set it equal to zero. Not sure if that will help me.
Registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
Registry entry: SMB1
REG_DWORD: 0 = Disabled
REG_DWORD: 1 = Enabled
Default: 1 = Enabled
Buying BitCoin Mining Hardware Directly from BitMain
But can a miner be rigged to do hashing for password hacking?
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Sent the wire transfer but international wires do not arrive quickly. My 1st order faded to "cancelled" but came back to active when the payment arrived.
BitFury BitCoin Mining Container and IC
BitFury is doing work with other cryptocurrencies than BitCoin.
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Bitcoin Mining Software
Mining Software
- EASYMINER – A GUI based miner for Windows, Linux and Android. EasyMiner acts as a convenient wrapper for the built in CG & BFGminer softwares.
- BFGMiner – Modular FPGA/GPU miner in C
- CGMINER – This is a multi-threaded multi-pool GPU, FPGA and ASIC Bitcoin miner with ATI GPU monitoring, (over)clocking and fanspeed support for bitcoin and derivative coins.
- 50Miner – A GUI frontend for Windows(Poclbm, Phoenix, DiabloMiner)
- BTCMiner – Bitcoin Miner for ZTEX FPGA Boards
- Bit Moose – Run Miners as a Windows Service.
- Poclbm – Python/OpenCL GPU miner (GUI(Windows & MacOS X))
- Poclbm-mod – more efficient version of Poclbm (GUI)
- DiabloMiner – Java/OpenCL GPU miner (MAC OS X GUI)
- RPC Miner – remote RPC miner (MAC OS X GUI)
- Phoenix miner – miner
- Cpu Miner – miner
- Ufasoft miner – miner
- Pyminer – Python miner, reference implementation
- Remote miner – mining pool software
- Open Source FGPA Bitcoin Miner – a miner that makes use of an FPGA Board
- Flash Player Bitcoin Miner – A proof of concept Adobe Flash Player miner
Research Links
- Google: BitCoin Mining Software
- BitCoinMining.com: BitCoin Mining Software
- GUIminer – gui frontend for mining bitcoin
- The 6 best bitcoin mining software
- GitHub: CGminer
- Google: windows install cgminer
- Download cgminer 3.7.2 with GPU support for Windows
- SIMPLE CGMINER TUTORIAL
- Wikipedia: CPU Miner
- Wolf's XMR/BCN/DSH CPUMiner – 2x speed compared to LucasJones' – NEW 06/20/2014
Running a Full BitCoin Node
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- Running a full node – step by step
- Global BitCoin Node Distribution map of nodes
Where to spend bitcoin
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