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I thought the whole deal with bitcoin was to get the money out of your hands 
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If you want to make money with bitcoin now, you're better of trading it. Although, I'd be watch the market like a hawk if so to ensure the rally isn't over with. Profit-wise you buy low and sell high, not buy high after the spikes.
Jeremy Falcon
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I took a good look at mining; either bitcoin or etherium, litecoin, dash etc., etc. Given the cost of electric where I live (around 18c per KWh) and the cost of the kit to do the mining, it wasn't worth it at the scale I could afford to do it. One of the issues is that if you build your own rig, the cost of video cards has gone through the roof. If you buy kit, the noise and heat it produces means you would have to devote a room to it and ensure that it is properly vented. All costs money. Even running 24/7 I would not have made enough in a year to make it worth while and that doesn't take into account when the networks change the level of difficulty.
Here are some random crypto currency links from my list:
Bitmain [^]
Bitcoin mining profitability calculator[^]
NiceHash - Largest Crypto-Mining Marketplace[^]
Silent Ethereum Mining On EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 at 22 MH/s - Legit Reviews[^]
I have a lot more info/links if anyone wants it.
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But, just think of the awesome machine you'd have for games after you gave up mining...
Jeremy Falcon
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I am giving Ether mining a spin. Started like yesterday.
Everyone advises against CPU mining, but I see it as a learning experience, and fun. My 12 3.2GHz cores are hungry for food. On all fora ppl say that the Go implementation is a piece of Elephant. But on github there is zero activity on the C++ implementation and a lot on the Go one...
And if you have Ether mining experience I am happy to hear it.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I'd be interested to hear how it woks out for you. What is the cost of electric where you are mining?
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Electricity here in Sweden is at 0.043 EUR/kWh. My machine consumes approx 1kW.
It does not work out at all so far, since the software insists on crashing twice a day. : p I need to research better tools.
The mining output is zero, so the cost mathematically speaking is infinite per Ether. But I might post news on my progress, if any.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Cool - much cheaper than here. Have you tried NiceHash? That worked for me.
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No, it's not; we use equal energy to extract any kind of commodity, be it gold, oil or wood. If people are mining, that just means that energy is cheaper than the bitcoin - hence, profit.
Even Jamie Dimon folded 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I don't know how correct these numbers are, but even if it's just at one tenth of it, it's getting ridiculous.
As long as they are paying for the energy will real money...
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Today, I actually decided to revisit the beans after a break of 3 years.......don't know why, but I just did.
And had absolutely no joy getting them to work with either Windows10, IOS or Android to update the Day 1 firmware to the latest, using the standard BeanLoaders. I remembered when I first played with these many years back that I had connected to them using a TinyUSB, but couldn't remember how or any of the commands. This was necessary because the Dev team didn't have anything other than IOS support at the time.
Fortunately, I had put it all in an article when I was experimenting all those years back.....LightBlue Beans - Magic Beans and no beans[talk]?
Tomorrow, if I can find some jumper wires, I am going to see if I can get these puppies blinking...finger's crossed! 
modified 4-Dec-17 13:50pm.
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Worse is when I google how to do something and one of the top hits is my own article!
I need to start writing short tips on web development, as I'm constantly forgetting and relearning things. Either that or pay a shrink a few thousand dollars to adjust my psyche, which clearly wants to forget everything I learn about web development (that means YOU, Javascript / HTML / CSS / MVC/MVM). 
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Marc Clifton wrote: I need to start writing short tips on web development,
I honestly though that was what tips and tricks was for, I started putting in 1-2 liners that I would refer back to. Alas it turned into a mini article arena where my simple tips are an embarrassment.
I refer back to my pivot article regularly, also many others that are bookmarked.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Not articles, but definitely old code.
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kmoorevs wrote: When I enter the IP address into the browser, I get an Ubuntu web server default page.
You realise they probably log connections to them and will add it to their list of sites to attack.
(Similar to the nugget that it's often better not to click unsubscribe to unsolicited email - better to just mark as spam.)
Now they know somebody is home -> and is worried -> hence they might have something to protect.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Not worried...just annoyed. They've been trying for 3 weeks and haven't succeeded! It looks like I need to setup another honeypot to help them along!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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No PTR records for the IP address?
How about a tracert? That should at least give you a clue as to the ISP they're using.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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 Thanks Richard! tracert did the trick...it appears to originate in Russia.
Alarmingly, further digging revealed that this hacker (at least this particular IP address) had been hitting my server almost daily for over three weeks. One possibly telling detail is that the early attempts were against an email username, the rest were mostly against the domain name.
I've denied access based on that IP address as a short term fix...the server is due for migration to Server 2016 later this month (currently 2008r2) so hopefully will come with better dynamic blocking features. My deny list is rather large as I wrote a script a long time ago to deny the entire country of China!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: deny the entire country of China
I know that feeling - my email still has a rule I set up a decade ago sending anything from the .ru domain direct to the bin!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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An IP address might not be bound to a domain. But you can try a WHOIS query using a web service or the whois command line utility on a Linux system.
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This is the first time I've not been able to get information from a reverse lookup...after trying 4 different services. Edit: Thanks to Richard...tracert shows it to be Russian. 
