- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Exchanges With Litecoin (LTC) interest perking back up breaking out of its long-time consolidation slumber, Japanese exchange Bitbank has officially announced the listing of the digital currency to begin in late April.The exchange said that with new laws enacted earlier this month in Japan honoring digital currency as a form of payment, interest is gaining but finding the optimal price for such altcoins can be tricky.Bitbank looks to solve that problem for Japanese users.The exchange also officially announced that Ripple (XRP) and Ethereum (ETH) will list starting in May.Bitbank stated: “The new Bitbank exchange service started in March is a virtual currency exchange premised on multi-asset availability.As such, we designed it to meet the needs of our associate brokers and bitbank.cc customers as much as possible.” “The first altcoin addition is Litecoin, and after that, we plan to build an environment in which customers can access various assets according to their needs including Ripple and Ethereum starting next month.”

commits branch releases Fetching contributors Pull request Compare This branch is 11 commits ahead of dasher:master.Latest commit 3aaba1d Mar 7, 2014 This is a private, difficulty 1, testnet-in-a-box for Litecoin - based off freewil's testnet-box for bitcoin.ethereum daily discussionUse it as follows: $ make start This will start two nodes.ethereum stock trackerYou need two because otherwise the node won't generate blocks.bitcoin ledger hardwareYou now have a private testnet: $ make getinfo litecoind -datadir=1 getinfo { "version" : 60300, "protocolversion" : 60001, "walletversion" : 60000, "balance" : 0.00000000, "blocks" : 0, "connections" : 1, "proxy" : "", "difficulty" : 0.00024414, "testnet" : true, "keypoololdest" : 1367704943, "keypoolsize" : 101, "paytxfee" : 0.00000000, "mininput" : 0.00010000, "errors" : "" } litecoind -datadir=2 getinfo { "version" : 60300, "protocolversion" : 60001, "walletversion" : 60000, "balance" : 0.00000000, "blocks" : 0, "connections" : 1, "proxy" : "", "difficulty" : 0.00024414, "testnet" : true, "keypoololdest" : 1367704943, "keypoolsize" : 101, "paytxfee" : 0.00000000, "mininput" : 0.00010000, "errors" : "" } To start generating blocks: $ make generate-true To stop generating blocks: $ make generate-false OR, point your mining software at the address of the test machine, port 19334 (Server 1) using the username testnet and the password myAmazingRPCPassword.

With a decent GPU, you should find a new block every second or so initially.If you continue to mine, the difficulty of the network will adjust to your miner.To get the address the mined coins will end up in, run: $ make getaccountaddress That will query just the first node, as that is the one receiving the mining rewards.Mining with cgminer ./cgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:19334 -O testnet:testnet --shaders 2048 --thread-concurrency 8192 -w 256 -g2 -I 13 --auto-gpu --temp-overheat 81 --gpu-vddc 1.030 --temp-cutoff 97 --gpu-fan=100 --gpu-engine 700-1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 Change 127.0.0.1 in the command to the IP of the testnet box if not running on the same server.You should see output like: cgminer version 3.1.0 - Started: [2013-05-05 08:08:34] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (5s):651.3K (avg):677.5Kh/s | A:12 R:2 HW:0 U:28.1/m WU:522.7/m ST: 4 SS: 0 NB: 15 LW: 0 GF: 0 RF: 0 Connected to 127.0.0.1 diff 16 without LP as user testnet Block: a9e247f0ce19261a... Diff:16 Started: [08:09:03] Best share: 514 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit GPU 0: 62.0C 3472RPM | 611.2K/792.4Kh/s | A:15 R:2 HW:0 U: 35.16/m I:13 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2013-05-05 08:08:40] Accepted 0d79ae19 Diff 18/16 BLOCK!

GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:08:40] New block detected on network [2013-05-05 08:08:41] Found block for pool 0![2013-05-05 08:08:41] Accepted 02d01e0c Diff 91/16 BLOCK!GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:08:41] Found block for pool 0![2013-05-05 08:08:42] Rejected 04ebc3f4 Diff 52/16 BLOCK!GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:08:42] New block detected on network [2013-05-05 08:08:44] Found block for pool 0![2013-05-05 08:08:44] Accepted 0f0c8dfe Diff 17/16 BLOCK!GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:08:45] New block detected on network [2013-05-05 08:08:47] Found block for pool 0![2013-05-05 08:08:47] Accepted 0ceb555f Diff 19/16 BLOCK!GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:08:48] New block detected on network [2013-05-05 08:08:48] Found block for pool 0![2013-05-05 08:08:48] Accepted 0a46fc4a Diff 24/16 BLOCK!GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:08:48] New block detected on network [2013-05-05 08:08:56] Found block for pool 0![2013-05-05 08:08:56] Accepted 02303381 Diff 116/16 BLOCK!GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:08:57] New block detected on network [2013-05-05 08:08:58] Found block for pool 0!

[2013-05-05 08:08:58] Accepted 057fa852 Diff 46/16 BLOCK!GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:08:58] New block detected on network [2013-05-05 08:09:01] Found block for pool 0![2013-05-05 08:09:01] Accepted 0f094309 Diff 17/16 BLOCK!GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:09:02] New block detected on network [2013-05-05 08:09:02] Found block for pool 0![2013-05-05 08:09:02] Accepted 0da16004 Diff 18/16 BLOCK!GPU 0 [2013-05-05 08:09:03] New block detected on network To stop the two nodes: $ make stop To clean up any files created while running the testnet (and restore to the original state) $ make clean Like all testnet nodes, it is listening on port 19333.The secondary node is listening for RPC connections on port 19343 (but it will not accept connections from other P2P nodes).When running & generating coin - remember that you'll need the coins to mature before you can use them in a transaction.Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, & Litecoin In Australia Coinbase is the easiest way to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, & Litecoin in Australia Sign Up To Get Started Safe & Easy Coinbase makes it easy to exchange Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin in Australia.