Skip to content

paulreed.ca

Technology, Music, Rants and Randomness…

Menu
  • Home
  • Profile

Tag: BitCoin

The BitCoin Faucet Scam

By Paul Reed
|
2014-04-17
| No Comments
| BitCoin, General

For the last couple of days I’ve been playing with a few of these BitCoin “faucet” sites. What is a BitCoin faucet site you might ask? Well … its a retched hive of scum and villainy! Ok, Star Wars quotes aside, they are sites where you go and perform various tasks for a small amount […]

About Paul Reed

Read More »

Posted in %1$s Tagged %1$s Leave a comment

More BitCoin Concerns

By Paul Reed
|
2014-04-14
| No Comments
| BitCoin, General

The more and more I hear about BitCoin, the worse the story seems to get. I found an article on ZDNet which which describes some of the issues with the energy cost to produce and the criminal element surrounding BitCoin in general. The article can be found here: (Want to make money mining bitcoins? Criminals […]

About Paul Reed

Read More »

Posted in %1$s Tagged %1$s Leave a comment

Is “BitCoin Mining” Worth Doing?

By Paul Reed
|
2012-12-15
| No Comments
| BitCoin, General, Home Server

So is BitCoin Mining it really worth doing at home? The short answer for me and for most people is: No. I’m sure there are ways to make it profitable, but after a short experiment I determined that the electricity cost of running the tools to mine BTC is usually much more expensive than the […]

About Paul Reed

Read More »

Posted in %1$s Tagged %1$s Leave a comment

Calendar

May 2025
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Feb    

Categories

  • BitCoin (3)
  • Chocolatey (1)
  • ESXi 5.0 (1)
  • FreeNAS (1)
  • General (12)
  • Home Server (2)
  • Linux (3)
  • NFS (1)
  • Operating Systems (6)
  • Powershell (1)
  • Puppet (3)
  • Puppet Module (1)
  • Security (2)
  • Servers (3)
  • VMware (1)
  • VMware vSphere 5.0 (3)
  • Vulnerability (3)
  • Windows (5)

Recent

  • CentOS 8 is end of life (EOL). Now what?
  • Puppet Enterprise API Playground
  • Puppet Quick Fix: “Provider powershell is not functional on this host”
  • ASUS X299-E Gaming and NVMe RAID0 Boot — Success
  • Custom Facts on Windows with Puppet and “”\xFF”” Errors

Tag Cloud

API Appliance Bash BitCoin BitCoin Mining Bug centos Chocolatey email Error ESXi Failure Forge FreeNAS General heartbleed Home Server Impression Installation iPad Linux Miller Module NFS Notification Panic PowerShell Preview Puppet Puppet Enterprise RAID RAID1 Security Servers Software RAID Technical Preview vCenter 5.0 vCMA VM VMware vSphere 5.0 Vulnerability Windows Windows 8 \xFF

Donate

If you feel that I have provided some value and feel compelled to reciprocate, please donate to me personally to fund my time, effort and cost to run this site. Any amount is welcome and greatly appreciated!
Send BitCoin: 145xVkuj8S381XjtuQ6FRMRHGWGgVkqnx5
or

Calendar

May 2025
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Feb    

Categories

  • BitCoin (3)
  • Chocolatey (1)
  • ESXi 5.0 (1)
  • FreeNAS (1)
  • General (12)
  • Home Server (2)
  • Linux (3)
  • NFS (1)
  • Operating Systems (6)
  • Powershell (1)
  • Puppet (3)
  • Puppet Module (1)
  • Security (2)
  • Servers (3)
  • VMware (1)
  • VMware vSphere 5.0 (3)
  • Vulnerability (3)
  • Windows (5)

Recent

  • CentOS 8 is end of life (EOL). Now what?
  • Puppet Enterprise API Playground
  • Puppet Quick Fix: “Provider powershell is not functional on this host”
  • ASUS X299-E Gaming and NVMe RAID0 Boot — Success
  • Custom Facts on Windows with Puppet and “”\xFF”” Errors

Tag Cloud

API Appliance Bash BitCoin BitCoin Mining Bug centos Chocolatey email Error ESXi Failure Forge FreeNAS General heartbleed Home Server Impression Installation iPad Linux Miller Module NFS Notification Panic PowerShell Preview Puppet Puppet Enterprise RAID RAID1 Security Servers Software RAID Technical Preview vCenter 5.0 vCMA VM VMware vSphere 5.0 Vulnerability Windows Windows 8 \xFF

Donate

If you feel that I have provided some value and feel compelled to reciprocate, please donate to me personally to fund my time, effort and cost to run this site. Any amount is welcome and greatly appreciated!
Send BitCoin: 145xVkuj8S381XjtuQ6FRMRHGWGgVkqnx5
or

Powered by WordPress paulreed.ca 2025 | All Rights Reserved.