The Slum is mining quite nicely this winter. Free cooling!
Mmmmmmmmmm. Bitcoin beef stew!
Due to recent hacking analysis, I can say that Bitcoin-QT can be corrupted to hide transactions and invisibly steal your money. I can also say that MultiBit updates across all platforms, far more frequently. Maybe hackers will attack MultiBit next. Maybe I'm the only person with this problem. Who knows?
What I do know is that MultiBit reports more accurately, synchronizes more quickly, is updated more often than Bitcoin-QT is updated, and has fantastic extra features. For example, my MultiBit automatically backs up to my Dropbox periodically, so I worry less about loss due to Destruction. MultiBit has multiple currency conversions built in, and charts of wallet balance too.
MultiBit for the win!
Can I haz deh codez?
I did not think to pretty up the code yet, nor did I post this to a repository. Feel free to change the phrases to something more PC if you like. That said, it has been tested in the US and EU by some friends, and it runs for days or weeks at a time very stably. This is a shell script (ksh) for Mac OS X. The best way to get the most current version is to type the following at the command line:
curl -o minty-coin.sh https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/kqaiad1i9718chz/minty-coin.sh?dl=1 chmod +x minty-coin.sh
The script integrates with the free If This Then That (IFTTT) service, via Dropbox, to send email alerts when your balance changes. To activate, create a subdirectory in your Dropbox/Public called Messages. For example, the script defaults to ~/Dropbox/Public/Messages to send IFTTT triggers. In IFTTT, add a custom recipe of the form: If <Dropbox> Then <gmail> . In the gmail action, just set the email body to {{FilenameNoExt}} and the subject to something you can filter later. I use a subject like "Bitcoin balance change --URGENT--".