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Hive is the new Bitcoin wallet for Mac OS X

Last updated on January 2nd, 2018 at 12:00 am

It’s already possible to download the beta version (only for testing, so far) of the new Bitcoin wallet for Mac OS X, called Hive. Although this version is still not the definitive one – so don’t put your money in it for now – it’s already starting to show what a nice piece of software is coming our way.

The interface is rather clean and easy to use, appropriate for the new Bitcoiners working with the Mac OS X. Besides, it has other features like “an integrated application platform, SPV backend for fast startup, Tor support for enhanced anonymity and automatic updates”, according to its creators, who recently announced the launching of the beta Hive through the BitcoinTalk.org forum.

To support the work of the team managing the service, and once the wallet is up and running, Hive will charge the users a small fee (around 0.5 percent) for each transaction “that happens within non-charity apps in the App Platform”.

Besides working to make the wallet available, the team is also looking into developing Android support for Hive, they revealed at the forum.

You can download the beta version of the app at the wallet’s website or at GitHub, where the GPL-licensed code is available. According to the creators of the service, “Hive is powered by a new version of our BitcoinKit.framework, updated with bitcoinj support”.

Also, the app developer documentation will be available soon, but it’s possible to start looking into it by deconstructing one of the apps in their repository.

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Take time to educate yourself

Bitcoin is different from what you know and use every day. Before you start using Bitcoin for any serious transaction, be sure to read what you need to know and take appropriate steps to secure your wallet. Always remember that it is your responsibility to choose your wallet carefully and adopt good practices in order to protect your money.

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Core is a full Bitcoin client and builds the backbone of the network. It offers high levels of security, privacy, and stability. However, it has fewer features and it takes a lot of space and memory.

Control over your money

This wallet gives you full control over your bitcoins. This means no third party can freeze or lose your funds. You are however still responsible for securing and backing up your wallet.

This wallet is a full node that validates and relays transactions on the Bitcoin network. This means no trust in a third party is required when verifying payments. Full nodes provide the highest level of security and are essential to protecting the network. However, they require more space (over 145GB), bandwidth, and a longer initial synchronization time.

This wallet is open-source and built deterministically. This means any developer in the world can audit the code and make sure the final software isn't hiding any secrets.

This wallet can be loaded on computers which are vulnerable to malware. Securing your computer, using a strong passphrase, moving most of your funds to cold storage, or enabling two-factor authentication can make it harder to steal your bitcoins.

Prevents spying on your payments

This wallet makes it harder to spy on your balance and payments by rotating addresses. You should still take care to use a new Bitcoin address each time you request payment.

Avoids disclosing information

This wallet does not disclose information to peers on the network when receiving or sending a payment.

Tor can be used

This wallet lets you setup and use Tor as a proxy to prevent attackers or Internet service providers from associating your payments with your IP address.

Full control over fees

This wallet gives you full control over fees. This means that this wallet allows changing the fees after funds are sent using RBF or CPFP. This wallet also provides fee suggestions based on current network conditions so that your transactions are confirmed in a timely manner without paying more than you have to.

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5 Best Bitcoin Wallet for Mac OS X

If you’d like to start trading Bitcoins on your Apple laptop or computer, there are several excellent Bitcoin wallets that you can try. Bitcoin wallets for Mac OS X range from local wallets that store Bitcoins on your hard drive to cloud-based wallets that let someone else worry about the security of your digital assets to hardware wallets that you can carry with you everywhere you go.

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Electrum is one of the oldest Bitcoin wallets for Mac OS X in existence, and not many other wallets can compete with its wide range of features. If you support open source software, you’ll be pleased to know that electrum is released under the MIT License and isn’t controlled by any single entity. Anyone can run an Electrum server and export their private keys for use with other Bitcoin clients.

Electrum supports all the security features that one would expect a modern Bitcoin client to support, including multisig, cold storage, proof checking, and hardware wallets. To use Electrum with Trezor, a popular hardware wallet described at the end of this list, simply create a new wallet or import an existing one and select the hardware wallet option in the wallet creation wizard window.

The team behind Exodus set an ambitious goal for themselves: to create a Bitcoin wallet that “just works like magic.” This approach to software development is something that all Mac OS X users are personally familiar with because it’s the same approach that makes Apple products so usable. Indeed, Exodus feels right at home on Mac OS X, it’s beautiful, modern user interface eliminating the geek factor from cryptocurrencies.

But no Bitcoin wallet could ever become as popular as Exodus if it had nothing else to offer besides pretty interface design. Exodus is the first desktop multi-asset wallet with ShapeShift built in, allowing you to instantly exchange cryptocurrencies for one another without having to create a user account or submit your personal information.

Available on virtually all popular operating systems, including Mac OS X, and soon to be available also as a hardware wallet, Jaxx is a user-friendly multi-chain cryptocurrency wallet with the goal of offering as much choice as possible in the new, emerging world of blockchain.

Jaxx puts you in control of your digital assets, storing the private keys to your Bitcoins locally, on your Mac OS X laptop or computer. With Jaxx, there’s no need to submit your private information just to send or receive Bitcoins; the wallet requires no verification to work. On the other hand, you can verify the wallet as much as you want because the source code can be viewed with a click of a button on the official home page.

Coinbase is one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, operating since 2012 and serving millions of customers every month. To help their clients store purchased Bitcoins, Coinbase also operates a popular web-based Bitcoin wallet that’s often recommended as the simplest way to store, trade, buy, and sell Bitcoins. Being a web-based wallet, it’s the responsibility of the exchange to look after your digital coins and protect them against hackers, natural disasters, and hardware malfunctions. So far, Coinbase has been doing an excellent job, and we have no reason to doubt their ability to keep up with the constantly fluctuating world of cryptocurrencies.

If you want the highest level of security for your Bitcoins, hardware wallets are the way to go, and Trezor is without a doubt one of the best hardware Bitcoin wallets out there. What makes hardware wallets such as Trezor so safe is their isolation from the Internet and your computer in general. All transactions happen offline using a small display that allows you to visually verify the transaction contents. You can then connect your Trezor to your computer using the provided USB cable to synchronize your Trezor wallet with Electrum or other supported software wallets.

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Hive is the new Bitcoin wallet for Mac OS X

Last updated on January 2nd, 2018 at 12:00 am

It’s already possible to download the beta version (only for testing, so far) of the new Bitcoin wallet for Mac OS X, called Hive. Although this version is still not the definitive one – so don’t put your money in it for now – it’s already starting to show what a nice piece of software is coming our way.

The interface is rather clean and easy to use, appropriate for the new Bitcoiners working with the Mac OS X. Besides, it has other features like “an integrated application platform, SPV backend for fast startup, Tor support for enhanced anonymity and automatic updates”, according to its creators, who recently announced the launching of the beta Hive through the BitcoinTalk.org forum.

To support the work of the team managing the service, and once the wallet is up and running, Hive will charge the users a small fee (around 0.5 percent) for each transaction “that happens within non-charity apps in the App Platform”.

Besides working to make the wallet available, the team is also looking into developing Android support for Hive, they revealed at the forum.

You can download the beta version of the app at the wallet’s website or at GitHub, where the GPL-licensed code is available. According to the creators of the service, “Hive is powered by a new version of our BitcoinKit.framework, updated with bitcoinj support”.

Also, the app developer documentation will be available soon, but it’s possible to start looking into it by deconstructing one of the apps in their repository.

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I let Google know that the Yahoo Search App installed from their Google Play Store had completely stopped working on May 18, 2018.

I told them that Yahoo has made sure that their Yahoo members can't contact them about anything.

I noticed that right after I accepted the agreement that said Oath had joined with Verizon I started having the problem with the Yahoo Search App.
No matter what I search for or website thru the Yahoo Search App it says the following after I searched for
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I tried to search for things like www.homedepot.com. The same thing happened. It would say WEBPAGE NOT AVAILABLE. The only thing that changed were all the upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols.
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How to mine Bitcoin with your Mac

Here's how to cash in on the Bitcoin craze by mining on your Mac. But beware, it's neither simple nor cheap.

By Jason D. O'Grady for The Apple Core | November 27, 2013 -- 01:08 GMT (17:08 PST) | Topic: Apple

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Pfft. Forget about them. Bitcoin is where it's at.

Bitcoin is a crypto currency that's been exploding in value since the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke said that it "may hold long-term promise" at last week's U.S. Senate hearing on the Potential Risks, Threats, and Promises of Virtual Currencies (which aired on C-SPAN). Other U.S. regulatory power houses (including the Treasury and Department of Justice) agreed.

It's not without controversy, however. Bitcoin was the currency of choice at former Internet drug bazaar Silk Road and remains the currency of choice of crypto locker hackers that hold people's computers hostage for money. But don't let that discourage you.

When I first researched Bitcoin (at the end of 2012) the price of a single Bitcoin was $13.50. In May 2013 it was selling for around $200/BTC. When I finally got around to buying some Bitcoin (on November 10) it had jumped to $460/BTC, and as I write this on November 26 the price has skyrocketed to $920/BTC. Not too shabby.

But enough on the background of Bitcoin, there's plenty of places to read about that. Let's get down to business and how to mine Bitcoin using your Mac.

(Photo: Jason O'Grady)

First, some bad news. While it's technically possible to mine for BTC using your Mac's GPU, it's not profitable. The hashing difficulty has increased to a point where you'll spend more on electricity than you'll get in Bitcoin in return. It's possible that the new Mac Pro (with it's dual AMD FirePro GPUs) might be able to mine for Bitcoin profitably, no one's benchmarked its hashing performance yet.

• This Bitcoin profitability calculator will help you figure out your ROI
• This Bitcoin mining dashboard is also excellent

The good news is that you can purchase purpose-built mining hardware that will mine Bitcoin. While potentially profitable, there are several caveats. ASIC mining hardware is backordered, expensive, power hungry and loud. I backordered a 5Gh/s and a 25Gh/s ASIC (both pictured above) from ButterFly Labs in May and just got them this month, a six month backorder. If you're serious about getting into Bitcoin mining I suggest that you either purchase a BFL miner on eBay, or place a pre-order for one of the rip-snortin' fast 300 or 600Gh/s miners that Butterfly Labs will begin shipping in January.

• This GPU mining hardware comparison details the hashing performance most GPUs
• This ASIC mining hardware comparison helps put dedicated hardware costs into perspective

If I haven't scared you off and you're still reading, here's what you need to do to begin mining for Bitcoin on your Mac.

Step 1. Create a wallet

Create a Bitcoin wallet at BlockChain.info and note your Bitcoin address. You'll need it in step 2. A wallet is used to store your Bitcoin and you can have as many wallets as you want. Remember that security is paramount and losing your credentials is akin to losing your physical wallet, except that no one's going to return it to you. Also, if you lose your credentials, your Bitcoin is gone forever, there's no way to recover your password. There are many options for online and offline wallets and an offline wallets are more secure, but if you're starting at zero an online wallet is fine for the time being. (If you plan on purchasing Bitcoin with real money, then I recommend that you educate yourself on the risks and store your Bitcoin in an offline wallet that is backed up.)

Step 2. Join a pool

Join a mining pool, like BitcoinCZ Mining (aka Slush's pool). Bitcoin pooled mining is a way for multiple users to work together to mine Bitcoin, and to share the benefits fairly. Create and record logins and passwords for as many workers as you need. If you purchased ASIC hardware to run on one Mac, one worker is sufficient. If you want use a bunch of computers in your home or office to mine, then create a worker account for each machine that you plan to enlist.

Step 3. Install the mining software

There aren't a lot of Bitcoin mining clients for the Mac and if you uncomfortable with the command line/Terminal (or would just like a little more feedback) I recommend a free OS X mining client called MacMiner. Download it, install it and configure it to send rewards to your BlockChain wallet and to work in the pool that you joined. Here's how.

Step 4. Connect your ASIC miner to your Mac's USB port.

Step 5. Configure Mac Miner's Pool Settings

• Open the FPGA/ASIC Miner window (from the View menu).

• Click on "Pool Settings" in the upper-left of the FPGA/ASIC Miner window.

• Enter your BTC address for rewards (from your wallet in Step 1)
• In the BTC area (bottom left) select your mining pool from the drop down menu
• Enter your miner username and password from your mining pool (Step 2 above)
• Click "Save & start"

Step 6. Configure Mac Miner's Miner Settings

1. Click on "Miner Settings" in the FPGA/ASIC Miner window
2. Enter "-S all" (without the quotes, capital "P") in the Devices/manual flags field
3. Click Apply

Step 7. Click Start

In the FPGA/ASIC Miner window (in Step 5 above).

Step 8. Watch the Bitcoin roll in

To monitor your progress, log into your mining pool account and watch the "My Account" page. I have Slush's Pool set to transfer my BTC rewards to my wallet every 0.1 BTC (the "Send threshold" below) and as you can see by the screenshots, I've been getting 35-36Gh/s hashing performance from my two BFL miners pictured above. At 36Gh/s I've been able to mine 0.1 BTC every four days and I'm on a pace to mine 1BTC/40 days at the current difficulty level.

The next generation of mining hardware from Butterfly Labs are a pair of PCI cards based filled with 28nm ASICs that are capable of mining at 300Gh/s ($2,800) and 600Gh/s ($4,680) respectively. Orders places today for the new "Monarch" cards are expected to begin shipping in February 2014. KnCMiner, based in of Stockholm Sweden, is taking pre-orders for a 3 Terahash miner called Neptune, only 1200 units are being made and one will set you back $12,995. According to the founders, Neptune can mine 2.1 Bitcoin per day at current difficulty levels.

Update 2013-1203: I've switched from using MacMiner to Asteroid, a new Bitcoin mining client for Mac. More on Asteroid in a future blog post.

FAQ

Q: Can I set up MacMiner on a bunch of computers and mine BTC that way? (ala SETI@home)

A: While you can, it's not economically feasible with the current level of hashing difficulty and the cost of electricity.

Q: Where can I buy Bitcoin?

A: If you're in the U.S., you can buy BTC at Coinbase.com. They're US-based and raised $5M in venture capital in May 2013 (WSJ article)

Q: Where can I purchase ASIC mining hardware?

A: I purchased two minging rigs (pictured above) from Butterfly Labs and they rock -- to the tune of 36Gh. Note: BFL is running a Black Friday Special with 25 percent off mining hardware Friday only (in your local time zone). Minr.info maintains a list of currently discussed ASIC bitcoin mining hardware.

Q: Where can I follow what's happening in the Bitcoin community?