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You may wish to consider migrating to a lightweight client, which stores your wallet locally but does not participate fully in the peer-to-peer community network.

At the moment, the only one I know of is Multidoge. (See also its announcement thread)

You need to move to a more recent version of Dogecoin Core, there's multiple incompatible changes between 1.4 and more recent nodes (two hard forks as well as network protocol changes).

If you download 1.14.2 it should work better, although we're aware it takes a while to sync initially. There is a (provided by someone else) bootstrap.dat file you can use to help this process: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZPkZH8CZ67RxqFpHCnMNN9L7P4ZKWvuvDbYRMuUEwFvx/bootstrap.dat

Look at a guide such as https://coinguides.org/bitcoin-bootstrap-dat-source-usage/ which covers where to put the bootstrap, but it's probably "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Dogecoin" if you're on Windows. Then run the new client and it will read the blocks from the bootstrap.dat first, and the network later, which should be faster.

My only suggestion is that, while this is a great collection of information, it might be a little bit too much information for people casually looking for information about dogecoin after talledega. IMO, the answers should be short and succinct. If they don't 100% answer the question, I think that's okay.

You could also make use of existing resources. Like the dogecoin.com site has a great page about setting up a wallet.

>Q: How do I set up a dogecoin wallet?
A: http://dogecoin.com/getting-started/

Actually, now that I think about it, the dogecoin website does a great job of answering almost all of these questions (except dogetipbot)

So, your dogtipbot account is a separate wallet from your dogevault one.

Take a look at the dogetipbot wiki under the commands section for "withdraw". That will give you the information you need.

On a more serious note, it sounds like you are wanting to use an online wallet as your main wallet. I highly suggest against this, as online wallets are insecure. The hosters of that wallet have access to both you public and private keys, and can use them maliciously to steal all of your coins. This is unlikely, but very possible.

Please consider using an offline wallet. You can download them from the official Dogecoin website

I've heard people say syncing heats up their computer before. I don't know why that would happen. You can use multidoge which is a lite wallet that doesn't need to sync. I would let the one you have sync up first tho. If you think your computer is at risk, turn it off and clean out all the dust from the fans and vents with compressed air, that's the only reason I can think for it to overheat while syncing. 7 weeks behind will take awhile but it shouldnt take more than an hour or two i wouldnt think. How long has it been so far? You can monitor temps with a program called speedfan to make sure they are in a safe range. +/u/dogetipbot 98 doge

You won't see recent transactions until that sync is fully completed.

If you can't abide this, a lightweight client such as MultiDoge may be more appropriate for you, as it can operate without having to do a whole major sync.

For tips read: www.reddit.com/r/dogetipbot/wiki/index - you basically send a message to /u/dogetipbot and the bot will reply.

A paper wallet is basically just a record of the public and private keys. Some paper wallets have fancy designs, with QR codes and all. But all it really is is a public address with it's corresponding private key. A paper wallet can be as simple as printing out (or even writing down) the keys on a piece of paper. Then you send some coins to that public address and store it somewhere safe.

For exchanges you might want to try VaultOfSatoshi (I have never used them) or Kraken (I have used them for exchanging in BTC and EUR, but never USD).

Well you have it answered but i'll put it in my noob words.

Dogetipbot can be used as a wallet, but it is advised to only keep 10% of your doge in it, for it can be hacked along with your reddit account.
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The better option is a online wallet like Blockchain wallet but even this can be hacked, low chance but still possible.
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The Best option is a computer wallet like a one you download.
You can get on Here Click a button under the cute doge picture, only click the button with the image of your computer software eg Windows, IOS, Mac Android etc..
That was info on good,better and best wallets

This is info on dogetipbot deposit question

Ok go to /r/dogecoin and hover over the button on the far left that says "Information" and look for Dogetipbot guide click on that.
Then you will scroll down a bit and click a command that you want, which you would want deposit so click +history then send the pm.
After you receive it you should see in the message your deposit address send the dogecoin to there.

Pm/reply to this comment with anymore questions, idc if they are so stupid it is like "How do i eat daz doog cin" I'll answer it ;)

http://dogecoin.com/get-started

Download the wallet, encrypt it, make backups on USB/CD. Choose tab, Much Receive: There you can find your address, it will look something this DH8TPMRzwMASwKhvCxBa6fAHyxCRjwNTK9

In addition to the top comment in the thread that mumzie linked, I'll add this link https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#what-is-bitcoin-mining which is explaining bitcoin, but is valid for all Proof of Work coins (doge included)

+/u/dogetipbot megaroll verify

+/u/dogetipbot 200 doge verify

Have some doge so you can experiment without worrying about the transaction fee!

In general, I think that the transaction fee is approximately 1 Dogecoin. From the original Bitcoin design paper, the "transaction fee" is a small amount of Bitcoin, or in this case Dogecoin, that is an incentive for miners to continue "mining" and thus keep the network alive. Right now, a more powerful incentive is actually creating the coins via mining.

Here is a chart showing the daily number of Bitcoin transactions over time. As you can see, it has really risen lately! So the miners are pulling more coins via transaction fees than they were in the past. Since Dogecoin is a new coin, the transaction fees are relatively insignificant.

Does that help?

We're closely based on the Bitcoin design, so mostly their whitepaper is a good base. I've sketched out the differences at: https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/3d152x/dev/ct1me2f?context=3 but need to write a formal paper at some point.

There is no simple way, you have to compile from source on linux. Instructions here https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md

There used to be a PPA for it https://launchpad.net/~cwayne18/+archive/ubuntu/doge, however it has not been kept updated and contains a old version that does not work anymore, so do NOT use that.

+/u/dogetipbot megaroll verify

Edit: nevermind, ignore me am linux newb

Hey man,

If you don't want to store the chain locally, you can use this new wallet called Multidoge (http://multidoge.org/) - It's an open source wallet from the codebase of Multibit. (https://multibit.org/) It's a much better wallet because it stores the chain on the network so that you do not have to synchronize with the network if you don't open the wallet client for awhile.

I'm new to mining as well so I thought this would help you like it helped me. :)

Several things to comment on that little quip. :)

First, the wallet only has to do a full sync when it is freshly installed. Any time you launch it after, it will only need to catch up with the transactions that have happened since you had it open last. So I am sure you can see why it matters little to people who have it open all the time.

Second, if your computer is very slow and/or your network connection very shoddy, you may be better off using an online wallet rather than having a local wallet.

Especially while you have only a little bit of doge, security is less of an issue and the extra convenience of the online wallet (such as never having to sync) may outweigh other concerns. If (when!) you get many doge, you can still have an online wallet for smaller, day-to-day transactions and keep the big numbers in a local wallet.

Third, there's actually a different wallet program in beta, MultiDoge (http://multidoge.org/) that is much more lightweight and syncs much faster. However, you cannot transfer the wallet.dat from QT to Multidoge, so you would need to create a new wallet in MultiDoge and then transfer your doge from the old wallet to the new one.

They did when I checked, but they might be detecting you're outside of the UK and trying to match you up with SEPA sellers?

The page I get talks very specifically about UK "Faster Payments" bank transfers, which are a UK-only thing, and says I could buy up to 1.5 million DOGE if I wanted to.

I've not used any of the other exchanges such as Kraken to be able to advise on them specifically. Hopefully some other shibes with broader experience will drop in and share their wisdoms.

I've used http://weselldoges.com/ a couple times, it's about a 12% premium. Buying Bitcoin with https://coinbase.com/buy-bitcoin is the next route I will try. Converting Bitcoin to Doge is pretty easy. I've used prelude and Vault of Satoshi, the only problem I had with VOS was my US bank wouldn't cash a check I got from them, fortunately it was only for $5.

It shouldn't really damage your GPU too much, If you're scared about it constantly being under full-load you can try and use furmark http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/ Or just mining, as it's of course a better representation of mining squeal. And see how that goes (watch temps closely, as mentioned above).

I'm a fervent gamer for about 3 years now, and I have never experienced a game using 100% of my GPU (if it did it would most likely be unplayable <15FPS maybe) but it does fully-load my GPU while mining (depending on the I), so yes in that regard it may be a little bit more demanding of your GPU.

Also puttting your screen on or of shouldn't really matter since your GPU will still be rendering everything that's happening on your desktop, since you're only stopping the monitor from displaying, not the GPU card from rendering (unless ofcourse you know a way to stop this).

Not sure if everything is 100% correct but hey here's my 2 doge.

Hey Gorg_E_Shmorg - no there is not, this is the main issue with RH, they do not offer direct access to the wallet (https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/cryptocurrency-transfers-and-deposits/).

It is a pity, because in the U.S. they are, being heavily regulated, a safe exchange.

Use Ninite. It installs Java better than the official installer. Just click all the Java options under "Runtimes" and it'll give you an installer that handles everything for you. I had the same issue, ran it, and it installed just fine.

Sometimes it can take a bit for answers here. Such sorry
Have you looked on http://dogecoin.com/ ?
There is a wallet link for Linux.
Also, have you done any searches here or on /r/dogecoin for this?
While I personally have not done this, perhaps one option is to install a new wallet on linux and then send your coins from your windows wallet to your new one... However as with any suggestions, please do your research prior to action.

Feel free to link directly and send people over to it, if you'd like.

That site will only get better with time, as I both improve the wording, spread it out so it's more comfortable to read and easier to follow, and possibly add some big improvements to it.

I would suggest you consider telling people to use MultiDoge rather than Dogecoin-QT, because the Paper Wallet Experience is a lot easier over there than it is on QT.

They would still have to do the fiddly Step Zero to get the Privkey in to the inside of their PC, but it's a bunch simpler after that.

I have plans on adding Clever Stuff to the DogePaper site to let you do QR scanning right there and "download" your ".key" file directly (it would actually all run local to your PC, with the privkey never touching the web server at all), which would then make MultiDoge a significantly nicer and easier option for paper wallet recipients.

(Plus, as MultiDoge is a Lightweight client, you don't have to wait for it to sync up the Entire Freaking Blockchain, which is another annoyance to new shibes!)

Leaving a few notes about this process here: http://multidoge.org/help/v0.1/help_runFromUSBDrive.html
If you have it running from USB, you can delete the old data, yes. But please make sure you have it backed up in more than one place. Regular private key exports are the way to go. Especially while USB sticks can break far more orften then a HDD or SSD in my experience :)

Here's the cut'n'paste I try to help people with on /r/dogeducation -- maybe it will help you a bit, too:

If your computer is very slow and/or your network connection very shoddy, you may be better off using an online wallet rather than having a local wallet.

Especially while you have only a little bit of doge, security is less of an issue and the extra convenience of the online wallet (such as never having to sync) may outweigh other concerns. If (when!) you get many doge, you can still have an online wallet for smaller, day-to-day transactions and keep the big numbers in a local wallet.

There's a different wallet program in beta, MultiDoge (http://multidoge.org/) that is much more lightweight and syncs much faster. However, you cannot import the wallet.dat from QT to Multidoge, so you would need to create a new wallet in MultiDoge and then transfer your doge from the old wallet to the new one.

That's what confused me about the multi-doge wallet... when the address is actually unhidden. I understand the pre-generated addresses but it seemed when I was creating the new wallets, it was like the new addresses in the core wallet... One address with a label. I don't remember it before but in 0.1.3 you can add new addresses to each of the wallets. The part that has me confused is that there were no wallets created when the old wallets were imported. I don't see why the extra addresses were added but I will assume it's a 'feature' and accept it. :b

I'm using cryptonator to pull the btc values of the other coins, ie.

=regexextract(index(importdata("https://www.cryptonator.com/api/ticker/ptc-btc"),1,3),"[0-9]*\.[0-9]+[0-9]+")+0

and manually copying the totals from the wallets to the spreadsheet then performing the calculations I want from there. Calculating how many doge I would have if everything was converted into doge makes me feel like a semi-rich shibe. :)

My pleasure. :b

Super short and simplified Very Start Guide:

If you don't have a wallet yet, get a dogecoin wallet:

http://dogecoin.com/

There's the program that handles wallets. Let in sync (could take days) then encrypt your wallet. Then back it up. Then back it up again somewhere else.

Then, go to "much receive" and create a receive address for dogetipbot. Withdraw from dogetipbot to that address.

Wouldn't hurt to back it up again at this point once the receive address for dogetipbot is working. My understanding is that the first 100 addresses you can create are pre-created with your wallet though, so it may not be necessary. But why take an unnecessary risk?

download either the wowdoge wallet (fast set up) or the dogecoin-qt wallet (downloads block chain). Then go to /r/dogetipbot and hit the withdraw link in the sidebar, and enter your wallet client address that was generated for you by your wowdoge or dogecoin-qt wallet client. +/u/dogetipbot joshwise verify

Once you accept the tip, they are linked to your account and you can re-tip them or withdraw them so that you can buy/invest/save/giveaway elsewhere. Have some more! +/u/dogetipbot 50 doge verify

Start here for an explanation and guide, but feel free to ask any specific questions you have:

http://dogecoin.com/get-started

Some helpful links:

http://dogecoin.com/get-started

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1x4m2z/the_ultimate_beginners_guide_to_dogecoin/

If you have any specific questions, just ask!

+/u/dogetipbot 50 doge

Begin by recognizing all of your options, and working from there.

So, do you have NVIDIA GPUs? Or AMD? This decides one of the most important parts of your brand new mining operation, which is the miner. If you have NVIDIA, you will opt for cudaminer (the latest release of 12-18-2013), and if you have AMD you will opt for CGMiner.

This is all assuming that you aren't going to be doing any CPU mining! If that's the case, then...There's a bit more of a specific trail to take.

As far as blowing out your PC: It's relative to the settings you put into your CGMiner / Cudaminer. As long as you don't try to fly to the moon by yourself, you should be fine.

The power bill? Not entirely sure about this, as I don't pay for power since I'm on a public campus.

Once you've decided how to mine, then you choose where to mine. This good be a pool, which seems to be the more popular route, or solo-mining / P2P mining. In the long run, this is seemingly arbitrary, since the returns over time for either decision meet in the middle.

Be sure to download a wallet from dogecoin.com, and then allow it to sync.

You sign up on a mining pool, such as dogehouse, and create a worker. You give that worker a password, and it goes into a configuration file that launches your miner.

Your miner will hash for the pool (after a certain amount of preparation), and then you will see the flood of Doge.

This is the most simple way for me to describe it; While the journey to the moon is full of twists and turns, much gravity, many profits, I believe that you will join us on the way to the moon!

At the time of writing this, I have 1,233,112.83710385 Doge.

TO THE MOON.

I read a bit more about your backup question. It turns out that unless you have what is called a "deterministic" wallet, you need to make a new backup every time you create a new address. Currently, there are no deterministic wallets for dogecoin, including Multidoge. A port of Electrum for doge is coming soon though, which is deterministic.

Ok then I suggest mobile wallet such as enjin wallet https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enjin.mobile.wallet . This wallet will provide you with 12 word master private key, be sure to store this master key safely and in secret, you use this key if to restore your wallet if you replace or lost your phone.

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I do all of this on an android phone.

There is Coinbase then there is Coinbase Pro, which I just learned about. Assuming your Coinbase account is funded, do yourself a favor and install coinbase pro and transfer your stuff to it. It's easy to do this in coinbase pro. Coinbase pro is free, has a better UI, and has lower fees.

AnchorUSD is an exchange and a separate app I have installed. I use it to buy dogecoin and siacoin. To do that, I buy XLM in Coinbase (Pro) and then transfer it to AnchorUSD. There's a wallet ID in AnchorUSD that you can find if you tinker with the receive option.

In coinbase you will need that address to send your xlm. You don't need a memo id when you send to AnchorUSD. Sending is not instantaneous. It can take several minutes for your xlm to appear in AnchorUSD. The first time I did this I wrote to their support thinking I screwed it up, that's how long it took.

Once your XLM is in AnchorUSD, you can convert it to dogecoin.

I live in NY and I can't buy doge in coinbase. I don't know if I can sell it there either. I've left my dogecoin and siacoin in AnchorUSD for now but, I have also sold it at high prices and bought it on dips a few times for the gains. Eventually I'll transfer it to my actual wallet.

Okay so far we have coinbase (pro) and AnchorUSD. I like to have a constant flow of information, though. I have a ticker widget on my phone using WeBull. WeBull is good. I just switched to Yahoo Finance for crypto, though, specifically for a ticker widget for crypto. For me, having the prices right there at my fingertip keeps my wallet forefront in my mind. I just rode the Bitcoin spike to 62k because i happened to catch the price rising on my widget.

Crypto seems really complicated at first but it doesn't take long to pick it up. You're doing the right thing by asking questions.

Link to Anchor USD in the android app store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.anchors.anchorusd