Bitcoin Reading List, Part 3

These two posts have two prior Bitcoin reading lists.

The original Bitcoin Whitepaper, by Satoshi Nakamoto, is a short read.

This is a good podcast to learn more about wallets and specifically the beginner-friendly Exodus wallet.

Ethereum Mining Backup

With the size of the Ethereum block chain always increasing, it is important to occasionally back up your copy of the ledger. In case your PC crashes, you will not have to start downloading the block chain from block zero.

Shut down any running geth processes


Make a backup of your keystore:
C:\Desktop>copy %APPDATA%\Ethereum\keystore\* .
C:\AppData\Roaming\Ethereum\keystore\UTC--2017-blah-blah-9
1 file(s) copied.


Mentally make a backup of the password for your keystore.


Back up the downloaded Ethereum blockchain:
C:\Users\Desktop>geth export ethereum_blockchain_20170830
INFO [08-30|12:38:28] Allocated cache and file handles database=C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Ethereum\geth\chaindata cache=128 handles=1024
INFO [08-30|12:38:30] Loaded most recent local header number=4220763 hash=39eda3…fd5e71 td=810099527882589796805
INFO [08-30|12:38:30] Loaded most recent local full block number=4220763 hash=39eda3…fd5e71 td=810099527882589796805
INFO [08-30|12:38:30] Loaded most recent local fast block number=4220763 hash=39eda3…fd5e71 td=810099527882589796805
INFO [08-30|12:38:30] Exporting blockchain file=ethereum_blockchain_20170830
INFO [08-30|12:38:30] Exporting batch of blocks count=4220764
INFO [08-30|12:49:53] Exported blockchain file=ethereum_blockchain_20170830
Export done in 11m22.8688061s