+1

you can use virtual box too and its free...
https://www.virtualbox.org/

I do this with my litecoin and bitcoin.. they are kept in a linux virtual machine using virtualbox
all of it is encrypted and stored in a truecrypt file  (yes I know about the truecrypt  warnings but there is no proof yet that i can be cracked)
this an entirely free option and it all runs nice and securely under windows.

if my karma rises in value significantly then I would put a stash of them in a virtual machine for safe keeping.

Votes from registered users will be multiplied x10.

Very interesting, thanks for the link.

great article, a must read for fellow Karmaniacs.

Somebody sell into that 200 Lit wall at 180 or outbid it. Things will happen! 

yup. karma at 200 litoshi already!!!

by tuesday the block rewards will be 35k coins a block from 110k coins a block that are now.


Karma is about to get that much rarer

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6528/

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoindev/comments/289ki5/okay_lets_talk_proofofstake/

Which Proof of Stake System is the Most Viable
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/584703.60

Re: Proof of stake instead of proof of work
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/615843.0

[ANNOUNCE] Bitcoin Cooperative Proof-of-Stake - CPoS
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/584719.0

rpietila Altcoin Observer    (it's not POS focused but it does talk about some POS coins. i think )
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/624223.0


have fun

And here is my view posted on an other forum . It was late when i typed this. i never got back and fixed the typos and made it more clearer. its late right now so i am not going to do it tonight as well.
Below i give a brief karma history and then explain why we need pow. Hence POW>POS :

POW is the answer. So far,POW has proven to be the only greater way to spread the coins decentralized. No other method has proven to distribute the coins to as many people and as fairly.

This is what made bitcoin great and it was the selling point that made litecoin what it is now. Litecoin was created because bitcoin Pow was starting to be centralized by fpga* ( sorry late, cant think to recall the proper name. but basically mining rigs that were outperforming regular miners) So mr Lee created litecoin. changed the algo to scrypt and claimed to be fpga* and now ASIC proof. even though litecoin was instamined , it become so hyped that everyone jumped on it. Soon enough all the new coins stopped going to 20 wallets but went to 1000s. This is the proper purpose of the coin. to be decentralized. because so MANY miners were involved it got a lot of attention. soon the price rose because those who coin not mine it so the potential and started outbidding each other. funny enough, the miners were the most buyers! Reason is simple. miners are always involved with the community. they are always interacting because the have to be 24/7 alert in case something goes wrong.


The thing about POW together with Multi billion coins is that they give opportunities for new People to join our community. While some of us might have an easy way to buy bitcoins, most of people around the world can't. And even those that can, they have to send out personal info to exchanges or send fiat via regular mail and wait for weeks before they see their bitcoin. no one trust the exchanges and they do not want to risk it. So bitcoin community is loosing a lot of new buyers to litecoin because they do not want to go through that hustle but they can just buy some GPUs from a trusted site online and with in 2 days start mining litecoin. And now all the other clones because litecoin dif is too high.

What i mean by this is that via POW the cryptoworld is daily gaining new members converted. POW also allows other members from other communities to jump on our coin if they chose. and because we are in billions, a miner will get some nice chunks that will look appealing. its more rewarding to have 10000 Karmas than mining litecoin all day for 0.02Litecoins. even thought the values are the same
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alright this was a prep to to understand better on what i mean below here

Therefore POW:
1: Is a gateway for new members which will in fact become additional buyers and most active members
2: Still the best method to distribute the new coins created ( for few weeks until ASIC kick in  )
3: Current miners will rush to dump us if we cut the POW or manipulate it to squeeze them

So unless something horrible off is proven to come from scrypt algo then we should not change the POW

We can see in the bitcoin community that each day newbs make a post on how much bitcoin they can mine with their laptops. Those noobs get turned to buying better mining equipments which gets them to learn about litecoin. then they see that litecoin is too hard to mine so they look for the next fallback which will us!
Heck, now that i think about it I followed this exact steps!

Again this it to give you my opinion on why POW for karma is good and should not be interfered with. Unless its POW/POS


here is and interesting topic that shows that Scrypt algo has potential to be modified by randomizing it and make it ASIC resistant. I foresee a proper code to come out in near future that will help us stay decentralized
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/624912.msg6941381#msg6941381


Now: About us going fully POS. Well we will limit ourselves form the potential new clients via POW. I think with POS you close the door to everyone and the only way to get the coins is via buying. Most of the fully POS coins are struggling. they do not get new wave of buyer but it seems its the same one buying and selling. they do not show signs of growing in numbers.

This is not taking into consideration POW+POS


Disclaimer: These are my opinions and i am not representing KarmaTeam's  view in regard to this topics

Here is a whitepaper which explains the nothing at stake attack.

http://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf

in my view this is much worse than a 51% attack because it requires less processing power and once someone has successfully carried out an attack their success rate increases exponentially. (unlike PoW attacks which decrease after each successive attempt, because the network/community is able to react to an attack)

Pow+Pos combinations in their various flavours are vulnerable to both 51% attack and nothing at stake attack at different times. Anyone who tells you their coin is more secure without providing proof is lying.

the problem of securing a PoS coin is not easy and that is why there are so many all-star dev teams backed by multi million dollar funding working on it. (bitshares, etherium, NXT, ripple etc etc etc)

if you think that Karma has the necessary expertise and funding to pull off a secure PoS or even Hybrid implementation without issue then by all means go right ahead. But if not then you are just asking for the community to take a gamble that they might get a short term reward at the risk of seriously devaluing their investment.

here is some further reading on some of the more popular PoS systems and why this author thinks they are flawed.
http://bitshares.org/delegated-proof-of-stake/

BTC Karma market. Let people know Karma.

I agree with Alphi, often a buywall like that is a sign of an incoming whale exit. Trying to push up price before the dump. In this case it might also be someone trying to hold price up to get that BTC market though.

Try selling some tens of millions into that wall, see if it budges. Then we will know.