Blood is pouring through the alt coin streets.

What's happening to Monero? The price is dropping... I this just a move to make profit elsewhere?
Where is monero headed in 2016? I'm not bashing monero, just worried about my investment.

its holding steady in fiat terms.

Well, Windows was never designed to be private or secure. I hope you didn´t miss the "aftersnoden" era, where so called exploits are used by governments and private businessnes to spy on users that use Wndows.
Just because FIAT transactions are processed on a certain OS in 90% majority of cases, does not imply that that specific OS is secure 

That´s why i use Linux for crypto and my personal belongs 

Does it otherwise work ? If you have removed the blockchain, the newly created blockchain will only have the genesis block to start with, so any (valid) chain will have only the genesis block in common with it.

I have downloaded the just released windows 0.9 beta.  When I try to start mining in simplewallet I get the following;

Error: This command assume a trusted daemon.  Enable with --trusted-daemon

I tried using the command --trusted-daemon in both the daemon and simple wallet but get the message "unknown command".  I also tried --trusted-daemon in combination with start_mining in simple wallet which also doesn't work.

There has been some confusion about this for some time:


I don't know whether Tails and Monero are compatible but if not 64 bit support doesn't seem to be the reason. (The new Monero can be built for 32 bit also.)

Add --trusted-daemon to the simplewallet command line, not in the console. That is, at the same place you put --wallet-file, or --daemon-host, etc.

Great news, the 0.9 version will be publish

   

so if your on windows, you need to goto the command line. Hit the start button and type cmd into the search thing. a little black icon will appear. click on that. A big black box will pop up.

type

cdusers/yourwindowsusername/desktop/folderwithmonerobinary

(if you put your monero binaries in folderwithmonerobinary on your desktop)

once there, type

simplewallet --trusted-daemon

boom.