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Quote from: xxjs on August 15, 2013, 02:33:11 AM

A minimalistic linux with tor and bitcoind and armory, plus a version with no network connection and armory, for offline wallets, something like Ubuntu Privacy Remix with Armory added. Yes it could be useful.

for an offline armoury, it would have to operate on a decrypted partion or virtual sandboxed os or soemthin like that where the gap could not be electronically bridged

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Quote from: tkone on August 17, 2013, 05:39:26 PM

could one use tails OS on a USB along with a private key, to sign transactions without leaving any traces? Huh

It's not possible to leave zero trace, otherwise the transaction wouldn't be possible Tongue

For your purposes though, this is indeed a suitable avenue: a security-hardened OS, preconfigured to run all TCP/IP through Tor, and Bitcoin client also packaged and configured to communicate over Tor. Then you could verify the checksum of the ISO before burning, therefore narrowing the potential sources of infecting your Live OS with internet nasties while doing your manual transaction signing (bitcoind being the only source, as per my example in the other thread).

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could one use tails OS on a USB along with a private key, to sign transactions without leaving any traces? Huh

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Quote from: israfelwater on August 14, 2013, 08:24:33 PM

Wouldn't it be great if everyone started using bitcoins. And wouldn't it be nice if everyone stopped using Windows and Macs. Maybe we can combine these two movements and start a bitcoin OS for everyone.

I put together Bit-OS on sourceforge, but I am more interested in what you think. Everything is set up out of box to make using and trading bitcoins more user friendly. Do you think the world needs a bitcoin OS? Do you see how these two ideas coincide and would make the world a better place?

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I think the answer is yes.

We have an example: MinePeon.

A "Bitcoin distro" should have as native or inside or whatever:

- Wallet (Bitcoin-qt)
- Drivers to OC GPU´s and run FPGA and ASIC.
- Miners (CGMiner and BFGminer are in MinePeon, could be enough)
- USB run and ARM base run
- Schedule for Updates (without human operation), static of mining, auto re start (power cut´s, i living in Argentina and that happends)
- Probably an screen to set (relative easy): SHH, Pool or solo, OC (Gpu), multiple coin mining management , multiple system (script, Sha, prime) management, resource aplication management (GPU to Scrypt, Asic to sha, etc)
- Wish or "Wonderful" features: e-mail and/or SMS notification

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Maybe something Cyanogen could add in future versions?

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Quote from: zeetubes on August 16, 2013, 10:19:48 AM

The idea of a secure os rocks. But perhaps it should be created from scratch. Even though I worked on unix for many years, it never seemed to be an ideal operating system for most things. Sort of like Pascal. And I've never quite understood why everyone raves about the latest hardware advances in CPUs, cell phones and laptops, and then raves about coupling that gorgeous, ultra fast, ultra capable new hardware with a 45 year old dinosaur operating system. Thus I end up with quad core galaxy note 2 that can't handle real-time multi-track recording ... that a 30 year old atari would have pissed on.

Why can't a Galaxy Note 2 do multitrack recording? I've working in the audio layer of Android and I can say building a multitrack recorder on top of the Android API would be a joke, but buiding something in the Native layer shouldn't be that difficult. I know there is support in the NDK for openAL.

Quote from: jdbtracker on August 16, 2013, 07:52:26 PM

how would we build it?
Programming language?
capability?
Connective capability?
Distributed?
A.I. based?
etc?

AI based would be awesome. There is so many cool machine learning algorithms which a kernel could use to optimize processes. And as far as programming languages, how does everyone feel about javascript? I love the language, but it needs to be compiled into ASM, forget JIT.

Maybe when the computer goes to sleep it would analyze what it has done and calculate how to do it better Shocked

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how would we build it?
Programming language?
capability?
Connective capability?
Distributed?
A.I. based?
etc?

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I think there are several USB-Stick distros for mining? That is more or less a btc OS?

But I think, we need something for mobiles, so people can buy and exchange btc everywhere? Like a p2p system, that more or less works like localbitcoins. Combined with the GPS functionality of smartphones, it would be easy to find someone near you to get btc?

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The idea of a secure os rocks. But perhaps it should be created from scratch. Even though I worked on unix for many years, it never seemed to be an ideal operating system for most things. Sort of like Pascal. And I've never quite understood why everyone raves about the latest hardware advances in CPUs, cell phones and laptops, and then raves about coupling that gorgeous, ultra fast, ultra capable new hardware with a 45 year old dinosaur operating system. Thus I end up with quad core galaxy note 2 that can't handle real-time multi-track recording ... that a 30 year old atari would have pissed on.

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Quote from: israfelwater on August 16, 2013, 02:27:28 AM

Quote from: jarhed on August 15, 2013, 04:22:04 AM

A Bitcoin distro will fail for lack of support.

haha, it shouldn't be the case with bitcoins trading for $100, sheash, it should create more excited and funding for development.

....or one could start from scratch, an alt-coin distro, mine-able only on said distro. No GPU or ASIC advantage....Then again, someone would simply launch a clone army on a virtual server somewhere.....

I'm sure there's some old post somewhere as to why none of this will work.

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That is an awesome idea i would totally rock a Linux / bitcoin Os Wink

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Quote from: slob on August 15, 2013, 12:59:22 AM

What would make it a bitcoin OS? It comes packaged with bitcoin-qt?

And a bitcoin miner. Maybe the app/SW is setup to accept payment via bitcoin.

Quote from: jarhed on August 15, 2013, 04:22:04 AM

A Bitcoin distro will fail for lack of support.

haha, it shouldn't be the case with bitcoins trading for $100, sheash, it should create more excited and funding for development.

Quote from: jdbtracker on August 15, 2013, 06:39:34 AM

Do you mean you have the making of a distributed OS? Like... part of my operating system is being hosted from the cloud? is it fully distributed? different parts managed by dedicated computers that manage other computers in the same way? It would be interesting to see a torrented operating system being compressed, encrypted and streamed with only the decoding left to be done, that would be an interesting service to pay for, using Bitcoin.

... Or hay, what if all that power from all the member computers was funneled into one efficient super computer for calculations available for everyone... that just so happens to be distributed.

No, that's not what I was thinking at all. That is much better. That is so flawed I love it. Wasn't there some openCloud project like this?

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Quote from: herzmeister on August 15, 2013, 07:14:15 AM

Quote from: dE_logics on August 15, 2013, 01:23:13 AM

If someone could modify the kernel to somehow be optimized for mining....

The Cryptographic API of the Linux kernel has a sha256 module.... maybe that can be used.

what's an OS kernel to do with mining these days Huh

CPU mining is going to make a comeback! Tongue

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I would like to see a bitcoin TV! {sarcasm}

What would a bitcoin OS have over any other OS?

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Mine Silent, Mine Deep

I would love to see an Android custom ROM with native bitcoin support. Maybe something Cyanogen could add in future versions?

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Windows 8 with pre-installed Bitcoin client = bitcoin os? derp

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Quote from: dE_logics on August 15, 2013, 01:23:13 AM

If someone could modify the kernel to somehow be optimized for mining....

The Cryptographic API of the Linux kernel has a sha256 module.... maybe that can be used.

what's an OS kernel to do with mining these days Huh

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Do you mean you have the making of a distributed OS? Like... part of my operating system is being hosted from the cloud? is it fully distributed? different parts managed by dedicated computers that manage other computers in the same way? It would be interesting to see a torrented operating system being compressed, encrypted and streamed with only the decoding left to be done, that would be an interesting service to pay for, using Bitcoin.

... Or hay, what if all that power from all the member computers was funneled into one efficient super computer for calculations available for everyone... that just so happens to be distributed.

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Sounds like a terrific idea.

We should definitely work on a bitcoin distro of linux..

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