Changing Litecoin into money

You may have noticed that cryptocurrencies went crazy in last weeks , with a Bitcoin to over $ 1000 .

I think it's too late to start Bitcoin mining , and even Litecoin. However I mined a few Litecoin there some time, and I wondered how exchange them now .

I looked for sites to do it, and I decided to share the adresses I tested and have worked for me.

DISCLAIMER: WITH BITCOINS EVERYTHING IS TOO FAST. A RELIABLE SITE ONE DAY MAY BANKRUPTCY NEXT DAY .

First step , mine the Litecoin :
I think it is not worth mining now given the current difficulty, but for your information , I have mined my Litecoin with the following two pool which are still active :
https://litecoinrain.org/en/: a small PPLNS pool
https://www.coinotron.com/ : a big PPS pool

Changing Litecoin into Bitcoin.
There are many exchange market. I tested and received my Bitcoin with following sites:
https://btc-e.com/:
https://vircurex.com/:

For my transfer, I didn't wanted to use the site systems to make transfers to a bank, because I do not want to give my bank details. So I transferred my bitcoins on my computer, and I tried find a Bitcoin site paying through PayPal.

Transforming Bitcoins currency :
The site I found can buy very small amounts of Bitcoins and paid them on Paypal account.
It is https://coin2pal.info/, where I sold 0.06 BTC for 41$ in November.

I do not know how much was lost in fees made ​​by each of these intermediates, but at least I got something.

Raspberry Pi power consumption - eleventh month

Power consumption is 1,6 kWh for november, without any surprise.
Total power comsuption since the begining of the year is 18,7 kWh.

I had some problems with the automatic change of IP address with my provider,Orange. But I now have a stable script that works to manage IP changes with OVH dynhost Service.

I still have some short downtime, but nothing serious, since my uptime is 99.88%.

The return to a more reliable service has enabled 1,537 users to visit the teapot in November.

crédit photo: Par Benjamin Stäudinger (Lightning #3  Uploaded by ComputerHotline) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Raspberry Pi power consumption - tenth month

Power consuption for october is still 1,6 kWh.
Total consumption since the beginning of the year is 17.1 kWh.

UptimeRobot working properly, but my I lost my stats.

I still have problems with my IP address, but I'm trying to find a solution using the OVH dynhost service and a script on the Raspberry Pi


With all these downtimes only 677 unique visitors went on the teapot in October.

crédit photo: By US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (upload fr:Utilisateur:Cham) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Raspberry pi power consumption - 9 month

Sorry for the lack of interesting updates for last weeks.

My ISP migration wasn't very good. I had downtime problems and my IP adress isn't stable.

Power consumption is stable again  with 1,6 kWh for september. The total consumption since the beginning of the year was 15,5 kWh.

UptimeRobot didn't send me any error messages, i'll check for any configuration changes to do.

823 unique visitors. The impact of my downtime will be visible again in october.

crédit photo: Axel Rouvin, via Wikimedia Commons

Changing of ISP

I planned to change my ISP again next week to switch from SFR to ORANGE. My connection will remain optical fiber. Network downtime may occurs during the change.

Raspberry Pi power consumption - eigth month

Power consumption stable for August with 1,6 kWh. The total consumption since the beginning of the year was 13,9 kWh.

Uptime is  now 99,88%.

1376 unique visitors. No more big buzz like last month.

crédit photo: By longhorndave (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidw/171030064/) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The influence of the social networks

Following the increase of visitors last month, I wanted to know why in my Google Analytics page.

Here is counting the number of unique visitors to my sites:

period	htcpcp.net	error418.org english blog	error418.fr french blog
October 2012	0	7	14
November 2012	710	271	224
December 2012	522	248	249
January 2013	867	366	394
February 2013	945	448	347
March 2013	1556	635	369
April 2013	1384	693	565
May 2013	1732	833	765
June 2013	1272	779	917
July 2013	2473	786	1345

In fact, the reason of the almost doubling of the number of visits is only a huge spike of visits on July 29 and 30.

After research, the cause of this peak is a comment posted by someone on reddit.

The effect of this quote in a comment made me really impressed about the power of social networks. What would have been the effect of a post instead of a simple comment?

Nevertheless we see that this increase is very short. Two days after the traffic is back to normal. However, I now understand better why some public personalities are so active on social networks... and the ephemeral side of the buzz effects.

Here is the visits coming from Google Analytics identified social networks.

There are a few I did not even heard about. Maybe should I open accounts for the teapot on social networks?