how to install bitcoin
hi,
I am new to trisquel and linux and have not been able to install and use bitcoin.
i would very much appreciate some help from someone more experienced than myself.
thanks
dan
You can add the bitcoin ppa to your /etc/apt/sources.list then run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install bitcoin. You could also download the .deb for bitcoin from their launchpad page. https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin/+packages
for 64 bit machines and for 32 bit machines.
Note that while possible, mining bitcoins is practically impossible and will end up only costing you.
This is because the free software client can only utilize the CPU. The relatively much faster GPUs require proprietary software and even these are getting to be obsolete by in turn much faster FPGAs and even faster ASICs.
Using bitcoins on the other hand should work nicely.
ps. Linux is the kernel, GNU/Linux is the operating system.