Topic: Bitcoin-Qt / bitcoind version 0.8.0 released - page 4. (Read 29438 times)
Working nicely on Windows 8... where is the PPA for some Linux love?
Too bad bitcoin-qt can't use your GPU to accelerate re-indexing the block chain. It's already using multiple CPU cores if they're available.
I am using Windows XP SP3.
H:\Bitcoin>dir
Volume in drive Q is BITCOIN
Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX
Directory of Q:\Bitcoin
2013-02-21 09:31 AM .
2013-02-21 09:31 AM ..
2012-09-18 10:19 AM 0 .lock
2012-09-18 13:57 PM 3,850,240 addr.dat
2012-09-27 12:05 PM 131,072 backup.dat
2012-09-18 13:25 PM 2,097,384,811 blk0001.dat
2013-01-04 10:34 AM 2,097,346,788 blk0002.dat
2013-02-20 22:13 PM 1,561,011,203 blk0003.dat
2013-02-20 22:18 PM 1,809,104,896 blkindex.dat
2013-02-20 22:28 PM blocks
2013-02-21 09:22 AM chainstate
2013-02-20 22:18 PM database
2012-09-24 08:41 AM 0 db.log
2013-02-21 08:31 AM 564,356 debug.log
2013-02-21 09:31 AM 956,384 peers.dat
2013-02-21 09:18 AM 172,032 wallet.dat
What can I safely delete? I highlighted in bold and color what I think can be deleted. Can someone confirm this?
H:\Bitcoin>dir
Volume in drive Q is BITCOIN
Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX
Directory of Q:\Bitcoin
2013-02-21 09:31 AM
2013-02-21 09:31 AM
2012-09-18 10:19 AM 0 .lock
2012-09-18 13:57 PM 3,850,240 addr.dat
2012-09-27 12:05 PM 131,072 backup.dat
2012-09-18 13:25 PM 2,097,384,811 blk0001.dat
2013-01-04 10:34 AM 2,097,346,788 blk0002.dat
2013-02-20 22:13 PM 1,561,011,203 blk0003.dat
2013-02-20 22:18 PM 1,809,104,896 blkindex.dat
2013-02-20 22:28 PM
2013-02-21 09:22 AM
2013-02-20 22:18 PM
2012-09-24 08:41 AM 0 db.log
2013-02-21 08:31 AM 564,356 debug.log
2013-02-21 09:31 AM 956,384 peers.dat
2013-02-21 09:18 AM 172,032 wallet.dat
What can I safely delete? I highlighted in bold and color what I think can be deleted. Can someone confirm this?
You can safely delete those that you highlighted. As the new files is in the "blocks" directory.
Easiest way for you to check is to close the bitcoin client, move those files to another directory and then start the client again and check if it starts downloading the blockchain again.
Also, yesterday I saw some very quick confirmations on a lot of transactions, even no-fee transactions were generally confirmed in less than 10 minutes, which is very good for business. Does that have something to do with this update or is it just a coincidence?
Just a coincidence. ASIC miners are rapidly coming online, which increases block production until difficulty changes to compensate.
What are all the sst files for? Also you might want to post what can be cleaned up after the install since the install does not do it. Also during install it would be nice if you could let the user specify the datadir rather than using a command line flag.
Nice job on 0.8.0 guise.... Everything is super quick -- LOVE IT!
Great work guys, can't say how grateful I am for the work you're doing. I have a question though:
I assume this means only transactions sent from 0.8.0? So that an attacker can just keep using the older version for his purposes, regardless of if the receiver has the latest version. Not saying that it still isn't a very important fix to have for the future.
Also, yesterday I saw some very quick confirmations on a lot of transactions, even no-fee transactions were generally confirmed in less than 10 minutes, which is very good for business. Does that have something to do with this update or is it just a coincidence?
Zero-confirmation transaction vulnerability: accepting zero-confirmation transactions (transactions that have not yet been included in a block) from somebody you do not trust is still not recommended, because there will always be ways for attackers to double-spend zero-confirmation transactions. However, this release includes a bug fix that makes it a little bit more difficult for attackers to double-spend a certain type ("lockTime in the future") of zero-confirmation transaction.
I assume this means only transactions sent from 0.8.0? So that an attacker can just keep using the older version for his purposes, regardless of if the receiver has the latest version. Not saying that it still isn't a very important fix to have for the future.
Also, yesterday I saw some very quick confirmations on a lot of transactions, even no-fee transactions were generally confirmed in less than 10 minutes, which is very good for business. Does that have something to do with this update or is it just a coincidence?
Another question: I see that now the client recommends a transaction fee of 0,01 per KB. That's quite an increase compared to the prior "recommended fee", which was 0,0005 if I my memory is not failing. What do you think about this? Personally I will set up the client that way, I like miners getting fair rewards for processing transactions.
Now a "n00b" question: is there a quick way to calculate how many kb will have your transaction?
Now a "n00b" question: is there a quick way to calculate how many kb will have your transaction?
Unfotunately no. There isn't even a way to configure the coin selection routine to optimize for minimum fee for the current transaction vs. maximum efficiency in consolidating small outputs.
I've noticed that lately, 90% of the transactions I've sent have been through the raw-tx api. You have full control over fees, outputs, change, etc.
nice!
took about 45 minutes on my win7x64/intel [email protected]/8 gig/intel G2 SSD to resync the blockchain.
all in all, a pretty painless upgrade.
thank you.
EDIT: corrected the time.
took about 45 minutes on my win7x64/intel [email protected]/8 gig/intel G2 SSD to resync the blockchain.
all in all, a pretty painless upgrade.
thank you.
EDIT: corrected the time.
Now a "n00b" question: is there a quick way to calculate how many kb will have your transaction?
If you know how many inputs and outputs your transaction will have, then yes:
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/3011/659
Else no.
i don't see it in the PPA
Another question: I see that now the client recommends a transaction fee of 0,01 per KB. That's quite an increase compared to the prior "recommended fee", which was 0,0005 if I my memory is not failing. What do you think about this? Personally I will set up the client that way, I like miners getting fair rewards for processing transactions.
Now a "n00b" question: is there a quick way to calculate how many kb will have your transaction?
Now a "n00b" question: is there a quick way to calculate how many kb will have your transaction?
Unfotunately no. There isn't even a way to configure the coin selection routine to optimize for minimum fee for the current transaction vs. maximum efficiency in consolidating small outputs.
Another question: I see that now the client recommends a transaction fee of 0,01 per KB. That's quite an increase compared to the prior "recommended fee", which was 0,0005 if I my memory is not failing. What do you think about this? Personally I will set up the client that way, I like miners getting fair rewards for processing transactions.
Now a "n00b" question: is there a quick way to calculate how many kb will have your transaction?
Now a "n00b" question: is there a quick way to calculate how many kb will have your transaction?
Running well on Mac OS X 10.8.2 but the context menu entries when right-clicking on the Dock-item are gone for whatever reason.
Same thing here. If you click on "close window", then you are unable to open it again. You close the window, you have to quit the client and restart.
In the old version, if you closed the window you could open it again just right clicking on the Dock-item and selecting "send bitcoins", "receive bitcoins" or whatever you wished to do.
Wow people upgrade fast >71% of the network are running 0.7.x.. I'm still running at 0.6.3, may be time to upgrade to 0.7.x (I don't like running just released version for something that manages my money
)That's why I make multiple backups when I upgrade. I mean, I trust the devs... but...
Wow people upgrade fast >71% of the network are running 0.7.x.. I'm still running at 0.6.3, may be time to upgrade to 0.7.x (I don't like running just released version for something that manages my money
)
Running well on Mac OS X 10.8.2 but the context menu entries when right-clicking on the Dock-item are gone for whatever reason.
I've had major problems with this release on my 2nd computer. It's a 5 year old laptop with Windows Vista.
On the first reindex both the blockchain and the wallet got corrupted. On the first sync from nothing (I deleted the blockchain) the blockchain got corrupted. On the second sync from nothing I get this message that the transactions I'm seeing might not be valid, and that either me or the other nodes need to upgrade. It got stuck in 3354 blocks left. In the debug log it says something about an invalid chain.
I don't really know what to do other than stop running Bitcoin-Qt with this PC. I've had no other issues with the computer so it's kinda strange. The 0.7 version worked great as well.
On the first reindex both the blockchain and the wallet got corrupted. On the first sync from nothing (I deleted the blockchain) the blockchain got corrupted. On the second sync from nothing I get this message that the transactions I'm seeing might not be valid, and that either me or the other nodes need to upgrade. It got stuck in 3354 blocks left. In the debug log it says something about an invalid chain.
I don't really know what to do other than stop running Bitcoin-Qt with this PC. I've had no other issues with the computer so it's kinda strange. The 0.7 version worked great as well.
Does anyone know when the Ubuntu PPA will be updated?
I would ask the PPA maintainer.
Do I need to update if I'm already running 0.8 rc1?
Yes there were some small changes.
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