New to bitcoins just one quesiton maybe it's easy.

MoonShadow

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Quote from: Bimmerhead on November 19, 2010, 02:24:00 PM

Quote from: Bimmerhead on November 18, 2010, 04:49:10 PM

For me most transactions have been almost instantaneous.
I'm no developer though, they may be able to indicate occasions where it won't be so fast.

Wow am I an idiot. I utter the above yesterday, and today things are going so slowly I was beginning to wonder if I had botched up my client or wallet somehow.

What the heck is going on?

Someone has been spamming the network with transactions to oneself. Whoever it is needs to use the test network to play games, that is what it is for.

Bimmerhead

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Quote from: Bimmerhead on November 18, 2010, 04:49:10 PM

For me most transactions have been almost instantaneous.
I'm no developer though, they may be able to indicate occasions where it won't be so fast.

Wow am I an idiot. I utter the above yesterday, and today things are going so slowly I was beginning to wonder if I had botched up my client or wallet somehow.

What the heck is going on?

MoonShadow

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Quote from: ribuck on November 18, 2010, 04:59:45 PM

I can't believe how fast the payment usually arrives. When I withdraw some BTC from mtgox, as soon as I click on the bitcoin window the coins are already there (unconfirmed of course).

Yeah, the propagation of transactions is pretty zippy right now, because there are not nearly the number of nodes to spread a transaction to as the system is intended to support. As Bitcoin becomes more popular, the lag time for transactions will increase.

FreeMoney

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Strength in numbers

MrBurns, did you do something strange? Send to yourself a bunch of times? I didn't think that would even go into blocks...

referring to this..

http://theymos.ath.cx:64150/bbe/block/00000000000739589e6e26d53fbcb42c44075e3af5ea20a74ae6a899bf1565a0

http://theymos.ath.cx:64150/bbe/block/000000000002163911e48c1c53e91c83d47c1a86a6bfdfa04dec284b3fc58414

edit: maybe TOR is doing something odd?

ribuck

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I can't believe how fast the payment usually arrives. When I withdraw some BTC from mtgox, as soon as I click on the bitcoin window the coins are already there (unconfirmed of course).

FreeMoney

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Strength in numbers

Quote from: MrBurns on November 18, 2010, 04:44:14 PM

I have taken the opportunity to read everything I can. My only question that I have come up with is not how long a transaction takes to confirm but how long it takes to show up in the client. I have 92761 blocks showing. If someone sends me coins during this transaction block period will it not show in my interface until 92762? I have not been able to find that answer in the wiki or the FAQ's.

Would anyone send me some money to play with? I use TOR and the BitCoinFaucet will not give me any money because of that.

17yhRAYKJvVmBh14HMxYRHp2Z4erWgk1ne

Thank you all.

Sent a drop, with a 20% TOR bonus

Bimmerhead

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For me most transactions have been almost instantaneous.
I'm no developer though, they may be able to indicate occasions where it won't be so fast.

MrBurns

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I have taken the opportunity to read everything I can. My only question that I have come up with is not how long a transaction takes to confirm but how long it takes to show up in the client. I have 92761 blocks showing. If someone sends me coins during this transaction block period will it not show in my interface until 92762? I have not been able to find that answer in the wiki or the FAQ's.

Would anyone send me some money to play with? I use TOR and the BitCoinFaucet will not give me any money because of that.

17yhRAYKJvVmBh14HMxYRHp2Z4erWgk1ne

Thank you all.

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