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incentive to forward transactions? Bitcoin Discussion
One solution is to periodically test nodes by pretending not to have a transacti…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 13, 2011, 08:11:53 AM |
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Official Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner (Smaller Devices Now Supported!) Hardware
you are talking: bitcoind script , right? please tell me if im wrong.im talking…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 13, 2011, 08:01:16 AM |
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Pool Hopping: The SIMPLE Solution! Mining
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see why this prevents or even discourag…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 13, 2011, 07:43:21 AM |
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Official Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner (Smaller Devices Now Supported!) Hardware
hmm. if we did that there would be a bottleneck. there would be a need to call g…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 13, 2011, 04:53:48 AM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
I don't deny that there will be an initial stage of re-adjustment, but then all…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 13, 2011, 02:38:12 AM |
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[RFC]: A distributed mining pool proposal Development & Technical Discussion
How about a mining system where the clients collect transactions normally (as if…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 13, 2011, 02:29:23 AM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
Horrible inefficiency is only from the perspective of today's standards of taxat…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 13, 2011, 12:28:33 AM |
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Active Bitcoin nodes per day since December - cool charts Bitcoin Discussion
leaving your client running 24/7 is an invitation to a hack. you know -- port s…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 13, 2011, 12:24:12 AM |
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Did Satoshi Nakamoto leave the door open for a heist? Beginners & Help
With sufficient CPU power I hash my forged block that transfers all the coins to…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 13, 2011, 12:12:09 AM |
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Active Bitcoin nodes per day since December - cool charts Bitcoin Discussion
so it's really only representative of solo miners, right?Solo miners and those w…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 11:10:30 PM |
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Bitcoin Loans and Lending; The Weakness in The Bitcoin Economy Economics
The other big one is that deflation likely encourages hoarding at the expense of…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 09:13:21 PM |
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Would killing the minimum wage help? Politics & Society
But surely you wouldn't argue that someone handing over their wallet in exchange…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 08:48:06 PM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
Land value cannot be hidden. How about taxing land value?That causes horrible ec…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 07:57:10 PM |
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Bitcoin Loans and Lending; The Weakness in The Bitcoin Economy Economics
This is based on a misunderstanding of what predictable deflation does in a mark…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 07:54:33 PM |
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Moral relativism and libertarianism compatible? Politics & Society
There really isn't any one theoretical foundation for Libertarian views, and not…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 07:41:12 PM |
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Would killing the minimum wage help? Politics & Society
This is only true if there is true consent -- ie; a relative equality of power o…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 07:40:31 PM |
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Official Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner (Smaller Devices Now Supported!) Hardware
One cycle per nonce, fully unrolled. So 100MHz = 100MHash/s. And in case it isn'…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 06:48:10 PM |
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Active Bitcoin nodes per day since December - cool charts Bitcoin Discussion
A 'node' is someone running the bitcoin client.
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 06:43:05 PM |
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Pool Hopping: The SIMPLE Solution! Mining
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see why this prevents or even discourag…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 05:38:14 PM |
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[20 BTC] Multithreaded Keep-alive Implementation in Bitcoind Project Development
Something else occurred to me: If we make these changes, we can allow the miner…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 04:58:11 PM |
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[20 BTC] Multithreaded Keep-alive Implementation in Bitcoind Project Development
Also, pools should be changed to allow miners to just prove they included pool's…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 04:19:47 PM |
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Query bitcoind for block number when you only know the block hash? Development & Technical Discussion
So when running a pool, you can determine what your block_hash is from your "sol…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 03:29:02 PM |
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Would killing the minimum wage help? Politics & Society
As the race to the bottom prevails, if markets are left unfettered, even below s…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 12, 2011, 01:07:36 AM |
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Official Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner (Smaller Devices Now Supported!) Hardware
Great question! Yes, that is what it does when it is fully unrolled. You can red…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 09:59:14 PM |
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Official Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner (Smaller Devices Now Supported!) Hardware
This may be a dumb question, but ...Does the FPGA bitcoin miner use an assembly-…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 06:38:26 PM |
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Do I deserve to die and do I deserve healthcare? Politics & Society
That is not true. We can save the one and the few, it would just cost more. In m…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 06:26:18 PM |
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Do I deserve to die and do I deserve healthcare? Politics & Society
What if nobody is willing to help? Then is it ok for me to die? Also, I would ne…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 05:55:40 PM |
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Do I deserve to die? Politics & Society
In none of those cases do you deserve to die. Nobody deserves to have bad luck.…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 04:29:54 PM |
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Pay someone w/out their address? Development & Technical Discussion
If there is one, you can use the address the 'change' was sent to. For example,…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 04:35:56 PM |
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If I was US trader Economics
It seems pretty easy, right? I mean, you look back at the chart and there's this…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 04:31:12 PM |
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Would killing the minimum wage help? Politics & Society
You can recognize it as something undesirable, while still sometimes allowing it…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 04:24:52 PM |
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Would killing the minimum wage help? Politics & Society
It doesn't change the fact that undercutting min wage would damage me physically…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 02:53:05 PM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
Right. The cause for some stales may be the miner, and for other stales it's jus…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 01:49:29 PM |
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Cryptocurrency & sustainable taxation Economics
Encouraging inefficient conservation is a downside of such a tax, not an upside.…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 11:31:47 AM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
This is exactly right. Stales equal wasted work. Stales are proofs-of-work in th…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 11:17:17 AM |
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USD *is* a virtual currency Bitcoin Discussion
Im pretty sure banks have whatever amount of currency they got somewhere as "rea…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 10:12:01 AM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
Currently, if there is a fork, it will last for on average 10 minutes until one…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 10:09:16 AM |
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Single address accounts Development & Technical Discussion
I already said that we don't think the our modern systems have this problem, but…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 09:31:34 AM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
The point is that if there was a defined tie break rule, then one or other could…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 11, 2011, 09:08:15 AM |
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www.btcbalance.net Project Development
It doesn't matter to me if there isn't a 1:1 link. Someone hacks into your data…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 11:08:11 PM |
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Transaction confirmation projections. Likelihood to get into the next n-blocks. Bitcoin Discussion
To summarize: If you define "confirmed" as being at least six blocks deep in the…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 11:05:29 PM |
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Are there any non-pool GPU based miner clients? Beginners & Help
Thanks for the responses. I will look into GUIminer. Hopefully the bitcoin clien…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 11:02:52 PM |
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Why is GPU2 so much hotter than GPU1? Beginners & Help
artic silver is a good compound better then most oem stuff would recommend that…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 10:59:26 PM |
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poclbm - Solo mining Beginners & Help
So the previously mentioned 3 months is just a guess? It is random? Like it cou…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 10:46:41 PM |
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[RFC]: A distributed mining pool proposal Development & Technical Discussion
Then, IMO, the biggest issue left is whether it would be antisocial to mine lots…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 07:14:01 PM |
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what does a miner do? Beginners & Help
Thanks, Joel!So, my understanding is that if we change any of these1 then we hav…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 07:10:05 PM |
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what does a miner do? Beginners & Help
1 What other fields can we change in the message when mining, other than the non…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 12:06:15 PM |
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Block size limit / fee problem Beginners & Help
A scenario that came to my mind after my last post is:Assume the last block was…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 11:22:52 AM |
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Client crash Beginners & Help
I'm not proud, I'll take it! Yay! Now I have a nice round number again. At least…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 05:37:59 AM |
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Stale share idea? Eliminate them from the miner side. Mining software (miners)
When the server finds a new block, it tells 1000 people that there is a new bloc…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 08:57:57 AM |
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Stale share idea? Eliminate them from the miner side. Mining software (miners)
What if the miner programs added the new block to their side. Miners ran bitcoin…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 08:31:59 AM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
You are correct, the pool is the one who verifies shares. However, I am not awar…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 08:28:12 AM |
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Block size limit / fee problem Beginners & Help
I could imagine in the future this gets more likely as it is today. Building lar…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 08:22:49 AM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
For everything you've denied, you have failed to say what you believe. Do you ac…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 08:12:17 AM |
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What EXACTLY means "longest" chain ? Development & Technical Discussion
Ok. What happens if there are two longest chains.Then the choice of chain is arb…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 08:36:50 PM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
Pools generally don't track stale sharesI'm still talking about "real" stales, n…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 07:42:48 AM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
So what would you say about a pool where >50% of the shares are stale, but they…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 07:00:20 AM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
How would that be a scam? The purpose of a share is to prove work, and stale sha…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 06:56:47 AM |
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Should trading be closed on weekends?! Trading Discussion
I agree if you tell me that speculators help to reduce the spread in the market.…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 06:54:42 AM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
Stales are mostly occurring because a pool is giving work out to multiple worker…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 06:51:46 AM |
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Should trading be closed on weekends?! Trading Discussion
Speculators become rich by sucking money out of the system.Umm, no.QuoteInstead…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 05:43:10 AM |
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Should trading be closed on weekends?! Trading Discussion
It's obvious what the disadvantage would be -- people who wanted to trade on the…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 05:35:15 AM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
Who cares about reward per block though? It's all about the reward per day/hour/…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 05:32:57 AM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
There is no "algorithm" to determine whether a share is stale or not.Yes, there…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 05:31:00 AM |
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I deleted Bitcoin for the moment Beginners & Help
Now my operating system isn't so stressed anymore When Bitcoin was mining, ofte…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 05:26:00 AM |
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Block size limit / fee problem Beginners & Help
If miners were allowed to reject blocks in any sort of way it would undermine th…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 05:24:24 AM |
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Should trading be closed on weekends?! Trading Discussion
Considering the obvious that you can not transfer cash funds to your account on…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 04:48:03 AM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
you don't think this through to the end. less valid shares means you'll need mor…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 04:45:33 AM |
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Client crash Beginners & Help
Thanks, that worked! I sent you 0.066xxxxx coins just to get rid of some change…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 02:43:57 AM |
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[RFC]: A distributed mining pool proposal Development & Technical Discussion
tx fees are not 'per input' but 'per transaction',No, they are per input. The tr…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 02:08:04 AM |
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Bitcoin Client Doesn't Work Bitcoin Discussion
It would be great if there was a public list of peers that I can add to my addr.…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 01:41:36 AM |
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[RFC]: A distributed mining pool proposal Development & Technical Discussion
This is not correct, under the hard-coded rules in bitcoind. The data size of a…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 10, 2011, 01:39:14 AM |
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0.01 transaction fee required for 0.38 BT transactoin? Bitcoin Technical Support
If you're transferring a very small amount from multiple sources using funds tha…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 10:52:06 PM |
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Development - Thought - Change Block payout amount and lower difficulty Beginners & Help
Has the development team considered decreasing the number of coins earned for so…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 08:53:07 PM |
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Tx Chain Clarification Development & Technical Discussion
So you're saying there is some ambiguity when the block is first included in the…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 08:32:03 PM |
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Pushpool DB Error Beginners & Help
Anyone know how to solve the "invalid database.engine" error with pushpool after…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 08:30:33 PM |
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A Bitcoin future seems like massive poverty! Beginners & Help
I don't understand. Why do you think that's a problem?
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 08:29:08 PM |
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I have MTGOX $$, how do I buy bitcoins? Beginners & Help
when said person accepts my offer, is there a new box where I can put contact in…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 08:27:43 PM |
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What is the effect of lost bitcoins? Beginners & Help
How system know those BTC units were "destroyed"?They won't circulate. For purpo…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 08:24:49 PM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
Given that information, 100 shares in any reward scheme will net you more reward…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 08:21:54 PM |
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Tx Chain Clarification Development & Technical Discussion
Why would the block number change? Since every new block has the hash of the pr…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 08:20:07 PM |
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Tired of stale shares? Pools
Stale shares are a form of "artificial fee" that reduces a miner's earnings. If…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 06:20:10 PM |
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[RFC]: A distributed mining pool proposal Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteAll pool-difficulty share blocks can be trimmed of the included transaction…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 05:10:14 PM |
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Hypothetical Bitcoin clone except backed by gold Bitcoin Discussion
What incentive would whoever is backing the currency have to back the currency?…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 05:03:21 PM |
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Client crash Beginners & Help
Sounds like your block database is corrupt. Remove all the files in the same dir…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 04:08:31 PM |
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Bitcoin address exhaustion Beginners & Help
Long before this kind of attack would be possible, much simpler attacks would ap…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 09, 2011, 03:29:57 PM |
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I just got hacked - any help is welcome! (25,000 BTC stolen) Bitcoin Discussion
Any tax experts here? How should I treat this 25K BTC loss; tax write-off? Doubt…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 10:54:05 AM |
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mt gox yubikey Bitcoin Discussion
I'm getting a free one. Unfortunately it seems they work only with mtgox? Unle…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 10:50:19 AM |
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Bitcoin overlay network Development & Technical Discussion
While a peer accepting inbound connections vs. one not accepting them is not a b…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 10:45:41 AM |
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Tx Chain Clarification Development & Technical Discussion
I have been trying to figure out exactly what information exists in each transac…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 05:15:28 AM |
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Bitcoin overlay network Development & Technical Discussion
If you want to speed it up, I think the right place would be the services field…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 09:28:12 AM |
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Have I just lost 80 btc? =( Bitcoin Discussion
Sorry to go off topic - JoelKatz - is that a David Koresh mugshot for your avata…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 08:52:06 AM |
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Have I just lost 80 btc? =( Bitcoin Discussion
You can't have lost the bitcoins. If the transaction never gets committed, the 8…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 07:24:20 AM |
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What creates this price for a bitcoin? Economics
I dont look at it like that. I see a dollar is a dollar, period. Always has sin…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 07:36:12 AM |
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Bitcoin overlay network Development & Technical Discussion
I made a set of patches to interconnect more aggressively, but it was pointed ou…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 07:28:27 AM |
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If SHA-2 is so secure then why? Bitcoin Discussion
1) Obtain a community consensus on the change.I have X amount of bitcoins in my…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 07:09:18 AM |
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If SHA-2 is so secure then why? Bitcoin Discussion
If it is hard coded then it should not be possible to change it. Ever! Is there…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 05:52:53 AM |
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If SHA-2 is so secure then why? Bitcoin Discussion
If SHA-2 is so secure then why have National Institute of Standards and Technolo…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 05:18:31 AM |
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Mtgox's 2 Factor Authentication: Yubikeys Trading Discussion
This really needs a smartphone app. If Gox lets you program your own Yubikey, yo…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 12:41:52 AM |
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Why underclock video memory? Beginners & Help
Do I really think they put 1GB on graphics cards to hold 117 frames? YES. How…
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n/a | JoelKatz | July 08, 2011, 12:37:53 AM |
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