How divisible are bitcoins? Can I divide a bitcoin? as in could I spend 0.5 or 0.01 of a bitcoin? I ask this question as practically the production of new bitcoins is finite & will become too expensive in terms of time & power in the future and if the […]
Read moreMonth: February 2010
Re: Repost: Request: Make this anonymous?
Quote from: satoshi on November 22, 2009, 18:32:00 ——————– anonguy54: Request: Make this anonymous? Posted:Thu 15 of Oct, 2009 (19:58 UTC) Are there any plans to make this service anonymous? e.g; Being able to route BitCoin through Tor. Someone correct me people, but I thought it IS already anonymous! Can […]
Read moreRe: Questions about Addresses
Quote from: Sabunir on February 05, 2010, 17:31:30 Perhaps there should be a feature against this? For instance, if a transaction isn’t accepted by the recipient for a long period of time (a month?), the transaction will be canceled and the coins returned to the one who sent them? That’s […]
Read moreProof-of-work difficulty increasing
We had our first automatic adjustment of the proof-of-work difficulty on 30 Dec 2009. The minimum difficulty is 32 zero bits, so even if only one person was running a node, the difficulty doesn’t get any easier than that. For most of last year, we were hovering below the minimum. […]
Read moreRe: TOR and I2P
OK thanks riX. So, once Bitcoin has connected to at least one node then the -connect option will eliminate the 6667 warnings. Is Bitcoin using any kind of ‘peer exchange’ or DHT because this still does not seem to prevent the constant Tor ‘exit’ warnings and therefore Tor’s requirement to […]
Read moreRe: Questions about Addresses
Quote from: sirius-m on February 02, 2010, 12:34:08 Quote from: BitcoinFX on February 02, 2010, 09:00:20 Thanks, I understand that and my port 8333 is correctly forwarded to my 24/7 Bitcoin machine. 🙂 However, lets say that I have 2 machines on the same IP running Bitcoin without port 8333 forwarded […]
Read moreRe: Win32 CPU Cycles vs ‘Live Protection’ Engines ?
I wanted to document an issue I encountered when first installing and using the Bitcoin software. Despite a correct installation and port forward settings I noticed that Bitcoin was not generating any coins or ‘blocks’ despite having 20+ connections for the first 24hrs. The block count just remained at 0. […]
Read moreRe: Bitcoin crash when sending coins
Lately when I’ve been trying to send coins, the following popups twice, then the application terminates. EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error SendMoney() : wtxNew.AcceptTransaction() failed c:\Documents and Settings\username\bitcoin-0.2.0\bitcoin.exe in CMyApp::OnExceptionInMainLoop() When i restart bitcoin.exe, the transaction is showing as 0/unconfirmed. The status do not change even when the total block count increases. I’m […]
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