How would a Bitcoin snack  machine work? 1) You want to walk up to the machine. Send it a bitcoin. 2) ? 3) Walk away eating your nice sugary snack. (Profit!) You don’t want to have to wait an hour for you transaction to be confirmed. The vending machine company […]

Quote from: singpolyma on July 17, 2010, 22:19:48 My coins disappeared, but I assume they’ll come back when it’s up to current? Right, they’ll re-appear when it’s finished downloading all the blocks. Related posts: Re: Assertion Failure – Ubuntu Lucid I’m running Ubuntu Lucid (32 bit), all packages up to… […]

Download links available now on bitcoin.org.  Everyone should upgrade to this version. – Added a simple security safeguard that locks-in the block chain up to this point. – Reduced addr messages to save bandwidth now that there are plenty of nodes to connect to. – Spanish translation by milkiway. – […]

Thanks Insti.  I got the man page written.  I documented all of the command line switches the program supports, not just the ones in the usage output given by “bitcoin -h”.  Any of the ones that do not appear in the usage output should have a comment in the man […]

So this guy has about 1000 cores generating bitcoins. About 10% of the total amount fo BTC. His name is William Pitock aka Nenolod http://twitter.com/nenolod What do you think? If he cannot prove the system isn’t sustainable, he wins, because he will have lots of bitcoins. If he does, we […]

Here’s how you can lose coins by backing up and restoring your wallet file: Lets say you have one shiny 1,000 Bitcoin coin in your wallet (it’s actually just a transaction for 1,000 bitcoins paid to a public key that’s stored in your wallet). You backup that file. Now you […]

Check this out… I just installed 0.3.1 on two different machines and moved one bitpenny (0.01): -= Before the transfer =- [bitcoind@box1 ~]$ ~/bin/bitcoind getinfo { “balance” : 1.150000000000, “blocks” : 68717, “connections” : 6, “proxy” : “”, “generate” : false, “genproclimit” : -1, “difficulty” : 181.5432893640505 } [bitcoind@box2 ~]$ […]

Quote from: hugolp on May 08, 2010, 10:38:51 When I run bitcoin it becomes very sluggish, almost unusable. When I stop bitcoin everything goes ok again. Its running Ubuntu desktop 10.04 amd64 using ia32libs and the binary in bitcoin 0.20 tarball. 0.3.1 fixes that, sets the generate threads to the […]

The Windows Client had it’s own static IP with port 8333 open for it, I could see from the gateway device that it was connecting out to other peers and other peers were connecting back in. But after the 8, it’s like it quit connecting out to peers and after […]

We need someone to write sample code, preferably Python or Java, showing the recommended way to use the JSON-RPC interface to create an account system.  Most sites that sell things will need something like this.  Someone who’s kept up on the JSON-RPC threads here should have some idea how it […]