I hate to say this, but I think davidonpda  is completely correct.  This is the one business that does seem to take technology seriously and is an early adopter for new ideas and concepts. Take this as a business idea if you want, but charging 0.01 BTC per image download, […]

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Agreed. There is no need to set the system time. We only need to use correct time in the program. I don’t understand, are you under the impression that the program sets the system clock?  It doesn’t. Quote from: Cdecker on September 19, 2010, 20:14:08 We already have ways to […]

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In the next release (0.3.13), I’m going to change the format of the internal version number integer from 313 to 31300, for instance 31305 = 0.3.13.5.  The last number represents changes on the SVN between releases and ought to be properly represented in the version number.  Otherwise, it would be […]

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Quote from: satoshi on September 08, 2010, 17:30:14 The current threshold is 200KB per block, or about 1000 transactions per block. I think it should be lowered to 50KB per block. That would still be more than 100 times the average transactions per block. I implemented this change in SVN […]

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[…] A smartphone bitcoin client with options for encrypted messaging would make for a great alternative text/sms system compared to the high fees charged by most wireless carriers for text messaging.  Now, of course, I know of free text messaging apps, but they tend to contain ads.  But with bitcoin, […]

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Sending transactions to IP addresses should be removed or at least disabled by default. As has been stated by many members of the community, it is in no way secure. I also believe that it may actually allow an attacker to determine the identify of an operator of a bitcoin […]

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So we have to choose something. May be Mantis? I don’t know anything about any of the bug trackers.  If we were to have one, we would have to make a thoroughly researched choice. We’re managing pretty well just using the forum.  I’m more likely to see bugs posted in […]

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I’ve been playing around with visual studio (2010) trying to build bitcoin from the source that is included in the win32 zip archive. I created a new makefile project and imported the makefile, acquired the boost, wxwidgets, and the openssl sources, and a few other files which were reported missing […]

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I have an unusual configuration: on my headless gateway there is bitcoind running and on my desktop standart bitcoin is running (both Linux OpenSuSE, gateway 11.1, desktop 11.3, bitcoin 0.3.12 both). TCP port 8333 forwarded on gateway to the desktop (so gateway client can’t has incoming connections). I don’t know […]

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A thought has occurred to me that bitcoins client is released under mit which allows for closed source clients that would give someone an advantage over everyone by modifying the client and not releasing the code. If we changed to GPL this would force anyone who created a modified client […]

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