So I’m writing a little tool that dissects the Bitcoin wallet.dat, mainly because I want to understand better exactly how Bitcoin works. And I see that the outputs of transactions have a value (number of bitcoins) and a bunch of bytes that are run through the little Forth-like scripting language […]

I’m working on getting version 0.3 released as soon as I can.  Just a last few things left to do.  It’s been a long time since 0.2 and we need to get a prebuilt bitcoind with command line and JSON-RPC available.  This time we’ll have both 32-bit and 64-bit linux […]

Here’s the German translation for the client. It may require some modification, because, on average, German sentences are a third longer than English ones and thus may not fit the available space. Also, I couldn’t test the access keys (e.g. E&xit) properly, so I may have introduced collisions there… Thanks […]

Quote from: satoshi on May 16, 2010, 22:37:21 There you go, we could easily do it the same way, like: http://127.0.0.1:8330/?to=<bitcoinaddress>;amount=<amount> That’s a very pragmatic answer. I like it. However, how would that work with the combined IP / Bitcoin Address URI (URN? URL?) scheme described here? [link]http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158.msg1322#msg1322[/link] I know […]

Quote from: theymos on June 05, 2010, 16:26:09 Adding transactions to the block you’re working on will slow down your generation rate The premise is false.  Adding more transactions to the block you’re working on does NOT slow down your generation rate.  When generate is scanning hashes, it only hashes […]

I can’t build r80 from the SVN with -O2 in the makefile. I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit on an Intel Core 2. If I remove -O2 (switch back to -O0), it builds fine. The problem seems to be line 15 of net.h. My googling suggests that statement-expressions, some non-standard, […]

Hi people. I’m interested in decentralized currency and going to either participate in development of this one or develop my own version. Before making a decision i want to clarify few technical aspects, which is not clear from documentation. Partially this is just because english is not my native language, […]

A mathematician friend of mine pointed out that there are very few if any hash protocols that have survived for 10 years or more. What would Bitcoin’s solution be if SHA256 were to be cracked tomorrow? SHA-256 is very strong.  It’s not like the incremental step from MD5 to SHA1.  […]

Put things this way; if you manage (on a more or less distant future, don’t know) to run sort of a shop on surface web* with BC, you may want: » Your customers to be identifiable – to know who is paying what and handle refunds » Your customers to […]

Bitcoin has its own distributed address directory using the “addr” message.  It’s about time we coded in a list of the current long running static nodes to seed from.  I can add code so new nodes do not preferentially stay connected to the seed nodes, just connect and get the […]