I just submitted a patch to Satoshi to make bitcoin follow the JSON RPC over HTTP spec, and to use the standardized error codes from the JSON-RPC 1.1/2.0 specs. If you talk directly to bitcoin via JSON-RPC calls, you might need to change your code to recognize the new HTTP […]

Warning :Check your system data and time , you may not be able to generate or receive the most recent blocks ! What does it mean ?    😕  I’m just with 2 connections and 500 blocks. Any suggestions for better text to put for this error message so the […]

When running with revision 146 (trunk) I get the following when the miner attempts to start: bitcoind: cryptopp/secblock.h:187: void CryptoPP::NullAllocator<T>::deallocate(void*, typename CryptoPP::AllocatorBase<T>::size_type) [with T = unsigned char]: Assertion `false’ failed. + cd ‘/tmp/rmake/builds/bitcoin/bitcoin–trunk/’; CFLAGS=”-O2 -g -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector” CXXFLAGS=”-O2 -g -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector ” CPPFLAGS=”” CLASSPATH=””  LDFLAGS=”-g -O1 ” CC=gcc CXX=g++  make […]

I’ve seen a lot of messages about some big-endian “issues” (ok, no worky) with the bitcoin client. Before I sit and try to analyze all the source code, are there any known “bad bits” of the code that assume LE? I have some idle G4 and Sparc machines that can […]

Quote from: torservers on August 28, 2010, 13:00:37 The “About” dialog still shows 0.3.10.1 beta. What OS?  I ran the Windows and 64-bit Linux version and checked the about dialog. The Mac version is still 0.3.10.1. Quote from: pavelo on August 28, 2010, 07:36:07 iirc, it is possible to specify […]

I just reviewed the sourcecode as I had a few ideas to optimize it further and I noticed that 4way is partly broken: from main.cpp: Code:                 for (int j = 0; j < NPAR; j++)               […]

Version 0.3.11 is now available. Changes: – Some blk*.dat checking on load – Built the -4way code with -march=amdfam10, which makes it a little faster – Warning if your clock is too far off – Warnings/errors/alerts can also be seen in the getinfo command – Alert system The alert system […]

The Money Regression and Emergence of Money from the Barter Economy The entire purpose of the regression theorem was to help explain an apparent paradox of money: how does money have value as a medium of exchange if it is valued because it serves as a medium of exchange?  Menger […]

There has been a lot of debate about what Bitcoins are — i.e. currency vs. commodity. Also there has been a lot of debate about inflation vs. deflation with respect to Bitcoins, whether people would lend them, at what rates, etc. I think the most apt description of Bitcoins is […]

As part of Bitcoin Watch, a new feature provides a developer-friendly dump of a bitcoin block at the specified height. GET parameters: “h” – height of block to download “json” – set to non-zero value, to enable application/json output rather than HTML output Examples: Dump block 72000: http://blk.bitcoinwatch.com/b?h=72000 Dump block […]