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. […]

Is the fee enough to always ensure the profitability of running a node, even when BitCoin generation stops being profitable? Right.  Otherwise we couldn’t have a finite limit of 21 million coins, because there would always need to be some minimum reward for generating.  In a few decades when the […]

Quote from: theymos on February 12, 2010, 08:31:52 Does the sending client send more BitCoins to account for the fee (so the recipient gets what he’s expecting)? Yes. Quote from: SmokeTooMuch on February 12, 2010, 13:11:09 why do we even need fees ? i thougt the no-fees-feature was one of […]

Sorry, I should have mentioned more clearly that I am running AMD64. I was trying to compile with 0.2.0, so that would explain a lot of my issues. I *would* like to have a native 64 bit binary, but it sounds like that isn’t going to happen right now. I […]

Tor can be dangerous, like exit nodes that log information like passwords and the like. So a major question about the security of Bitcoin when using it with Tor (or any other proxy service) arises: So what exactly does Bitcoin send when it connects to an IP? Is everything encrypted […]

Quote from: soultcer on February 12, 2010, 14:31:50 If you want, I can provide you with a precompiled binary. Am I missing something? Is there something wrong with the 32-bit linux precompiled binary on bitcoin.org? The bitcoin binary in the distribution static links the wxWidgets library, and its shared links […]

I thought BitCoin only generated in 50 coin increments, but I got 50.44 here. There’s a small transaction fee for very large transactions.  The node that generates the block that contains the transaction gets the fee. If the same money gets sent again, it won’t incur the fee again.  If […]

I am having 0 luck attempting to compile w/wxWidgets. Trying to compile wx from source was a no-go (various syntax errors I didn’t really delve into), downloaded latest precompiled wx packages for ubuntu karmic, but they do not match up to your static links far as I can tell. I […]

First request: Optional connect to IP dialog. Explanation: BitCoin connects to the network(of peers) by getting one of a number of IP’s from IRC at present, once connected to a single peer other connections can be made, so if only 1 IP on the list are available then you can […]

I am running Windows 32 (But have AMD64 dual core machine), but could, if required have a version of Linux using virtualisation(I must install this). The most simple way at present is to have different language binaries(e.g. bitcoin_en.exe, bitcoin_zh.exe etc.). Please post when you want this translated, this would mean […]