Anyone know where the changelist is, I’m curious to what was fixed/changed/etc. The change list is basically encompassed by what’s listed in the first message.  Everyone should upgrade to get the important security improvements. Minimizing to tray had at least 3 different glitches and bugs on Linux, including a crash […]

Quote from: lachesis on June 16, 2010, 06:14:05 I think you’re misunderstanding the issue. My browser will always be able to go to 127.0.0.1 (barring some strange IE settings or a virus). If I type the address into the URL bar or click a link, it will work fine. However, […]

Quote from: llama on July 18, 2010, 00:03:29 This is a good start, but still not impermeable. I didn’t say impermeable, I said good-enough.  The loss in practice would be far lower than with credit cards. Quote (for example, by refusing to propogate word of the transaction at the vending […]

I wondered if they were not really meant to be public facing.  I think they are useful to have documented though, at least for now.  If the program accepts it as valid input it should be documented.  You can either add a notice to the commands in the man-page that […]

Quote from: NewLibertyStandard on July 17, 2010, 22:22:09 Version 0.3 was supposed to reduce the number of outgoing connections on non-port forwarded clients from 15 to 8, but I don’t think it really happened. I’m not positive if this is the case. Correct me if I’m wrong. In 0.3.0, the […]

Quote from: llama on July 17, 2010, 21:56:25 However, it’s important that you don’t lock all the way up the very latest block. Otherwise, the attacker could generate a fake block (or a few) right before you happen to lock it, and then his attack would be far easier than […]

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 […]