Yeah, I’ve noticed the “10 second blocks” are gone, replaced with 419 and 741 second block generation with no more in the last 20 minutes. That should keep those server farms on hold for a while  😉 Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but now that block generation is taking […]

Anyone notice, that for Windows Clients anyway, when you connect a bunch of other clients to it manually (through the -connect option) that if you go over 8, the windows client ends up cutting out the “outside world” connections and stick with the original 8 or more internal machines thinking […]

No problem, that is why I asked about documentation before I started writing it.  I still would like to document it though and maybe we can come to some system which you would find acceptable.  One possible way is that I just run Doxygen on my own code and just […]

It adjusted to 181.54 a few minutes ago.  Typical time to get a block is about a week now. The difficulty can adjust down as well as up. The network should be generating close to 6 blocks per hour now. Related posts: Re: Proof-of-work difficulty increasing I think that the […]

I think of my machines running bitcoin as slot machines. I put in CPU time and energy costs in at a regular rate, and once in a while I get money back. If I’m to treat bitcoin as part of a business, then I need to be able to calculate […]

Wait, what? I thought reversible computation just uses less energy. Where does the non-determinism come in? Anyway, about the hashing being insecure: Wikipedia says that attacks on SHA-256 still take on the order of 2250 operations. And unless I made a big thinko here, doesn’t the hash target change every […]

Hello to the other developers, I finally got a working build environment set up on my Ubuntu machine here and have been perusing the sourcecode a bit.  So far I like what I am seeing, the program makes use of the standard template library to avoid messy data structure code […]

Build 0.3.1 on an x86 gentoo linux system with my own makefile (builds a dynamic client instead of a static one), seems to run more smoothly than 0.3.0. B.T.W. Why does the standard makefile builds a static version anyway? Because of all the dependencies that different systems don’t have.  It’s […]

I created a send coins transaction when my laptop was offline; now it’s stuck at 0/unconfirmed and not visible to the recipient, even though other transactions I created later went through. How do I force the transaction to be re-sent to the network so it can make progress? Or alternately, […]

I get this when trying to run bitcoin: [michael@fed13 64]$ ./bitcoin ./bitcoin: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Fedora 13 uses this: /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0a How can I get around this? I tried a symlink and running ldd and ldconfig to no […]