Hello, if somebody’s loosing his wallet (e.g. due to disk crash) he’s not able to get back his coins, is he? So every time a person looses coins, they’re lost forever? So the bitcoin network will slowly shrink over time? (Because there will always be people who loose wallets!) TIA […]

Quote from: NewLibertyStandard on May 23, 2010, 16:28:12 Bitcoin looks ugly in Ubuntu’s new default theme. It seems that some, but not all of the theme settings are being picked up. The unselected file menu should have light text with a dark background, but it incorrectly has light text with […]

The Bitcoin Faucet now shows how many coins it has available to give out (on the left-hand side of the page). The number is only moderately accurate– donations will take 5 or 10 minutes to show up in the balance. I also implemented another anti-cheating measure that should make casual […]

The SVN version now uses IRC first and if that fails it falls back to a hardcoded list of seed nodes.  There are enough seed nodes now that many of them should still be up by the time of the next release.  It only briefly connects to a seed node […]

Quote from: satoshi on June 17, 2010, 18:46:08 I don’t believe a second, compatible implementation of Bitcoin will ever be a good idea. So much of the design depends on all nodes getting exactly identical results in lockstep that a second implementation would be a menace to the network. The […]

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 […]