At some point, a website or person accepting a transaction must take this risk. It is unavoidable, whether you use listreceivedbyaddress or listtransactions. This is why listtransactions reluctance seems so unusual. Almost every exchange or website accepting bitcoins achieves a binary decisionpoint, where the transaction is accepted, and goods are […]
Read moreMonth: December 2010
Re: JSON-RPC method idea: list transactions newer than a given txid
It would be great to have a JSON-RPC method for listing new transactions that are newer than a particular transaction id. This would enable developpers to watch new transactions easily, by just keeping track of the latest known txid and polling that method at the rate of their choice. A […]
Read moreRe: Wikileaks contact info?
Quote from: RHorning on December 04, 2010, 22:17:44 Basically, bring it on. Let’s encourage Wikileaks to use Bitcoins and I’m willing to face any risk or fallout from that act. No, don’t “bring it on”. The project needs to grow gradually so the software can be strengthened along the way. […]
Read moree: RFC: ship block chain 1-74000 with release tarballs?
I timed two runs with clean data directories (no contents), -noirc, -addnode=10.10.10.1, Linux 64-bit. Hardware: SATA SSD Mainline, no patches: 32 minutes to download 94660 blocks. Mainline + TxnBegin/TxnCommit in AddToBlockIndex(): 25 minutes to download 94660 blocks. That’s a good optimisation. I’ll add that next time I update SVN. More […]
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