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Title: Bitcoin.exe not generating/processing any blocks Post by: BTC_TRADER on July 02, 2011, 03:00:02 PM Hey guys,
I am really new to Bitcoin and am having an issue on my Windows 7 x64 machine. It has just hung saying at the bottom 8 connections and 134405 blocks. Yesterday it was working fine, then my machine ran some updates and automatically rebooted itself over night and now it doesn't work. I have added Bitcoin.exe to the exceptions list in Microsoft Security Essentials and allowed it through the Firewall but still the blocks do not go up. Sorry but I don't really have an understanding of what the blocks actually mean but I guess if the number isn't going up then its not crunching any numbers so to speak. Hope someone can help. Thanks BTC_TRADER Title: Re: Bitcoin.exe not generating/processing any blocks Post by: SomeoneWeird on July 02, 2011, 03:28:37 PM Hey guys, I am really new to Bitcoin and am having an issue on my Windows 7 x64 machine. It has just hung saying at the bottom 8 connections and 134405 blocks. Yesterday it was working fine, then my machine ran some updates and automatically rebooted itself over night and now it doesn't work. I have added Bitcoin.exe to the exceptions list in Microsoft Security Essentials and allowed it through the Firewall but still the blocks do not go up. Sorry but I don't really have an understanding of what the blocks actually mean but I guess if the number isn't going up then its not crunching any numbers so to speak. Hope someone can help. Thanks BTC_TRADER Im not sure, but when the client is downloading blocks, it's not generating them, you need a separate miner for that. Title: Re: Bitcoin.exe not generating/processing any blocks Post by: BTC_TRADER on July 03, 2011, 04:35:05 AM Ok so what's a 'separate miner' then?
Is this something additional to bitcoin.exe that's required? Cheers BTC_TRADER Title: Re: Bitcoin.exe not generating/processing any blocks Post by: JoelKatz on July 03, 2011, 04:36:41 AM What exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to mine?
Title: Re: Bitcoin.exe not generating/processing any blocks Post by: Garrett Burgwardt on July 03, 2011, 06:25:16 AM Blocks are bundles of transactions.
You weren't generating them, you were downloading them (to catch up with everyone else). You've caught up, and so you should only see a new one approximately every 10 minutes. This is normal, your bitcoin client seems to be working fine. |