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Title: blocks minus 1 Post by: satoshi on August 16, 2010, 03:59:25 PM I'd like to reduce the number of blocks displayed in the status bar by 1. When you first load the program, it'll display 0 blocks instead of 1:
"0 connections 0 blocks 0 transactions" It's always been "nBestHeight + 1" because it's counting the genesis block. Technically, yes, the genesis block is a block. It's a hardcoded block that you start out with. You can't not have the genesis block. Maybe think of it as a reference coin that you measure other coins against. The block count people are looking for is the number of blocks they've downloaded. The main benefit is that blocks will be equal to the block number of the current best block. If blocks is 10, then the highest block number you have is 10. It means you have block 10 and you don't have block 11. It would reduce the confusion we had here: ... It already is on block 74638. I assume that means that block is now a good one? I had some confusion on this myself and got clarification in #bitcoin-dev: The bad block was number 74638, the last good one was 74637. The numbers start at 0, so when your client shows there are 74638 blocks then that means you have up to block number 74637, the last good one. Title: Re: blocks minus 1 Post by: ByteCoin on August 16, 2010, 04:04:48 PM Agreed. Seems like a change for the better.
Title: Re: blocks minus 1 Post by: Tilka on August 16, 2010, 04:34:24 PM +1
Offtopic: Does this forum have some kind of upvote plugin or something? Title: Re: blocks minus 1 Post by: Insti on August 16, 2010, 04:54:51 PM +1 +1Quote Offtopic: Does this forum have some kind of upvote plugin or something? +1Title: Re: blocks minus 1 Post by: satoshi on August 16, 2010, 05:06:27 PM Done in SVN rev 137
Title: Re: blocks minus 1 Post by: kencausey on August 16, 2010, 05:12:08 PM Rather than changing the counting scheme why not simply refer to the latest block rather than the count of blocks.
74741 blocks versus Latest block: 74740 eliminating the need to change the counting scheme and requiring many to adjust their thinking. Title: Re: blocks minus 1 Post by: nelisky on August 16, 2010, 06:04:52 PM Rather than changing the counting scheme why not simply refer to the latest block rather than the count of blocks. 74741 blocks versus Latest block: 74740 eliminating the need to change the counting scheme and requiring many to adjust their thinking. From my own experience, a change commited will always make some happier than other, but in the end everyone will get used to it, whereas reverting a change that is already in and doing one more change to copy with the reason why the reverted change was initially submitted will just make everyone confused. Proof of that is the phrase I just wrote down! Title: Re: blocks minus 1 Post by: Tilka on August 17, 2010, 11:06:10 PM Latest block: 74740 So instead of0 connections 0 blocks 0 transactions it would be 0 connections Latest block: 0 0 transactions That just doesn't look right. I think the way Satoshi explained it makes the most sense: the genesis block may be technically a block but inside the chain it's nothing more than a reference point. It's like the zero for numbers. The zero of course is a number itself but when counting something it's just a reference point. Well, at least humans count like that :P |