This is not true at all. Somebody made fun from You.Some businesses are known in some time in past to keep and not release coins they consider "tainted". Mt.Gox are prime example on this. And there are nolifers who follow transactions down to blockchain wasting their time in a hope to catch the thief.

If You need assistance for properly laundering your coins so they will be accepted as clean by all exchanges then I will do it for very small fee.

One thing is spider indexing blockexplorer.com but the Google coming up with google's own version of blockchain explorer will be whole new level. They have experience with finding relations where none sees them so the final product might be surprising. I prefer blockexplorer.com over blockchain.info but both have pros and cons and have something that other does not have.

But this will not happen anytime soon.

When Bitcoin installers and files will have a digital signatures recognized by Windows file properties that will be the easy signature checking for dummies against dummies.

For smart people all that is needed to find file is checksum and helpfully also a file name. Bitcoin installers are spread all over P2P systems.

If government wanted to damage Bitcoin it will go not only after sites hosting official installers but also the seednodes in clean install and bootstrap IRC channel in hope it will prevent new people from coming in.

Trollolololol!! Congratulations, at lest You made the best rage topic on Bitcointalk by great margin. I'm laughing now hard!

On-topic: Does not MtGox have similar API?

None actually does this exploit right now because of no profit from it and the lulz will be minimal too. Non use actually makes a little bit safer, none is looking for new vulnerabilities if he is not specifically targeting one computer or one person. But I consider this a security-trough-obscurity and I think it is a bad practice!The people who have written automatic scripts that play using Martingale system with very small starting bets like 0.001 are the ddosers! And they are losers also! I started to play Satoshi Dice with approx 4 bitcoins from spare wallet, I have won 3 digit number of bitcoins! With these coins I have purchased all necessary top-end components for my new desktop computer (except HD7970 crossfire and PSU that I already owned)! I will not tell how much it cost to me or how much bitcoins I won using Satoshi Dice because none will believe.

How much for me this gamble for new computer cost in transaction fees? Probably slightly less than 1BTC. I will calculate this exact number in spare time for my own reference. Are someone willing to get almost 1BTC extra if all they need to do is install different Bitcoin version without forced tx fees?

They will sooner or later realize that google checkout is inferior compared to Bitcoin technology.

And why someone will want for google to know and record you are looking up your secret ransom/drug money bitcoin address? Does not blockchain.info or blocexplorer.com work well enough?

It was made for traitors of foreign nations to hide the fact that they talk to CIA while pretending they are browsing for child porn or whatever. Tor have many uses.They probably have learned something from PGP back in 1990-ties. Knowledge and information cannot be controlled and contained like ammunition are. Classifying PGP software code as ammunition was schizophrenic. They better give money for development and be the first ones to get to use the newest technology and not to be second ones behind some overseas corporation or russians.

Hidden by default with checkbox to show/hide could be nice!If generated address is not dependent on previously generated address in any way than it might be OK. Many so called "attacks" against crypto algorithms require related keys. Not a math expert myself I don't know if this is applicable to Armory generated address. But the blockchain transactions might be somewhat compromised if the addresses can be linked using this method. Basically then You cannot then just say "sorry officer, I sold all those Bitcoins I purchased from my MtGox account to someone else I don't personally know. I did not know he will be ordering drugs from you straight away!"

The solution might be a non-deterministic wallet possibility. It might be available under "Advanced" options where currently crypto options are located with appropriate warnings that paper backup is not possible with such type of wallets. The deterministic type must be the default type of wallet because users who use Armory over other clients and front-ends are probably because they need the deterministic property and paper backup functionality.

And Thank You for creating Armory! It is a great job, it functions well enough and offline wallets and offline signing are easy to use and probably only way to not lose precious Bitcoins to hacking.

It very well might be a trap. Or the other person might be high on coke or some other "look Mom I'm Chuck Norris" drug. Or he just wanted to look tough and in reality he is going to spend the coins on bittit.info

Don't ask don't tell is best approach. Personally for me it is not a problem to deal with such persons even if I know what he is going to do with the coins or I know from where the other person got his coins.

Exactly!

The sanctions against Iran are more of a speculation and political pressure anyway. World needs Iranian oil and other products. For some countries it is like going to hunger strike to make a shop owner lose customers lol. When Iran will get the nukes the attitude will be wholly different. Take a example of Russia doing all kinds of evil things in home and abroad. No sanctions against Russia at all.

Latvians speak in latvian language. Russians speak in russian language. Almost no russian living in Latvia identifies himself as a latvian. The cultural, linguistic and mental differences are huge and largely incompatible. Russians were migrated in Latvia after WW2 as a USSR planed to destroy ethnic latvians and make a Latvia a permanent part of Russia. Probably no nation lost more people by percentage of population in 20th century wars than latvians did. We have one of best climates in world, plenty of usable land and strategic military and trade seaports, it is no surprise russians and others are after us.

Everyone who runs a Bitcoin node contributes. You don't need to write a code to contribute in a P2P system.This is answer that can put a lock on this thread. Change in database engine or structure is not going to change the results produced. It is like going from blockchain stored in plaintext databases to MySQL databases. All it can change is a performance. This is how far my knowledge in databases goes.

P.S. I also did not know that 0.3.xx have a hardcoded 4GB database limit. This probably means my 0.3.xx clients will stop functioning sometime in future. Is this explicitly written in code or something to do with BerkleyDB database engine or 32-bit limitation?

By all blocks this means all full block contents or headers of all blocks?So the validation code but not validation rules is changed? Atlas concern about hidden bug might hold some water then. Also how will the new validating client behave when validating double-spend when the double-spends are with large time spread like few months?

Windows 8 is optimized for touch screen devices. With Server 2012 You can have sql database server running on tablet! What a brainfart from Microsoft!Windows Millenium actually was not that bad, it only offered no real advantages over Windows98 and had a namely few serious flaws. Other than that it was better than initial WindowsXP release against Windows2000. Vista was catastrophe for users but a profit for techies like me who were replacing with WinXP on ALL new computers with Vista preinstalled.

I am Latvian.

Then the "blockchain reordering" and "protocol change" concerns of Atlas are void.

One more question - will the new database discard spent addresses? Some places says it will, some says it will not. I am confused. What will happen to clients that rely on downloading the complete transaction history and verify all blocks and transactions in them on-the-way, like 0.3.xx does?

As I understand the biggest change is to a higher performance database engine and logical layout of blockchain storage on local node. To ease the mind - some alternate clients like Ufasoft Coin use custom database already that is more compact size and someone might have mined a block using Ufasoft Coin.

Will the new 0.8 client be able to communicate with 0.3.xx properly? If Yes, then it is OK because no protocol is changed. Then please not upgrade all at once and give diversity and time to test it large scale.

Are bugs dangerous? Of course they are, we must have a plan what to do when something breaks. Testing, more testing and code reviews are the way to rule out any bugs. There was a serious bug back in 2010 that caused blockchain rollback. Look up Wiki for this.

Still the ASCII Bernanke would be there forever!

BFL itself is a joke. Scam to be more exact. And he is acting fully professional - rebutting criticism to ASIC technology to get every single ASIC preorder until they reveal that no ASIC miner is made.Take some smoke and read the texts where the CPU technology is criticized over older pencil and paper technology. The trolling shows the OP concerns as completely invalid. All that was done is automatic replacing words containing previous technology with technology generation before that.I spilled my beer on the floor when I started to read after finishing Find And Replace in Notepad++

Does not they have been "fused" to 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa address and is spendable only with private key matching this receiving address? And since none can send 51 BTC (coinbase + Your "spendable" coins) out of this address they all are lost?