We may need to switch to destroying coins by sending them to an unspendable address.
Ugh. No. That will simply bloat one of the network's key resources for all time. See announce/commit sacrifices and other tools. |
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a Tracker e.e. tracker.bitcoin.org would be good or a magnetlink on sourceforge
can an Admin put an actual bootstrap.dat.torrent on SFG ? the version there is from 08/2013. my Client say 41% after import and need to download 59 % from network.
The latest torrent file is always available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/We don't want to run a tracker ourselves.. that introduces a centralize, single point of failure. |
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I'm in the for the holidays if you like I can drive by and take pics
You're more than welcome to! PM me for address. Bump. Currently ~100 BTC for both lots.
can we do a groupbuy i want like 1 sq yard If you can find a group leader who organizes the group buy, sure. I need one payment, the standard for real estate transactions. What your group does with the lots after that is up to you. |
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this idea has been gnawing away at my conscious for some time now. if I end up with some spare cycles I'll work on it.
proof of work may literally be the execution of a block of code instructions and some input, to produce some output.
consensus is simple - other nodes completing exactly the same with a hash of input code block and output.
Check out Zero Knowledge Proofs and trusted computing. |
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I have a 64 bit OS.. when is the 64bit executable going to be released? I believe version 0.9 . What risk is present if I wait?
Which 64 bit OS? 64-bit executables are available for OSX and Linux. Windows is coming soon. |
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URL: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/bitcoin_space/One of the top software engineers behind the Bitcoin digital currency wants to launch it into space.
Last month, Jeff Garzik floated the idea of Bitcoin in space on an internet discussion forum, pitching it as a way to always keep the system up and running — even if it’s attacked by malicious hackers.
The plan is to send up a Bitcoin computer on a tiny inexpensive satellite and have this machine communicate with terrestrial Bitcoin computers via radio. Garzik — who works at Bitcoin payment processor Bitpay and helps shape the open source software that drives the digital currency on thousands of machines across the internet — says that the satellite node could help the Bitcoin network fight back something known as a Sibyl attack. This is where malicious computers flood a node on the peer-to-peer network with bad data. It could give criminals a way of spending their bitcoins more than once, and it’s also part of the so-called selfish miner scenario that Cornell University researchers described last month, saying it could bring down the entire system.
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But what I really want to know is when you guys are going to settle on a way to prune the blockchain and implement it? Why can't full transactions be deleted from storage once all their outputs are spent if they're buried in the chain?
Bitcoin is only zero trust, if you can verify the entire transaction history. |
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coinbase payouts do not matter to me... I would rather have regular-sized payouts that reduce dust in the wallet (more friendly to the network).
i.e. payout at 0.1 BTC threshold.
Any chance of having that option?
Implementing that would have the side effect of not needing to put a set of addresses in the coinbase.
minimum payout can be configured here (I have mine set to 0.2): http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/mystats.php?cmd=optionsA simple minimum payout does not avoid the problem of receiving dust. |
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Only a fool, or a day trader, keeps anything of value on a centralized website like a bitcoin exchange.
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coinbase payouts do not matter to me... I would rather have regular-sized payouts that reduce dust in the wallet (more friendly to the network).
i.e. payout at 0.1 BTC threshold.
Any chance of having that option?
Implementing that would have the side effect of not needing to put a set of addresses in the coinbase.
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Thanks to Roger Ver / Bitcoinstore for another generous donation.
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URL: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/bitcoins-in-spaceRichard Branson, the brazen Brit behind Virgin Galactic, made news last week when he announced that he has begun processing Bitcoin payments from would-be space tourists. (A woman in Hawaii has already booked her ticket, the company says.) But it turns out Branson’s not the only Bitcoin enthusiast looking toward the heavens. Jeff Garzik, one of the core developers of the Bitcoin software and a new addition to the team of developers at BitPay, a Bitcoin payment processor, has been quietly working on a side project aimed at making Bitcoin work by satellite.
Garzik first hinted at his intentions during his “State of the Coin” address at a Bitcoin conference last year in London, where he briefly mentioned that he was working to launch a satellite that would be paid for in bitcoins. Last month, he announced the full purpose of the satellite. According to Garzik, it will repeatedly transmit the most recent block in the Bitcoin block chain—the latest transaction data processed by the Bitcoin network.
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This really is epic, What would it cost if Mining groups, etc. Or even a home user, wanted a two way device to send and receive from the sat? If you were able to give many user's the ability to send data, we would never be worried about it going down. I'm centered in Canada with 5 acres of land, and clear skyline, would love to have a transmission station here, along with a generator, and it could survive the zombie's  . Make a way for my phone's wallet to communicate and it's even better. Sadly, satellite bandwidth is really limited. Also, if this is to be any sort of fallback mechanism, the ability to transmit to the satellite must be limited and trusted. Otherwise people will just DDoS the satellite right along with DDoS'ing the mesh network. The ability to receive from the satellite, on the other hand, should be free for the whole world. P.S. Thanks to Rusty and Erik Voorhees for their support! |
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Definitely looking for feedback -- good or bad -- from OSX users in particular. You may have to -reindex to fix the prior corruption issues that impacted earlier versions. For anyone downloading a fresh copy of the blockchain from scratch, please consider downloading the Bitcoin blockchain torrent. |
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Jeff: I love this idea and I'd like to contribute. Would you consider a Kickstarter-like model and declare a fundraising goal and deadline, and if we don't make the goal then the donations are returned? I'd like to make more than a token pledge, but I don't want the money just sitting around if this project doesn't find its legs.
Same answer as with the investment question early in this thread. KickStarter is too much work at this stage. KickStarter also potentially introduces problems with setting expectations. Phase 1 -- the boring design work -- does not cost very much, and would not be worth a KickStarter. KickStarter for Phase 2 -- building and launching space hardware -- is very exciting, but it is premature to KickStart that right now, in my opinion. Phase 1 is all about designing a usable foundation. If you can afford it, donate 1-10 BTC, and email me so that I may credit your sponsorship. The current team will be kept small, under 4 engineers or so. Layers of management, investors, incorporations, and KickStarters are just not necessary this early, and would simply slow down the process. |
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Yep. The general idea is that you group your own cubesat together with dozens of others, on the same flight, sharing costs. SpaceX helps push those costs down even lower. |
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