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The first rule of Bitcoin is you don't talk about Reddit here.
The second rule of Bitcoin is you don't talk about Reddit here.
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Must be real!:  Maybe the software is written so that if there are no asks at all, Gox considers the price to be $1,000,000,000, and a momentary lack of sanity in the computer system made all the ask orders disappear. However, one would think that a trade would actually need to be executed at that price for it to register. One should be able to roll through the trade records and see if this actually happened, I'm currently downloading complete trade history to discover the trade that set this. Edit, looking at http://mtgoxlive.com/orders, it looks like all the sell orders went *poof* permanently, there is little depth there from few people putting sells back in. |
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Or read the Wired article if you want to take in the information at your own comprehension speed... |
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Anyone that says they or someone they know has talked to god, or brings me a book that they or someone else wrote that purports to be a message from a deity in the sky is indistinguishable from a genuine kook or fraud artist. I went to church, but an unfortunate DNA lottery gifted me with intelligence and analytical thought, and I quickly dismissed religion before reaching puberty as just a long series of fairy tales made for dough-minded individuals like in the first poster's video. Religious people comparing fine points of religions like this generally can't see beyond the preposterousness of the whole thing. Religion's highest virtue and value is of course "Faith" or "Belief" in something inherently illogical.
Believe in whatever you want though and we can still be friends, unless your religion involves interrupting my dinner, blowing me up, or abridging my freedom or the freedom for other individuals to believe what they want or live a verdant equitable life. If so, then we have a problem. That's my version of atheism, but of course I don't care if it's yours.
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Emptying an address of .00000001 payments is pretty hard, harder than it was to send them to you. It takes 100,000 of these dust payments to equal a bit-penny, so if you've ever walked by a penny without picking it up, that shows how little effort that small amount of money is worth. You must actually send these coins on the Bitcoin network in order to consolidate them.
The problem will be that your balance is made up of winnings and losing payments. Every time you send a payment from Bitcoin to the gambling site, Bitcoin also sends the unspent balance "change" back to itself to a new address (these reserve addresses aren't shown in Bitcoin). That means that for almost every gamble, there is a payment in your wallet in a unique address. If you modified Bitcoin so it always sends change back to the same address, that would eliminate much of the cruft.
When Bitcoin constructs a transaction, it does so out of the balances that will create the least change. If you were to send a payment exactly equal to only your winnings, it may construct this payment out of just winning payment balances and leave behind just satoshi balances which you can discard.
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I'm not familiar with the actual blockchain length included "in-a-box", but I would assume if done right it just has a genesis block with difficulty 1. The mining difficulty is halved on testnet so the actual mining probability is twice main net. You could find the code that makes testnet mining 2x easier and change that to 10x easier on all clients.
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For reference, an easy way to not be bothered with console apps in windows is to run as a scheduled task with a different user name. The program will run with a virtual unseeable display for the other user. This also worked for gui apps on Windows XP, but Win7 seems to have broken this.
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You can attempt to send them to a new address with no fee, using details here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Free_transaction_relay_policy (it appears that Eligius has finally added some sanity to it's inclusion of free transactions, so they may still never be included in a block). If you sent them to an address with an existing balance (like the bitcoin faucet donation address) they would become a spendable part of that address's balance. |
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I have Bitcoin 0.6.3-beta on Win7 x64 that is 1679 blocks behind (1522 after typing this post), it was seeded with the same 189238 blockchain posted here and has been through a few catch-up restarts as it's not always running. It's getting about a block a second off the p2p network so it should be caught up in half an hour, which I will report. I would assume if mainline win builds had a problem we would hear about it more though. The debug.log and db.log files may have some indication of what Bitcoin is doing besides updating the blockchain. Previously such hangs have indicated blockchain file db corruption. Update: up to date, no problems. |
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I am having the same error on WUBI Ubuntu 12. EXCEPTION: 11DbException
Db::put: Cannot allocate memory
bitcoin in ProcessMessages() Is there any solution out there for this as of yet? The addr.dat file is a likely culprit - especially after version changes, the database doesn't seem to be updated and old versions are incompatible. This is a cache of recently-seen clients, so it can just be deleted from your Bitcoin data directory, and you can restart Bitcoin. |
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This was organized by Dwolla. Social engineering hack to not need to sue in bumfuck nowhere: "could you autograph this for me?" Ben Milne: "What's this?" "I'm a process server, consider yourself served." |
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Laser engrave private keys on a tungsten bucking bar. The bank can burn down around it and it will still be readable.
*types off the privkey* *imports into wallet* *finds 168 BTC* *sends 168 BTC back home* *runs off laughing maniacly* Ente Jesus! this made me laugh manicaly..  awesome.. lmao Unlikely story: http://blockchain.info/address/1FuLUKEYji8msSWvLcz62jRExWBYkAYxLe |
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If you want a lasting material go with tungsten.
Melting point is significantly higher than structure fires, it is non reactive in most environments, and has high toughness.
=Laser engrave private keys on a tungsten bucking bar. The bank can burn down around it and it will still be readable.  Which is why I keep a printed copy of the blockchain.
Seems reasonable:  |
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A transaction will not be included in the blockchain unless the address(es) that are funding it have a confirmed balance equal to or above the input amount. You can see many transactions here that are funded with unconfirmed coins Here - (bitcoincharts.com - warning-10MB web page). Just search for "1dice" and you will see that "Satoshi Dice" is paying out with unconfirmed coins (creating possibly 1000+ transactions that will never complete). If the second transaction uses an input address with no previous balance, then it will remain pending until the first transaction (that pays adequate funds to that address) is included in the blockchain. |
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New record difficulty:
2036671.088693
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Technically, the highest difficulty's evaluation period would be the second half of July 2011: Record difficulty: Block 139104 (2011-08-01) difficulty:1888786.705353 Current difficulty: Block 189504 (2012-07-17) difficulty:1866391.305003 Current block: 191092 (78.8% of difficulty period elapsed) Block 191520 (~2012-07-30) estimated: 2.1M ( last 120): estimated 2.5M |
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I was sleeping and had a weird dream that I had forgotten to send someone some merchandise for over a month, and they were sending me PMs wondering where their stuff was - but I couldn't figure out or remember what it was that I hadn't sent. The weird dream woke me up.
So I got up logged into bitcointalk and I actually had personal messages in my inbox that someone had just sent me BTC and wanted to buy something I was selling! The PMs didn't say what it was they wanted though, so I was searching through all my past posts trying to match up how much they paid with my listings, trying to add up the cost of items to see what they wanted. The aggravation of this also woke me up - I was still dreaming!
So I learned that I dream about Bitcoin two inception levels deep...
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See how long it takes for them to answer what they were doing during:
Colorado movie shooting vs.
9/11 vs.
Challenger Accident vs.
Nixon Resignation vs.
Moon Landing vs.
JFK Assassination vs.
VJ-Day vs.
Pearl Harbor vs...
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