Please for the love of god ban this useless ALPHA poster, I've ignored him, but the forum still shows the several useless threads a day started by ignored users that have nothing to do with bitcoin.

Unfortunately, once you put the private key into mtgox, it will always have any funds sent to it instantly scraped and added to your mtgox account, you won't be able to use that address again for anything else.

Use pywallet, and import the private keys into a Bitcoin 0.3.24 install and spend them.

Latency has nothing to do with bandwidth or the amount of bandwidth used. It has to do with the propagation delay in the signal line, since signals travel about 1/10th the speed of light in copper, making the distance a considerable factor.

PCIe is designed for a maximum signal trace of 50cm (that includes the PCB traces in the motherboard and cards). Timing issues can arise beyond this. In addition, if you have external connections like the PCIe extender, each one can cause signal losses by increased RF susceptibility, cable attenuation, and signal reflection (and unterminated 'antenna' losses in the connector) at each medium change.

"PCI Express is optimized for a 4 layer FR4 [Dielectric], supporting up to 20 inch distances between devices. The actual distance between IC's depend on the number of via's. The differential trace impedance is defined as 100 ohms + 15%. Each trace pair should have a matched trace length of + 5 mils. How ever pair-to-pair trace length matching is not required. Each signal pair is capacitive coupled at the receiver. Do not stager the capacitors for each signal pair, they should reside next to each other. Jitter in the PCI Express Interface: PCI Express specifies a maximum output jitter of 120ps for the Serializer and a minimum input jitter tolerance of 240ps for the De-serializer. The UI [Unit Interval] is the bit time = 400ps, Phase Jitter most important. The UI of 400ps is 1/[2.5Gbps]. The Bit Error Rate [BER] is defined as 1x10-12." (looks like this engineer can't spell...)

A 1099 form is for misc income. You are sending goods for BTC, so at most, the recipient would be liable to pay sales tax in his jurisdiction, and that is hard to do since the government doesn't want 9% in BTC. If you paid an independent contractor for services, that is where the 1099 would be used, although there are no places to fill in amounts in BTC on that form either.

The gov't will only care about your income in dollars. The amount you cash out in dollars from an exchange likely has little correlation with your net profit, so it is best to think about all of your Bitcoin transactions as a business, and only when things are turned back into dollars and you make a net income (minus your business expenses like web hosting, electricity, computer depreciation, etc) should you start thinking taxes. If you made a net profit, why not put it back into BTC as a 'capital expenditure' and you are neutral again. I would try to keep all Bitcoin stuff out of taxes (just keep independent records of your BTC accounting) unless I appear to make a clear profit in dollars that need some matching expenses or explaining.

Remember that gov't doesn't care that you just lost $2000 in a casino, when you finally win $1000 they still want 50% of it. Complete Bitcoin business records can help you and auditors track and offset your expenses and 'losings'.

I'm thinking you want something more like this....

One base unit is a very small amount.

Here's what about half of 75,000 people look like:



Now multiply that by 10, then multiply that by 10.

If every person alive in New York City (8 million) gave you one, and the value of Bitcoin returned to it's record high, you still wouldn't have enough to buy a tall latte.

I would suggest you use care when directly accessing the data directory, the information here sounds like you don't understand compressed (zip) files, and are also looking at the wrong stuff.

Change your Bitcoin options as I posted above, this is to ensure that you don't mistakenly leave Bitcoin running in the system tray when you think you closed it, and to ensure you have not misconfigured connections. Bitcoin must be closed when accessing it's data file directory. Close and restart Bitcoin after updating these options, and see if this allows Bitcoin to connect up to the connection limit and if blocks start updating. Then as I posted above, disable your OS's firewall for testing; you may have it misconfigured, so that p2p connections show in Bitcoin, but the inbound data cannot make its way through.

If you must take the shortcut of manually downloading and installing a copy of the blockchain, use the link I posted above, back to my original post, where:

1. I give you a link to download and install 7-zip. You will need to launch the 7-zip File Manager, and under menu->tools->options, select the checkboxes to associate 7-zip with .001 and .7z. You can also select .zip and .rar if you wish for this freeware utility to replace non-free WinRAR & WinZip too. Then the first file in the archive set will open with 7zip and the contents can be extracted.

2. I give you a link to the Bitcoin data directory that is independent of which version of Windows you use: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin. Opening Windows Explorer and putting this in the location bar will take you there.

3. While you have Windows Explorer open, you should enable showing file extensions so you aren't likely to make mistakes like you did copying files from the Bitcoin src directory. In the Windows Explorer you just launched, click "Tools" in the menu, and choose "Folder Options". Go to the "View" tab, and in Advanced settings, uncheck the box for "Hide extension for known file types" and press OK. This will allow you to see the full file name.

3. I advise you to back up the wallet, with a link to instructions to do this. In a nutshell, copy (do not accidentally move) the wallet.dat file (it may appear as just "wallet" if you have file extensions hidden) to a backup location such as a USB flash drive for safekeeping. The easiest way is to right-click on the file, and in the context menu, select send to -> USB drive (whatever your drive is called).

If the meaning of these instructions are still elusive, you should call a buddy over that knows more about computers. You'll probably need the help if you are going to set up Tor also...

If newbie = someone who has a hard time even locating the Bitcoin data directory, or someone that can't figure out how to log into their router, then yes, patience is best, as opposed to messing with the data files directly - that is why my first paragraph gives users an opt-out if they are not computer-savvy.

I can only personally attest that the blockchain I have posted is exactly as was downloaded by a fresh Bitcoin install, and I have posted file checksums, so that even if my hosting account on secureserver were compromised and the files replaced with a facsimile, one would be able to validate the contents with md5sum (a signature relies on you already trusting the signer). If someone were to write a hash validator or a blockchain comparator, you would find mine unaltered.

You quote my thread here, it also has a link to 7zip, etc. Installing a copy of the blockchain will get you up and going quicker than waiting for a complete blockchain download, but if the central problem is that the client is not connecting or updating blocks at all, this problem will continue unless the cause is determined and rectified.

Virtualbox can run 64 bit guest on 32 bit OS with VT-x. Of course it would be helpful to know exactly what distro (and Qt version etc) the error was produced on, and if it was a fresh Bitcoin install or an upgrade.

I made a test WinXP environment for this, where I set up a 0.3.24 install and received and sent coins on it (and the private key does end up in the log files as well as a few more times in the wallet after receiving and resending), and then defragged, cleared temp files, and wiped the free space with 0s before imaging. I specified only 4 keypool keys on first execution, but bitcoin added the 100 the next run(why?) I verified that 0.4.1rc5 deleted all logs on shutdown even without running encryption. More testing of encryption will come, I'll see if the private key is present on the disk image at all after 0.3.24->0.4.1, 0.4->0.4.1, and ->0.5 when converting and encrypting (which requires care to not inadvertently put the key on the disk by searching -> MUI registry entries, save keys in text files, pywallet --web -> browser cache, etc).

Maybe with some fans?

Long enough to read sticky notes about board etiquette, helpful articles, and the sticky note where it says how long you have to wait.

You must not mess with the socks4 setting if you don't know what it is for. People read about ports here without understanding, and start putting wrong information into the Bitcoin options. So you don't have to search for the post I made three days ago, here's a cut-and-paste:

In the Bitcoin options, these are the best options for you:

☐ Start Bitcoin on system startup
☑ Minimize to the tray instead of the taskbar
☑ Map port using UPNP
☐ Minimize to the tray on close
☐ Connect through socks4 proxy

After verifying and pressing "OK", close and restart Bitcoin.

After this, for diagnostic purposes, I would just completely disable the firewall software on your computer and see if it solves any remaining problems.

The place where you would use "port 8333" is in an Internet router; it is not a setting in Bitcoin. Your Bitcoin should get up to eight connections to other peers, even without configuring port forwarding to forward inbound connections on port 8333 to the IP address of your computer.

This illustrates a strange facet of Bitcoin, whereas the credit card companies and PayPal can send their CEO, there are few experts that have legitimacy beyond "self-proclaimed", due to the non-organizational nature of Bitcoin itself, and that nobody is looking to take money out of your pocket by advocating your use of Bitcoin. What its users say about Bitcoin can reflect on their own attitudes.

It is not an IRS tax dodge (corporations have figured what that really means a long time ago). To not declare your income is advocating lawbreaking, and Bitcoin, like any other currency, can of course be used for illegal activity, no differently than paying your illegal labor in undeclared cash or buying drugs with dollars or stolen TVs.

It is a new international currency that is independently valued and includes its own instant transfer method over the Internet, unfettered by banks. It will not magically debase nation-state currency, however, it is an exercise in what currency transfer can look like without the banks or middlemen, credit scores, merchant fees, contracts, frozen accounts, or anyone else telling you how you should use your money. There is no "credit card fraud" as the owner of the Bitcoins has complete control and only he has the cryptographic keys required to send money. I can transfer my Bitcoins for goods or services, and merchants or individuals providing services can likewise re-spend those Bitcoins, as it is a real economy unto itself. It also is uncounterfeitable, irrevocable, and doesn't have disputes or chargebacks, so you can be certain when you have been paid in Bitcoins you won't be losing out later.

Whereas governments can print more money as they see fit, devaluing personal savings and causing inflation, Bitcoin has a fixed rate of production and a maximum number that will be produced, in a mining process that rewards computer processing power,similar to the way that the world's gold is limited and mining it becomes harder. The currency is not scarce like gold, though, as it can be divided down to eight decimal points, enough for the whole world population to each have 20 million of the base currency units.

It is completely supported by a network of tens of thousands of other users, who use the software to transmit user transfers and account balances to all other users, and who verify that transactions are legitimate and un-forged by securing the record of all past transactions with a cryptographic authentication method that currently involves more computer power than the top 100 supercomputers combined.

It has immediate obvious use a a payment method for web services such as online game economies, auction sites, retail sites, gambling sites, and, just like the Internet itself, has no geographic boundaries. It also can be used in person, as there are varied people that will trade goods (or even your lunch) in person for bitcoins or even trade you dollars for it.

The myth is that there is a "51% attack". You would need to sustain 120 continuous blocks of block solving, outpacing the rest of the Bitcoin network, for us not to just take your alternate blocks and orphan them. Even after that, the longest most difficult blockchain would still come out the winner.

The driver-only 11.6 includes OpenCL 2.4 which is fine, don't know why you would go backwards, and there is no need to install the SDK.

Did you also overclock like it was before? Same flags and miner options? I can get nearly 350MHash out of a 5830, so something is not as awesome as it should be.

Of course, one less than that, and it would be like a big FFFFFF you.

Is this sticky-worthy? I could reply to four noobs a day with links to this post, it seems.

Maybe they also have a testnet wallet and transferred your balance to testnet, as that is what you asked!  

Seems like a pretty dick response, they didn't send any real BTC to you, it's not going to be added to the blockchain or take any BTC from their balance, and it is likely that while the website accepted it, bitcoind flat-out rejected it. Their web software should validate version as well as checksum. You should demand satisfaction!