Bitcoin Forum
August 07, 2024, 11:42:51 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.1 [Torrent]
 
  Home Help Search Login Register More  
  Show Posts
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 [21] 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 ... 97 »
401  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: TRC- What do you want? on: March 14, 2013, 10:12:33 AM
why everybody do not trade it? i think about 1 or 2 years, trc than more ltc  Grin Grin Grin

What advantages TRC has over Bitcoin or Litecoin?

Advantage list (in random order):

- Tone116 mined a bunch of them while diff was very low

that's all I have for now Smiley

Disclaimer: I'm just being sarcastic, I have nothing against TRC and try hard to support it as much as I can, as I do with all altchains where people most strongly behind them aren't complete dicks.
402  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should the bitcoin community ban the Satoshi Dice filter patch? on: March 13, 2013, 12:50:12 PM
If anything, we should be banning miners who refuse to do reasonable filtering like this.

Banning is such a strong word, though. If a majority of miners would in fact refuse such transactions other smaller miners would start getting a lot of orphans and would be forced to either reduce their blocksize drastically or starts filtering out what goes in to their mined blocks. But that's only if the majority of miners sees that as a good thing for the network and their bottom line, no?
If miners refuse to do their job in filtering, there's no reason to leave it up to miners.
Regular participating nodes can refuse to relay blocks with (eg) more than 50% Dice spam.

Even better! So the people that in theory are the ones losing out from all this have the power to do something about it!

A new kind of poll is born, a client that does filtered relaying where the user can opt as to what kind of filtering to apply gives that user a vote. Then it is not just he said, she said, it's actually measuring user opinion.

But having clients decide on their own relay rules opens a whole new can of worms, of course, and will ultimately open a new angle of attack against bitcoin stability. It does present an interesting case, perhaps worth discussing further.
403  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should the bitcoin community ban the Satoshi Dice filter patch? on: March 13, 2013, 12:42:24 PM
If anything, we should be banning miners who refuse to do reasonable filtering like this.

Banning is such a strong word, though. If a majority of miners would in fact refuse such transactions other smaller miners would start getting a lot of orphans and would be forced to either reduce their blocksize drastically or starts filtering out what goes in to their mined blocks. But that's only if the majority of miners sees that as a good thing for the network and their bottom line, no?

I mean, one of the most beautiful things about bitcoins, and one of the most criticized features of it at the same time is the lack of an appointed central authority, but majority still rules the chain.
404  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ripple API on: March 13, 2013, 11:12:29 AM
Now, a small doubt on workflow; I submit a payment for which no trust line exists, I assume this transaction never gets submitted to a ledger, right? At least I could not find my test one. The issue I'm having is one of atomicity, where I submit a tx and note the request ID to match the response, but say between send and response my ws dies, and don't get this response at all.

Can I poll for it afterwards? Or is the assumption that if I don't see it in a ledger for a set period of time I can just resubmit the request? The latter feels dangerous if the network is busy and lags a bit.

If a transaction could possibly apply, it is forwarded to the rest of the network. If a trust line doesn't exist, that won't stop a transaction from propagating because another transaction could create the line.

Take a look at this: https://ripple.com/wiki/Robustly_submitting_a_transaction

This describes how to submit transactions in an idempotent way. Generally, you want to build and store your transactions before you send them. Then you can send them as many times as you want. If you are coming back after a power failure, you could look for transactions that have been applied to your account since a specific ledger.

Of course, I knew that from my first read of the documentation... thank you for pointing out just how spread I am Smiley
405  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ripple API on: March 13, 2013, 09:35:27 AM
Oh, but it does, at least if you do "account_tx account ledger" for a specific ledger id (as opposed to a range).
You're correct. It's kind of a quirk in the code. If you specify a ledger range, special code for ranges of ledgers handles it. If you specify one specific ledger, generic code that fails if the ledger isn't available handles it.

@JoelKatz with the db fix mentioned in the issue I opened everything works great, thank you!

To infinity and beyond!

Now, a small doubt on workflow; I submit a payment for which no trust line exists, I assume this transaction never gets submitted to a ledger, right? At least I could not find my test one. The issue I'm having is one of atomicity, where I submit a tx and note the request ID to match the response, but say between send and response my ws dies, and don't get this response at all.

Can I poll for it afterwards? Or is the assumption that if I don't see it in a ledger for a set period of time I can just resubmit the request? The latter feels dangerous if the network is busy and lags a bit.
406  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: The official Armory-for-OSX Bounty Thread [CLAIMED -- 25 BTC] on: March 13, 2013, 09:21:00 AM
Right, I can't for the life of me get a snow leopard VM set up, so I'm going to need some more information. There has to be some error output.

I love how you are sure of that, it's kinda sweet Smiley

Ok, all jokes aside, I'll have a proper look at it today and will provide you with details other that "I clicked and it did not work".
407  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: The official Armory-for-OSX Bounty Thread [CLAIMED -- 25 BTC] on: March 12, 2013, 11:32:40 PM
I just got here, so I may need to go back and do some reading, but the app does absolutely nothing for me. Double clicking it does nothing, running ~/Downloads/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/Armory in terminal simply returns... do I need to install something?

I can perfectly understand if not all dependencies could be bundled, but a little error would help me greatly Smiley OSX 10.6.8 here.

I'm working on making a Snow Leopard VM so I can test this. I think I know what the problem is, though. Does your computer have a 32-bit only processor (Core Duo)?

Nope, sorry about that Smiley It is 64bit.
408  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: The official Armory-for-OSX Bounty Thread [CLAIMED -- 25 BTC] on: March 12, 2013, 10:24:16 PM
I just got here, so I may need to go back and do some reading, but the app does absolutely nothing for me. Double clicking it does nothing, running ~/Downloads/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/Armory in terminal simply returns... do I need to install something?

I can perfectly understand if not all dependencies could be bundled, but a little error would help me greatly Smiley OSX 10.6.8 here.
409  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should the bitcoin community ban the Satoshi Dice filter patch? on: March 12, 2013, 09:31:26 PM
Stop +1'ing my posts.
Don't you know there's possibly nothing you can learn from them? Roll Eyes

Touché... nothing like having good arguments to assert a point.
410  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ripple API on: March 12, 2013, 08:35:06 PM
Tried on a new, much better system, same difference. Opened an issue with the command outputs and config file.
411  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should the bitcoin community ban the Satoshi Dice filter patch? on: March 12, 2013, 05:53:23 PM
I agree that it doesn't have to be SD specific; it could simply filter out spammy dustcoins with no tx fee.

I believe SD sends dustcoins WITH proper tx fees. SD is paying the vast majority of fees now included in blocks, and has been for a while.

This is entirely irrelevant when the fees are miniscule, compared to the block reward subsidy.

The cost of all those unspent outputs created by SD, for lost bets, impacts all bitcoin users.

I am not defending nor attacking SD, and as I'm running a competitor (which is obviously a drop of water in the ocean, or a 1 satoshi tx in a large block compared to SD).

And the point that SD's stressing of the network is a great future proofing test has been made as many times as the SD is evil one. I don't understand why SD hasn't change its behaviour towards the problem but then again that hasn't reduced the amount of users they get, and thus the market has spoken. I would most certainly like to see a better fee equalization algorithm implemented, and would be glad to help achieve it, but it feels to me that most everyone chooses a side and points the finger, spending way too much time repeating "'coz I said so".
412  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Selling 30 000 XRP For Best Offer! BTC, TRC or LTC on: March 12, 2013, 03:31:06 PM
send me your TRC address if I win Smiley
413  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should the bitcoin community ban the Satoshi Dice filter patch? on: March 12, 2013, 03:27:49 PM
I agree that it doesn't have to be SD specific; it could simply filter out spammy dustcoins with no tx fee.

I believe SD sends dustcoins WITH proper tx fees. SD is paying the vast majority of fees now included in blocks, and has been for a while.
414  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should the bitcoin community ban the Satoshi Dice filter patch? on: March 12, 2013, 03:26:09 PM
They are now also responsible for a fork on the chain, like the spam wasn't enough.

I usually steer clear of these particular trains of thought, but you do understand SD wasn't responsible, right? A bug in the BDB code caused this, and yes, SD did trigger the bug but while it was a nuisance to be very mild (I lost almost 4 hours of what was otherwise already too little sleep for this), it does mean some big enterprise (read government) that happens to find this bug can't create havoc and properly abuse this situation with properly prepared double spends and the like.

Honestly, I strongly believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, mine isn't better than yours outside my own system of values but this community should keep together a little better and your constant calling wolf isn't helping, in my opinion... it is just my opinion! I don't really care too much what other people think anyway, unless I perceive a chance of learning from them.
415  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Selling 30 000 XRP For Best Offer! BTC, TRC or LTC on: March 12, 2013, 03:17:12 PM
1000 TRC...
416  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks on: March 12, 2013, 02:38:36 AM
BTCGuild is switching to 0.7, so the old chain will get a majority hash rate soon.
I've switched to BTCGuild for the moment.  Will switch back to BitMinter once DrHaribo confirms that the pool has reverted to 0.7.

Doc has confirmed, but something wasn't working and he is fixing it, I believe. So it is 0.7 but is currently down.
417  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: List of v0.7 pools on 3/11/2013, 3/12/2013 on: March 12, 2013, 02:24:19 AM
And I just made another thread on this...

Anyway: [02:19am] Luke-Jr: nelisky: EclipseMC and Eligius are unaffected; slush, BTCGuild, and Ozcoin are "working on it"

And bitminter mined an orphan on the 0.7 chain too, but there's no official word on it yet.
418  Bitcoin / Pools / POOLS KNOWN TO BE on the 0.7 (safe) chain on: March 12, 2013, 02:23:19 AM
from IRC

Code:
[02:19am] Luke-Jr: nelisky: EclipseMC and Eligius are unaffected; slush, BTCGuild, and Ozcoin are "working on it"

Bitminter appears to be safe too as it mined an orphan on the 0.7 chain, but no official word yet.

If you know of others please speak up.

LOCKING: go here instead -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152048.0
419  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks on: March 12, 2013, 02:09:59 AM
Well talk about bad timing. Literally as the news flash hit, I sent a large amount of coin from one PC to another. The receiving PC runs 0.8 and the sending was much much older. The transaction seems to have worked, and the recipient PC is picking up confirmations, so I am hoping these transactions are all safe.

If the coins you sent were old enough (not from a block mined during the fork) you will be just fine. Even if the receiving PC is on the wrong chain in a few hours the good chain will pick up and have your transaction.
420  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks on: March 12, 2013, 01:57:14 AM
Coins are safe, but the current value in them is not. This will have consequences.

Right now I don't understand how can coins be safe if transaction was made on the 0.8 blockchain? I'm hoping for a detailed official answer from the devs.

Coins are safe because your transactions will exist in the 0.7 blockchain too. Only issue is double spending and that's why you should not buy any coins from anyone right now.

I don't see how this can be handled without any coin loss, what about all those block rewards that were mined after the fork? how can they be re-distributed to the rightful owners?

I was building on my previous post stating "if they have more than 11 confirmations as of block 225446". But you are right that it was misleading, just trying to write as fast as one can.
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 [21] 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 ... 97 »
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!