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581  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2014-09-06] We made the wrong call on buying Bitcoins on: September 06, 2014, 11:02:08 PM
From what I understand two writers from Vox bought some bitcoins, but decided that if they gain value they will write articles that promote Bitcoin and thus be more biased to write positive things.
582  Other / Off-topic / Re: Naruto fucks us all over again on: September 06, 2014, 09:49:52 PM
berserk and hunter are older than naruto and still going. Main reason is probably the authors were MIA from time to time, but naruto is too popular to let that happens.

btw if Naruto introduces the next big boss then it becomes Dragon Ball, I agree.
But they are not top of the shounen class. Maybe they once were, not now. Plus, either just Hunter's author/mangaka or both Hunter and Berserk's authors have poor health and dont draw the manga regularly. With HxH there was even a period where the art was horrible.
583  Other / Off-topic / Re: Naruto fucks us all over again on: September 06, 2014, 07:46:45 PM
dude the manga is way too fuken long.

its getting to the point of dragon ball..
Have you even seen the Hajime no Ippo manga? It's over 1000 chapters.

I haven't followed Naruto either, not regularly anyway. But its sad that Bleach is ending, Naruto is ending... it will be a while before new top manga appear to take the crown off of these two. Only Fairy Tail and One Piece would be left from the long running manga that are popular.
584  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hidden wiki retailers on: September 06, 2014, 03:40:20 PM
Asking this sort of question is like asking the FBI to raid you.

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/the-fbi-finally-says-how-it-legally-pinpointed-silk-roads-server/
585  Other / Off-topic / Re: Naruto fucks us all over again on: September 05, 2014, 01:20:17 PM
Finished? There's no indication thats its over. Anime as it episode 375, manga at chapter 671.
586  Other / Off-topic / Re: . on: September 04, 2014, 03:30:07 PM
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587  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: matoshinno scam? or What is it? on: September 04, 2014, 01:39:43 PM
Multiply your bitcoins? Such a thing exists only in gambling websites. Any other means is just a scam.
588  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: What happened with Block #318677? on: September 03, 2014, 03:48:50 PM
Yup, when Blockchain.info launched it was nice, the first blockexplorer that looked professional, but then something happened and piuk just let the quality of the website degrade. Is it even safe to use it as a webwallet or payment API?
589  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: All you need to know about the currency used to buy nude Jennifer Lawrence pics on: September 02, 2014, 09:19:13 PM
Told you this would happen. That bitcoin would be named "responsible" for the hack.
590  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2014-09-02] Hacker claims to have Jennifer Lawerence sex tape on: September 02, 2014, 04:25:25 AM
I somehow don't understand what is a big deal? Of course the celebs are stupid enough to have their nude pics kept in icloud. But, if it was hacked, so what?
It would probably tarnish the name of Bitcoin in the process, even though the hacker could have provided a paypal address for fiat, just because bitcoin was requested, the news titles would scream "Bitcoin hackers extort celebrities"
591  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Reducing the memory footprint but still retain full node capabilities. on: September 02, 2014, 04:14:54 AM
I am measuring the actual usage. And while ram may be cheap, memory controllers aren't infinite, I am already using 4 sticks of RAM and only had 4 slots. Anyway, the measurement is on Windows with Bitcoin-Qt/Core default settings.
Presumably if your system was made in the last decade it support modules larger than 2GB? Smiley  What is the virt usage corresponding to your 800 mb actual usage reading?

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As for git master, what are the potential side effects of mining on it?
That it may crash or end up forked and leave you effectively not mining. This is also true for any other version, but non-released versions are (by definition) less widely tested.  The amount of risk depends on whats going on recently in git master. At the moment, there isn't anything exceptionally new which is obviously highly risky.  Similarly if you keep coins on that system exposing immature software to the internet you might have an increased risk of a security compromise. That said, hopefully you have no coins on the system considering you're using it for web-browsing. Marginal risk from new code in bitcoin core is going to be much less than running any browser.

If your hashrate is only fairly modest (I'd hope— since you're not running your node on a separate dedicated system), you could just consider a bit of risk taken here as a public service and increase your monitoring vigilance to match.  If you were talking about a large amount of hashrate, I'd recommend against not— not just due to the risk to yourself, but if you start producing multiple invalid blocks it may cause (minor) problems for SPV nodes or alt implementations. Risk that you take on your own is one thing, subjecting other people to it is another matter.

My hashrate is highly modest, you wont need to worry about it Smiley. As for your other statement, I do actually keep coins on the system I am using, and whats more the wallet is unencrypted. However, I am vigilant. I've disabled Java, Flash and watch what I download, I don't download any email attachments, nor look at emails from my spam folder other than for giggles. I also recently acquired the skill of reverse engineering, although still in its infancy, however I have a pretty good idea of the APIs windows malware use, the point is unless I trust the source, I'd inspect any software in a VM before I let it run on my system.

It would be foolish to think I am 100% protected, but I've also considered implementing some custom protection specifically to deter any attempts at compromising my wallet.
592  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Reducing the memory footprint but still retain full node capabilities. on: September 02, 2014, 03:24:18 AM
I would like somebody more familiar with the bitcoin core client to tell me if it's possible to basically recompile bitcoin-qt(or just the daemon) with various changes to reduce the memory footprint to the bare minimum, say below 400mb at all times, while still retaining mining capabilities, e.g I want to mine solo, but not having to worry about the excessive use of ram by the client. Usually it's over 800mb, and I daresay I want it below 200.
Git master, -dbcache=4, -rpcthreads=1 -dnsseed=0 -discover=0  -par=1  Uses about 200MBytes on x86_64, maybe getting up to 250 with long uptime and a lot of connections. If you are wallet disabled it'll be another 30mb below that.  Reducing the connection count may make it a bit smaller.  In general, I advise against having inbound connections from the general internet on a node thats mining (e.g. set -listen=0 which will also helpfully limit your connection count as a side effect). Running the relay network daemon is advisable.

In general the defaults are not well tuned for low memory— considering that 1GB ram costs about $10 marginally... and a bit of extra caching is worth it when the memory is available.

The fact that you're saying "usually over 800mb" suggests that you might be confusing virtual address space with memory usage. Virtual address space does not consume any actual memory (not in swap either). The processes memory map is not contiguous, e.g. there are regions of allocated memory in seas of non-allocated address space. Be sure you're measuring the right thing.

Though several hundred megabytes per tab? Might want to reconsider what browser you're running. I apologize that it's a little difficult to run a whole world wide digital currency with memory usage comparable to one or two tabs in a web-browser. Smiley

Mine on git master at your own risk, though— no warranties are provided generally, but even less so on git master.
I am measuring the actual usage. And while ram may be cheap, memory controllers aren't infinite, I am already using 4 sticks of RAM and only had 4 slots. Anyway, the measurement is on Windows with Bitcoin-Qt/Core default settings.

As for git master, what are the potential side effects of mining on it?
593  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Reducing the memory footprint but still retain full node capabilities. on: September 02, 2014, 03:03:56 AM
I would like somebody more familiar with the bitcoin core client to tell me if it's possible to basically recompile bitcoin-qt(or just the daemon) with various changes to reduce the memory footprint to the bare minimum, say below 400mb at all times, while still retaining mining capabilities, e.g I want to mine solo, but not having to worry about the excessive use of ram by the client. Usually it's over 800mb, and I daresay I want it below 200.

I have 8 gigabytes of ram for anybody wondering, but even then with a browser open consuming several hundred megabytes per tab, a few other applications and then perhaps a game, and windows starts paging, slowing my computer down significantly.
594  Other / Off-topic / Re: Cause of ALS discovered! on: September 01, 2014, 03:46:11 AM
It's an article from 3 years ago, did you even try to look at the date?
595  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Alt coin client returning error: {"code":-32601,"message":"Method not found"} on: September 01, 2014, 01:31:59 AM
setgenerate should be a deprecated API.
596  Other / Off-topic / Re: Universe Sandbox (awesome galaxy simulating software) on: August 31, 2014, 10:34:12 PM
So can anyone explain why an object of larger mass/density and thus exerting more gravity would eject other objects instead of the objects crashing into it?
597  Other / Off-topic / Re: Universe Sandbox (awesome galaxy simulating software) on: August 31, 2014, 04:08:26 PM
This game looks great, but after clicking around trying to find the Bitcoin option I found this in the FAQ:

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Q: I do not see the "Pay with Bitcoin" option on your site.
A: Bitcoin is available as a purchase option whenever US Dollars are listed. Users from Europe may not see Bitcoin listed as an option in the Humble Store where prices are listed in Pounds and Euros.

Well that sucks. I might have to commit the ultimate blasphemy and click the paypal button...  Embarrassed
Now that is huge discrimination right there.

Proxy time.
598  Other / Off-topic / Re: Universe Sandbox (awesome galaxy simulating software) on: August 31, 2014, 03:47:26 PM
I still can't find it



There isn't any link to pay with bitcoin, not even in the html source code.
599  Other / Off-topic / Re: Universe Sandbox (awesome galaxy simulating software) on: August 31, 2014, 03:32:02 PM
I was going to buy it, but I can't pay with Bitcoin?Huh
600  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Missing BTC on: August 31, 2014, 03:12:41 PM
I have asked coinbase, but their support is painfully slow.
And you thought posting on bitcointalk would make it faster???
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