This was once again off-topic... Before posting, you need to compare your post to the OP. What you posted is not related to this:


That topic was about Matthew. Your post is not.

Long-term I expect there to be a simple network among full nodes (probably mostly miners and big sites), and a fancy overlay network that most clients connect to. The overlay network will be used to get transactions from clients to full nodes and from full nodes to the involved clients. The purpose of this is to minimize load on both full nodes and clients. Complex incentive and anti-abuse techniques can be used here.

Clients may also be given the option to connect to one or more servers that perform the same function as the overlay network. Some servers may have fees.

In any case, both miners and senders really want to get/send transactions, so I'm sure something good will be worked out.

Ah, you're right about that.

Post a hexdump of what you're sending.

Are you updating the checksum?

Next auction: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51710.0

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Your visible ad text (ignoring link URLs, etc.) must be less than 150 characters in length, and it can only contain links: no other style. It will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Eight of the slots are for sale here. (One of the remaining slots has random factoids, and one links to the current ad auction.)

The ad lasts 7 days starting from when I put it up.

Stats: On the 10^th of November, 2011, there were about 129,000 views of topics. So one slot would have appeared around 13,000 times per day. The ad doesn't appear on topic pages with only one post, though, and it only appears for people using the default theme.

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Auction rules

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all eight slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 8 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 8 slots. If the two highest bids are 8 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 7 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

- When you bid, all of your previous bids are automatically canceled.
- All bid prices must be divisible by 0.5.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- The auction end time is 03:00:00 on November 22, UTC. Countdown. (The end time may be extended -- see below.)
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the auction end time, then the auction will be extended by 30 minutes. If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the new end time, then the auction will be extended again, etc. The time will not extend beyond 6 hours total.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slot may be sold to someone else.

Current state:
Price Slots Person
5 1 imsaguy
3.5 1 mc_lovin
3 1 danieldaniel
2.5 1 BitcoinMint.US
2.5 2 edd
2 1 ineededausername
2 1 cryptoxchange

He was banned for three days in response to his many off-topic posts (6 of his last 20 posts had been deleted).

Report topics like these. I don't usually pay attention to these things unless someone reports them.


These are very innovative new services, so I'm not going to move them unless I get several reports. (And if some other moderator moves them I'm not going to move them back.)


This one definitely belongs in Bitcoin Discussion, as it is related to the entire ecosystem.

The other topics you listed have been moved.

No.

Block hashes must start with a certain number of zeroes, and the first digits after the zeroes will also be non-random. Probably the bits at the end are random, though I would hash the hash to make sure.

Each bit of cryptographic hash output is supposed to (ideally) have an equal chance of being a 1 or a 0.

Features seem to be considered stable way too quickly. I'd like a version scheme like this:
- Add new features to 0.5.
- At some point, stop adding new features to 0.5 and call that the "unstable" release. Start adding new features to 0.6.
- 0.4 remains the "stable" release for at least 6 months, and it is recommend that newbies use this version. The unstable version is also available in binary form and can be easily used.
- Once 0.5 has been unstable for 6+ months, call that one stable.
- As many past 0.x releases as possible continue to get bugfixes for people who like to use really stable software.

I'm still using 0.3.19, and it works fine with only a few modifications. I avoided several bugs by doing this.

Once this problem is fixed, it would be a good idea to issue an alert for users of affected versions. Maybe not many users are affected, but it seems irresponsible to not notify these users when they can be notified.

Transaction hashes could be used if you have some secret data that you combine with the hash. Then the lottery manager can manipulate things, though.

Block hashes can be used for randomness pretty safely after you hash them again to remove the leading zeroes. If you have a lottery that pays out much more than the block reward you might want to combine the hashes of several consecutive blocks (and maybe also their Merkle roots), since miners could try "re-rolling" a few times.

Done. Topic starters can still lock their topics.

Auctions.

Here's PHP code I wrote to do address verification (and other things):
http://pastebin.com/vmRQC7ha

Bitcoin also has a validateaddress JSON command.

This is a good idea. I will create it later today.

I don't have a problem with alt accounts as long as they're not used to evade bans. Atlas is not banned.

This has been discussed a million times, and there are already a million different proposed URI protocols. Why is yours better?

I first found Bitcoin on 4chan, so I especially like 4chan.