Silly me, of cause it was documented

I tried the sql file from the torrent today, since the VPs was having a hard time catching up.
It didnt work out too well, after importing the SQL, one needs to manually recreate all views, because they contain a security definer pointing to an invalid user.

But then Abe can import, however once its done skipping rows, it fails because it tries to insert a block at id 1, if I rerun it, it ties as 2,3,4 etc.

I gave up in the end and started the import over again, poor VPS

Very nice

Not sure how to decode the scriptsig, but I dont use sender for now anyway.

Very nice, that is exactly what I wanted, a post per tx, and since its localhost it should be fast enough to keep.

Also useable, but then you would need to poll it every so often and check if theres new transactions.

Did you get a POST system working in your test?
If so could you show what data the post script would receive ?

If I didnt plan to make it reliable, I would not have spent the time to move it to a new server, now would I  

It will retry for a few times, but if your server is down more than 10-20minutes, the notification will fail.
However you can use pubnub, and their history command to check for missed events.


The downtime was because my previous VPS provider did a very poor job, ended up with a broken database, and had to move it yesterday.

For now its hosted at slicehost, and by the end of next month, when my new dedicated is ready, it will be moved as a VPS on that.

If this takes off, then I will ofcause make redundant systems with HA failover.
But as long as its low volume, a VPS on my dedicated should have plenty of uptime.

If you run a linux firewall it would not be too hard, setup a tor relay and force all users to use the tor proxy, like many corporations already do (transparent proxy).

But tor is often slow and barely useful to check email.

New feature : AdHoc notifications - https://bitping.net/oneshot.php

This is a mini API to request a single notification of 1 payment without registering as a user.
For now any URL can be used, but it may be necessary to limit it to URLs that resolve to the IP of the API caller later on, to prevent the service from being used as a slow and expensive HTTP attack gateway

Will be added to github in a day or two, already live on the site, feel free to give it a test run!

Imported yes.
I didnt change the mappings, but used those in single mine example.
I have checked that the fields exist.

Permissions should be ok, in MySQL I granted it all, and I just tested that I can insert to shares table with same login, also it didnt complain about the user logins, that I created in user table (but then again I didnt check with a user that would fail, dont know if it falls back to no check if theres DB problems).

enabling trace=all gives alot of these
[20:39:05.159] TRACE[blockmon_firecheck] Sleeping timed block check cycle for source: litecoin-1.litecoin 0ms
[20:39:05.169] TRACE[blockmon_firecheck] Firing timed block check for source: litecoin-1.litecoin overdue by 10ms

but even with those removed form the log, there does not seem to be any actual errors logged.

Sorry if this may be horribly obvious.

I got the poolserver working on litecoin, and added a few clients to it, they were hashing away and getting longpool events.

However I dont see shares being logged, neither to DB or file.
As I understand, a share is each time cpuminer prints out a stat line, right ?
In that case it should have logged a few 100shares, but no errors and no data in the shares file.

When starting it, it does say RETRY a few times, but then runs and looks to be working.

Any ideas what could be the reason for no log?

For now I am using Abe for the regular block monitoring, but yes that could be useful also, just need to check for orfans etc.

I didnt see any bids on my project, so I adjusted it and reposted, but maybe bitcoin is too unknown for someone to risk their rating on vworker to take on such a project.

I could post as pay-for-time, but then I risk paying for a few hours work with no solution.
Wish I was better as C myself, I have only done some non-object based micro processor code.

URL for vworker : http://www.vworker.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=1810678

Except for the bitcoin part, thats what fon does (http://corp.fon.com/en).

Its been a while since I used it, but its free wifi if you share one, and users without a shared AP themselves can buy access for a small fee.

They have routers that users can setup to make it easy, and makes 2 ssids, so the one you let others use are seperated from your private LAN.

How do you support multiple chains ?
I would like to add LTC and NMC to my database, but as I understand it, I would have to run their fork of bitcoind, which would make a new dir of block chain files.

I think thats for an actual block, I see I used "block" in the description, but as the other thread and quote shows, its the new transactions that are interesting.

ie. when bitcoind gets a new tx, which will then be unconfirmed, it calls a http post/system with the details.

I guess the reason I need both pulls was the getBlock rpc ?
I will look into 743 anyway, the code to call system() could probaly be reused.




[EDIT] I have now posted this to vworker.com, so if you are interested, please bid using vworker.
I will update this thread when the project is done.

Src : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits/v0.5.1rc2

For original thread where the idea was mentioned : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40264.msg676281#msg676281

The idea is to add a HTTP POST call to a local webserver, after bitcoind has accepted a new transaction into memory.

I will not put too much requirements on the contents of the call, its easyier to convert in PHP that C++ anyway.
But I need at least inputs and outputs with amounts.
The HTTP url can be hardcoded in the patch.
Patch license should be same as bitcoin or public domain.

[EDIT] What I am looking for is a call with http/system, when bitcoind gets a new transaction, ie. unconfirmed, I am not interested in the actual blocks, since I already have a setup to handle that.


I have posted this to vworker.com also, feel free to post a bid there.
If you are interested before bids are posted on vworker, you can also bid here.

I currently poll every 5 minutes from blockexplorer, to get the latest block, and compare with the local, ie. if my local is off by 5 or more in any direction, then something is a mess, and I get an email, that was why I requested the latestblock api to have 2 sources to match up against.

Hope I am not derailing your thread too much, if so let me know and I can create a separate one.

I have had a short go at it, but C is not really my thing, just getting a toString printed of the TX didnt work out.
A patch that makes a http post call, or writes to a file, with the received tx information would really be neat, in fact I will even bounty a open license patch with a few BTC, if anyone is interested (Once I get verified somewhere to buy coins with CC/wire).

Hmm, I run it on a (good) VPS, granted it uses quite a bit of disk spare, but other than that it works fine, the Abe block viewer is a bit slow, but I dont think that would change, just by moving the bitcoind files off the server ?

up 2 days, 11 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks:  78 total,   1 running,  77 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1027308k total,  1013608k used,    13700k free,    15900k buffers
Of those 707MB is cache, so real usage is just 316MB mem.

You could split it out on several servers, but ofcause that would not make it cheaper
Abe just needs the files, it should not care if bitcoind is infact running on the machine, ie. network mounted share.
And Abe will connect to a MySQL server other than localhost withot problems.

FYI : blockchain.info now offers a notification service also, havent tested it, but I think that does 0-confirmations.

These are virtual cards right ?
A real physical card would be epic, transfer bitcoints, wait a hour, withdraw in any ATM, but probaly a bit hard to sell as a legit service.
So they can be used to pay for things online, but likely not to pay the rental bill, insurance or gas.

Any chance for a API call to get the latest blockcount ... and a list of unconfirmed transactions ?
-Or maybe a hint to how you managed to get the unconfirmed transactions from bitcoind ?