Oh duh, I knew that. I've read what we are doing here and also about light nodes. I mistook the spent tx as creation of a light node. My mistake. I understand now. The bloom feature is groundwork for a light node. I'm going to test on another windows machine and a linux machine later. But so far I love what I see.

This really opens up the, hey, download bitcoin and try it out I'll send you some coins instead of; hey, check out bitcoin, but get an alternate client because of the official one takes too long.

Quick question regarding this. Does importprivkey still work? It rescans the block chain to see if it has been used, would this still work with the way it stores the historical transaction ids? Or would I need to use the txindex=1 if I plan on importing keys?


I've tested on a couple of set up of windows:
Windows XP New install, download block chain: Works okay. Much faster than previous versions on downloading.
Windows 7 New install, download block chain: Works okay. Much faster than previous versions on downloading.

Windows XP block chain was at about 190,000 never finished downloading because it took too long for what this used to be used for. Took about an hour minutes to reindex what it had then it downloaded the rest nice and quickly. This was an older P4 machine.

Windows 7, had full block chain. It reindexed fine nice and fast in about an hour. I did notice during the first 3/4 of the block chain it didn't really use extra CPU. It's near the end when it started to crank up the engine. This machine was a more modern machine multiple cores and I set the dbcache to 2000.

haha thanks, bet I'm not the only one. I wish the GPU version of vanitygen allowed for regex... would be much faster!

Silkroad already has these available.

Do you want a list of what people want or a list of what is not available but would like in BTC?

I didn't say that But it does look like the tax disappears at least.

I'm not going to go all the way through, but just on the check out page, you hit your shipping option and the Grand Total has the sales tax disappearing.

Wyoming and Kansas do not have any charge sales tax laws if the item is ordered online and shipped out of state.


EDIT: What's interesting is that this isn't being mentioned at all at BFL forums. Or maybe it's being suppressed.

Those might not be the best web hosting countries.

I beleive that satoshidice is hosted in Ireland at least that's what a reverse lookup of their ip 54.247.163.243 says

To dump the private key from qt, open up the console and use dumpprivkey <bitcoinaddress>

That will export the private key for you. Then, you can import those keys into blockchain.info and have access to the funds on them. Or you could use the function importprivkey <bitcoinprivkey> [label]

on a full node with the whole block chain and have access to the coins locally.

The reason that you cannot open bitcoin-qt.exe on linux is because an .exe is made for windows. Try the linux files from bitcoin.org and you should be fine

Is this something you would consider? Blockchain info for testnet and the API to test on? It would be a little nicer from a development standpoint to test applications with play money before real BTC start flying around in beta code.

The balance won't show until the entire block chain is downloaded on #2. You can verify the balance on blockchain.info

If you want to retrieve the funds, export the keys or the wallet and put them on a computer with enough hard drive to download the chain or import the keys into blockchain.info and send them back out from there.

I'm long on BTC and am always buying a few coins. I stopped since we've we were right at $20. I hate not to keep getting in but at the same time it feels wrong. If it stabilizes somewhere near here for a while I'll hop back on the train but at this point I'm a little scared. I can kick myself in the ass later when it never gets down to $20 again.

I'm sure a lot of the funds are raised from ads. Those are not necessarily donations and wouldn't be returned to the advertiser.

Avalon is a Chinese company... having an ASIC chip doesn't mean you can clone it by having the physical chip.

I'm not saying that he wouldn't pick you or someone that is charging either. If he has 10 options and wants to choose 3, and 2 of them he highly likes and are free and 100% reserves, he may pick those depending on the level of trust. If he wants a third one and that person is charging a reasonable fee for taking the risks involved, because you are right, there are risks, if that charge still gives a 100% reserve and the member is well trusted, then a fee is reasonable and he'll choose it. I am absolutely not arguing that free is better than paid. There is much more to the argument than that. The people that are willing to do it at not cost are aware of what it will cost them and are offering their service as a donation to the community, again because they trust in it.

However, from a contract stand point, some payment, even if nominal, may be needed. Depending on how much money is being distributed a hundred bucks to consult with an attorney and email with their paralegal may be worth it.

There are of course plenty of people that are both invested in the success of Bitcoin as well as those that simply believe in what Bitcoin stands for that will do this for free. Theymos has a list of willing candidates and their terms. Is anyone suggesting that with such a list, that Theymos is not a smart enough person to review the offers and pick someone that would hold them for free, have public accountability of the coins, and is well known both with their avatar and in real life over someone who wants to charge a fee and wants to play SD with the forums money? Come on. If you think he would choose the latter, maybe you should start your own Bitcoin forum because if you don't trust him with that you should absolutely have a suspicion that he is reading your private messages and reporting your IP address to three letter government agencies for being a threat.

Agreed. At this point I'm merely suggesting if you want to hop off the train, you can. BFL is refunding those that want it. However, if you paid with BTC to Tom, my understanding is most people are holding their hands out still waiting for their money.

You could always put a bounty up for someone to fix it if you don't like it.

I think he is saying Slush but he can clarify that.

The other thing about NMC... is since it is merged mine you earn the same amount of BTC and the NMC are free... so why not?

You'll earn about 3x as many NMC as BTC and NMC are currently worth about 700 times less than BTC. Will merged mining make you rich? Nope. But why not contribute to a cool project at the same time and get a little bit of value from them. Or use them and register a couple of Namecoin addresses?

Slush and BTC Guild offer merged mining. Pick your poison. BTC is PPS and the pool takes the risks for long blocks. Slush is round based score based to prevent pool hoping, lower fees, and they share the block fees with miners.

Both have been around forever and both use stratum protocols once you get your miner online.