The "Invalid or missing banlist.dat" is normal in .12.0. If you have never banned anyone, you have no banlist.dat, and regardless of the message, it will not be recreated.

If the message bothers you, just ban someone, then unban them. This will create a banlist.dat, then no more banlist messages.

FORKING BitcoinXT: Is it really a coup or just more crypto-FUD?

Bitcoin is about to fork off. Too forking right, some of you may cheer. But a great many Bitcoin “users” – miners, developers, retailers and spenders – are against the idea. If you ask them about it, they’ll tell you they don’t like being forked about. Some of them say they couldn’t be forked.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/29/forking_bitcoinxt/

'Bout 34 gigs as we speak....

$ du -h bitcoin/
654M   bitcoin/chainstate
47M   bitcoin/blocks/index
33G   bitcoin/blocks
34G   bitcoin/

Thanks for the link!

Seems a lot better than the usual media coverage of bitcoin.

According to the "Newbie Readme", you only need 1 post to be able to send a PM.

browser

The new torrent is working great with rtorrent using DHT for me.

Hmmmm... so much for that idea.
That was my 5th post, and presto, now I'm a "Jr. Member".

Or maybe the moderator team is really on the ball today!

I think it needs a moderator to change your status.

you might have to wait a few more hours.

Sweet violets

Hello from the Pacific Northwest!

The time tracking will stop if there is no activity (for somewhere around five minutes). So if you click on a new post or page every few minutes, it should track your total online time.

I renewed a few domain names with Namecheap.

Can't find any business in Seattle that accepts bitcoins, seems like bitcoin is only good for online purchases.