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on: May 10, 2012, 04:02:52 PM

Is I understand mining is what makes it impossible to grant yourself 999 bitcoins even when you have access to the source code of the client. Mining is a process of solving a problem by brute force. The difficulty of the problem is automatically adjusted so that it takes on average 10 min to produce a block. Whoever gets lucky to solve the problem, gets privilege of generating a next block and 50 bitcoins bonus. A block is a list of transactions considered as valid. So if you try to add yourself 999 bitcoins, it will be a random person who will validate your transaction. And then his/her validation will be followed by 3-6 validations by next randomly selected miners.

on: May 10, 2012, 02:55:30 PM

LOL Well, I want to loose my new-be status as well. However, I am more shy than you guys. I got really amused by your opennes. Actually is it all right with forum rules, to make such technical (as opposed to material) posts?

on: May 10, 2012, 02:50:29 PM

Sorry to hear it. Any chance of using an escrow next time? I know that for such small amounts it is hardly worth. However, you can just test what the possible seller response will be. Scammer will try to perpetuate you away from the idea. With regard to the current one, it is hard to judge when we do not know the person. Anyone with low post count? I would think that $5 for reputation that takes month to build is not really worth it...

on: April 28, 2012, 04:15:02 AM

Quote from: Foxpup on April 28, 2012, 04:02:02 AM [...] There's no such thing as a "percentage" of disk I/O. A hard drive can physically only access one file at a time. If one program is accessing file A, and another program wants to access file B, and files A and B are both on the same disk, the second program will not be able to continue running until the first program has finished what it's doing. There's no way for each program to get "50%" of the disk, that just doesn't make sense. It is true that a hard drive can read only one allocation block at a time. However, it takes only a fraction of a second. Then it moves to serve another IO request. Reading a file consists of a lot of IO requests. You can read many files concurrently without problem. As you type, OS has dozen of different files open for reading, including registry and all dlls. There are mechanisms in OS to prohibit concurrent modification of the same file. However, what file BitCoin is using that Windows or Firefox needs?

on: April 28, 2012, 03:44:59 AM

Quote from: Stephen Gornick on April 28, 2012, 03:24:38 AM Quote from: OutputKnight on April 28, 2012, 01:31:17 AM I have similar problem, computer freezes for a moment (15s) when BitCoin client is open. CPU usage is not high, physical memory is still available. What resource is it starving my poor computer of? What o/s, cpu, and amount of ram do you have? My low-end laptop runs particularly bad when I combine Skype, Chrome, XChat plus the Bitcoin client (on Ubuntu 11.04). When using a different browser or without Skype and XChat running simultaneously the problem doesn't seem to occur. I haven't upgraded to Bitcoin v0.6 yet. Windows XP 1GB RAM but only 672 MB are used Pentium 4 3.00 GHz buy only 5-7% are used I use Firefox. Practically everything else is closed. That is the first thing I have done to eliminate interference. IO that is possible. However, BitCoin should compete with other applications for IO and never get more than 50% when something else is doing IO. That should not lock up the computer.

on: April 28, 2012, 03:02:21 AM

Recruiter's question: You are driving a a two seater sport car on remote road. You are stopped by three hitch hikers and it turns out that they are: your boss, an elderly grandma, and a gorgeous (playboy bunny) girl. There are three of them but you have only one free seat. What would you do? The correct answer: Give keys to boss and ask him to give lift to an elderly grandma, take care of the gorgeous girl in meantime. Address for potential prizes: 1MYwkQ8ZafkEnppxAHb2JJvLAfyEjdGdyL

on: April 28, 2012, 01:31:17 AM

I have similar problem, computer freezes for a moment (15s) when BitCoin client is open. CPU usage is not high, physical memory is still available. What resource is it starving my poor computer of?

on: April 28, 2012, 01:24:03 AM

Quote from: spinnin on April 28, 2012, 01:07:11 AM Quote from: lzsaver on April 28, 2012, 01:05:50 AM Turn off your computer immediately! Boot from another system and recover deleted wallet.dat file using specialized software. What specialized software do I use? You did not give us much info about your system. Is it Windows or Linux? If it is windows: on XP machine wallet.dat lives in "C:\Documents and Settings\<login>\Application Data\Bitcoin" Check whether it still exists. If not try to recover it using "specialised software": http://ntfsundelete.com/ http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

on: April 19, 2012, 05:29:05 PM

Hello, I have started my mining adventure. At the moment I am mining with GPU, but I hope to get some more efficient hardware soon. Thanks to everyone who made instructions for new miners. Very useful. About my nickname: my role model used to treat focus on outcomes (in IT lingo an output) like a virtue.

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