Saw the message a few days ago in the other area of the board to update all the old clients, and got the new version. I'm running Debian (squeeze) and with prior versions (0.3.22 and 0.3.23) I would have 10 to 20 connections within several minutes of client start-up and would settle in to 30 to 60 connections average. I even hit 100 connections, once and briefly. With the new client, 0.3.24, I can't get over 8 connections. I even created a bitcoin.conf file and gave it a maxconnections=64 (yes, I restarted the client) and still max out at 8 connections.

Every client version (22, 23, & 24) was unpacked to its own directory but all used .bitcoin as the data directory.

More weirdness: i just shut down 24 and started 23 back up and that is now not going over 8 connections? Did something change somewhere?

Is it aliens?  

The new 5770 is in now and has been running at stock settings for the last 6 hours   New PSU too  

Anyway, GUIMiner is reporting that I have a 180 Mhash/s and Catalyst Control Center reports 850 MHz for GPU clock and 1200 MHz for memory clock (the stock speeds) and a temperature of 74C. All is good so far. BUT I installed MSI Afterburner and it is saying that my temperature is 91C! They can't both be right so how do I tell which is correct and which is wrong?

Looking at the charts, TH seems to be the number one trader at the moment (with MtGox down). But the volume there is only about 5% of what is normally on MtGox. Where is the volume? Why hasn't a good portion of it moved somewhere else? Is everyone just holding their coins (and their breath) and waiting to see what happens once MtGox reopens? If so, should MtGox hold that sort of power over the market (even if they didn't plan on it)?

Scenario: You have a bitcoin wallet with five addresses, each of which has received some bitcoins. The wallet holds a total of 10.01 BTC. You have the wallet generate a new address and then tell the client to send 10 BTC to that new address with a fee of .01 BTC. What happens next?

A. The 10.01 BTC is sent out to the network from the five addresses (zeroing them out). 10 BTC is returned to the new address from the network which collects the .01 BTC as a fee.

B. The client consolidates the five addresses into the sixth address locally and then sends a ledger update onto the network with the .01 BTC fee.

C. The client sees that it is simply sending bitcoins to itself since it holds both addresses and does nothing.

D. The client doesn't know how to handle having both addresses and crashes.

E. Something else.

Logically, it should be option A that happens although option B is also a possibility... but what really does happen?

A little something I tinkered together that I though might be useful.

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Bitcoin Value Chart								
								
Value	5 BTC	1 BTC	.75 BTC	.50 BTC	.25 BTC	.10 BTC	.05 BTC	.01 BTC
$35.00	$175.00	$35.00	$26.25	$17.50	$8.75	$3.50	$1.75	$0.35
$34.00	$170.00	$34.00	$25.50	$17.00	$8.50	$3.40	$1.70	$0.34
$33.00	$165.00	$33.00	$24.75	$16.50	$8.25	$3.30	$1.65	$0.33
$32.00	$160.00	$32.00	$24.00	$16.00	$8.00	$3.20	$1.60	$0.32
$31.00	$155.00	$31.00	$23.25	$15.50	$7.75	$3.10	$1.55	$0.31
$30.00	$150.00	$30.00	$22.50	$15.00	$7.50	$3.00	$1.50	$0.30
$29.00	$145.00	$29.00	$21.75	$14.50	$7.25	$2.90	$1.45	$0.29
$28.00	$140.00	$28.00	$21.00	$14.00	$7.00	$2.80	$1.40	$0.28
$27.00	$135.00	$27.00	$20.25	$13.50	$6.75	$2.70	$1.35	$0.27
$26.00	$130.00	$26.00	$19.50	$13.00	$6.50	$2.60	$1.30	$0.26
$25.00	$125.00	$25.00	$18.75	$12.50	$6.25	$2.50	$1.25	$0.25
$24.00	$120.00	$24.00	$18.00	$12.00	$6.00	$2.40	$1.20	$0.24
$23.00	$115.00	$23.00	$17.25	$11.50	$5.75	$2.30	$1.15	$0.23
$22.00	$110.00	$22.00	$16.50	$11.00	$5.50	$2.20	$1.10	$0.22
$21.00	$105.00	$21.00	$15.75	$10.50	$5.25	$2.10	$1.05	$0.21
$20.00	$100.00	$20.00	$15.00	$10.00	$5.00	$2.00	$1.00	$0.20
$19.00	$95.00	$19.00	$14.25	$9.50	$4.75	$1.90	$0.95	$0.19
$18.00	$90.00	$18.00	$13.50	$9.00	$4.50	$1.80	$0.90	$0.18
$17.00	$85.00	$17.00	$12.75	$8.50	$4.25	$1.70	$0.85	$0.17
$16.00	$80.00	$16.00	$12.00	$8.00	$4.00	$1.60	$0.80	$0.16
$15.00	$75.00	$15.00	$11.25	$7.50	$3.75	$1.50	$0.75	$0.15
$14.00	$70.00	$14.00	$10.50	$7.00	$3.50	$1.40	$0.70	$0.14
$13.00	$65.00	$13.00	$9.75	$6.50	$3.25	$1.30	$0.65	$0.13
$12.00	$60.00	$12.00	$9.00	$6.00	$3.00	$1.20	$0.60	$0.12
$11.00	$55.00	$11.00	$8.25	$5.50	$2.75	$1.10	$0.55	$0.11
$10.00	$50.00	$10.00	$7.50	$5.00	$2.50	$1.00	$0.50	$0.10
$9.00	$45.00	$9.00	$6.75	$4.50	$2.25	$0.90	$0.45	$0.09
$8.00	$40.00	$8.00	$6.00	$4.00	$2.00	$0.80	$0.40	$0.08
$7.00	$35.00	$7.00	$5.25	$3.50	$1.75	$0.70	$0.35	$0.07
$6.00	$30.00	$6.00	$4.50	$3.00	$1.50	$0.60	$0.30	$0.06
$5.00	$25.00	$5.00	$3.75	$2.50	$1.25	$0.50	$0.25	$0.05
$4.00	$20.00	$4.00	$3.00	$2.00	$1.00	$0.40	$0.20	$0.04
$3.00	$15.00	$3.00	$2.25	$1.50	$0.75	$0.30	$0.15	$0.03
$2.00	$10.00	$2.00	$1.50	$1.00	$0.50	$0.20	$0.10	$0.02
$1.00	$5.00	$1.00	$0.75	$0.50	$0.25	$0.10	$0.05	$0.01