Any takers?

Asking £210, that's the Mt Gox price but will consider offers.

Thanks...

Ukash does not seem to be well-accepted on the currency exchange sites and the few who do, do not reply to any attempt for contact.  I've now got a useless 50 GBP ukash voucher to get rid of if someone can make use of it.

Accepting bitcoins preferrably but will consider other currencies.

I'm hoping that Yankee sees this thread, I have an outstanding BitInstant transaction that failed due to MtGox's high load last night and I can't get any response from BitInstant at all.  They've now got my money from Dwolla and haven't provided what I paid for.

Yankee if you see this and can look into it, my order ID is 1fd33350-e2ee-42c0-9a23-04054dd14b55

I have already emailed support@bitinstant.com but have received no reply.

Thanks.

I just have a quick question... as an experiment I've tried running the stock 32-bit bitcoind binary from bitcoin.org, on a 64-bit windows machine. The block chain at this point has taken well over 24 hours to download and is still not finished (has about 3000 blocks to go).  Typically it takes ~3 hours on my other machines.

The one key piece of information might be that the box is dual-IP.  It has two IP addresses assigned to its NIC.  What's interesting to me about this is that when I do something like "bitcoind getinfo", it takes several minutes to respond.

Is this expected behavior?  I can simply download and recompile the source for 64-bit, I'm just wondering why I'm seeing this. It doesn't seem to be related to open/closed ports. I do see high-ish CPU usage (average ~30%) but I've always seen this on any machine downloading the block chain.  The debug.log file reveals no interesting messages that might suggest why this is taking so long.

Details:

Bitcoind = 0.5.2 beta
server=1

Machine details:
AMD 2.9 GHz Dual Core Athlon 2
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2
4 GB RAM

Input appreciated.

I thought someone posted a thread with this question a few days ago, but now I can't find it.

Anyway I'm curious if anyone knows what the longest orphaned block chain has been, historically.  And on average, how long an orphan block chain will typically be before that client detects the correct longest chain and does a re-org.

I ask because I was going through the blocks that my bitcoin instance had been reporting and discovered that several of them were orphans, but had already been re-org'd with the correct block.  So it made me curious.

Anyone?

I've been wondering this.  It can't be doing something magical.  I've looked at the code, the optimized sha256 stuff is easy enough to extract out, why hasn't someone included it in the other CPU miners (cgminer/etc) to bring their performance more in line with Ufasoft's?

This seems odd to me, given the computing power of the network.  I haven't seen this since I started tracking it.

Any clues?  I've seen blips of 20-30 minutes before but nothing this long.

Goes to show the "luck" part of the whole equation...

In the traditional world, transaction fees don't disappear, they still end up in someone's account somewhere.

If I'm grokking this correctly - bitcoin transaction fees simply disappear. Nobody gets them, they simply cease to exist in the system.

Someone please tell me I'm wrong, and explain where they really go