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Would anyone like to start contributing/preparing some Halloween-themed Bitcoin graphics, animations, media, sprites and other content for possible use next month? If so, this thread should help establish some interest.
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In tradition of Kiba's Letter to the EFF and inspired by a new thought experiment: bitcoin's industry identifier I would like to prepare this thread to collaboratively produce letters to charities and organizations that any of us feel worthy of inviting to our community. So as to not cause confusion, as first line, use name of charity/organization your post is in reference to or to suggest another charity organization and then provide commentary/letters/revisions below. I will periodically update this initial post to help keep things organized. Charities |
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See http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=909.msg10888#msg10888 for idea/concept. Here's a start: someone writes Bitcoin Actually, I have no idea how to start this. I am not so skilled at writing. Anyone care to conceptualize a kind of story that may be worthy, exciting, stimulating, insightful, etc for a /. article in relation to "other services where anonymity is paramount, and where Bitcoin may be a good fit?" |
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Do you accept Bitcoin? Not at this time / No determined interest Ctrl+Alt+Del / SplitReason.comDeviantArtNewEggThinkGeek.comxkcdNo response bandcamp.comipredator.sePenny ArcadePokerStars.comSaturday Morning Breakfast clubNot contacted yet AppleGeeks.com Cyanide & Happiness Etsy.com Girls With Slingshots (mention donations in Bitcoin) MegaGear.com Topatoco.com Notes: - I realize asking same question "Do you accept Bitcoin?" over and over seems repetitive and is also obvious (in most/all) cases that it is not accepted. However it is a simple, short question that may be useful to introducing Bitcoin without writing too much. KISS in effect. Update: Perhaps I can pursue another approach besides asking if Bitcoin are accepted; something informational presenting Bitcoin; something similar to http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=804.0 Actually, I think asking if they accept Bitcoin is helpful enough to introduce existence of Bitcoin and potentially incentivize researching without any expressed effort on my part. It is also likely that by asking or otherwise mentioning Bitcoin from only one person or a couple persons will not produce enough incentive to do anything about it, but if enough interrest is accumulated, perhaps then there will be more consideration to establish accepting Bitcoin. I, for one, would put forth extra effort to buy things simply because of acceptance of Bitcoin. |
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Bitcoin 0.3.10 for 64-bit linux : reproducable always When I close Bitcoin (e.g. file -> exit in gui) the following appears. How come? ************************
UNKNOWN EXCEPTION
bitcoin in CMyApp::OnUnhandledException() Perhaps this would be useful to file as a bug report instead of a forum post? Do we have a bug tracker yet? |
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<Insti> necrodearia the market updates seem to have stopped.<necrodearia> Insti: I think it is related to all of a sudden since sometime yesterday Bitcoin started hogging an extra 3-5khash/sec and slowing my system to a crawl, including my webserver. <necrodearia> I am not sure what could affect it. I am running same version of client as I was previously and I haven't changed any system settings or softwares. <necrodearia> Although, a couple days ago X desktop crashed and I had to restart things, and maybe some software that I had updated previously are now running as a new version than was before. <necrodearia> anonymous: Have you discussed with satoshi or others regarding the bug you discovered? <anonymous> nope <anonymous> there is no bugtracker :p <Insti> what was the bug? <anonymous> a bug crashing linux client <warner> necrodearia: are you maybe running two simultaneous copies? <anonymous> and crashing windows thread <necrodearia> warner, No, I am running only one instance of Bitcoin. <necrodearia> I have previously tried running two instances of Bitcoin and I noticed that one of the instances dominated with ~95-99% generation rate, whilst the other suffered with 1-5% generation rate. There was no equilibrium. <warner> yay db locking <necrodearia> Each instance had their own .bitcoin directory, both run as separate users. <necrodearia> separate/different <necrodearia> In a premature previous attempt over a month ago I had ran two instances as same user, one instance compiled to use different ports, and in doing so I had corrupted the database file. <warner> ah, so boo no db locking  <necrodearia> If db locking is implemented now, it was before db locking. : satoshi, I am not certain of best methods for disclosing details of bugs, exploits, however, it seems that there may not be a recognizable way in doing so? Maybe email is not suitable for such things? In any case, perhaps pming anonymous (or for them to pm you) would be helpful to resolve the bug asap. It seems serious and there has been a publicly disclosed crash output that can potentially be used by malicious others to reverse engineer and reproduce the method to crash and cause serious havoc on other Bitcoin users. domination: I am running `nice -n 19 ./bitcoin -server -4way` on linux system. For a while I hadn't observed any system performance issues, but since sometime yesterday it has been very noticeable and slowing my system to a crawl. I am not sure how to diagnosse the issue other than that closing Bitcoin client resolves the system instability. locking: Is there an implementation to lock the associated database file when an instance of Bitcoin is running? |
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Who is skilled enough to convert official Linux Bitcoin client to use GTK instead of wx?
Is this development worthy or desirable enough to pursue or is wx acceptable?
q: let me get this straight. You're asking if someone will put up a bounty for a conversion that you want? (bounty idea dismissed due to seeming weird/strange to some)
a: I don't want it. Is GTK better than QT or anytihng else? I'm not familiar.
"I would like it if Bitcoin used GTK instead of wxWidgets but I won't pretend that I have a clue about how hard or easy that change might be"
someone: wx seems to work now as far as I can tell
someone else: wx is an utter nightmare
q: why "convert" Satoshi's front end? Why not just build a new one that uses the rpc calls?
there actually isn't much that needs to be done to make bitcoind's methods useful enough to do the same things the GUI does:
in particular:
* list sending addresses
* show unaccepted blocks in listtransactions (maybe)
* select a range of transactions to show
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From my analysis it appears Bitcoin Market is practically dead or barely used. Is this accurate/true?
If so, is there something specific that Bitcoin Market does or doesn't do that causes it to not be as popular, successful, widely used or otherwise useful as other competing markets/exchanges? What are these things? What can help to improve Bitcoin Market so that it will be more accepted or useful to others?
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I developed a service to show almost real time updates of asks, bids and trades for Bitcoin Market and trades for Mt. Gox in #bitcoin-market channel on FreeNode.
Feel free to stop by and check it out if you think it may be useful.
In discussion with dwdollar, I learned that the data offered by bitcoinmarket.com's csv files are updated in 10min intervals. This affects the real time nature of the information that will appear in this channel. There is an effort to remedy this and in the near future I look forward to implementation of better or more accurate real time results to appear. UPDATE: this seems to be remedied.
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The Zeitgeist Movement - First truly decentralized, impossible to control, free currencyPerhaps it may be worthy to spread knowledge from within our community to other communities taht discuss about Bitcoin? In some threads on other sites I have noticed that there is a lack of information or understanding as to how Bitcoin works. Perhaps if any of us discover such a thread we can reference it here so that we can also add useful, insightful, factual knowledge/information to the discussion? Feel free to reference other threads that are notable and i can include them in this first post.
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Uhhhh, I just noticed something in the last couple minutes that appears to resemble that the block chains have split once again! I ran the old client 0.3.8.1 with a data backup from after block 74638 (~74670 or so) to see what happened. I noticed the blocks catch up to about the same amount that with client 0.3.8.10.1 shows. Then I extracted the data from blk0001.dat and compared to blk0001.dat for current version and here's the data: 0.3.8.1 http://pastebin.com/YxZeutkW0.3.10.1 http://pastebin.com/ZTj4fwqqNotice that at block 74715 and on the timestamps are different! This seems strange! Update: <Insti> the chain will be constantly splitting as long as people are running the old client <Insti> which keeps trying to re-include the overflow transaction <pavelo> indeed <necrodearia> Constantly splitting and then constantly resyncing? <pavelo> yup <necrodearia> mm <necrodearia> I guess that makes sense |
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PLEASE implement variable ports instead of using 8332 and 8333!!!
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I only have one system and cannot afford another, yet I would like to run an instance of the old client with data from old block chain (with generating disabled) to analyze the data in comparison with the data in the new block chain. This is not possible, however, as I have only one computer, and my attempts to compile from source and modify the ports has failed as I do not know how to do this. It would be VERY much appreciated if I weren't to have to go through this trouble and could simply specify to the client to use a different port and then I could provide the information to myself and others for analyzation. But, alas I cannot. Boooooo!!! =/
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There is a potential recent establishment of something called phpmybitcoin that may soon exist offering a php interface to Bitcoin similarly to:
phpmp <-> mpd
phpmyadmin <-> mysql
phpmyproxy <-> proxy
phppqadmin <-> postgresql
However, there are one or more individuals that have brought up an issue of conflict in regards to confusing "phpmybitcoin.org" with "mybitcoin.com" in some way.
I would liek to ask anyone willing to contribute their thoughts on the matter.
Added: "my" is to "mysql" as "bit" is to "bitcoin" and thus "phpbitadmin" or better yet "pg" is to "postgresql" as "bc" is to "bitcoin" and thus "phpbcadmin"
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I propose for the community to establish ideas and designs on how to present an implementation of a Bitcoin client. For Bitcoin to establish successfully throughout the world there must be a variety of clients, each designed to satisfy to a particular market or community. In my opinion, the primary, official client design is focused more on developing Bitcoin than to offer usability to satisfy expectancies of users. And anyone in the community can and are encouraged to contribute to provide more and better clients. Some ideas for clients/interfaces: - web browser extensions
- web-based or site-specific (e.g. fb app)
- software-specific plugins (e.g. pidgin)
- pda, mobile phone
Existing clients: http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=bitcoin_clients |
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