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I know when bitcoin.exe (not bitcoind.exe) is running, it doesn't count your un-verified generated blocks until 120 blocks have passed, but it shows that you have generated something.

Would bitcoind.exe show me un-verified blocks by typing bitcoind listtransactions and simply read ~17 (or less than 120) verifications? Or will I have to wait for the entire 120 blocks to see what I've got coming to me?

I would just run bitcoin.exe if it wasn't crashing on me all the time!

So I have been having some problems with my bitcoin.exe suddenly.

I have a few miners setup running ubuntu 11.04 and I was running the bitcoin server off of my windows 7 64 bit machine (quite smoothly for almost a week straight) until earlier today when I started receiving error messages related to bitcoin.exe

My question is, if I run bitcoind.exe -server and connect my miners as usualy, will everything still work as expected? Am I wasting my time running bitcoind.exe for mining?

It has looked like this for the past few hours since I started running it:

My miners are showing hashes per second and not any "RPC Cannot connect" values... I just want some confirmation that they are indeed working?! Can you give me some reassurance, bitcoiners?!

Here are the "details" that microsoft provided me with...

Code:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
  Application Name:	bitcoin.exe
  Application Version:	0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:	4d710f7b
  Fault Module Name:	bitcoin.exe
  Fault Module Version:	0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:	4d710f7b
  Exception Code:	40000015
  Exception Offset:	00494191
  OS Version:	6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
  Locale ID:	1033
  Additional Information 1:	5059
  Additional Information 2:	50594bacf91ee35dd61f657f5dc0cc38
  Additional Information 3:	3bd2
  Additional Information 4:	3bd2e34847402d73855e65539a9290bb

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I am using the 0.3.20.2 version of bitcoin on windows.

When I was in school learning computer networking about 10 years ago... my instructor always drilled into us how important it was to "ground" yourself by touching something large and metal before touching any bare computer parts lest they be zapped and fried to death by a dreaded static shock...

To this day I religiously touch some metal before working on my computers, but with so many cases out in the open right now with mining I am beginning to get a little worried.

Basically my question is: Is there really/still a need to worry about static electricity ruining your boards?

Side note: I went to un plug my metal usb drive the other day and felt a slight shock but it's still running smoothly.

Is it "Bitcoin", "BitCoin" or "Bit Coin"?

What do you think and why?

I have read in a few posts that AMD (the company behind the ATI chipsets that we all love so much) could possibly have created Bitcoin to enhance their market share.

According to this link, if that is true, they are doing a horrible job.

Just FYI.

Imagine this...

A fund of Bitcoins held by some reputable member on this forum... of which ~10% would be distributed evenly each month to the coders who worked on the Bitcoin client that month.

Submit 100 lines of 10,000 total new lines of code, receive 1% of the 10% monthly payment.

Submit 5,000 of the 10,000 total new lines of code, receive 50% of the 10% monthly payment.

The fund would be generated simply through donations from miners who have a vested interested in the Bitcoin community's growth.

Not sure how you would calculate the percentages of payment since I am not a programmer... but it could work?!

Would a solo rig connected at 1G/s have a mining advantage over a rig with 1M/s?

Or how about a dial up (14.4K/s)?

Why or why not?

Hey Bitcoiners, am I doing this right?

1. Install windows on your Linux rig (or install WINE on Linux if you're comfortable).

2. Install the Radeon Bios Editor to windows.

3. Flash the bios' of the cards to your desired specifications (min 200mhz memory clock and max 1000mhz core clock)

4. Re-install linux back on your mining rig + setup miners as usual. This step is only necessary if not using WINE.

5. Use your favorite linux ati settings editor:
5.1 If using aticonfig: set your clocks to desired settings using the code: aticonfig --adapter=ADAPTER_NUMBER --odsc=CORE_CLOCK,MEMORY_CLOCK
5.2 If using AMDOverdriveCtrl: set your clocks to desired settings using the GUI provided.

Please offer your suggestions below. I will edit this post as necessary to become the most viable solution.

So I am in the process of setting up 4 5870s (3 gigabyte and 1 powercolor) on my 790fx motherboard.

I am using ubuntu 11.04, ati sdk stream v2.1, catalyst v11.4 and the latest poclbm from github.

When I type: aticonfig --adapter=all --odgt

I am met with 1 temperature reading of a cool 75 degrees Celsius, and 3 "failed to get temp" readings... So aticonfig knows they exist.

When I type: ./poclbm.py

I am met with 1 CPU and 1 CYPRESS GPU showing up.

Anybody else come across a similar problem?

Notes:

I have typed: export DISPLAY=:0
I have attempted to disable crossfire, it was not enabled.

Answer:
Simply re-start your computer at this point. D'oh!

Long Answer:
I had attempted to update my ubuntu 10.10 install sequence on the fly. I am also somewhat of a linux noob. Apparantly 11.04 requires one more re-start than the 10.10 instructions do for one reason or another.

If anyone else has noticed this "problem" and cares to explain I would be much obliged!

So as I type out this post in the latest edition of Firefox (4.0.1) apparently bitcoin and/or Bitcoin is spelled incorrectly. (See the picture attached below.)

How could we go about getting "Bitcoin" and "Bitcoins" listed in popular online spell checkers? Like the one that is built into Firefox?

Note: Tried to upload a png pic of 5kb and received this message: "The upload folder is full. Please try a smaller file and/or contact an administrator." Can we not upload pictures to this site? Or are they working on the backend?

That is all.

Make good use of it folks.

It will now be easier for us all to wade through some of the BS on this forum!

I predict down.

It has never hit 140k before (as far as I know), I assume it is from all the OCN fanboys turning on their computers overnight, and will drop considerably once they realize what they've done/how pointless it is for them.

They are obstructing a harmless otherwise legal business.

Class action, anyone?

Quite a large order I am aware... but perhaps we could borrow some code from the bittorrent/utorrent projects?

One of the problems that torrents faced a year or two ago was "throttling" or traffic shaping by ISPs. Read: meddling with consumer's software programs via the net.

If I am not mistaken, the port randomization and traffic encryption abilities of torrent clients got around this.

Perhaps constantly rotating ports would not be possible without some sort of centralized tracker that torrents make use of? But surely it would be possible to eliminate any "signatures" that bitcoin might leave in it's transmission messages by encrypting the data.

Quite interested/surprised by the number of replies to this post here.

Wish I knew more as to why exactly something like Namecoin is needed? Is this in case the governments start cracking down and "confiscating" our domains?

Is there a chance that we will never need to use it?

Was the Bitcoin site just DDOS'd?

I could not access it (nor mtgox) for a few hours and neither could http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Now they are both back online at the same time.

Are they run from the same servers?

So I was toying with my 5970s overclocking ability...

Stock core MHz was 735 I believe. Bumped it up to 800 with no problems. Bumped it to 850 with no problems. Bumped it to 900 and it froze within seconds. Probably should have tried 875. :S

Anyways... is there any solution (besides disconnecting power to the machine) to restart and un-freeze a GPU once it has been frozen?

What do you use to tweak your ATI GPU settings in Ubuntu? And why?

What is your favorite/best tool to check GPU temperatures in Ubuntu?