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Are you reading the wallet database in such a way that concurrent access would be possible if the client also supported it? For maximum usefulness, it would be nice to be able to use the running wallet instead of having to shut down your client or take a backup.
I have some other ideas for patching the client too. Like being able to set a flag on an address that tells the node not to return it in response to a getnewaddress request so that you can have some keys used only for signing.
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But with 20%+ of people jobless - and many of those willing to work, just unable to find work - where do they get money? I've seen no evidence that removing the minimum wage and moving towards other free market measures would even make up for this amount.
Unemployment rate is about 4.5% for those with a college education. That suggests that the people who can't get jobs should maybe focus on getting higher education, or at least going to a school specializing in some profession. Ugh. Education is a whole new can of worms in a thread that already had enough problems. Consider this theory: Having a college education does not cause employment. Employment and college are both effects of being the sort of person that normally goes to college. |
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A business that kills its clients, makes them sick or otherwise harms them won't be in business very long. If Mt. Gox didn't shore up its security, Tradehill would be the primary exchange today.
That business wouldn't survive... unless it serves tourists who transit the area and get sick later on. The business wouldn't care if they served contaminated food to a tourist who will be gone within hours or even minutes. The tourist will be in another town or country by the time they get sick. The bad business would gets to stay and keep serving bad food to the next batch of tourists. Do you not see how silly this is? What is the business going to do? Refuse to sell to locals? Wear disguises the following day when the dead guy's family comes back? Self-regulating systems occur naturally. Government interferes.
Self regulation would be a handy system for the pharmaceutical industry. The corporation gets to declare which treatment works and set their own prices for people who can't live without the treatment. Treatment doesn't work and the patient dies? The patient doesn't get to complain. Can't afford it? They didn't really need it anyway. LOL. I don't even know where to start. |
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Meh. Whenever anyone suggests changing the rules, we tell them to go make their own competing block chain and see which one wins.
This guy did exactly that. Now we get to watch and see which one wins.
I only wish he'd told the devs in advance so they could have deployed a node with extra debug logging to monitor the chain reorg logic. The first 24 hours saw an amazing churn in the ixcoin chain, making a spectacular test of the code. While we can now have some faith that our reorg logic is sound and can withstand some serious beaning, we will probably never get another chance to record it working under severe stress.
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If the average block time is 12 minutes, then it will take about 12 * 2016 minutes = 16.8 days = 2.4 weeks to make the next adjustment.
I wouldn't worry much unless something like 75% of the network power (or more) evaporates very quickly.
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Yeah, the comments are the worst. But I don't pay much attention to them either, unless a story is missing important bits that I'm hoping to find filled in below. I also don't entirely condemn a site just for the people that read it, and I can appreciate the reasons why a site might want to use the Wild West model for comment moderation.
But a while back there were several articles in a short period that I just found distasteful. Haven't bothered with the site since then. I don't care about the technical stuff posted there, and all of the good leaks will eventually be picked up by less gullible/crazy feeds like Jesse, Mish, Debtwatch, sudden debt, calculated risk, etc.
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Just say that bitcoin was developed to fight the Zionist takeover of the financial system.
I'm not not jewish and not easily offended, but the antisemitism on that site gets pretty thick at times.
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No, I mean "all of us". Not just US corporations, not just US businesses, not just US citizens. All of us.
Read 31 CFR 103 and USC 1960 again.
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In short, if Flexcoin is a "Money Transmitting Business" under US law, then we all are too.
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I think he is talking about mining pools that accept free transactions. I'm pretty sure there are a couple, or at least there were before. The Free transaction relay policy wiki page looks out of date. |
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As a general rule, financial systems should always store values in decimal format and not in floating point.
isn't 'decimal format' just a fancy name for 'string with a dot in it'? seems that way in mysql anyway. Most clients use 64 bit integers and scale everything down by 0.00000001 for display. But strings work too, but aren't as compact. |
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Use "sudo su" to become root, or just start the Root Terminal instead of LXTerminal.
If you are connecting remotely, you need a startup script to store the DISPLAY environment variable in a file so that you can "export DISPLAY=`cat /home/usr/.display`" when you SSH in. Or, you have a very good chance of getting it with "export DISPLAY=:0"
This is all covered in the linuxcoin thread, but it is buried deep.
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I also wear bitcoin shits pretty often, so I've explained it to many people, none of whom had any real difficulty with the concept, not even drunk old men in bars.
Did they have difficulty with the smell? Ha! Drunk old men are used to it. Fixed, thank you. |
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<bunch of nonsense>
Here we go... |
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I'm not a lawyer either, but I don't think this applies. See 31 CFR 103.1131 CFR 103.11(uu) giveth, but 31 CFR 103.11(h) taketh away. If I recall correctly, this is the specific reason that Flexcoin operates with bitcoin only. |
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I'd give her a day to contact you here or by email. Could just be a silly mistake, and waiting a day won't change anything with PayPal.
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If it had been sent to that address, it would already appear in block explorer.
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A digital wallet? Explain that to your mother. How do you obtain them? How do you pay with them?
I've explained bitcoins to my mother. She thinks it sounds pretty neat. I also wear bitcoin shi rts pretty often, so I've explained it to many people, none of whom had any real difficulty with the concept, not even drunk old men in bars. In a world with credit cards, ATMs, online banking, PayPal, Facebook credits, WOW gold, ISK, etc, etc, etc you have to be pretty dense to think that people "won't get" digital money. Usually the hardest part of the conversation is dispelling myths about "real" money. You'd be amazed how many people think that dollars are backed by something. Edit 201108112254CDT - typo grande |
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A bit off-topic, but anyway about bitcoin future:
I have question, every 210000 block, rewards for found block are cut by half. So I tried to calculate when approximately it will happen. According to my calculation we will reach 210000 blocks in 2012, 6th of December and 420000 blocks in 2016 3rd of December. Am I right?
The block generation times are not fixed at 10 minutes. Basically, the system looks at the average time over the previous 2016 blocks, and adjusts the difficulty to what it should have been to get the average time to 10 minutes. This process is always behind, so predictions always have an error. The farther you try to guess, the less likely you are to be right. So, yes, you are right that the reward will be halved probably towards the end of 2012, but the odds of December 6th coming up aren't very good. |
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Is your client caught up to the current block?
Can you check the address on blockexplorer.com, or post the address here so we can check it?
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