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5761  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Make it Easier for New Members to Realize that They Must Post Here! on: December 05, 2011, 07:10:08 AM
the kind of annoying thing was that this information was not plastered at the TOP LINE of the lincense agreement, or somewhere else prominent.

It is near the top of the "agreement".
5762  Other / Meta / Re: Get Donator status by donating 10 BTC on: December 04, 2011, 03:45:51 AM
BTC_Bear got VIP status through his charity auction. He also donated ~50 BTC to Toys for Tots. Thanks!
5763  Economy / Goods / Re: Christmas Auction - On Saturday December 3, 2011 #bitcoin-auction on: December 04, 2011, 03:43:21 AM
Forum donation received. Thanks a lot!
5764  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: CubeHash as a SHA alternative on: December 03, 2011, 07:23:16 PM
Specialized hardware can always beat consumer hardware, so CubeHash isn't going to be any better than SHA-256 in that area. That CubeHash is slow does affect verification speed, which should be fast.

Is there a different way to aggregate several hash functions so that the resulting function is assured to be safer than any single one?

Concatenate them (or parts of them).
5765  Economy / Goods / Re: Christmas Auction - On Saturday December 3, 2011 #bitcoin-auction on: December 03, 2011, 06:44:20 PM
I put up an ad for this auction in the two reserved forum ad slots.
5766  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoind Stable 0.4.x: Merge client banning? on: December 02, 2011, 03:05:56 AM
I don't think it should be merged. I like to see a heterogeneous network with regard to limits. If some limits cause network stability problems, it would be best for the entire network to not fail. The code is also new, and new code is the enemy of stability.
5767  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Is the maturation time for new coins documented anywhere else? on: December 01, 2011, 08:19:14 PM
It's checked in ConnectInputs:
Code:
            // If prev is coinbase, check that it's matured
            if (txPrev.IsCoinBase())
                for (CBlockIndex* pindex = pindexBlock; pindex && pindexBlock->nHeight - pindex->nHeight < COINBASE_MATURITY; pindex = pindex->pprev)
                    if (pindex->nBlockPos == txindex.pos.nBlockPos && pindex->nFile == txindex.pos.nFile)
                        return error("ConnectInputs() : tried to spend coinbase at depth %d", pindexBlock->nHeight - pindex->nHeight);

You'll be familiar with maturation if you've ever generated solo (or on Eligius): the client lists those coinbase transactions as "Generated (matures in x more blocks)".

The UI also offers this help text about maturation:
Quote
Generated coins must wait 120 blocks before they can be spent. When you generated this block, it was broadcast to the network to be added to the block chain. If it fails to get into the chain, it will change to "not accepted" and not be spendable. This may occasionally happen if another node generates a block within a few seconds of yours.
5768  Economy / Goods / Re: Christmas Auction - On Saturday December 3, 2011 #bitcoin-auction on: December 01, 2011, 05:47:45 AM
BTC_Bear has sent me the address 1Gdc8pDDemYFr5zTRs4bwNsVurF8dSxZHw.

Thanks for holding the auction!
5769  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] Mt.Gox reloaded : Welcome to Mt.Gox's new and improved design! on: December 01, 2011, 04:37:34 AM
Not bad. It's too wide, though.
5770  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: JSON-RPC API change: Explicit handling of transaction fees on: December 01, 2011, 03:47:10 AM
At the moment, if you want to send without fees and risk getting "stuck", you can compile your own client. Since you're running non-standard software then it's clearly your fault if your transactions get stuck.
If the official client can be used to send with an inadequate fee resulting in "stuck" transactions then the official client becomes "fragile software".

This is also my position. Until there is no risk associated with sending some transactions (because they can be reversed), the default client shouldn't allow such transactions.
5771  Economy / Auctions / Re: Advertise on this forum - Round 11 on: December 01, 2011, 03:43:11 AM
Current state:
Slots BTC Person
5 5 wm-center.com
3 3.5 Goat
5772  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Using bitcoin for trusted timestamping? on: November 30, 2011, 07:38:40 PM
Thus a zero BTC transaction even w/ a fee could be pruned.  When the fee gets transfered to another address and that transaction is deep enough the 0 BTC transaction is eligible for pruning.

0-value outputs can be spent (uselessly), so these outputs can't be pruned. The fee never has anything to do with pruning.
5773  Economy / Auctions / Re: Advertise on this forum - Round 11 on: November 30, 2011, 06:15:14 AM
Since these adverts seem to be working here, it might be a neat idea to implement an automated system where people can create their ad and bit on spots.  The ad would have to be approved, of course, but then it would show automatically in its slot.

I've thought about it, but I intend to remove ads after we switch to new forum software, so it seems like a waste of time.
5774  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Should the Bitcoin client have a donate button? on: November 30, 2011, 05:35:23 AM
I voted no because a button is way too obtrusive. A link to a donation page in the about dialog might be OK. Maybe putting a donation address as a default entry in the address book would also be OK.

Donated funds should only be used to help the Satoshi client development group (and this fact should be made very clear to donators). Having a "Bitcoin foundation" tied to the software makes me uneasy.
5775  Economy / Auctions / Re: Advertise on this forum - Round 10 on: November 30, 2011, 04:05:14 AM
Next auction: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53306.0
5776  Economy / Auctions / Advertise on this forum - Round 11 on: November 30, 2011, 04:03:00 AM
In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Your visible ad text (ignoring link URLs, etc.) must be less than 150 characters in length, and it can only contain links: no other style. It will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Eight of the slots are for sale here. (One of the remaining slots has random factoids, and one links to the current ad auction.)

The ad lasts 7 days starting from when I put it up.

Stats: On the 20th of November, 2011, there were about 120,000 views of topics. So one slot would have appeared around 12,000 times per day. The ad doesn't appear on topic pages with only one post, though, and it only appears for people using the default theme. Total views per day on more recent days (in November):
- 20th: 117640
- 21st: 116755
- 22nd: 115269
- 23rd: 100399
- 24th: 85704
- 25th: 88024
- 26th: 83397
- 27th: 85596
- 28th: 98762
- 29th: 106554

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Auction rules

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all eight slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 8 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 8 slots. If the two highest bids are 8 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 7 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

- When you bid, all of your previous bids are automatically canceled.
- All bid prices must be divisible by 0.5.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- The auction end time is 05:00:00 on December 7, UTC. Countdown. (The end time may be extended -- see below.)
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the auction end time, then the auction will be extended by 30 minutes. If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the new end time, then the auction will be extended again, etc. The time will not extend beyond 6 hours total.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slot may be sold to someone else.
5777  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is user BitcoinPorn dead? on: November 30, 2011, 02:35:41 AM
You all are nuts and need to force yourself to do non Bitcoin related activities every so often  Cheesy

Clearly you are undedicated to the cause. It's people like you who bring the price down!
5778  Economy / Auctions / Re: Advertise on this forum - Round 10 on: November 30, 2011, 02:10:12 AM
Right.
5779  Economy / Auctions / Re: Advertise on this forum - Round 10 on: November 29, 2011, 06:13:03 PM
Current state:
Slots BTC person
1 5 c0ffer
2 5 Andrew Bitcoiner
2 5 Goat
2 5 Coinabul
1 5 macintosh264
5780  Other / Off-topic / Re: In this thread, we post our favorite posts. on: November 29, 2011, 05:10:51 AM
Probably there are many posts more deserving, but the first post that comes to mind is Satoshi's first real post on the forum...

I left the admin account set to the original SMF theme so if I somehow completely wedge the custom theme I can still get in to fix it.

I've got a neat little 12x12 coin image to replace those pip stars with.  Should look nice.  Also some nice button images to try.

The registration page has "hide your e-mail address" unchecked by default.  I must fix that in php before we can open up.

The Announcements forum is currently moderator access only.

It amuses me how Satoshi writes in this really light, casual tone while overseeing the creation of Bitcoin and its community.
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