Agreed, the main bitcoin wiki is what I had expected...

I think a better answer is:  collectively, most of "us" are here to stay faithful to the technical design parameters Satoshi set forth.  In particular, the important basic rules 21 million bitcoins, decaying block reward (50 -> 25 -> 12.5, ...), 10 minute average target, etc.  Hash algorithm may change; max number of bitcoins will not (not if I can help it, anyway).

Bitcoin is an experimental engineering tool.  Any such system will behave in the wild as the majority of users deem it so, regardless of the creator's intentions.

Anything more is outside the realm of engineering, into the mental and ideological space you project onto bitcoin.

Boy, all this attention from Atlas.  Amusing.

There is a clear vision... it's just lost in all the forum noise.

This change is intentional, as part of the effort to make the current forums less official.

Eight connections is the maximum outgoing connections by default.

Therefore, if you find yourself stuck at 8 connections, then you are probably not receiving any incoming connections.  That tends to point towards a firewall or port forwarding problem.

Pointing to Google is a baby step towards de-emphasizing this current set of forums as "official" in any way, shape or form.

They are an embarrassment to anyone trying to help build and maintain a positive image for bitcoin, especially with merchants who may potentially adopt bitcoin in their businesses.

+1 agreed, from someone who is trying to encourage merchants to adopt bitcoin.

It's not just politics; it is the sheer number of useless posts, resulting in a high noise-to-signal ratio.

I'm not the only one who feels the forum has been overrun by 4chan types, image spammers, and other reactionary, content-free posters.

Oh, and can you update the top post to include useful info and URLs, rather than just crossing out stuff?

Just delete inaccurate info.

Can you (a) create a JSON endpoint that bitcoinwatch can query for the speed, and (b) poke tcatm to add it to bitcoinwatch?

Also, like other pools, updating the thread subject to include last 24 hours hash performance estimate would be nice.

This forum is full of low-value noise, and things that are either NSFW or blatantly illegal.

Most businesses and most citizens are tax-paying and law-abiding, and that is the target audience for achieving bitcoin acceptance as a global currency.  It is rather difficult to convince new merchants to accept bitcoins, if the forums are their primary contact point with the bitcoin community.

Bitcoin is an ideology-neutral currency; we're not here to convert the world to libertarianism or crypto-anarchism.  We're here to make the first global, decentralized currency successful.

Is anyone yet posting Ghash/sec stats?

Post the blockexplorer link, as another poster requested.

Mac OSX version of bitcoin client finally posted at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.24/

Updated sums (stored as SHA1SUMS.asc on SF):
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Maybe I should take up a collection for OSX server edition

(only half kidding)

There is nothing wrong with bot trading.


Your attention span is that short, sure.

Grown-ups take a longer view.

Bitcoin has always been a risky proposition.  Anyone who has ever thought otherwise is a fool.

"no forward moves of late" and "very little upside going forward" is clearly a troll, or a daytrader.  The sample size (timescale) is far too small to make any such prediction.

NPR is left / pro-nanny-state government.  NPR editors likely believe that bitcoin is in the same category as (from their thinking) those evil Ron Paul goldbugs, and therefore are Very Wrong.

Oh good grief, let's not reinvent the wheel again.

Just use the efficient binary protocol already supported by pushpoold.