Maybe someone can help me. I'd like to run a full node, but, rather than using a VPS, I think I'd prefer to get a new machine for my home and leave it running 24 hours a day. I'm not much of a computer expert, so perhaps someone can offer me some advice.
Basically, I'd like a little box like a mac mini or pocket PC or something that I can just set-up (via remote desktop with my macbook?) and then let it run 24 hours in my office. Price is less of an issue than things like (a) it should be fairly easy to put this "box" together, (b) the box should be small and not an ugly mess, (c) ideally the box would be quiet (no fans, solid-state hard-drive?).
Can anyone recommend what hardware I should buy and what operating system I should run? Any reason a mac mini running OSx would be a bad choice?
Thanks!
I love my mac mini, it is a great development server for me. You just can't run bitcoind on OSX. That means you either have to compile bitcoind for OSX on your own, or use bitcoin-qt binary, but other than that choice it is a great idea. I also would use http://synergy-foss.org/Thanks for the reply gweedo. Mac minis come standard with 4GB of RAM. For running bitcoind, is there any major advantage to pay apple for the 8 or 16 GB upgrade? http://synergy-foss.org/ <== looks useful! thx Depends if you are going to just use it as a bitcoin node, then 4GBs will be pently. I would actually take the money from that and upgrade the hard drive or attach an external hard drive. Right now the Blockchain is about ~14gb+ so your memory will not be an issue but maybe hard drive space. One more thing gweedo, what is the disadvantage of running the bitcoin-qt binary as opposed to compiling bitcoind for OSx?
They are the same, just one has a GUI and compiling bitcoind will take you awhile. I was just pointing it out. So you aren't running around looking for that binary, because it doesn't exist. |
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These talks were not filmed. I got audio for more than half of them which will eventually appear on Let's Talk Bitcoin! but Inside Bitcoins does not like their events to be filmed.
The openness of bitcoin is becoming more and more closed. That is really sad to me. The good news is that is an incorrect assessment, literally MediaBistro just does not care about filming their events and doing such a thing in Las Vegas means hiring a union crew and incurring quite a bit of cost. We were going to be providing that service to them until we learned about the union requirement. Ohh ok |
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Post them here and I will try to add them to OP so we can have one thread that holds all them for easy lookup.
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Yes we got a brand new lambo in the usa. 216 btc. Will leave cali mon morn.
Also btc is not illegal in the thailand that news story was wrong.
Hey hey Goat not fair! You promised me the photos as soon as you get the delivery. When are we going to see them pics? As soon as i get delivery. Many congratulations to you btw. That lambo is my dream  and will remain one atleast in this lifetime. Have heard that company lets you drive it in a track in Italy for $1000 or something. Will try that sometime in the near future, if I will have enough fiat to travel to Italy. You can do stuff like this in Vegas as well In NY you can do that as well. I did the Gotham Dream Car Sprint, I got as a birthday gift, I drove a Ferrari 458 and I got to drive a lambo. I enjoyed the 458 a lot more, because of the tunnel noise. |
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Clearly this person had no idea what he was doing. Coinbase is not a great mobile wallet unless you want to generate addresses. Coinbase keeps ~90% of their user funds in cold storage and 10% in their hot wallet. This is great for security! Horrible for making mobile payments, cause I bet they also do a lot of checks before sending out payments. So I use blockchain for my wallet on the iphone cause they will always have the funds.
For a real-life businesses, the apps they provide for smartphones are easy to use. So many of those who have started accepting Bitcoin have decided to use their services. It's not easy for them to understand that, even though it might be easy to use, it doesn't work properly. What I was talking about is the person paying, the merchant sounds like they were using blockchain.info to do payment and did it correctly. The person paying should have tried it out before hand or *researched* it out more. I know people just want to fire up an app and pay, but today in bitcoins that isn't going to happen. The protocol is still in beta, most this software is still in beta. Honestly this isn't really ready for mainstream adoption and people like this are going to feel burnt and probably not use bitcoins for a while or hoard them. That is life. |
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Clearly this person had no idea what he was doing. Coinbase is not a great mobile wallet unless you want to generate addresses. Coinbase keeps ~90% of their user funds in cold storage and 10% in their hot wallet. This is great for security! Horrible for making mobile payments, cause I bet they also do a lot of checks before sending out payments. So I use blockchain for my wallet on the iphone cause they will always have the funds.
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Little tip, start it with You can then exit the session and leave it running. is probably the better command. As a relative N00B does "bitcoind daemon" achive similar to nohup? I just setup bitcoind and am noticing that once I loose my SSH the bitcoind stops. So I just started with cranking up bitcoind daemon but am not 100% sure if it keeps chugging after I close SSH. If nohup is the way to go is the command nohup bitcoind or bitcoind nohup or drill into some directory - fyi I have bitcoind running at root since I dont use this VPS or this bitcoind for anything other than helping out seeding.... Yes you have to include the full path to where your bitcoind bin is located, unless you are already in that directory. O.K., Cool - in root I run bitcoind -nohup and get "Bitcoin server starting. Things run well for about 10-15 mins, (can get info from bitcoind getinfo, etc) then after about 15mins or so I get "error: couldn't connect to server" I've also tried just running bitcoind and screen bitcoind and bitcoind -nohup - They all crank up bitcoind for about 15mins then the bitcoind server seems to die... Any ideas thoughts on how to trouble shoot? (FYI - VPS, with bitcoind in root) Here run nohup <bitcoin bin path> &
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A Lamborghini is something you buy to reward yourself. Reliability, gas mileage, servicing costs, repair costs ... all these become unimportant if you can truly afford it.
After VW bought Lamborghini in '98 reliability stopped being an issue as it once was in the older days.
With your budget you should be able to afford a low miles 2004-2008 Gallardo which is an amazing machine.
Stop listening to all the people "in the know", most of whom, sadly, probably never got to even sit in one, let alone drive it or own it. Listen to your heart if your wallet can afford it.
There's also the R8 which is basically a cheaper Gallardo that's a bit more fun to drive (the awd system is more rear biased) but lacks the same prestige.
He already bought a brand new one for ~216 BTC last week. That is insane, I remember when 200BTC was like $2000!!! |
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Isn't it easier to just whitelist popularly known image hosting sites such as imgur?
That's probably not tinfoilhatty enough. No cause everyone would be like theymos whitelist this and whitelist this, and that thread would be insanity long. Image proxy is the best option, keeps every happy. If he manages to get it working. true to that too |
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Isn't it easier to just whitelist popularly known image hosting sites such as imgur?
That's probably not tinfoilhatty enough. No cause everyone would be like theymos whitelist this and whitelist this, and that thread would be insanity long. Image proxy is the best option, keeps every happy. |
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I would love to see something where maybe I can run on a vps and have my bitcoind connect to it like a proxy and it meters how much bandwidth I send out and get. Also it be great if this was like modulator and someone can write and see which block is getting request the most. What peers have I been connected too and how long? Different metrics would be great!
Please make it open source, or if you know an open source program that will do this and I just have to write some bitcoin code to have it hook up too it.
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Little tip, start it with You can then exit the session and leave it running. is probably the better command. As a relative N00B does "bitcoind daemon" achive similar to nohup? I just setup bitcoind and am noticing that once I loose my SSH the bitcoind stops. So I just started with cranking up bitcoind daemon but am not 100% sure if it keeps chugging after I close SSH. If nohup is the way to go is the command nohup bitcoind or bitcoind nohup or drill into some directory - fyi I have bitcoind running at root since I dont use this VPS or this bitcoind for anything other than helping out seeding.... Yes you have to include the full path to where your bitcoind bin is located, unless you are already in that directory. |
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Holy crap, it's embarrassing to be in the same forum as this creepy-ass thread.
Guys: if you want to actually get together with a girl, it might help if you stop being creepy.
sure creepy is not exactly helpful but girls LUV some BTC:) just kidding and btw most of us are just trolling Wait, being creepy isn't how you get a girl? I have to tell my gf to leave me right now  Just deflate her and you're done. My currency is deflationary, only makes sense my gf is deflatable LOL |
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He is probably a mod on a local board, so it doesn't matter, if he was a global mod or mod of a big area then it be a problem. Otherwise he can't do much in terms of power.
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So is it possible to somehow chose which blocks you mine?
Yes it is based on rules and their is even a patch so if you want to include a specific transaction in a block you mine you can do so. You would need to make a custom bitcoin-qt. Otherwise by default it does it by priority which is based on fees. |
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does my wallet have to be online at the exact moment of payment to receive it?
No. Actually the payment never gets sent to the wallet, the wallet just gives you access to the coins on the network. If the payment never gets sent to the my local wallet, does the amount leave the sender's wallet? Or, does the network "remember" the payment, and the next time my local wallet is connected, the money is downloaded to my wallet? Bitcoin is a p2p network, so when someone sends a payment, they are just basically announcing to the blockchain and the miners they want to take this address and move the coins to this other address. And the miners do that for you. Then the blockchain is updated. No coins are stored in your wallet, only private keys that allow that transaction to happen, not the connection of the wallets. |
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Just curious, why do everyone report a different size?
I can see 14.2, 14.4 and even 15.3 GB, and there is something like 10% difference. Why and how?
depending on the time of install and use it can contain different logs, peers, debug data, etc. wallet size are different too Mine is the 15.3GB and that is just the amount in my block's folder, which is where the blockchain is housed. The real answer is cause different file system uses different ways of measuring a gb. I am on Mac so I can measure base 10 or base 2. Mine was measured in base 10 making 1000MB == 1gb, in base 2 mine is 14.3GB. Sorry for the confusion. Also some people maybe a couple blocks ahead or not depending on who they are connected too as well. |
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Holy crap, it's embarrassing to be in the same forum as this creepy-ass thread.
Guys: if you want to actually get together with a girl, it might help if you stop being creepy.
sure creepy is not exactly helpful but girls LUV some BTC:) just kidding and btw most of us are just trolling Wait, being creepy isn't how you get a girl? I have to tell my gf to leave me right now |
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Well thank you for derailing what is suppose to be a serious thread.
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It seems like a lot of people ignore you
So? |
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