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Since you are getting unsolicited opinions  .

I have yet to be convinced about wallet encryption, there are a few scenarios that can corrupt your wallet that I cannot seem to find a way back from (i.e. bitcoin's lost).

I have make use of the "bitcoind dumpprivkey" whenever I create a new key just to be sure.

Speculation is all about boom's and busts.  The dot com speculation lead to the 97 bust, property speculation gave us 2007, most people blame debt speculation for the great depression 1928-29, but like I said, its just my opinion (and about 100 years of history).

I disagree, in my opinion bitcoin need's more places to spend your bitcoins and less speculation.

At the moment there are very few commodities that you can buy with your coins, and next to no places to buy common communicates like milk, bread, butter etc.  A huge percentage of the daily/weekly/monthly volume of bitcoin trades are for other currencies, in traditional money markets this usually lead's to volatility.

Just my opinion though.

I agree, my calling it a ledger was a total stretch.  My point was that it is not an accounting system and "accounts" in the context of bitcoind is a bit confusing (at least for me, and others it seams judging from posts in this thread).

Don't really know what to call them and "Labels for transactions to track and prevent orphaned transactions showing up in bitcoind listtransactions being taken literal" is kind of a mouth full. 

In the end I suppose "accounts" is as good a term as any, but it does tend to lead to confusion.

Bitcoind is not accounting software, at least not in the traditional sense of what accounting software is (give me the command for an aged debtors).  As has been explained by others the "account" system is designed to address a very real problem that can occur during a block-chain reorganisation.  ( Good explanation here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2151.msg28228#msg28228 )

Once again bitcoind is NOT an accounting program, as I see it its probably best described as a ledger.

Ah, yeah, that makes more sense I suppose, and it explains why they did not work like I thought they would.

Brings me to the question though, is a "website user account" system really in the scope of what bitcoind should be doing?

I have (unsuccessfully) tried to use them, but I am terribly comfortable with them.

I think the concept of accounts is probably better left to accounting software and don't really fit into the scope of what the bitcoind should be doing.  Bitcoind is not (and does/should pretend to be) an accounting program.

If it were up to me the developers should just cut them out and concentrate on more important things, perhaps extending the [comment] [comment-to] system to work with incoming transactions.

Hi All,

I am in the process of writing up a set of “Best Practices” guidelines in regards to Bitcoin’s for the use internally within the company that I work for.

There is one hole in my test plans that I would like to fill in regards to Encrypted Wallets.  I have a plan for unencrypted wallets that goes something like this;-

* New private key generated
* Wallet corrupted (note: before backup, bdb file is corrupted)
* pywallet fails to extract new key
* wallet-recover fails to extract new key (see this for what I mean) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0;all
* Hex editor fails to extract new key (tested, but not documented as yet.  See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8274.0 )
* Bitcoin’s lost! (not the ideal end for a test plan, but it is a valid one)

Now I want to replicate the plan above with Encrypted wallets but I am at a bit of a loss as how to achieve this. 

I think I have identified the keys in an encrypted wallet ( they start with “63 6B 65 79 21”, or “cKey!”) but I now need pointers on how to extract the correct amounts of bytes and decrypt them (assuming I have the pass phrase).

Once I achieve this I will gladly report my findings back here, I might even dust off my very rusty programming skills and backport it to one of the above tool’s (most likely wallet-recover)

Thanks.

This kind of statement always makes me smile, it seems that there are people who believe there is a conspiracy behind everything.  I will answer your question with a question.

Geez..are there people who think there is some secret government plot that is breading dinosaurs and then sticking them in the ground to make more oil? 

So.....

Who voluntears to send him 1 BTC and put "al Qaeda, Pakistan" in the comment field?

It's Windows  .  Its the only sort of debugging I know that works with that OS.

Many a time some friend of family member asks my about a problem they are having with there windows box and the first thing I ask is "Have you switched it off and on yet?".  Works 90% of the time .

I had come to the same conclusion myself after a pile of research and help from you guys here, it is one of those very old Sapphire ones.  They just run hot and that's it.

Like I said, I only fire it up to test things and I am too chicken to run it constantly.  I only wish I could work out a way to mount my Coffee mug on it, it would certainly save me from having to boil the kettle  .

Anyways, thanks guys for you help.

And over 15,813,740,000,000 of the world debt too  .

If we are going to start to weigh positives without the negatives though..  Us New Zealanders have over 40% of the world penguins!  Even better we have 99% of the Kiwi's!!!!!! 

All bow to the supremacy of our flightless avians.

Sorry for doing a necro, but this is a great little bit of code!  Sucks the private keys directly out of a drive, does not care about file system, OS's or anything!  I just had to sub to it.

I have already put it onto my Recovery USB and tested several different scenarios.  Any ideas on how/when you are going to implement support for encrypted wallets?  I think that encrypted wallets is the last thing left and then this will be the ultimate key recovery tool.

Thanks

You don't need to guess, you can look at the blockchain and find heaps of addresses with bitcoin's in them!

Getting a hold of the private key for that address is another matter all together, if you found a trick to guessing that I will be your best friend forever  .

Yep, in that case my personal bitcoind will have you guys covered.  My work network has endpoints in New Zealand (Where I am located), LA (the US) and Ireland (EU).  I would imagine there are a few bitcoind daemons connected like that (at least I hope so, I dont want the sole responsibility to keep bitcoin internationaly linked  ) .

I was planning to try that, do you have any setting's that you have used with a 4850 that I can start from?

Hi All,

I am rather new to mining (and bitcoin's in general).  I have been experimenting with my desktop (HD 7750) and my notebook (HD 7650M), all is going well, learning heaps.

Anyway, I pulled out an old machine of mine for a bit more horsepower.  It has a HD 4850 and probably is not worth the watt's but I am learning and I thought why not.  From memory it was always ran hot but the numbers I am seeing are more that what I was expecting.  At full load with fan at 100% it pumps out about 70 MHash but it wants to run at 95c.

I have goggled, and read various bits.  I realise that it is older technology (and runs hotter than the 7XXX's I have), and it probably needs a clean but wow 95c!  I have stopped mining on it till I clean it and get advice fro you guys.

So, the questions are;-

1. How hot do HD 4850's normal run?  (I have seen a lot or exaggeration on the net, go figure)

2. What is the best way to clean these things?

Thanks

Ironic perhaps, but totally allowable.

I know it is a side topic, but the GPL does not require you to release modifications that you make, even if you use it commercially.  As long as if you sell the modified code you include the source you are good, and even then, the party that you sell it to is not obliged to release it.