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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: orphan blocks
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on: January 12, 2015, 05:21:09 AM
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I read, after 100 blocks, the branch is abandoned...
The biggest branch wins.
And all the transactions in the abandoned branch, need to reconfirmed in the winner branch?
Transactions in the abandoned branch can be put inside other branches immediately. No need to wait 100 blocks. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Making PoW usefull
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on: January 10, 2015, 02:54:12 PM
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"Bitcoin seems like a complete waste of resources".
Quote from the bitcoin wiki: "No more so than the wastefulness of mining gold out of the ground, melting it down and shaping it into bars, and then putting it back underground again. Not to mention the building of big fancy buildings, the waste of energy printing and minting all the various fiat currencies, the transportation thereof in armored cars by no less than two security guards for each who could probably be doing something more productive, etc." |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Don't try to format a partition of the usb
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on: January 10, 2015, 08:55:09 AM
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Because it will format the whole drive.
You tried to format part of a drive? I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that! If you have a device on /dev/sda, with say two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, it would be possible to just format a single one with the command "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2" for example. Don't know how to do it on Window though. I don't do it through command but normally I am sane enough to use Gparted which works pretty well but I thought SDC will only erase the current selected partition but I was wrong. Learned it the hard way. Gparted is a good tool if your not comfortable using the command line. You can format individual partitions using that. /dev/sdc means the whole drive, /dev/sdc1, sdc2, sdc3..... are the individual partitions. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Don't try to format a partition of the usb
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on: January 10, 2015, 08:22:32 AM
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Because it will format the whole drive.
You tried to format part of a drive? I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that! If you have a device on /dev/sda, with say two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, it would be possible to just format a single one with the command "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2" for example. Don't know how to do it on Window though. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Cheapest way to run a full node ?
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on: January 02, 2015, 01:41:54 PM
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Thanks for your answers. So I'm lead to the conclusion the cheapest option (without much tweaking)
would be to rent out a virtual server. They can be had for a couple of $'s and should
be sufficient ram-wise and traffic-wise (usually at least 50-100 GB/month is included in these
contracts). Did someone try that?
Mine [1] is a VServer (single core, 2 GB Ram, 50(?)GB SSD) and its fine as a node. Its a bit slow from time to time for the analysis of the mempool I want to run, but Im working on another baremetal server at home for that. [1] http://213.165.91.169/What program did you use to get those stats? |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Cheapest way to run a full node ?
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on: January 02, 2015, 01:38:18 PM
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What is the cheapest way to run a full node. I do have a few external HDDs and rasp pi laying around.
No unused laptops though.
Suggestions ? ideas ?
You'll have difficulty running a full node on a pi. It doesn't have enough ram and will end up using swap. With some configuration, it is possible to reduce the memory footprint to as low as 200 or lower megabytes. Can you show me how to do this? I would prefer to use a Pi instead of an x86_64 motherboard setup. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Cheapest way to run a full node ?
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on: January 01, 2015, 11:19:31 PM
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Can you say something
about the "realistic" minimal requirements? I'd also interested in how much traffic this would cause
per month.
My full node is currently using 660MB of ram, connected to 54 peers. Not sure how much bandwidth I use each month. I have an unlimited home broadband package, so I don't worry about it. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Cheapest way to run a full node ?
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on: January 01, 2015, 07:22:34 PM
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What is the cheapest way to run a full node. I do have a few external HDDs and rasp pi laying around.
No unused laptops though.
Suggestions ? ideas ?
You'll have difficulty running a full node on a pi. It doesn't have enough ram and will end up using swap. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin was just an investment?
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on: January 01, 2015, 07:15:27 PM
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Bitcoin doesn't get the recognition that it deserves. Most people who are part of the Bitcoin community only see it as a way to get more fiat. The fiat is the end goal and Bitcoin is just a speculative means to achieve that. Well folks, Bitcoin was supposed to be more than that. It was supposed to be the first decentralized currency and payment network outside the control of centralized banks and governments. But the people don't care about that. They just care about the dollar bills. Unfortunately, I admit I fit in this category too. We have betrayed Satoshi.  You don't real want the dollars. You just want the stuff you can buy with them. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Retina Scan Or Thumb Print Authorisation
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on: December 28, 2014, 09:20:38 AM
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How would the Bitcoin community like retina scan or thumb print authorization? (Most new cell phones already have these features built-in)
Unless you want your retina or print uploaded to some NSA database somewhere, I would avoid using these features. |
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