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July 01, 2011, 07:02:01 AM |
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But another thing, does the lookup in "block explorer" search in oldest first order or most recent first order. Because if the latter it seems someone could gen a new address that matches your address prefix and use it to get it in the chain. If it searches and finds the match more recent it would find that one as the single match. But you thought of that I'm sure...
It starts with the earliest so a new address that matches does not change any previous address' firstbits.
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July 01, 2011, 07:16:41 AM |
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I was going to say - what this really needs is a Firefox Search plugin that makes it so the web site doesn't need to be there, or get hammered, it just goes to the block chain.
But then I remembered my "Add To Search Bar" add-on and tried that. Sure enough one -right-click and FirstBits is now a search entry on the Firefox Search Bar. I can drop an address in there and it does the magic.
How does this work exactly? Your search bar now knows to convert an address to it's firstbits? Or it assumes the firstbits.com/ and takes you to the page?
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July 01, 2011, 07:20:18 AM |
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I was going to say - what this really needs is a Firefox Search plugin that makes it so the web site doesn't need to be there, or get hammered, it just goes to the block chain.
But then I remembered my "Add To Search Bar" add-on and tried that. Sure enough one -right-click and FirstBits is now a search entry on the Firefox Search Bar. I can drop an address in there and it does the magic.
How does this work exactly? Your search bar now knows to convert an address to it's firstbits? Or it assumes the firstbits.com/ and takes you to the page? I guess this "Add To Search Bar" plugin takes the actual url of the form action and adds that as an url in the search bar. It doesn't show me the url though - it's embedded in the search bar. Here's the home page for the add-on https://firefox.maltekraus.de/extensions/add-to-search-barI just see a form field and right click on it to turn it into a search bar item.
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July 01, 2011, 08:37:20 AM |
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I guess this "Add To Search Bar" plugin takes the actual url of the form action and adds that as an url in the search bar. It doesn't show me the url though - it's embedded in the search bar. Here's the home page for the add-on https://firefox.maltekraus.de/extensions/add-to-search-barI just see a form field and right click on it to turn it into a search bar item. Ah, the page makes it clear. That is pretty cool.
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July 01, 2011, 08:47:01 AM |
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I was going to say - what this really needs is a Firefox Search plugin that makes it so the web site doesn't need to be there, or get hammered, it just goes to the block chain.
But then I remembered my "Add To Search Bar" add-on and tried that. Sure enough one -right-click and FirstBits is now a search entry on the Firefox Search Bar. I can drop an address in there and it does the magic.
How does this work exactly? Your search bar now knows to convert an address to it's firstbits? Or it assumes the firstbits.com/ and takes you to the page? I guess this "Add To Search Bar" plugin takes the actual url of the form action and adds that as an url in the search bar. It doesn't show me the url though - it's embedded in the search bar. Here's the home page for the add-on https://firefox.maltekraus.de/extensions/add-to-search-barI just see a form field and right click on it to turn it into a search bar item. pretty cool: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimg194.imageshack.us%2Fimg194%2F1421%2F31491808.jpg&t=665&c=wB8q1RKAOA9tlQ)
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July 01, 2011, 08:51:15 AM |
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One reason why it's good to have a favicon ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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July 01, 2011, 10:00:17 AM |
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pretty cool: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimg194.imageshack.us%2Fimg194%2F1421%2F31491808.jpg&t=665&c=wB8q1RKAOA9tlQ) I like it.
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July 01, 2011, 12:02:31 PM |
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And a bash function for the geeks out there: function fb() { wget -qO- http://www.firstbits.com/api/?a=$1 |tr -d ' ' #curl -so- http://www.firstbits.com/api/?a=$1 |tr -d ' ' echo } $ fb 12345 12345Vypv2QSmuRXcciT5oEB27mPbWGeva $ fb 1mtgox 1MTgoX8xqw5juSwgSVNTSJRJWG5onS3xnm $ fb 1linux 1LiNUXcexgmQqPw7ETGKirpyzdhzHkT3t7
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July 01, 2011, 12:08:07 PM |
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Oh! Some brat already took 1Linux. Grrr.
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July 06, 2011, 04:44:32 PM |
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Firstbits seems to be down for maintenance right now. No problem with that, but /api/?a=foo still works ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) . /api/foo and /foo don't.
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July 08, 2011, 09:52:25 PM |
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Hmmmm still down
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July 08, 2011, 11:06:15 PM |
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Verification is getting close to complete. We may be able to bring the site back online tonight (PST timezone).
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July 08, 2011, 11:31:24 PM |
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Good news
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July 10, 2011, 12:48:45 AM |
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yup yup
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July 10, 2011, 02:46:15 AM |
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Site is finally back up! Sorry for the delay.
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July 10, 2011, 09:25:39 AM Last edit: July 10, 2011, 09:36:05 AM by an0therlr3 |
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Two addresses of mine, which have already 7 confirmations, still don't appear in the chain according to firstbits. Maybe the bitcoin instance running there was offline during the downtime period and isn't up to date? Edit: It's working. Seems I needed to post something here .
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July 10, 2011, 09:50:41 AM |
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Two addresses of mine, which have already 7 confirmations, still don't appear in the chain according to firstbits. Maybe the bitcoin instance running there was offline during the downtime period and isn't up to date? Edit: It's working. Seems I needed to post something here .It might take 6 confirms plus a few minutes. Let me know if it takes longer.
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July 10, 2011, 12:36:41 PM |
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If the check-sum ever happens I just want to give idea out. It could be the first character in firstbit address. So it can't mess up the later addresses. Not sure how it should be calculated, but it is logical solution if checksum is needed.
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July 10, 2011, 04:52:04 PM |
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Shortening a hash, especially a Bitcoin address is just asking for trouble.
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