Bitcoin-Qt / bitcoind 0.8.2 (final) available

[Pieter Wuille]

Still says beta though  

Every Bitcoin version ever released has been beta (intentionally).

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[QuantumQrack]

Thanks for your team's work Gavin.

[wumpus]

Ugh I hate the mandatory downloads..

There is nothing mandatory here.

Indeed. "Mandatory" updates are accompanied by an alert broadcast.

[Loozik]

My OS is Windows. Which of the two ''win32'' should I download? The red or the green one? They have different size.

Thanks

[Scrat Acorns]

My OS is Windows. Which of the two ''win32'' should I download? The red or the green one? They have different size.

Thanks

The .exe one is an installer (which adds shortcuts among other things). You can unpack the other one to a directory and run it without installing it.

[Loozik]

The .exe one is an installer (which adds shortcuts among other things). You can unpack the other one to a directory and run it without installing it.

Thanks, it worked

[Loozik]

I have one more favour to ask. Apart from Bitcoin-Qt there is also BitcoinD (from what I understand). Can someone post a screenshot of BitcoinD's interface or how BitcoinD looks like?

Thanks

[phatsphere]

On Ubuntu/Unity, the menu and icon still don't work. That makes it severely broken, because you know – the menu bar is missing entirely.

[Liquid]

Thank you 

[ralree]

On Ubuntu/Unity, the menu and icon still don't work. That makes Unity severely broken, because you know – the menu bar is missing entirely.

FTFY

[farproc]

Thanks.

[Jan]

...
Fee Policy changes

The default fee for low-priority transactions is lowered from 0.0005 BTC
(for each 1,000 bytes in the transaction; an average transaction is
about 500 bytes) to 0.0001 BTC.

Payments (transaction outputs) of 0.543 times the minimum relay fee
(0.00005430 BTC) are now considered 'non-standard', because storing them
costs the network more than they are worth and spending them will usually
cost their owner more in transaction fees than they are worth.

Non-standard transactions are not relayed across the network, are not included
in blocks by most miners, and will not show up in your wallet until they are
included in a block.

The default fee policy can be overridden using the -mintxfee and -minrelaytxfee
command-line options, but note that we intend to replace the hard-coded fees
with code that automatically calculates and suggests appropriate fees in the
0.9 release and note that if you set a fee policy significantly different from
the rest of the network your transactions may never confirm.
...

Gavin, was it only mintxfee that changed in this release? In other words: are mintxfee and minrelaytxfee the same now?

Also, the minimum allowed output will gradually invalidate most alternative client implementations, time to start coding. I guess that the policy for change-back-to-self worth less than 5420 satoshis should be to remove the change output add it to the miner fee.

In general I think it is time to update https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fee

[Loozik]

Bitcoind is a headless daemon, so there is no "interface", other than whichever command line program you use.

See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind

Thank you.

[Bitware]

Thanks Gavin and all who helped.

[ArticMine]

One issue that seems to persist here is the lack of a menu for Bitcoin-Qt after installation in Ubuntu unity for example in Ubuntu 12.04. 

[jgarzik]

One issue that seems to persist here is the lack of a menu for Bitcoin-Qt after installation in Ubuntu unity for example in Ubuntu 12.04. 

Sure this isn't a UI/Unity issue?  Did you mouse over to the very, very top-left of the screen, where the panel usually lives?

[ArticMine]

There's currently an issue for this https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1242

Sure this isn't a UI/Unity issue?  Did you mouse over to the very, very top-left of the screen, where the panel usually lives?

It is an issue on how Bitcoin-Qt integrates with Unity and as the github issue shows this has been going on for over a year. In fact since Unity was introduced in Ubuntu. Mousing over the top left of the screen does not display the menu in Bitcoin-Qt. That is exactly the issue.

[The 4ner]

Ooooh love the new splash:



Still says beta though  
64-bit version is working in Linux perfectly!

Nice I was hoping that they would improve the wallet image on start up it was ugly looking TBH. Also, I'm glad that the disappearing GUI on Mac OS X has been resolved thanks a bunch Gavin!

[phatsphere]

On Ubuntu/Unity, the menu and icon still don't work. That makes Bitcoin-QT severely broken, because you know – the menu bar is missing entirely.

FTFY

FTFY again.

no, unity is not broken, all other QT apps over here work as they should. it's just this one that makes troubles.

also, since I smell some unity bashing, you should consider changing your attitude. unity is the default UI on the most widely installed linux distribution. it should be a high level of concern that it is broken for so many systems for such a long time. 

[proatlon]

I get the same Ubuntu problem when I first start up bitcoin-qt, but then I just close it and all the subsequent starts show the menu and icon.