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bitcoin.org

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
31 October 2008
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Satoshi Nakamoto satoshin@gmx.com www.bitcoin.org Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
31 October 2008, 18:10 UTC
I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. The paper is available at: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The main properties: Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
3 November 2008, 01:37 UTC
Long before the network gets anywhere near as large as that, it would be safe for users to use Simplified Payment Verification (section 8) to check for double spending, which only requires having the chain of block headers, or about 12KB…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
3 November 2008, 16:23 UTC
Thanks for bringing up that point. I didn't really make that statement as strong as I could have. The requirement is that the good guys collectively have more CPU power than any single attacker. There would be many smaller zombie farms…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
6 November 2008, 20:15 UTC
Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
8 November 2008, 18:54 UTC
Ray Dillinger: Increasing hardware speed is handled: "To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in running nodes over time, the proof-of-work difficulty is determined by a moving average targeting an average number…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
9 November 2008, 01:58 UTC
Hal Finney wrote: Right, nodes keep transactions in their working set until they get into a block. If a transaction reaches 90% of nodes, then each time a new block is found, it has a 90% chance of being in it. That does not need to be…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
9 November 2008, 03:09 UTC
James A. Donald wrote: The proof-of-work chain is the solution to the synchronisation problem, and to knowing what the globally shared view is without having to trust anyone. A transaction will quickly propagate throughout the network, so…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
9 November 2008, 16:31 UTC
James A. Donald wrote: They both broadcast their blocks. All nodes receive them and keep both, but only work on the one they received first. We'll suppose exactly half received one first, half the other. In a short time, all the…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
10 November 2008, 02:14 UTC
James A. Donald wrote: If you're having trouble with the inflation issue, it's easy to tweak it for transaction fees instead. It's as simple as this: let the output value from any transaction be 1 cent less than the input value. Either…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
10 November 2008, 22:18 UTC
James A. Donald wrote: When there are multiple double-spent versions of the same transaction, one and only one will become valid. The receiver of a payment must wait an hour or so before believing that it's valid. The network will resolve…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
13 November 2008, 22:56 UTC
James A. Donald wrote: The proof-of-work chain is a solution to the Byzantine Generals' Problem. I'll try to rephrase it in that context. A number of Byzantine Generals each have a computer and want to attack the King's wi-fi by brute…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
14 November 2008, 18:55 UTC
Hal Finney wrote: Fortunately, it's only necessary to keep a pending-transaction pool for the current best branch. When a new block arrives for the best branch, ConnectBlock removes the block's transactions from the pending-tx pool. If a…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
15 November 2008, 04:43 UTC
I'll try and hurry up and release the sourcecode as soon as possible to serve as a reference to help clear up all these implementation questions. Ray Dillinger (Bear) wrote: Only the buyer signs, and there's no blinding. Identities are…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
15 November 2008, 18:02 UTC
Ray Dillinger wrote: Right, it's ECC digital signatures. A new key pair is used for every transaction. It's not pseudonymous in the sense of nyms identifying people, but it is at least a little pseudonymous in that the next action on a…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
17 November 2008, 17:24 UTC
James A. Donald wrote: I mean a node only needs the pending-tx pool for the best branch it has. The branch that it currently thinks is the best branch. That's the branch it'll be trying to make a block out of, which is all it needs the…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Welcome
10 December 2008, 17:00 UTC
Welcome to the Bitcoin mailing list!
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin v0.1 released
8 January 2009, 19:27 UTC
Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending. It's completely decentralized with no server or central authority. See bitcoin.org for screenshots.…
Private email (Wei Dai)

Re: Citation of your b-money page
10 January 2009, 11:17 (time as published; timezone not given)
I wanted to let you know, I just released the full implementation of the paper I sent you a few months ago, Bitcoin v0.1. Details, download and screenshots are at www.bitcoin.org I think it achieves nearly all the goals you set out to…
Private email (Adam Back)

Re: Citation of your Hashcash paper
10 January 2009, 18:46 UTC
Thanks for the pointers you gave me to Wei Dai's b-money paper and others. I just released the open source implementation of my paper, Bitcoin v0.1. Details, download and screenshots are at www.bitcoin.org The main idea of the system is…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.2 now available
11 January 2009, 22:32 UTC
Bitcoin v0.1.2 is now available for download. See http://www.bitcoin.org for the download link. All the problems I've been finding are in the code that automatically finds and connects to other nodes, since I wasn't able to test it in the…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1 Alpha release notes
12 January 2009, 20:20 UTC
Release notes for Bitcoin v0.1 Alpha Bitcoin is a new electronic cash system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending. It's completely decentralized with no server or central authority. You can find screenshots and the…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.3
12 January 2009, 22:48 UTC
It looks like we're through with the worst of the Internet connection issues. 0.1.3 fixed a problem where your node's communications could go dead after a while. The network is running much more smoothly now with this version. If you've…
Private email (Dustin Trammell)

Re: Bitcoin v0.1 released
15 January 2009, 19:10 UTC
There's at least one node who's inbound IP keeps changing all the time within the same class B. Maybe every time the program is run. I wasn't expecting that. Do you mind if I CC the rest of this to bitcoin-list or Cryptography? BTW,…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin v0.1 released
16 January 2009, 16:03 UTC
I would be surprised if 10 years from now we're not using electronic currency in some way, now that we know a way to do it that won't inevitably get dumbed down when the trusted third party gets cold feet. It could get started in a narrow…
Private email (Dustin Trammell)

Re: Bitcoin v0.1 released
16 January 2009, 16:03 UTC
I would be surprised if 10 years from now we're not using electronic currency in some way, now that we know a way to do it that won't inevitably get dumbed down when the trusted third party gets cold feet. It could get started in a narrow…
Private email (Dustin Trammell)

Re: Bitcoin v0.1 released
16 January 2009, 16:03 UTC
I would be surprised if 10 years from now we're not using electronic currency in some way, now that we know a way to do it that won't inevitably get dumbed down when the trusted third party gets cold feet. It could get started in a narrow…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

Re: [bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1 released
16 January 2009, 18:35 UTC
I would be surprised if 10 years from now we're not using electronic currency in some way, now that we know a way to do it that won't inevitably get dumbed down when the trusted third party gets cold feet. It could get started in a narrow…
Cryptography mailing list (metzdowd)

Bitcoin v0.1 released
25 January 2009, 15:47 UTC
Hal Finney wrote: Another factor that would mitigate spam if POW tokens have value: there would be a profit motive for people to set up massive quantities of fake e-mail accounts to harvest POW tokens from spam. They'd essentially be…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

Re: [bitcoin-list] Problems
25 January 2009, 16:45 UTC
From: Nicholas Bohm 2009-01-25 10:17 What's the problem you're having? If you send me your debug.log file directly (best not to send attachments to the list), I can take a look at what's happening. Satoshi Nakamoto bitcoin-help at…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.5 released
4 February 2009, 19:46 UTC
Version 0.1.5 is now available. It includes the fix for the problem Nicholas had, checking for disk full and changes to try to improve things that were confusing. Special thanks to Nicholas and Dustin for all their help and feedback!…
P2P Foundation forum

Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
11 February 2009, 22:27 UTC
I've developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust. Give it a try, or take a look at…
P2P Foundation p2p-research list

[p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
11 February 2009, 22:37 UTC
I've developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust. Give it a try, or take a look at…
P2P Foundation p2p-research list

[p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
12 February 2009, 19:08 UTC
Martien van Steenbergen wrote: > His concept makes sure money is anonymous unless it is compromised, i.e. > the same money spent more than once. As soon as it's compromised, the > ‘counterfeiter’ is immediately…
P2P Foundation p2p-research list

[p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
13 February 2009, 02:38 UTC
Martien van Steenbergen wrote: > Would love to also see support for not having to supply and > managing money. Would make it easier and cheaper to maintain > and results in have sufficient money, always and everywhere. > No scarcity, no…
P2P Foundation p2p-research list

[p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency
13 February 2009, 18:36 UTC
Michel Bauwens wrote: > able to use it in real life? It's fully operational and the network is growing. If you try the software, e-mail me your Bitcoin address and I'll send you a few coins. We just need to spread the word and…
P2P Foundation p2p-research list

[p2p-research] Bitcoin P2P e-currency v0.1 released
13 February 2009, 18:52 UTC
Announcing the release of Bitcoin, a new open source peer-to-peer electronic cash system that's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

Re: [bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.5 released
22 February 2009, 17:47 UTC
The next thing for v0.1.6 is to take advantage of multiple processors to generate blocks. Currently it only starts one thread. If you have a multi-core processor like a Core Duo or Quad this will double or quadruple your production. Later…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

Re: [bitcoin-list] Bitcoin v0.1.5 released
4 March 2009, 16:59 UTC
Hal Finney wrote: The current version will work fine. They'll each connect over the Internet, while incoming connections only come to the host that port 8333 is routed to. As an optimisation, I'll make a switch "-connect=1.2.3.4" to make…
Private email (Mike Hearn)

Questions about BitCoin
19 April 2009, 02:14 (time as published; timezone not given)
The list is: bitcoin-list@lists.sourceforge .net Subscribe/unsubscribe page: http://lists.sourceforge.net/m ailman/listinfo/bitcoin-list Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarc hive/forum.php?forum_name= bitcoin-list I'll always announce…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin
2 May 2009, 17:06 UTC
Thanks for starting that topic on ASC, your understanding of bitcoin is spot on. Some of their responses were rather Neanderthal, although I guess they're so used to being anti-fiat-money that anything short of gold isn't good enough.…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin
3 May 2009, 22:32 UTC
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote: That would be great! I added you (dmp1ce) as a dev to the sourceforge project and gave you access to edit the web space and everything. Definitely. This will be an absolutely essential feature once things get…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin
4 May 2009, 15:51 UTC
Oh crap, I got your sourceforge usernames mixed up, sorry about that. I clicked on the wrong e-mail when I was looking for your username. You now have access. Your FAQ looks good so far! You can create whatever you want on…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin
5 May 2009, 17:39 UTC
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote: They have Wordpress built in, you might not need to set up any database stuff manually. I enabled the Wordpress feature and added you as an admin, account sirius-m, e-mail sirius-m@users.sourceforge.net. I'm not…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin
7 May 2009, 02:35 UTC
It's already an improvement, and like you say, there must be better themes to choose from. It would be good to make the download link go directly to the download area: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group\_id=244765 I…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin
24 May 2009, 22:03 UTC
You're right, that was it. I went in and granted us access using the alternate account. I like your idea of at least moving the FAQ into the wiki. I've seen other projects that use the wiki for the FAQ or even the whole site. If you can…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin
11 June 2009, 21:24 UTC
The site layout is looking nicer. More impressive looking. There are a lot of things you can say on the sourceforge site that I can't say on my own site. Even so, I'm uncomfortable with explicitly saying "consider it an investment".…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin
21 July 2009, 03:14 UTC
I know this sounds really retarded, but I still haven't been able to get the sourceforge login page to load, so I haven't been able to read it either. https://sourceforge.net/account/login.php Hal isn't currently actively involved. He…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin
30 September 2009, 18:12 UTC
That's great, that's a good step forward. Yes, I worked out the sourceforge login problem, it was some tricky thing on the login page that exposed a quirky bug in a browser add-in. mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: \[bitcoin-list\] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?
23 October 2009, 23:55 UTC
Liberty Standard wrote: I haven't had any reports of crashes in v0.1.5. It's been rock solid for me on Windows. I think it must be Wine related. If you get another crash in Wine and it prints anything on the terminal, e-mail me and I may…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

Re: [bitcoin-list] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?
23 October 2009, 23:57 UTC
Liberty Standard wrote: I haven't had any reports of crashes in v0.1.5. It's been rock solid for me on Windows. I think it must be Wine related. If you get another crash in Wine and it prints anything on the terminal, e-mail me and I may…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Fw: bitcoin.sourceforge.net
26 October 2009, 17:50 UTC
Any idea what's going on with it? Every time I look, it's fine. Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:55:06AM +0100, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote: Doesn't work right now. Liberty Standard wrote: in your
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Fw: bitcoin.sourceforge.net
27 October 2009, 04:45 UTC
Sourceforge is just so darn slow. I don't know what else to do though. It's such a standard, more often than not any given project has a projectname.sourceforge.net site. When I see whatever.sourceforge.net in a google search, I assume…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Fw: bitcoin.sourceforge.net
29 October 2009, 02:05 UTC
I'll convert the CriticalSection code to wxCriticalSection and upload it to SVN (it's a little tricky). I don't know what to do for TryEnterCriticalSection though. I think I'm almost ready to check everything in. You're probably right,…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Linux build, proxy
3 November 2009, 15:53 UTC
Great, I've been looking forward to working on the Linux build. If you connect to Freenode's hidden service, then they tell you they've also banned TOR from that due to abuse and it kicks you off. There's a several step procedure you can…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Proxy
5 November 2009, 15:25 UTC
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote: debug.log moved to the data directory "%appdata%/bitcoin/debug.log" 7 inbound and 2 outbound sounds about as expected. My last SVN commit included an overhaul of the code that selects the order of addresses to…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Forum
5 November 2009, 17:33 UTC
Now that the forum on bitcoin.sourceforge.net is catching on, we really should look for somewhere that freehosts full blown forum software. The bitweaver forum feature is just too lightweight. I assume the "Forum" tab on the homepage can…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Forum
8 November 2009, 18:48 UTC
I'm not really a fan of that type of forum layout. The thread list only fits about 4 threads on a page, posts are treated like news articles or blog posts with reply comments at the bottom. It's more of a social networking site, not…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Zetaboards forum
14 November 2009, 05:46 UTC
I created a forum on Zetaboards, InvisionFree's new site that they're migrating to. http://s1.zetaboards.com/Bitcoin/index/ I made an admin account you can use to upgrade your own account to admin: u: admin pw: B98VzUUA BTW, the admin…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Forum
16 November 2009, 19:34 UTC
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote: What do you see as the benefits of switching the wiki? Some I can think of: SSL get away from sourceforge's unreliable hosting everything not logged by sourceforge The forum feature is about as weak as bitweaver.…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Forum
16 November 2009, 21:10 UTC
That's a good idea to go in a more web-publishing CMS type direction like Drupal. That's a better fit and can produce a better looking website than a wiki. I think I was wrong about wiki. Only a few specific people will do any website…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Forum
17 November 2009, 16:57 UTC
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote: Another issue I thought of with zetaboards: most free forum sites won't let you export the user account database if you want to move. I don't know why I don't see any other software projects using a free forum, but…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Forum
18 November 2009, 05:32 UTC
That's great, this is going to fun! I'll research what people say about the two. mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
Private email (Martti Malmi)

SMF forum, need a mod installed
20 November 2009, 05:14 UTC
I've been configuring the SMF forum. They're saying SMF is better written than phpBB and more reliable, so if I can get SMF to look right, that's the preferable choice. Most forums run vBulletin (big-boards.com lists 1376 vBulletin, 275…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: SMF forum, need a mod installed
20 November 2009, 22:09 UTC
\> It's okay to go live. Are you setting up a redirect or a dns entry? In DNS entry. I'm thinking of merging the bitcoin.org information with your site content so I can switch the whole bitcoin.org domain over. We need to replace the…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: SMF forum, need a mod installed
21 November 2009, 07:02 UTC
Thanks, that worked, I got File Manager installed with SSH. I also uploaded a few themes into Drupal. I haven't thoroughly gone through all the available themes yet. Looked around at CMSes, Drupal and Joomla are popular. Consensus is…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: SMF forum, need a mod installed
21 November 2009, 21:46 UTC
I'll go ahead with setting up Drupal then. I don't think we should make the site https by default. It's still very unusual for the public part of sites to be https, probably because it introduces potential technical complications, delays…
BitcoinTalk

Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!
22 November 2009, 18:04 UTC
Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum! The old forum can still be reached here: http://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/boards/index.php I'll repost some selected threads here and add updated answers to questions where I can. FAQ…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

SEO friendly site transition
22 November 2009, 19:47 UTC
We need to do a continuity transition with bitcoin.org so the search engines don't think this is a new site and reset the site start date and PR data. Google allows a certain number of properties like IP address or content of the site to…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

bitcoin.org DNS change went through
26 November 2009, 00:26 UTC
The bitcoin.org DNS change went through about 12 hours ago. I'll wait another 12 hours and then change the Forum tab on bitcoin.sourceforge.net to go to http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/ For future reference, the changes in SMF to update the…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Bitweaver menu editor broken
26 November 2009, 17:45 UTC
The Bitweaver menu editor is broken, I can't change the Forum link. The "create and edit menu items" page comes up blank for me: http://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/nexus/menu\_items.php?menu\_id=2 You try it, I'm stumped. The Forum link…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin.org
30 November 2009, 20:34 UTC
Thanks, I haven't settled on a theme yet. My first experiment was to try something besides yet another blue site. Another line of thought is that it should be like a bank website, stately, professional and official looking to support…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin.org
2 December 2009, 17:47 UTC
What Windows version/browser doesn't font anti-aliasing work on? IE 6 on XP anti-aliases, and versions below that have less than 1% market share. There's a transaction fee of 0.01 per KB after the first 1KB for oversized transactions. The…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin.org
4 December 2009, 04:24 UTC
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote: That's strange, I've seen Firefox 3.5 on XP anti-alias large fonts. Well anyway, your way is safer. I changed it back to text for now though so I can keep tweaking the colours. Drupal puts the tags and junk…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Sourceforge tracker
6 December 2009, 03:21 UTC
I added the sourceforge tracker to bitcoin.sourceforge.net. The complete selection of links is below if you want a different one. I had it on bitcoin.org for a minute, but took it off. It breaks the lock in SSL mode with a mixed content…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Drupal site online
8 December 2009, 05:43 UTC
I went ahead and put the new Drupal site online. Enough time has passed for a safe transition, and the site looks good. There's more work I should do on the theme, but it's good enough so far. This is a huge improvement over the old…
BitcoinTalk

Re: A few suggestions
10 December 2009, 19:31 UTC
That's a good approach for mobile. Programmatic API used by PHP (any language) to present a web UI covers remote admin, mobile and any other client that can't be online all the time with a static IP. It would be like webmail. It would be…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Planned release announcement text
16 December 2009, 16:54 UTC
Here's the planned release announcement text. Probably releasing shortly. Bitcoin version 0.2 is here! Download links: Windows Setup Program Windows Zip File Linux (tested on Ubuntu) New features Martti Malmi - Minimize to system tray…
BitcoinTalk

Bitcoin 0.2 released!
16 December 2009, 22:45 UTC
Bitcoin version 0.2 is here! Download links: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.2.0-win32-setup.exe/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.2.0-win32.zip/download…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

\[bitcoin-list\] Bitcoin 0.2 released
17 December 2009, 06:49 UTC
Bitcoin 0.2 is here! Download (Windows, and now Linux version available) http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/ New Features Martti Malmi - Minimize to system tray option - Autostart on boot option so you can keep it running in…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.2 released
17 December 2009, 06:52 UTC
Bitcoin 0.2 is here! Download (Windows, and now Linux version available) http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/ New Features Martti Malmi - Minimize to system tray option - Autostart on boot option so you can keep it running in…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

JSON-RPC status
7 February 2010, 06:12 UTC
The JSON-RPC implementation is going well. I'm using boost::asio for sockets. JSON-RPC can be plain socket or HTTP, but it seems most other implementations are HTTP, so I made my own simple HTTP headers. For JSON parsing I'm using JSON…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Translation
8 February 2010, 15:28 UTC
Does Drupal have any special multi-language support, or do you just create copies of pages by hand? BlueSky offered to do translation on the forum. If you create a www.bitcoin.org/zh/ copy of the site and give him an account with just the…
BitcoinTalk

Re: DEB Package?
12 February 2010, 02:33 UTC
Are you just trying to run the program or do you really need to compile it? There's a 32-bit linux binary that can be run on 64-bit ubuntu if you "sudo apt-get ia32-libs".…
BitcoinTalk

Re: DEB Package?
12 February 2010, 15:57 UTC
Am I missing something? Is there something wrong with the 32-bit linux precompiled binary on bitcoin.org? The bitcoin binary in the distribution static links the wxWidgets library, and its shared links (openssl and GTK) are included in…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: JSON-RPC status
13 February 2010, 01:08 UTC
I uploaded my JSON-RPC and command line implementation to SVN. I'm waiting to post on the forum when I've had more time to think about the commands. At least some method names are going to change. To enable the RPC server, add the switch…
BitcoinTalk

Re: DEB Package?
13 February 2010, 01:38 UTC
I couldn't get wxWidgets 2.8.9 to compile on Karmic 64-bit either. I have been compiling the latest SVN on Karmic 64-bit with wxWidgets 2.9.0, which compiles fine on 64-bit. Read build-unix.txt and use the given ../configure parameters on…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Non-GUI option
24 February 2010, 06:34 UTC
\> I'll give Drupal accounts to the bitcoin.org translators, so they can Good, that gives them a little sense of ownership and responsibility. I hope we get at least one .mo file for the software translation in time to put into the 0.3…
BitcoinTalk

New icon/logo
24 February 2010, 21:24 UTC
New icons, what do you think? Better than the old one? Full size 530x529 image for scaling down to custom sizes: http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin530.png The perspective shadow was too thick on the larger sizes. I updated 32, 48 and…
BitcoinTalk

Re: wxWidgets 2.9.0
27 February 2010, 21:22 UTC
In the Windows world, "unicode" means UTF-16 (wchar). 2.8 has two build variations, ANSI and UTF-16 (unicode). The UTF-16 version is the "unicode" version provided in the Debian package. I believe 2.8 and its UTF-16 build labelled simply…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoind
28 February 2010, 14:47 UTC
I put it at bitcoin.org/download/linux64-0.2.7.1.tar.gz. You can delete it when you've got it. I thought about what might cause the problem you're having and made a change that this build includes. This might have been unsafe code,…
BitcoinTalk

Idea for file hosting and proxy services
15 March 2010, 19:16 UTC
When you want to upload an image to embed in a forum post, there are services like imageshack, but because they're free, they limit the number of views. It's a minuscule amount of bandwidth cost, but they can't just give it away for free,…
BitcoinTalk

Re: Idea for file hosting and proxy services
24 March 2010, 18:02 UTC
Mihalism Multi Host is a popular open source PHP file hosting server. It's geared toward image hosting, but I think by increasing the file size limit and liberalising the allowed file extensions, it could just as easily be used for…
BitcoinTalk

Re: We accept Bitcoins
20 May 2010, 21:43 UTC
Almost but not quite. Bitcoin uses EC-DSA, which can only do digital signing, not encryption. RSA can do both, but I didn't use it because it's an order of magnitude bigger and would have been impractical.
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0.3.0 rc1 quickie download link
22 June 2010, 17:36 UTC
If bandwidth is a problem, delete my link in the "0.3 almost ready" thread. I just don't want to upload it to sourceforge for a quickie share for a day or two, possibly taking it down immediately if there's a bug. Sourceforge has a policy…
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Re: Major Meltdown
27 June 2010, 19:06 UTC
Here's an answer to a similar question about how to recover from a major meltdown. https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=191.msg1585#msg1585
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Re: 0.3 almost ready
2 July 2010, 21:57 UTC
(reverted to rc2) Links removed, 0.3 is now released, so go to http://www.bitcoin.org to download it.
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Anonymous, homepage changes
6 July 2010, 02:59 UTC
I think we should de-emphasize the anonymous angle. With the popularity of bitcoin addresses instead of sending by IP, we can't give the impression it's automatically anonymous. It's possible to be pseudonymous, but you have to be…
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0.3.0 released
6 July 2010, 18:03 UTC
I uploaded 0.3.0 beta to sourceforge and updated the links on bitcoin.org. I still need to post the announcement message on the forum and mailing list. Here's what I've prepared: Announcing version 0.3 of Bitcoin, the P2P cryptocurrency!…
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Bitcoin 0.3 released!
6 July 2010, 18:32 UTC
Announcing version 0.3 of Bitcoin, the P2P cryptocurrency! Bitcoin is a digital currency using cryptography and a distributed network to replace the need for a trusted central server. Escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally…
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Re: 0.3.0 released
6 July 2010, 18:40 UTC
Actually, "tabs for sent and received transactions" sounds really immature if it doesn't have that already. "Transaction filter tabs" sounds better. I'm still editing it a little more and then I'll e-mail it to bitcoin-list and send it to…
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\[bitcoin-list\] Bitcoin 0.3 released!
6 July 2010, 21:53 UTC
Announcing version 0.3 of Bitcoin, the P2P cryptocurrency! Bitcoin is a digital currency using cryptography and a distributed network to replace the need for a trusted central server. Escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3 released!
6 July 2010, 21:53 UTC
Announcing version 0.3 of Bitcoin, the P2P cryptocurrency! Bitcoin is a digital currency using cryptography and a distributed network to replace the need for a trusted central server. Escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally…
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Re: BTC Vulnerability? (Massive Attack against BTC system. Is it really?)
9 July 2010, 03:28 UTC
What the OP described is called "cornering the market". When someone tries to buy all the world's supply of a scarce asset, the more they buy the higher the price goes. At some point, it gets too expensive for them to buy any more. It's…
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Re: Stuck on 513 blocks
14 July 2010, 18:02 UTC
This is the second time I've seen this "Live Protection" problem reported. It must be blocking the program's network communication. It sounds like it's allowing connections to be made, hence the 10 connections shown, but not allowing any…
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Fwd: Re: bitcoin!!!!
14 July 2010, 21:52 UTC
I see the interior pages of the old sourceforge wiki are still up, though the homepage forwards. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: bitcoin!!!! Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:56:21 -0400 From: Sam <samm@sammaloney.com> To: Satoshi…
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Bitcoin 0.3.1 released
15 July 2010, 17:05 UTC
This is a bugfix maintenance release. It is now uploaded to SourceForge. Mac OS X didn't need any fixes so we don't really need to update it, 0.3.0 is still good. The download links are on bitcoin.org Changes: - Added Portuguese…
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bitcoin.org drupal users
15 July 2010, 17:41 UTC
Is it possible for the translators (at least the more trusted ones) to have user accounts on drupal so they can update their translated text directly? The user accounts on drupal appear to be pretty weak. I created a satoshi account and…
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Fwd: Please update the bitcoin FAQ so new member can have the right info
15 July 2010, 17:43 UTC
\-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Please update the bitcoin FAQ so new member can have the right info Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:13:20 -0700 From: Jim Nguyen <jimmy.winn@gmail.com> To: satoshin@gmx.com Hi, In the FAQ of…
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Re: Website and software translations
15 July 2010, 18:37 UTC
I uploaded an updated bitcoin.po for 0.3.1 attached to this message: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=151.msg1259#msg1259 please use it if you're starting a new translation. If you already have a po file, poedit can update it. - Get…
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bitcoin.org server
15 July 2010, 20:00 UTC
You did some research when choosing hosting, this was a well chosen one, right? It seems like it would be a tremendous hassle to change, and we've had good luck with this one. Cheaper will usually have some offsetting drawback in quality.…
BitcoinTalk

Re: 0.3.1 release candidate, please test
15 July 2010, 22:07 UTC
I updated the first post with a link to rc2 for linux with the fix for this. Please check that this is fixed for you. Thanks! http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.1.rc2-linux.tar.gz
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Re: Source code documentation
16 July 2010, 17:15 UTC
It's in init.cpp. It's a wxWidgets app, so it doesn't have a main() function. It may in a little while, since I'm pretty close to making bitcoind build w/o wxBase. (it'll be in init.cpp) Sorry about my choice of the filename "main.cpp",…
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Re: Bitcoin 0.3.1 released
16 July 2010, 21:06 UTC
I uploaded windows 0.3.1 rc1 and linux 0.3.1 rc2 to SourceForge and updated the links on the homepage. You don't need to update to 0.3.1 unless you had one of the problems listed in the first post. If you've got it working already, stay…
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Bitcoin 0.3.2 released
17 July 2010, 21:35 UTC
Download links available now on bitcoin.org. Everyone should upgrade to this version. - Added a simple security safeguard that locks-in the block chain up to this point. - Reduced addr messages to save bandwidth now that there are plenty…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

wiki
18 July 2010, 15:23 UTC
http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=393.msg3785#msg3785 AndrewBuck: ... EDIT: The wiki doesn't seem to be sending the registration e-mail so I can log in to edit, is there some problem with the server or something? -Buck
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Re: They want to delete the Wikipedia article
20 July 2010, 18:38 UTC
Bitcoin is an implementation of Wei Dai's b-money proposal http://weidai.com/bmoney.txt on Cypherpunks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunks in 1998 and Nick Szabo's Bitgold proposal…
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Re: JSON-RPC password
23 July 2010, 17:14 UTC
Gavin's changes look good. I think everything is complete. Here's a test build, please test it! http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.2.5-win32.zip http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.2.5-linux.tar.gz
BitcoinTalk

Faster initial block download (5x faster)
23 July 2010, 18:24 UTC
By making some adjustments to the database settings, I was able to make the initial block download about 5 times faster. It downloads in about 30 minutes. The database default had it writing each block to disk synchronously, which is not…
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Re: JSON-RPC password
23 July 2010, 20:39 UTC
I don't think authentication should be disabled by default if there's no conf file or the config file doesn't contain "rpcpassword", but what if it contains "rpcpassword="? I can see both points. What if the programmer can't figure out…
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Re: JSON-RPC Multiple Invocations
24 July 2010, 00:59 UTC
Obviously it's a bug that it repeats the header. I was trying to follow the 1.0 spec: http://json-rpc.org/wiki/specification It called for multiple invocation. I think they mean it's like this, but I'm not sure: Post: {"method":…
BitcoinTalk

Version 0.3.2.5 -- please test!
24 July 2010, 03:32 UTC
Please test 0.3.2.5 in preparation for the 0.3.3 release! This build is looking good and should be the one that goes into 0.3.3. I encourage you to go ahead and upgrade now if you're on Windows or Linux. New features: - Gavin Andresen's…
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Re: md5?
25 July 2010, 22:06 UTC
For future reference, here's my public key. It's the same one that's been there since the bitcoin.org site first went up in 2008. Grab it now in case you need it later. http://www.bitcoin.org/Satoshi_Nakamoto.asc
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Re: wiki registration email?
29 July 2010, 02:10 UTC
WTF? How did we get on that? AFAIK, the only e-mail is if you tell the forum to do notifications, and I guess the wiki registration. I'd consider turning off the forum notification e-mails, I don't know why we have that.
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Forum e-mail notifications and PBL blacklist and wiki registration
29 July 2010, 02:18 UTC
http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=338.0 I think our problem may be that we have forum notifications on, like e-mail you when you receive a PM, but we don't have e-mail verification of new accounts. Can someone put someone else's…
BitcoinTalk

*** ALERT *** Upgrade to 0.3.6
29 July 2010, 19:13 UTC
Please upgrade to 0.3.6 ASAP! We fixed an implementation bug where it was possible that bogus transactions could be displayed as accepted. Do not accept Bitcoin transactions as payment until you upgrade to version 0.3.6! If you can't…
BitcoinTalk

Re: *** ALERT *** version 0.3.6
29 July 2010, 20:30 UTC
SVN is updated with version 0.3.6. Uploading Windows build of 0.3.6 to Sourceforge now, then will rebuild linux.
Private email (Martti Malmi)

\[bitcoin-list\] Alert: upgrade to bitcoin 0.3.6
30 July 2010, 05:34 UTC
Please upgrade to 0.3.6 ASAP to get an important bugfix. See the bitcoin.org homepage for download links. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Alert: upgrade to bitcoin 0.3.6
30 July 2010, 06:02 UTC
Please upgrade to 0.3.6 ASAP to get an important bugfix. See the bitcoin.org homepage for download links.
BitcoinTalk

Re: *** ALERT *** Upgrade to 0.3.6 ASAP!
30 July 2010, 21:44 UTC
Except that wouldn't work for boost 1.40+ (on Ubuntu 10.04), where you need to get libboost-all-dev. Seems they changed everything around in Boost recently, "-mt" and all that, makes it hard. BTW, I tried Boost 1.34 but it didn't have the…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

\[Fwd: no activation mail\]
2 August 2010, 20:56 UTC
Oh great, now we're screwed. We probably got spam blocked because we were allowing registrations without e-mail verification. But now that we've enabled it, our verification e-mails are blocked. There could still be some existing user…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

\[Fwd: Forum e-mail notifications and PBL blacklist and wiki registration\]
2 August 2010, 21:09 UTC
Here's the info about PBL again. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Forum e-mail notifications and PBL blacklist and wiki registration Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:18:56 +0100 From: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com> To: Martti…
BitcoinTalk

Please upgrade to 0.3.8!
3 August 2010, 23:40 UTC
Version 0.3.8 adds an important security improvement. Everyone should upgrade to get this change. The new safety feature displays a warning message in the status bar and locks down RPC if it detects a problem that may require an upgrade.…
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Re: Please upgrade to 0.3.8!
4 August 2010, 00:29 UTC
I guess SourceForge hasn't updated its mirrors yet. The files are there on the admin side, but not on the user side. I have no idea how long that will take. It's always been immediate in the past. Edit: SourceForge is updated now.
BitcoinTalk

Version 0.3.8.1 update for Linux 64-bit
9 August 2010, 19:46 UTC
When we switched to Crypto++ 5.6.0 SHA-256 in version 0.3.6, generation got broken on the Linux 64-bit build. Version 0.3.8.1 is on SourceForge with the 64-bit binary updated. Download:…
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Re: bitcoin generation broken in 0.3.8? (64-bit)
9 August 2010, 20:34 UTC
I uploaded 0.3.8.1 for Linux with re-built 64-bit. I ran a difficulty 1 test with it and it has generated blocks. http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=765.0 Download:…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: \[Fwd: Forum e-mail notifications and PBL blacklist and wiki registration\]
11 August 2010, 01:54 UTC
Are PM notifications still disabled? (All we really need is disable the forum's access to the mail server) mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: \[Fwd: Forum e-mail notifications and PBL blacklist and wiki registration\]
11 August 2010, 20:00 UTC
Right, forgot about that. Hopefully theymos was right that the PBL is the source of the problem. mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
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Re: Bitcoin Watchdog Service
13 August 2010, 17:09 UTC
Which doesn't matter because you can't access sourceforge to download the software either. If you've ever been connected before, you don't need IRC to bootstrap anymore. Even if you haven't, you can bootstrap from seed nodes. IRC is…
BitcoinTalk

Version 0.3.9 rc1, please test
13 August 2010, 17:40 UTC
Here's a test build if you'd like to help test before 0.3.9 is released. (or if you'd rather get upgrading out of the way now instead of waiting) Downloads: (binaries only) http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.9.rc1-win32.zip…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

\[bitcoin-list\] ALERT - we are investigating a problem
15 August 2010, 20:37 UTC
\*\*\* WARNING \*\*\* We are investigating a problem. DO NOT TRUST ANY TRANSACTIONS THAT HAPPENED AFTER 15.08.2010 17:05 UTC (block 74638) until the issue is resolved.…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] ALERT - we are investigating a problem
15 August 2010, 20:38 UTC
*** WARNING *** We are investigating a problem. DO NOT TRUST ANY TRANSACTIONS THAT HAPPENED AFTER 15.08.2010 17:05 UTC (block 74638) until the issue is resolved.
BitcoinTalk

Re: overflow bug SERIOUS
15 August 2010, 22:58 UTC
Don't update the block chain download. When you take someone's block chain download, you don't want it right up to the end. A somewhat old one is better so it can download and verify the most recent blocks. tcatm's 4-way SSE2 SHA-256 is…
BitcoinTalk

Re: overflow bug SERIOUS
15 August 2010, 23:36 UTC
Starting at 67000 is perfect. Yeah, at the moment you'll stop at 74638. It should start slowly creeping up as more nodes upgrade and generate. Linux build links below. The Linux version includes tcatm's 4-way SSE2 SHA-256 that makes…
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Re: overflow bug SERIOUS
15 August 2010, 23:37 UTC
Agree, wanted to do that for a long time, haven't had time to do it. For now, you could also subscribe to the bitcoin-list mailing list. It rarely gets used except for announcements like this and major new versions. Subscribe/unsubscribe…
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Version 0.3.10 - block 74638 overflow PATCH!
15 August 2010, 23:48 UTC
Version 0.3.10 patches the block 74638 overflow bug. http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823 The Linux version includes tcatm's 4-way SSE2 SHA-256 that makes generating faster on i5, i7 (with hyperthreading) and AMD CPU's. Try the…
BitcoinTalk

Re: integrating digital payments into p2p protocols
22 August 2010, 23:57 UTC
Hey Zooko! I wanted to thank you for posting about Bitcoin on your blog a year or two ago, back when I announced it on the Cryptography mailing list.
BitcoinTalk

Re: Development of alert system
24 August 2010, 23:51 UTC
If you're so paranoid that you're getting hysterical over this, then surely you're paranoid enough that if a warning message displays on the status bar, you'll check the website and forum. I think if another bug like the overflow bug…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

\[Fwd: SweepMines now accept bitcoins\]
27 August 2010, 02:36 UTC
\-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SweepMines now accept bitcoins Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:50:47 +0600 From: Kirill Kisel <kisel2626@gmail.com> To: satoshin@gmx.com Dear BitCoin. http://apps.facebook.com/sweepmines/ now accepts…
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Version 0.3.11 with upgrade alerts
27 August 2010, 21:54 UTC
Version 0.3.11 is now available. Changes: - Some blk*.dat checking on load - Built the -4way code with -march=amdfam10, which makes it a little faster - Warning if your clock is too far off - Warnings/errors/alerts can also be seen in the…
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Version 0.3.12
7 September 2010, 19:17 UTC
Version 0.3.12 is now available. Features: - json-rpc errors return a more standard error object. (thanks to Gavin Andresen) - json-rpc command line returns exit codes. - json-rpc "backupwallet" command. - Recovers and continues if an…
BitcoinTalk

Re: Bug? /usr/bin/bitcoind ""
19 September 2010, 19:58 UTC
I don't know anything about any of the bug trackers. If we were to have one, we would have to make a thoroughly researched choice. We're managing pretty well just using the forum. I'm more likely to see bugs posted in the forum, and I…
BitcoinTalk

Re: I broke my wallet, sends never confirm now.
30 September 2010, 16:59 UTC
0.3.13 release candidate, please test: http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.13-rc1-win32-setup.exe
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0.3.13 RC1 for Windows, please test
30 September 2010, 17:04 UTC
0.3.13 release candidate, to be released soon so please test: http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.13-rc1-win32-setup.exe - don't count or spend payments until they have 1 confirmation http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0…
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Re: BitCoin Wikipedia page DELETED!!!
30 September 2010, 17:50 UTC
If you do, I think it should be a very brief, single paragraph article like 100 words or less that simply identifies what Bitcoin is. I wish rather than deleting the article, they put a length restriction. If something is not famous…
BitcoinTalk

Re: Remote RPC access
30 September 2010, 18:27 UTC
It can be safe if you're using it over your own LAN, like if you have multiple servers at a location that talk to each other. 0.3.13 RC1 is available for Windows: http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.13-rc1-win32-setup.exe
BitcoinTalk

Version 0.3.13, please upgrade
1 October 2010, 00:34 UTC
Version 0.3.13 is now available. You should upgrade to prevent potential problems with 0/unconfirmed transactions. Note: 0.3.13 prevents problems if you haven't already spent a 0/unconfirmed transaction, but if that already happened, you…
BitcoinTalk

Re: Version 0.3.13, please upgrade
3 October 2010, 19:39 UTC
Could a few people please run this special build? It'll amnesty the dust spam transactions, which will clear up the 0/unconfirmed problem for now. We really just need one block letting them through to clear up the previous transactions.…
BitcoinTalk

Re: Website and software translations
6 October 2010, 15:42 UTC
poedit reorganised the file for some reason. I re-ran update from sources and it put it back in the original order so it's fine now. Did you run it on a drive where files aren't sorted alphabetically, like a FAT drive or USB flash drive?…
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Re: I broke my wallet, sends never confirm now.
6 October 2010, 16:54 UTC
That's going to be more of a SelectCoins thing. SVN rev 161 has a refinement to recursively determine if your own unconfirmed transactions can be spent. This is needed because you should be able to spend your own change right away. The…
BitcoinTalk

Version 0.3.14
21 October 2010, 16:39 UTC
Version 0.3.14 is now available http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.14/ Changes: - Key pool feature for safer wallet backup Gavin Andresen: - TEST network mode with switch -testnet - Option to use SSL for…
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Version 0.3.17
25 November 2010, 20:07 UTC
Version 0.3.17 is now available. Changes: - new getwork, thanks m0mchil - added transaction fee setting in UI options menu - free transaction limits - sendtoaddress returns transaction id instead of "sent" - getaccountaddress <account>…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

\[Fwd: Bitcoin.org is down\]
1 December 2010, 00:58 UTC
\-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Bitcoin.org is down Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:27:02 -0600 From: theymos <theymos@mm.st> To: satoshin@gmx.com Bitcoin.org has been down for several hours.
Private email (Martti Malmi)

What was the bitcoin.org outage?
2 December 2010, 22:00 UTC
Do you know what caused that outage? Did it need to be rebooted, or was it a DoS or something? The IP was pingable during the outage. Did you get back to davidonpda about his doing a mirror backup? I think that's a really good idea. Do…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: What was the bitcoin.org outage?
3 December 2010, 19:58 UTC
\> I told him to go ahead. I don't do automatic backups atm. We should have It should be Gavin. I trust him, he's responsible, professional, and technically much more linux capable than me. (I don't know Xunie, but he hasn't posted for…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: What was the bitcoin.org outage?
6 December 2010, 16:08 UTC
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote: Thanks, did you finish moving bitcoinexchange to another server? -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) mQGiBEkJ+qcRBADKDTcZlYDRtP1Q7/ShuzBJzUh9hoVVowogf2W07U6G9BqKW24r…
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\[bitcoin-list\] Bitcoin 0.3.18 is released
8 December 2010, 23:09 UTC
Version 0.3.18 is now available. Changes: - Fixed a wallet.dat compatibility problem if you downgraded from 0.3.17 and then upgraded again - IsStandard() check to only include known transaction types in blocks - Jgarzik's optimisation to…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3.18 is released
8 December 2010, 23:11 UTC
Version 0.3.18 is now available. Changes: - Fixed a wallet.dat compatibility problem if you downgraded from 0.3.17 and then upgraded again - IsStandard() check to only include known transaction types in blocks - Jgarzik's optimisation to…
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Version 0.3.18
8 December 2010, 23:19 UTC
Changes: - Fixed a wallet.dat compatibility problem if you downgraded from 0.3.17 and then upgraded again - IsStandard() check to only include known transaction types in blocks - Jgarzik's optimisation to speed up the initial block…
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Added some DoS limits, removed safe mode (0.3.19)
12 December 2010, 18:22 UTC
There's more work to do on DoS, but I'm doing a quick build of what I have so far in case it's needed, before venturing into more complex ideas. The build for this is version 0.3.19. - Added some DoS controls As Gavin and I have said…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

\[bitcoin-list\] Bitcoin 0.3.19 is released
13 December 2010, 16:11 UTC
This is a minor release to add some DoS protection. Changes: - Added some DoS limits, though it's still far from DoS resistant. - Removed "safe mode" alerts. http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=2228.0 Download:…
bitcoin-list (SourceForge)

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.3.19 is released
13 December 2010, 16:12 UTC
This is a minor release to add some DoS protection. Changes: - Added some DoS limits, though it's still far from DoS resistant. - Removed "safe mode" alerts. http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=2228.0 Download:…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: Bitcoin.org backups
20 December 2010, 18:10 UTC
Gavin Andresen wrote: I agree, don't let the database out of your hands. There's private PM in there, e-mail addresses, passwords. BTW, password hashes = passwords. It's easy to break the hash of short passwords people use on forums. 6…
Private email (Mike Hearn)

More BitCoin questions
10 January 2011, 20:47 (time as published; timezone not given)
By the way, if you didn't see it already, there's a discussion on the security of secp256k1 on the forum: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/ind ex.php?topic=2699.0 Hal (i presume this is Hal Finney) Yes, it's him. He was supportive on the…
Private email (Martti Malmi)

Re: 0.3.20 release : shipped
22 February 2011, 19:49 UTC
\> I have not sent a message to the sourceforge bitcoin-list mailing list Martti should give you the Drupal admin password. Any subscriber can post to bitcoin-list. Here's the admin password in case you need it later. Gavin: [An encrypted…
Private email (Mike Hearn)

Open sourced my Java SPV impl
9 March 2011, 17:15 (time as published; timezone not given)
I hope you are doing well. I finally got all the lawyers happy enough to release BitCoinJ under the Google name using the Apache 2 license: It's incomplete - notably it doesn't properly handle block chain splits yet - but the rest is…
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Open sourced my Java SPV impl
9 March 2011, 19:39 (time as published; timezone not given)
See these threads: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/ind ex.php?topic=1786.msg22119#msg 22119 http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/ind ex.php?topic=2181.msg28729#msg 28729 I see. So right now fees are tricky because you have to decide up front what the…

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