August 11

Updated SVN. Thanks. There's little hope of not repeatedly stumbling over that in the future. It doesn't break the compile for me.

Quote from: jgarzik on August 10, 2010, 06:53:57 PM Ask some real-world business owners if they want to tell their customers about the chance of the money being lost forever, unrecoverable by either party. That makes…

It would be nice to keep the blk*.dat files small as long as we can. The eventual solution will be to not care how big it gets. But for now, while it's still small, it's nice to keep it small so new users can get goin…

Quote from: sirius-m on August 11, 2010, 02:01:53 AM I added to the FAQ the warning to back up after each transaction. Is it necessary btw to stop the client before making a backup? That's a bit inconvenient. Automati…

This is a very interesting topic. If a solution was found, a much better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible. Originally, a coin can be just a chain of signatures. With a timestamp ser…

Still thinking this idea through... The only job the network needs to do is to tell whether a spend of an outpoint is the first or not. If we're willing to have clients keep the history for their own money, then some…

It doesn't have to be such a breaking change. New nodes could accept old transactions for a long time until most nodes have already upgraded before starting to refuse transactions without PoW. Or, they could always ac…