THIS DAY IN BITCOIN HISTORY
August 18
3 of Satoshi’s emails and forum posts are dated August 18 (2010), quoted from the original sources.
What Satoshi wrote on August 18.
In the next SVN rev, I'll make it only go back to the last checkpoint at block 74000. If we need to correct a problem in the future, we can always make sure it goes back at least as far back as the problem. Also, I'm…
Re: Difficulty: More nodes active, or faster nodes?The performance numbers posted from a VIA C7's hardware SHA-256 weren't astronomical. Only in the 1500 khash/s range. If you think about it, just because it's implemented in hardware doesn't mean it's crazy fast. It s…
Re: New screenshots to the front page?Definitely. The old screenshots of 0.1 are very outdated. Windows Aero is a good choice. Windows is still the largest user group. Mind what's behind it for the transparent parts. What to have displayed in the transact…
The problem of course is the payee can't verify that one of the owners did not double-spend the coin. A common solution is to introduce a trusted central authority, or mint, that checks every transaction for doub…Read the full quotes ↗
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