August 9

SVN rev 125: - Always make 8 outbound connections even if have 8 inbound - Limit outbound connections to one per a.b.?.? range - Switch -maxconnections=# I added the (currently undocumented) switch -maxconnections=#.…

I found that SSE2 only added a slight 2% speedup, which didn't seem worth the incompatibility. I was trying to take the safer option. It doesn't look to me like Crypto++ could be deciding whether to use SSE2 at runtim…

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: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bi…

The heat from your computer is not wasted if you need to heat your home. If you're using electric heat where you live, then your computer's heat isn't a waste. It's equal cost if you generate the heat with your comput…

That's a good point, I believe you could run with generation off if you don't have SSE2. How about add to the top of cryptopp/config.h: #if !defined(_M_X64) && !defined(__x86_64__) #define CRYPTOPP_DISABLE_SSE…

unsigned int is good until 2106. Surely the network will have to be totally revamped at least once by then. There should not be any signed int. If you've found a signed int somewhere, please tell me (within the next 2…

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: http://sourceforge.net/projects…