THIS DAY IN BITCOIN HISTORY
July 17
9 of Satoshi’s emails and forum posts are dated July 17 (2010), quoted from the original sources.
What Satoshi wrote on July 17.
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 t…
Re: Assertion Failure - Ubuntu LucidQuote from: singpolyma on July 17, 2010, 10:19:48 PM My coins disappeared, but I assume they'll come back when it's up to current? Right, they'll re-appear when it's finished downloading all the blocks.
Re: Bitcoin 0.3.2 releasedQuote from: llama on July 17, 2010, 09:56:25 PM However, it's important that you don't lock all the way up the very latest block. Otherwise, the attacker could generate a fake block (or a few) right before you happen…
Re: Bitcoin snack machine (fast transaction problem)I believe it'll be possible for a payment processing company to provide as a service the rapid distribution of transactions with good-enough checking in something like 10 seconds or less. The network nodes only accept…
Re: BUG Report: Rounding glitchIt must be a rounding error when getinfo converts to floating point to return the JSON-RPC result. The only place where it uses floating point to represent money is returning a value in JSON-RPC. 1.139999999999 is lon…
Re: Nenolod, the guy that wants to prove Bitcoin doesn't work.0.3.2 has some security safeguards to lock in the block chain up to this point and limit the damage a little if someone gets 50%. But if someone has 50%+ of the CPU power and malicious intent, they can prove what it a…
Re: Network SizeQuote from: NewLibertyStandard on July 17, 2010, 10:22:09 PM Version 0.3 was supposed to reduce the number of outgoing connections on non-port forwarded clients from 15 to 8, but I don't think it really happened. I'm…
Re: Privacy versus Safety: handling changeWe should queue up a supply of pre-made addresses in the wallet to use when a new address is needed. They aren't very big, so it wouldn't hurt to have a lot of them. This would more generally cover the case also where…
Re: Source code documentationI didn't realize you were going to document all the intentionally undocumented commands. They're unsupported and not intended to be used by users. All the user-facing commands are listed in the -? help.
A generation ago, multi-user time-sharing computer systems had a similar problem. Before strong encryption, users had to rely on password protection to secure their files, placing trust in the system administrator to…Read the full quotes ↗
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