THIS DAY IN BITCOIN HISTORY
What happened in Bitcoin on July 18: Mt. Gox opens (2010). Plus 8 of Satoshi’s emails and forum posts from this date.
Jed McCaleb turns a dormant trading-card domain into a bitcoin exchange. Within three years it handles most of the world’s bitcoin trading.
Hi Everyone, I just put up a new bitcoin exchange. Please let me know what you think.
mtgox · July 18, 2010, 01:57:19 AM UTC
I uploaded to SVN my changes to add a password to JSON-RPC. If you're set up to build, please test it. The -server switch is replaced with -rpcpw=<password>, which is also used with bitcoind. bitcoin -rpcpw=<…
Re: Bitcoin 0.3.2 releasedThe change list is basically encompassed by what's listed in the first message. Everyone should upgrade to get the important security improvements. Minimizing to tray had at least 3 different glitches and bugs on Linu…
Re: Bitcoin snack machine (fast transaction problem)Quote from: llama on July 18, 2010, 12:03:29 AM This is a good start, but still not impermeable. I didn't say impermeable, I said good-enough. The loss in practice would be far lower than with credit cards. Quote (for…
Re: Did block generation crawl to a halt?Nice graph! A moving average to smooth it out would be nice. http://nullvoid.org/bitcoin/statistix.php says 212 blocks in the last 24 hours, or 8.8 per hour.
Re: MSVC build & SHA-256OpenSSL doesn't have any interface for doing just the low level raw block hash part of SHA256. SHA256 begins by wrapping your data in a specially formatted buffer. Setting up the buffer takes an order of magnitude lon…
Re: Nenolod, the guy that wants to prove Bitcoin doesn't work.Typically, over 25,000 BTC.
Re: Source code documentationThey're only intended for intrepid programmers who read the sourcecode.
Re: URI-scheme for bitcoinQuote from: lachesis on June 16, 2010, 06:14:05 AM I think you're misunderstanding the issue. My browser will always be able to go to 127.0.0.1 (barring some strange IE settings or a virus). If I type the address into…
It's hard to think of how to apply zero-knowledge-proofs in this case.Read the full quotes ↗
One short email each morning with what Satoshi wrote on that date, linked to the original source. Unsubscribe anytime.