THIS DAY IN BITCOIN HISTORY
July 23
6 of Satoshi’s emails and forum posts are dated July 23 (2010), quoted from the original sources.
What Satoshi wrote on July 23.
By making some adjustments to the database settings, I was able to make the initial block download about 5 times faster. It downloads in about 30 minutes. The database default had it writing each block to disk synchro…
Re: bitcoind not responding to RPCIf I recall correctly, 500 is the prescribed status code for JSON-RPC error responses. There is still a JSON response in the body of the reply telling the explanation of the error, which could be something like {"resu…
Re: Faster initial block downloadQuote from: knightmb on July 23, 2010, 07:32:58 PM Is there a safety reason to stop within the last 2000 blocks or can it be tweaked to stop at remaining 500 blocks for example? Not really. I'll change it to 1000 next…
Re: JSON-RPC passwordI don't think authentication should be disabled by default if there's no conf file or the config file doesn't contain "rpcpassword", but what if it contains "rpcpassword="? I can see both points. What if the programme…
Re: JSON-RPC passwordGavin's changes look good. I think everything is complete. Here's a test build, please test it! http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.2.5-win32.zip http://www.bitcoin.org/download/bitcoin-0.3.2.5-linux.tar.gz
Re: JSON-RPC passwordQuote from: gavinandresen on July 23, 2010, 03:11:45 PM Question for everybody: should I add a section to the wiki page describing, in detail, how to do HTTP Basic authentication? PHP and Python make is really easy--…
To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in running nodes over time, the proof-of-work difficulty is determined by a moving average targeting an average number of blocks per hour. If they'…Read the full quotes ↗
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