The second halving
Block 420,000 cuts the new-coin reward from 25 to 12.5 BTC.
block subsidy: 25 BTC → 12.5 BTC
Block 420,000 · July 9, 2016 · 16:46:13 UTC
THIS DAY IN BITCOIN HISTORY
July 9
What happened in Bitcoin on July 9: The second halving (2016). Plus 3 of Satoshi’s emails and forum posts from this date.
ON THE TIMELINE
Turning points on July 9.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
What Satoshi wrote on July 9.
Re: bitcoin 0.3 win64 - broken access to APPDATA if non-latin characters in username
I tested this with a non-lower-ASCII account name on XP and confirmed the bug, then tested that the new GetDefaultDataDir fixed it. This change is revision 102 of the SVN.
Re: bitcoin 0.3 win64 - broken access to APPDATA if non-latin characters in usernameI think I see where the problem is. Coincidentally, I recently coded a replacement for the function in question which should fix it. It's not enabled yet, but in the SVN version it prints a debug message in debug.log…
Re: BTC Vulnerability? (Massive Attack against BTC system. Is it really?)What the OP described is called "cornering the market". When someone tries to buy all the world's supply of a scarce asset, the more they buy the higher the price goes. At some point, it gets too expensive for them to…
Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.Read the full quotes ↗
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