THIS DAY IN BITCOIN HISTORY
May 16
6 of Satoshi’s emails and forum posts are dated May 16 (2010), quoted from the original sources.
What Satoshi wrote on May 16.
When you generate a new bitcoin address, it only takes disk space on your own computer (like 500 bytes). It's like generating a new PGP private key, but less CPU intensive because it's ECC. The address space is effect…
Re: Exception: 9key_error errorDoes it happen every time you run it, or just happened once at some random time? I've never seen that fail before. It's a call to OpenSSL that I assumed would never fail, but I put an error check there just in case. I…
Re: For a website taking payments with bitcoins, better: IP or bitcoin addresses?Quote from: Xunie on May 14, 2010, 09:52:53 PM I suggest we disable IP transactions while the user uses a Proxy! Just to be on the safe side. That's a good idea. At the very least a warning dialog explaining that it'l…
Re: removing bitcoin addressesSheriffWoody: Bitcoin addresses you generate are kept forever. A bitcoin address must be kept to show ownership of anything sent to it. If you were able to delete a bitcoin address and someone sent to it, the money wo…
Re: Setting up multiple bitcoin machines behind NATAt the moment, it always assumes the incoming port is 8333, so it would tell other bitcoin nodes to connect to router:8333 even if you're redirecting from another port number. I'm not in a big hurry to fix this becaus…
Re: URI-scheme for bitcoinQuote from: Karmicads on May 01, 2010, 06:06:53 AM A freenet URI is like this: http://127.0.0.1:8888/USK@oshw3DxmJUt7q4ThF4dCez5IXbc9hCGcv0VuwLRCmeQ,ckeXv20F1gBzkqssB4RXHZ2nB1YRT8Pb8KYZk8wj-bs,AQACAAE/occamsrazor/6/f.…
We consider the scenario of an attacker trying to generate an alternate chain faster than the honest chain. Even if this is accomplished, it does not throw the system open to arbitrary changes, such as creating value…Read the full quotes ↗
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