John,
Does the current master branch work with bitcoind 0.8.1 if the -txindex=1 setting is used?
What about the no-statistics branch?
Can I leave bitcoind 0.8.1 running while using Abe?
Also, do you know any way to check that -txindex=1 is indeed active and was used for the last reindex? My ~/.bitcoin/blocks is currently 8.6GiB of which 837MiB is index. ~/.bitcoin/chainstate is 208MiB.
Thanks for your work, I just donated ฿0.2.