I welcome any updates to the man pages for the newer versions of bitcoin that have come out since I originally wrote the current man page.

I also think it would make sense to include it in the upstream source. I'm a bit puzzled by the assertion that the GPL is incompatible with the MIT license. Its not incompatible, unless someone is thinking that they want to redistribute bitcoin, and the man page, under a more restrictive license for some purpose. Which MIT permits, but GPL does not. For what purpose would someone want to restricting users' rights?

For the most part, gribble talking in the channel is not necessary, I've seen a lot of people doing gpg authentications in the channel and people complaining that they should be done in private because of the noise... I support moving it to PM!

What qualifies as working? I'm able to generate namecoins through mining, I've registered domain names with the namecoins that I mined. I've changed those domain name properties to have A records, and subdomains, and I've setup nameserver forwarding.... all of this works. I feel like there IS a working prototype.

What problems are you saying are sticking points for holding back the bounty dispersal?

What happened with this? It seems like the name chosen in this poll was BitDNS, but the only current running DNS project is Namecoin.

Would you consider setting up BBE for namecoin's block chain?

If you are not interested in doing so, would you release the source so someone else could host it?

thanks!

Bitcoin is now available in Squeeze backports....

When the next Debian stable is getting close to release, we can decide if we want to ship the version that is contained within the proposed release, or keep it out.

Also, there is a mechanism for updating packages in stable, its more strict, but if there were protocol changes that made the older version no longer work, it could be updated to support that.


This actually does not help Debian, in fact it usually makes things more complicated and problematic.  Please do not do this.

Err, this isn't how you should build a debian source package.

You should have downloaded the source package. First you need to make sure you have apt-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then you can simply do:


Then you need to make sure you have the proper build-dependencies installed:


Then while in the directory you can do the following to build the package:


EDIT: fixed code block formatting

You can always download the source package, compare the source with the original distributed source, all it takes is a simple diff, and then build your own package out of it.

Once the package migrates to wheezy, I'll create a backport (http://backports.debian.org) for squeeze.... but lenny is no longer stable, so that probably will no longer be supported and instead you should consider upgrading to squeeze.

Edit: oops, it has, so I'll do that backport now.

Mostly it was Jonas, but I also worked and still work with him on the package.

I'm having a new problem that just started:

backend (http://127.0.0.1:5847/) connect error:
Connection to http://127.0.0.1:5847 refused

I have my bitcoind running locally, and the username/password are set properly, and I haven't changed anything. It just started.

Is there a projected point where payout will equal what is expected for mining solo, is that a particular hash/sec rate? At this point it seems 1/4 of what difficulty is (and what one can get on slush's pool, even with the 2% fee)

Its working now, must have been some network issue between me and you.

I'm getting: Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC

I also don't seem able to traceroute to the server, although I can load the web page

Thanks, is there a projected point where payout will equal what is expected for mining solo? At this point it seems 1/4 of what difficulty is.


I'll do this, but it looks like the server is down right now, so I'll wait for that.

Alright, I've been running on this pool for over 24 hours now, using an unmodified m0n miner. It seems like my estimated earnings are about 1.3btc, which is quite low compared to what I would get on slush's pool and what I would expect with a 5870 (approximately 4btc/day right now).

I know that the modified miner only helps the pool server, and not me, but is the low payout because there are not enough people in the pool yet, or did I miss something in the flame fest?

Thanks for setting up this pool, its fun to have more pools to really bring out the debate on different tactics. If anything, I've enjoyed reading the debate in this thread.

I know some people think other people are trolling, and don't appreciate the criticisms, but I'd ask that you refrain from shutting people down and refusing to engage in the discussions. I've also noticed that people are sometimes thinking that argumentation is an unfair attack, I don't think that is a correct characterization. Textual mediums do not convey tone, no matter the number of emotions included. So I'd ask people who feel like they are being unfairly attacked to reconsider responding in-kind with an aggressive response, that just raises the heat. Even if you cannot read anything but an attack in the post, be a better person and respond in a way that de-escalates the aggression, rather than matching it.

Likewise, I think its fair to ask people who are disagreeing to refrain from making angry or aggressive attacks, especially those that are ad hominem and don't serve any argumentative purpose, but to piss off the other person.

With that said, please do continue debating the different approaches its fun! But be sure to read what people are saying, even when you have decided ahead of time that they are not going to say anything correct, or nice.

On another note, I'm trying out this pool to see how it compares. I'm using the "original" poclbm for a while and then I'll switch to the mod to see how they compare. I'm discouraged from continuing to use this modified miner if the changes aren't going to be pushed 'upstream' or at least offered to upstream for consideration (hint: git repository, pull request on github if you use that).

I agree, put it under git. I dont care about the size, but having version control is really useful for seeing what changed, its also much easier to get updates regularly.

Well, considering that 8 blocks would have given me 400 coins solo, obtaining only 328 from the pool means unlucky to me.

My hash rate is around 340125 khash/sec, this is my plunge: