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Re: [WTB] Minecraft
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michagogo
on 14/04/2014, 12:44:17 UTC
Bought from itradebtc.com
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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Av reports viruses in sst file
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michagogo
on 06/04/2014, 18:57:43 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file is ~70 bytes but might be worth a try if you want to mess with virus scanners... (calling them "anti virus" programs is a bit too flattering imho).

IIRC the test string doesn't trigger in the middle of another file, so that won't do anything.
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Re: [WTB] TF2 keys
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michagogo
on 24/03/2014, 19:38:33 UTC
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[WTB] Minecraft
by
michagogo
on 23/03/2014, 19:43:27 UTC
Specifically, a redeemable code -- either purchased from their website or from a prepaid card available in retail stores in some locations. Payment can either be upon delivery and successful redemption, or using https://bitrated.com.
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Re: Forum ranks/positions (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?)
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michagogo
on 01/02/2014, 16:49:47 UTC
Suggestion: rename "Bitcoin-Qt core developer" to "Bitcoin Core developer". It's not just the GUI, it's also bitcoind, and as of 0.9, it's being rebranded Bitcoin Core.
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Re: Using captcha to democratize mining
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michagogo
on 28/01/2014, 13:25:17 UTC
You can't possibly have a CAPTCHA in a system like Bitcoin. A CAPTCHA requires, among other things, that there be a computer generating it and keeping the answer to compare to. The question of "is this right?" is asked of whatever generated it and has the answer stored. A decentralized system has, well, no central point that can issue the CAPTCHAs and validate them -- if nodes are generating their own CAPTCHA, you'd be relying on the honor system, and there's nothing to stop modified software from bypassing the CAPTCHA check.
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Re: Blockchain download in Ubuntu 12.04 horrendous
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michagogo
on 23/01/2014, 16:23:07 UTC
You can downloads most of the blockchain as a torrent: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.160

Seriously? I wouldn't trust this if someone paid me!

For one, this is created and endorsed by Jeff Garzik, a well-known member of the community and a Bitcoin Core developer. However, that doesn't matter -- using the bootstrap.dat torrent doesn't require any trust whatsoever. The Bitcoin software imports the blocks from the file, but it validates them first, treating them the same way it would if they came over the Bitcoin network.
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Re: Test some multisig transactions for me, using your respective client.
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michagogo
on 22/01/2014, 20:12:49 UTC
If you want people to test, it would help to have the site running on the testnet, so tests can be done without involving valuable bitcoins.
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Re: Bitcoin-QT crashes when any bitcoin.conf file exists
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michagogo
on 20/01/2014, 21:45:21 UTC
Well, what are those "Problem Details"?
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Re: Free transactions for output < 0.01 BTC with Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.6
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michagogo
on 16/01/2014, 23:30:45 UTC
The removal of the CENT rule is only for relaying, not creating, free transactions.
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Re: OP_RETURN
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michagogo
on 14/01/2014, 21:04:00 UTC
It's not supposed to.
Don't store data in the chain.

OP_RETURN is like saying "please don't rape me! but if you do, please be gentle".
It doesn't justify or make the rape (abuse of the blockchain, in this case) easier.

Or another way I've seen it phrased, "I can't stop you from raping me, but please be gentle."

To clarify, the only reason that OP_RETURN is in marginally better than other methods of inserting arbitrary data into transactions is that it doesn't bloat the UTXO set, because it can be pruned from there.
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Re: What if I delete blk0001.dat files
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michagogo
on 14/01/2014, 20:07:29 UTC
You won't immediately notice anything wrong, until the moment when the software tries to access a block from one of those files, which could happen for a variety of reasons, including a node requesting it over the network. When that happens, it'll crash.
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Re: [20$ Bounty] help iphone Blockchain app stuck.
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michagogo
on 10/01/2014, 14:07:49 UTC
Have you tried restarting your device? If not, try that.

Are you able to tap on the button in the bottom right, to see your account identifier? If so, you can login to blockchain.info in your browser with the identifier and your password.

Is the device jailbroken?

What version of iOS is it running?
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Re: can't open qt - need help - corrupted?
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michagogo
on 08/01/2014, 12:13:48 UTC
When trying to salvage it, I've tried both commands both of you suggested, but it tells me command not found:

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Bitcoin-Qt.app -salvagewallet
-bash: Bitcoin-Qt.app: command not found

Look at my message -- that command won't work, you want the following command:
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open /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt.app --args -salvagewallet

This is because in OS X, applications are actually folders. Bitcoin-Qt.app isn't an executable, the executable itself is a few folders in, I don't remember the exact structure off the top of my head. The `open` command will look at it from OS X's perspective, and do what you want.
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Re: Consiquence of changing default listening port.
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michagogo
on 07/01/2014, 19:53:08 UTC
Yes, you are able to change the listening port, and yes, if you change the listening port you will advertise your address along with the new port. However, unless I'm misremembering, the default behavior of Bitcoin Core is to prefer connections on port 8333, so you're unlikely to get many (if any) incoming connections.
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Re: can't open qt - need help - corrupted?
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michagogo
on 07/01/2014, 19:49:42 UTC
The following commands should back up your wallet and then start the salvage operation:
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$ cd /Users/username/Library/Application\ Support/Bitcoin/
$ cp wallet.dat wallet.dat.bak
$ open /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt.app --args -salvagewallet
Note that the salvage operation may take time (a 2-digit number of minutes), because part of it it a rescan of the blockchain.
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Re: help -- importing old wallet
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michagogo
on 06/01/2014, 18:38:38 UTC
You could use jackjack's pywallet to dump the private keys from the wallet, and then I assume Multibit can import them. I don't have personal experience with either of those tools, so I unfortunately can't give you specific instructions, but hopefully this will point you in the right direction.
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Re: [BOUNTY] MULTIBIT WALLET HELP
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michagogo
on 05/01/2014, 18:52:15 UTC
Download the latest version, v0.5.16, from https://multibit.org/releases/multibit-0.5.16/multibit-0.5.16.dmg.

Once you've installed that, see if it fixes the problem. If not, the next step would be to try backing up and deleting (or just moving/renaming) the settings and other files, but an update may fix the problem, and if it does, it's easier than going through the process of moving the files out of the way.
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Re: [BOUNTY] MULTIBIT WALLET HELP
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michagogo
on 05/01/2014, 18:05:22 UTC
What system (hardware and software) is this? Are you using the latest version of Multibit? Have you tried backing up your wallet, uninstalling Multibit and reinstalling it? Also, is that the full text of the error? Is there any traceback information before or after that, saying anything about where in the code the error is? Which line it's at, which function, anything like that?
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Re: [For sale due to lack of development time] Automatic Altcoin Generator
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michagogo
on 05/01/2014, 09:10:59 UTC
A nice feature would be if you could see on the status page, next to each coin, a list of its parameters.