Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
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Re: Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
#2No one claimed the 10BTC bug bounty for the OSX client, so its all a matter of hoping things are fixed
Re: Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
#3No one claimed the 10BTC bug bounty for the OSX client, so its all a matter of hoping things are fixed
Re: Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
#4No one claimed the 10BTC bug bounty for the OSX client, so its all a matter of hoping things are fixed
This seems like a reasonably strong claim - and has the post title, "Claiming Bitcoin's Bug Bounty":
http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/27/bitcoin-leveldb/
The corruption explained there matched the pattern seen in representative cases supplied by the core team.
The core team may not have yet awarded the bounty, and there were a few other possibly contributing factors regarding proper use of LevelDB on OSX before the above work... but there's certainly a strong case made that a real fix has been discovered and deployed.
Re: Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
#5Seems kind if weird that Bitcoin (actually bitcoind) itself would be dependent on a google-developed database solution that isn't open source, and not only that, has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..
Re: Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
#6Seems kind if weird that Bitcoin (actually bitcoind) itself would be dependent on a google-developed database solution that isn't open source, and not only that, has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..
Why do you think LevelDB isn't open source? https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/
Re: Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
#7Seems kind if weird that Bitcoin (actually bitcoind) itself would be dependent on a google-developed database solution that isn't open source, and not only that, has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..
Why do you think LevelDB isn't open source? https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/
Also some history: Satoshi's original client used BerkeleyDB which had a configuration issue that almost destroyed Bitcoin.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...
Re: Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
#8Bitcoin is about to break 1 Billion difficulty.
The leap in difficulty must mean all the 500-600Ghash/sec 28nm ASICs are coming online.
Re: Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
#9No one claimed the 10BTC bug bounty for the OSX client, so its all a matter of hoping things are fixed
It's been claimed (see the other replies). Just waiting on confirmation that this fixes the problem entirely before paying out, I believe.
Re: Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs
#10Seems kind if weird that Bitcoin (actually bitcoind) itself would be dependent on a google-developed database solution that isn't open source, and not only that, has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..
> has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..
Care to provide details?