Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs

Post by AsymetricCom » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 9:08 PM UTC

maaku wrote: post #10

AsymetricCom wrote: post #5

Seems 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?

Post by teraflop » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 9:37 PM UTC

AsymetricCom wrote: post #11

teraflop wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think LevelDB isn't open source? https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/

Because it has dependencies on libs that are not open source, so that means "closed" as propagated across this "open" system.

Post by nhilma » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 5:15 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 6:02 AM UTC

ostikk wrote: post #15

ck2 wrote: post #8

Bitcoin is about to break 1 Billion difficulty. The leap in difficulty must mean all the 500-600Ghash/sec 28nm ASICs are coming online.

Given that there has been a 8x growth in price, miners must still be profitable at this point? If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this

Post by SectioAurea » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 7:20 AM UTC

ostikk wrote: post #15

ck2 wrote: post #8

Bitcoin is about to break 1 Billion difficulty. The leap in difficulty must mean all the 500-600Ghash/sec 28nm ASICs are coming online.

Given that there has been a 8x growth in price, miners must still be profitable at this point? If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this