Questions related to problems encountered while running the Bitcoin-related software.
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Hashrate falls by factor of 1000x when now block is found?
Very often my mining hashrate falls from the usual ~550 Mhash/s to about 400-500 khash/s, and I have noticed direct correlation in time with messages like these:
btcguild.com:8332 25/04/2013 ...
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What is “failed to read block” and how can this be fixed?
When I try to open my BitCoin wallet, I get a "failed to read block" message and it will not open. What does this mean and how can this be rectified?
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Given the recent <0.8 bug, when can we safely have larger block sizes?
Given the <0.8 bug and subsequent fork happened because of a particularly large block, does this mean that large blocks can not be used until the large majority of the community switches to 0.8?
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bitcoind: corrupted database?
looris@Palace-of-the-Nine-Moons:/tmp $ bitcoind
looris@Palace-of-the-Nine-Moons:/tmp $ Bitcoin server starting
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EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
CLevelDB(): error opening ...
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vote
1answer
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ListAccounts JSON array data isn't consistently formatted (compared to ListReceivedByAccount)
When I perform a ListAccounts query I get this:
{
"result": {
"": 0.0,
"account": 0.0,
"account3": 0.0,
"account7": 0.0
},
"error": null,
"id": "1"
}
However ...
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1answer
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How was the overflow bug of 2010 detected? Should UINT64_MAX value transactions be considered suspicious?
The overflow bug of 2010 was a result of a client that summed two values together and reaching INT64_MAX instead of UINT64_MAX.
Should transactions of INT64_MAX (or any similar constant) be treated ...
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Gaming the “off-by-one” bug (difficulty re-target based on 2015 instead of 2016 block time span)?
In this forum post from Gavin Andresen he writes:
Second: I've written 'discourage blocks' infrastructure:
https://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcoin-git/tree/discourageblocks
(code reviews ...
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2answers
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How do I report a bug in the Bitcoin client application?
I just installed the v0.4 client and have a bug to report... where can I do this?
If you could also describe how to check if the bug has been reported already, that would be great too.
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What are the steps in building bitcoind on Mac OS X 10.6?
Following the instructions in build-osx.txt (which seem sadly out of date) leaves me without a file named libboost_system.a.
Here is how I built boost:
% cd boost_1_42_0
% ./bootstrap.sh
% ./bjam ...
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Why am I getting this make error w/ 0.4.0rc1 on Ubuntu
Building 0.4.0rc1 in Ububtu via make -f makefile.unix returns the following errors/warnings:
ui.cpp: In member function 'virtual void CMainFrame::OnIconize(wxIconizeEvent&)':
ui.cpp:488:25 ...
