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How does one attain 1,000+ connections like blockchain.info?
At this moment, blockchain.info has over 1,900 nodes connected to their bitcoin client.
I have been running an m1.small ubuntu 12.04 server and bitcoind for ~4 days straight now with no reboots. My ...
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How often does Bitcoin connect to the fallback nodes?
Does the standard client have a preference for connecting to fallback nodes (for example, by trying to have at least 1 connection to such node at all times), or are they treated like any other nodes?
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What are the risks of running an online store via a bitcoind connection using less than the minimum of 8 connections?
I have 1GB of memory to work with on my VPS.
I want to run bitcoind as well as a few other crypto currency daemons.
As it stands, number of connections seem to be the only value I can change that ...
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Bitcoin qt won't update
I installed Bitcoin Qt, and it began updating the blocks extremely slowly. After several hours, I restarted the program, thinking it might speed it up. Now, it appears completely stagnant; the icon in ...
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Bitcoin client only has 1 connection?
I have had bitcoin for a little bit now. It has been going very smoothly. I have set up 3 accounts for various activities, privacy, and security reasons. I now can not get all of the block chain. ...
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How to integrate this pure JS miner onto a website and use a pool of my choosing?
Newb questions incoming.
I'm trying to either use or create a bitcoin miner that's not using flash or Java or any of that.
Yes I am aware it's incredibly slow and won't work. This is a though ...
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Troubleshooting errors given by the -connect parameter in namecoind
I'm using the -connect parameter to connect to the host 23.23.246.5:443. I also see in the debug output the following errors:
socket select error 10022
socket select error 10022
socket select error ...
