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Can the BitCoin network be used for cracking?
I'm assuming that the BitCoin economy is rapidly building a computing cluster capable of unprecedented amount of hash searching.
Would it be possible for an attacker to leverage this to crack other ...
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How to increase the speed of synchronisation?
What ways are there to increase the speed of synchronisation of the network, assuming the use of the main Bitcoin client?
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How much time it takes to verify a Bitcoin signature in the Satoshi client?
Assuming:
An average modern computer
Using a single thread, as the current Satoshi client does
Using the OpenSSL library, as the Satoshi Bitcoin client does
The signature is not in the signature ...
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How do I optimize my usage of oclvanitygen?
I'd like to extract the most performance possible from oclvanitygen. Can anyone tell me what the best practices are with this tool?
Examples may include:
Use operating system X, or video card Y
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At the 95% mark for hours
My Bitcoin app (the latest OS X client) is downloading the chain. It has been at the 95% mark for many hours now. It's progressing, but very slowly.
Is this normal?
I would think so, because this is ...
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Why does merely having Windows Media Player open double my GPU hashrate?
I'm using poclbm to mine under Windows... processor is an AMD A6-3400M with integrated Radeon HD 6250G GPU. When Windows Media Player is closed, I get a rate of 16 megahashes/second, but when it is ...
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Why is bitcoind so slow on VPSs?
Sometimes it takes bitcoind more than a minute to respond to basic RPC calls such as getbalance (and on average, it takes at least 5 seconds), even though the "STAT" according to the Linux 'ps' ...
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Why does Bitcoin make my computer lag/freeze?
Whenever I run bitcoin, my computer (Dell E4200 running Ubuntu 12.04, with AwesomeWM) lags quite heavily.
It will operate normally for 10-15 seconds, then 'freeze' for 10 to 15 seconds, during which ...
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How many MB of data does my bitcoin client have to download to be fully sync'd?
Buest guess/calculation?
Transferred some bitcoins to my new wallet after generating an address. This was this morning, and have had my bitcoin wallet syncing all afternoon (5 hours), so far it has ...
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How to quickly check your mining speed?
Is there some website that provides some webminer or other way for a person to check their mining speed without actually joining any pool or doing solo mining? Alternatively, are there some miners ...
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Mining pool performance optimization
What are the main components one should focus on when trying to maximize a mining pool's performance? Assuming the code is pretty optimal (there aren't any inefficiencies), what should a pool owner ...
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Uptime and other service performance levels
Other payment networks have scheduled maintenance periods as well as unscheduled outages but Bitcoin's network, being decentralized, can have varying service levels depending on:
which versions of ...
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Can I download the whole block chain from somewhere?
Every time I turn on the Bitcoin client it takes days to catch up with the block chain.
Are there alternatives to getting it trickling through the peer-to-peer network? Can I just download it ...
