Re: [Bitcoin-development] Some current turbulence on the Bitcoin network: DB corruption errors on start from Bitcoin-qt / Bitcoind

2013-09-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
There is a good writeup of how to perform the workaround in Windows at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=290922.msg3117923#msg3117923 -- How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. Consolidate legacy

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-09 Thread Mike Hearn
The current version requires a signed cert yes. Whether that's difficult or not depends on the policies of the cert authorities. Ultimately all they have to do is verify an email address by sending it a clickable link, which is why StartSSL do it for free. Probably they aren't optimised for usabili

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Some current turbulence on the Bitcoin network: DB corruption errors on start from Bitcoin-qt / Bitcoind

2013-09-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > More information will be forthcoming once a patch is available. I now have a patch up for review. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2982 (You should wait until other developers have had a chance to review before rushing out and app

[Bitcoin-development] Some current turbulence on the Bitcoin network: DB corruption errors on start from Bitcoin-qt / Bitcoind

2013-09-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
Please return your seats and fasten your seat-belts. All Bitcoin-qt / Bitcoind nodes will currently fail to come back up after a restart, reporting ": *** coin database inconsistencies found" and "Do you want to rebuild the block database now?" Reindexing _will not_ correct the problem. In Bitc

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-09 Thread Wendell
OK, I was under the impression that this was mostly developed for merchants. I've seen some discussion here that seemed to suggest it requiring some non-trivial (for an end user) steps like getting a CA-signed certificate. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Sep 7,