Maand: november 2013

Is there a sandbox in Bitcoin for testing, so that I can create sample bitcoins without mining and do transactions for testing purposes?

My wallet hasn’t synchronized, can I make a transfer?

I’m assuming that the transaction will not come up on my wallet but im guessing it would come up on the person I send too?

In the “Finances” tab on https://btc-e.com/ you can enter your BTC-E Code there.

What is this about?

I’m looking for an opensource crypto-currency exchange engine.

My preference would be for something easy to use like joomla or drupal. My exchange setup needs support for alt-coins and bitcoin.

I have discovered intersango myself. However, sql file is corrupted, there is no creation of tables and import does not work. Plus it is bitcoin exchange only (and I need alt-coin support). Site of this exchange with “invites only”, registration is closed.

Is there something super-simple that I can use to get started?

A friend of mine gave me two bitcoins which I now want to sell. I don’t understand the process which would enable me send the funds generated to my bank account.

I did a bitcoin transaction of 216 BTC from the 50BTC mining-pool to my wallet (Bitcoin-Qt).

It has been 3 days now and I have not received anything yet.

I’ve tried to search my address on blockchain.info and it doesn’t come up.

I’ve forgotten my wallets password. Luckly I haven’t got any bitcoins yet, still reading about bitcoins. My question is, now do I reset or create a new password for my wallet?

Does anyone have an idea of where can I find a copy of the bitcoin source code. I mean doesn’t it supposed to be open source, where is the open source project for bitcoin so I can read the code.

Of course, the function of mining is to secure the blockchain, but I’m looking for a more abstract summary of what the exact problem is that mining tries to solve? I believe its called the Byzantine Generals problem, but can it be described in a couple of sentences?

The network needs to select one random stranger out of a large group at a fixed schedule, and uses a ‘hashing-lottery’ as a reasonably fair method to do so. Is that a good definition of the reason why POW is needed?

In other words: Suppose I developed an alternative method to select a random p2p node every few minutes, who gets to publish the next block, could that replace cpu-based proof of work?

I’ve seen references to both strewn around. Specifically, is there a bitcoin client running at the DNS seeds or seed nodes?