The bc19.01 came back pretty swiftly! It hadn't in fact occurred to me
that you could use hundredths, though it's true that that is fairly
conventional for currencies.
Regards,
Nicholas
Bitcoin
Private email with Nicholas Bohm (COPA v Wright exhibit NB1) · 7 messages · from 3 February 2009 · with Nicholas Bohm, Satoshi Nakamoto
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Just to let you know that Bitcoin has generated no new packets today,
although it typically generates 8 to 10 packets each day (although
sometimes fewer), and the option to generate is ticked. Existing
packets are proceedings towards maturity, or have matured, at about the
usual rate. Progress to maturity takes around 21 to 23 hours.
I thought this was an anomaly that might be of interest.
regards,
Nicholas
A follow-up to my earlier message: today's first packet has now been
generated, at 16:54, and had accumulated 7 blocks within its first hour.
Previous first packets of the day have usually been around 03:00.
Regards,
Nicholas
Could be something else is taking CPU. Run Task Manager (taskmgr) and check if bitcoin.exe is
getting >90 CPU. If not, see what is. Sometimes a page will have a broken javascript that makes
your browser waste most of the CPU.
If it already went back to normal, could be a fluke. Randomness bunches up sometimes.
Satoshi
Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:
Could be something else is taking CPU. Run Task Manager (taskmgr) and check if bitcoin.exe is getting >90 CPU. If not, see what is. Sometimes a page will have a broken javascript that makes your browser waste most of the CPU.
I've looked from time to time, and Bitcoin invariably gets exactly 50%
of CPU, even when System Idle Process is getting the other 50%. I
assumed this was set, and had it in mind to ask you whether the setting
could be changed so that Bitcoin could be given its head (e.g. overnight).
If it already went back to normal, could be a fluke. Randomness bunches
up sometimes.
Yes, one mustn't read too much into it. There were 11 packets of 50 on
the 8th, 8 on the 9th, 2 on the 10th and 4 down to 18.00 today. 2 seems
quite a long way out of line, but it's still the short run, no doubt.
Nicholas
Nicholas Bohm wrote:
I've looked from time to time, and Bitcoin invariably gets exactly 50% of CPU, even when System Idle Process is getting the other 50%. I assumed this was set, and had it in mind to ask you whether the setting could be changed so that Bitcoin could be given its head (e.g. overnight).
Do you have a dual core system, such as a Core 2 Duo? Bitcoin currently only launches one
process to generate coins but it could easily launch one for each processor. It's probably about
time I implemented that.
Satoshi
Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:
Nicholas Bohm wrote: I've looked from time to time, and Bitcoin invariably gets exactly 50% of CPU, even when System Idle Process is getting the other 50%. I assumed this was set, and had it in mind to ask you whether the setting could be changed so that Bitcoin could be given its head (e.g. overnight). Do you have a dual core system, such as a Core 2 Duo? Bitcoin currently only launches one process to generate coins but it could easily launch one for each processor. It's probably about time I implemented that.
I have a Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq dc5750 Microtower with an
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.19 GHz, 1.87 GB of RAM
So it looks as though I could run more processes; and it may be that
Bitcoin is getting 100% of half the available CPU.
Nicholas