Thanks for that. I’m still merging in some changes I had that need to go in before any next release. Some things based on questions and feedback I’ve received that’ll reduce confusion. I’ll probably enable multi-proc generating support, and hopefully make it safe to just backup wallet.dat to backup your money. It’s good to be coding again!
I’m going to hide the transaction fee setting, which is completely not needed and only serves to confuse people. It was only there for testing and demonstration of a technical detail that can only be needed in the far away future, if ever, but was necessary to implement at the beginning to make it possible later.
What was the problem with the shortcut in the startup folder? If you could send me the code, I’d like to take another look and see if I can see what the problem was. The first strcat in the registry code should be strcpy, otherwise it would fail intermittently. If the same code was in the shortcut one, maybe that was the problem.
It’s encouraging to see more people taking an interest such as that NewLibertyStandard site. I like his approach to estimating the value based on electricity. It’s educational to see what explanations people adopt. They may help discover a simplified way of understanding it that makes it more accessible to the masses. Many complex concepts in the world have a simplistic explanation that satisfies 80% of people, and a complete explanation that satisfies the other 20% who see the flaws in the simplistic explanation.
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
I made a Windows installer for the latest version of Bitcoin, which includes the autostart and minimize to tray features. The installer makes a start menu shortcut and a startup registry entry. I first implemented the autostart with a shortcut to the startup folder, but I found out that it doesn’t always work by default and ended up doing it with a registry entry. The registry entry is removed by the uninstaller and can be also disabled from the options menu, so I don’t think it’s such a big menace to the user after all.
I made the installer with NSIS, and the nsi script can be found in the SVN.
Could you add the installer to the SF download page? Here’s the file: http://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/uploads/Bitcoin_setup.exe
There are some new users registered to the bitcoin.sf.net site. One of them just announced that he’s trading Bitcoins for dollars. Here’s his site: http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/. Making an exchange service first seemed a bit premature for the time being, but on the other hand it’s good that people show interest towards the project, and this might attract even more interested people (and hopefully more developers). I just sent the guy an email.
Source: Published by Martti Malmi on GitHub in February 2024 as part of his testimony in the COPA v. Wright trial. The full correspondence archive is available at mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/.