< gmaxwell>
seems also from IRC comments the net effect of this may be forcing address reuse. :(
< promag>
we should have a UI to show UI changes like "What'ss New in 0.17"
< gmaxwell>
Or just record a screencast and link it in the release notes.
< gmaxwell>
probably that change should have turned the new button into a popup that tells you where to go. Live and learn.
< promag>
I know, let's create -deprecateui=newaddressbutton ..
< tradermyx>
Whoa. I just noticed that the pruning feature is actually part of the GUI options now.
< tradermyx>
Kind of unexpected as I got the feeling that you didn't want that to be used too much.
< tradermyx>
(Because it somehow compromises the integrity of the network.)
< gmaxwell>
It doesn't harm the network.
< gmaxwell>
It's incompatible with loading saved walets or keys however, since you can't rescan.
< tradermyx>
gmaxwell: How come it's not on by default?
< tradermyx>
Hmm.
< tradermyx>
So basically, once you start pruning, you cannot switch wallet.dats without having to re-download 200+ GB?
< tradermyx>
I just noticed that a program I temporarily used (Armory?) modified bitcoin.conf to set a rpcuser and rpcpassword (but not anything else). I thought the rpcbind and rpcport options were what actually "enabled" the RPC API? But it's enough to just specify the username/password?
< tradermyx>
Interesting find: Bitcoin Core fails to start if bitcoin.conf contains: wallet = "wallet.dat"
< tradermyx>
You must type it without the quotes for some bizarre reason.
< tradermyx>
(But this doesn't apply to any other options, apparently.)
< tradermyx>
Or maybe it does, and that's why it doesn't work...
< tradermyx>
But the point is that it only barked about the wallet line.
< * tradermyx>
pokes everyone in the room with a long stick.
< gmaxwell>
tradermyx: I'm not sure how familar you are with computers, but it's very typical for a parser like thing to bail out on the first syntax error it hits.
< gmaxwell>
It's feindishly complex to continue to report things after hitting a parsing error, attempting to do so often results in returning a lot of confusing junk.
< rafalcpp>
coughcppcompilerscough
< tradermyx>
gmaxwell: My wallet directive is far down in the config, though.
< tradermyx>
"Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8332: Connection refused" is the cURL error I get logged. Weird. I've done this before, so I'm really wondering what I'm missing this time.
< rafalcpp>
tradermyx: this channel is rather for develpoing Bitcoin. As for using it, #bitcoin
< tradermyx>
#bitcoin :Cannot send to nick/channel
< rafalcpp>
tradermyx: this, and set of out problem, have intersection of size 0
< tradermyx>
Seems to me that IRC users are hellbent on killing every last ounce of activity.
< tradermyx>
So fucking sick of hearing how *everything* is "off-topic".