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24 November 2012

• curprev 22:1822:18, 24 November 2012‎ Romanmir talk contribs‎ 46,348 bytes +833‎ →‎Where does the value of Bitcoin stem from? What backs up Bitcoin?
• curprev 22:1722:17, 24 November 2012‎ Romanmir talk contribs‎ 45,515 bytes −833‎ →‎But if no more coins are generated, what happens when Bitcoins are lost? Won't that be a problem?
• curprev 22:1622:16, 24 November 2012‎ Romanmir talk contribs‎ 46,348 bytes +199‎ →‎But if no more coins are generated, what happens when Bitcoins are lost? Won't that be a problem?
• curprev 22:1522:15, 24 November 2012‎ Romanmir talk contribs‎ 46,149 bytes +634‎ →‎But if no more coins are generated, what happens when Bitcoins are lost? Won't that be a problem?

6 November 2012

• curprev 16:1916:19, 6 November 2012‎ TimXCampbell talk contribs‎ m 45,515 bytes +305‎ →‎How long does "synchronizing" take when the Bitcoin client is first installed? What's it doing?: Slight rewrite for clarity
• curprev 16:0816:08, 6 November 2012‎ TimXCampbell talk contribs‎ m 45,210 bytes +98‎ →‎What happens when someone sends me a bitcoin but my computer is powered off?: Slight rewrite to improve clarity
• curprev 16:0316:03, 6 November 2012‎ TimXCampbell talk contribs‎ m 45,112 bytes −31‎ →‎How much will the transaction fee be?: Slight rewrite of last paragraphs for clarity
• curprev 15:5315:53, 6 November 2012‎ TimXCampbell talk contribs‎ m 45,143 bytes +14‎ →‎I was sent some bitcoins and they haven't arrived yet! Where are they?: Rephrased last paragraph of section for greater clarity.
• curprev 15:4315:43, 6 November 2012‎ TimXCampbell talk contribs‎ m 45,129 bytes −36‎ →‎Do you have to wait until my transactions are confirmed in order to buy or sell things with Bitcoin?: Fixed the overall logic of the explanation by rephrasing the second claim about what the asker "usually" means.

25 October 2012

• curprev 15:4615:46, 25 October 2012‎ Jepo talk contribs‎ m 45,165 bytes −3‎ →‎What do I call the various denominations of Bitcoins?
• curprev 15:4215:42, 25 October 2012‎ Jepo talk contribs‎ m 45,168 bytes 0‎ →‎How divisible are Bitcoins?
• curprev 15:4115:41, 25 October 2012‎ Jepo talk contribs‎ m 45,168 bytes +26‎ →‎What's the current total number of Bitcoins in existence?
• curprev 15:4015:40, 25 October 2012‎ Jepo talk contribs‎ 45,142 bytes +89‎ →‎How are new bitcoins created?
• curprev 15:3615:36, 25 October 2012‎ Jepo talk contribs‎ m 45,053 bytes +90‎ →‎Does Bitcoin guarantee an influx of free money?
• curprev 15:2715:27, 25 October 2012‎ Jepo talk contribs‎ 44,963 bytes 0‎ →‎Do I need to configure my firewall to run bitcoin?
• curprev 15:2615:26, 25 October 2012‎ Jepo talk contribs‎ m 44,963 bytes +6‎ →‎How long does "synchronizing" take when the bitcoin client is first installed? What is it doing?
• curprev 15:1915:19, 25 October 2012‎ Jepo talk contribs‎ m 44,957 bytes +34‎ →‎Does Bitcoin guarantee an influx of free money?
• curprev 03:4203:42, 25 October 2012‎ Jepo talk contribs‎ m 44,923 bytes −53‎ No edit summary

15 October 2012

• curprev 22:1022:10, 15 October 2012‎ Mike talk contribs‎ 44,976 bytes −7‎ →‎If every transaction is broadcast via the network, does Bitcoin scale?

8 September 2012

• curprev 17:3817:38, 8 September 2012‎ Mike talk contribs‎ m 44,983 bytes +25‎ →‎How can I get bitcoins?: fix markup that did not render

21 August 2012

• curprev 07:5707:57, 21 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,958 bytes +519‎ →‎Mining: added Q&A about zero transaction blocks

4 August 2012

• curprev 10:0710:07, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,439 bytes +32‎ →‎If no more coins are going to be generated, will more blocks be created?
• curprev 10:0510:05, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,407 bytes +10‎ →‎How long will it take to generate all the coins?
• curprev 10:0210:02, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,397 bytes +29‎ →‎How does the halving work when the number gets really small?
• curprev 09:4909:49, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,368 bytes +20‎ →‎What do I call the various denominations of Bitcoins?
• curprev 09:4609:46, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,348 bytes −68‎ →‎How divisible are Bitcoins?
• curprev 09:4009:40, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,416 bytes −120‎ →‎How are new Bitcoins created?: streamline text
• curprev 09:2909:29, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,536 bytes −31‎ →‎Where can I find a forum of Bitcoin users?
• curprev 09:2709:27, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,567 bytes 0‎ →‎Can I buy bitcoins with Paypal?: lowercase b
• curprev 09:2709:27, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,567 bytes +10‎ →‎Can I buy Bitcoins with Paypal?: clean up the text
• curprev 09:2109:21, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,557 bytes −419‎ →‎Does Bitcoin guarantee an influx of free money?: Update and streamline explanations
• curprev 09:0309:03, 4 August 2012‎ Weex talk contribs‎ 44,976 bytes +63‎ →‎How can I get Bitcoins?: lowercase bitcoins, update local trading to the directory of such sites

17 July 2012

• curprev 06:3006:30, 17 July 2012‎ Codevalley talk contribs‎ 44,913 bytes +64‎ →‎Does Bitcoin guarantee an influx of free money?

11 July 2012

• curprev 16:5616:56, 11 July 2012‎ Fimp talk contribs‎ 44,849 bytes −11‎ →‎I was sent some bitcoins and they haven't arrived yet! Where are they?

1 July 2012

• curprev 22:5622:56, 1 July 2012‎ Ids talk contribs‎ m 44,860 bytes +66‎ →‎What if someone creates a new block chain, or a new digital currency that renders Bitcoin obsolete?: minor corrections and wording tweaks (still not ideal)

18 June 2012

• curprev 17:0117:01, 18 June 2012‎ Sgornick talk contribs‎ m 44,794 bytes +32‎ →‎Do you have to wait until my transactions are confirmed in order to buy or sell things with Bitcoin?: Make reference to Finney attack a link to the section in the Double spending article.
• curprev 16:1216:12, 18 June 2012‎ Sgornick talk contribs‎ m 44,762 bytes 0‎ →‎What if someone creates a new block chain, or a new digital currency that renders Bitcoin obsolete?: Fix link.
• curprev 16:1116:11, 18 June 2012‎ Sgornick talk contribs‎ m 44,762 bytes +20‎ →‎What if someone creates a new block chain, or a new digital currency that renders Bitcoin obsolete?: Make reference to double spend a link to the article.
• curprev 06:2406:24, 18 June 2012‎ Eldentyrell talk contribs‎ 44,742 bytes −451‎ remove blatant advertising for a paper which presented an idea which was already known
• curprev 06:2306:23, 18 June 2012‎ Eldentyrell talk contribs‎ 45,193 bytes −949‎ Er, Bitcoin doesn't "strive" to do anything. It's a protocol.
• curprev 06:2206:22, 18 June 2012‎ Eldentyrell talk contribs‎ 46,142 bytes +896‎ restore more deleted material
• curprev 06:2106:21, 18 June 2012‎ Eldentyrell talk contribs‎ 45,246 bytes +427‎ Restore deleted material; "recourse" is a common financial adjective; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recourse_debt
• curprev 06:2006:20, 18 June 2012‎ Eldentyrell talk contribs‎ 44,819 bytes −56‎ A transaction without confirmations is not necessarily "valid". It is trivial to create a transaction that attempts to spend coins already spent in the chain -- but this transaction will never receive any confirmations.

17 June 2012

• curprev 18:4418:44, 17 June 2012‎ Mike talk contribs‎ 44,875 bytes +1,325‎ Rewrite of the 0-confirm tx FAQ to refer to the ETH paper and make sense in English ("recourse" is not an adjective that can describe transactions)

23 May 2012

• curprev 13:5113:51, 23 May 2012‎ Gmaxwell talk contribs‎ m 43,550 bytes −47‎ →‎Do I need to configure my firewall to run bitcoin?
• curprev 13:5113:51, 23 May 2012‎ Gmaxwell talk contribs‎ 43,597 bytes −568‎ →‎Do I need to configure my firewall to run bitcoin?: IRC is no longer a default, don't bother instructing on it
• curprev 13:5013:50, 23 May 2012‎ Gmaxwell talk contribs‎ 44,165 bytes +291‎ finding peers doesn't use IRC anymore.

16 May 2012

• curprev 14:4714:47, 16 May 2012‎ TobyGoodwin talk contribs‎ m 43,874 bytes +5‎ fix up a couple of typos

15 May 2012

• curprev 05:0105:01, 15 May 2012‎ Gmaxwell talk contribs‎ 43,869 bytes −64‎ →‎Do you have to wait until my transactions are confirmed in order to buy or sell things with Bitcoin?: Finney attacks as so trivial, esp with gpumax that we should never imply 0-conf transactions should be accepted without strong recourse.
• curprev 04:3804:38, 15 May 2012‎ Gmaxwell talk contribs‎ 43,933 bytes +340‎ Not waiting makes theft likely, waiting makes it unlikely. This is bad advice.