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Technical note

The Challenges of Packaging Bitcoin Software

Introduction

Bitcoin technology is complex. Under the hood of the decentralized virtual currency lies a novel form of decentralized, distributed database. It is critical for users, system adminstrators and packaging engineers to understand bitcoin's database consistency model, which is radically different from familiar database consistency models (MySQL, Berkeley DB, Amazon Dynamo, or Google's GPS-based doohickey).

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(1) request payment information, required for auction creation.  for zero
    creation fees, price is 0, and "txout" is not required.

{
        id: 1,
        method: "auction.prepare",
        params: [
                {
                // auction creator's address/identity
                userid: "mkzfa27nZdHvwTZ6CitKmxroHrPbuvQQ4y",

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am jgarzik on github.
• I am jgarzik (https://keybase.io/jgarzik) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is AF8B E07C 7049 F3A2 6B23 9D53 25B3 0832 0178 2B2F

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a9156c3..50509d6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl require autoconf 2.60 (AS_ECHO/AS_ECHO_N)
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
-define(_CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR, 0)
+define(_CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR, 1)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR, 14)

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/*

	Build:
	g++ -std=c++11 -O -Wall -g -o eth-tx-prefix eth-tx-prefix.cc -lrocksdb

	Run:
	./eth-tx-prefix

	Clean:

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#ifndef __SRV_BIDIPIPE_H__
#define __SRV_BIDIPIPE_H__

#include "Util.h"

#ifndef ARRAYLEN
#define ARRAYLEN(array)     (sizeof(array)/sizeof((array)[0]))
#endif // ARRAYLEN

class BidiPipe {

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <assert.h>
#include <zlib.h>

using namespace std;

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <string.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <zlib.h>

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OP_0 104
OP_1 27
OP_2 12
OP_2OVER 182
OP_2SWAP 182
OP_3 16
OP_4 1
OP_CHECKMULTISIG 22
OP_CHECKSIG 12188693
OP_CODESEPARATOR 14

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/*
Compile on Fedora 16 Linux:
g++ -O2 -Wall -g -o boostgz boostgz.cc -lboost_iostreams-mt
  */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>