1 2017-10-23 12:55:41 <pbase> hi i am syncing the chain currently. is it normal that the download is intermittent?
 2 2017-10-23 14:24:57 <adiabat> pbase: how intermittent?  Like on the order of seconds / minutes, or it will stop downloading for hours?
 3 2017-10-23 14:25:52 <adiabat> especially with a mechanical hard drive, download can be quite bursty, and it can take a few minutes of disk i/o with no apparent progress
 4 2017-10-23 20:32:50 <iwkse> hi, could someone explain what actually means mining a block? I understood miners are rewarded by signing transactions with fees but also by mining a block. i don't get what this means. It's like creating an "encrypted cell" where transactions can fit?
 5 2017-10-23 20:33:05 <iwkse> that's for #bitcoin, I choose the wrong windwo ;)
 6 2017-10-23 22:00:12 <volure> Hey guys. I am trying to keep my bitcoin core in running order. but I am a bit lost... I have a yum repo for "bitcoin-release-1-3" on centos 7. But they have "bitcoin-server" and "bitcoinclassic-server"
 7 2017-10-23 22:00:26 <volure> Can anyone tell me how to determine which of these is the regular bitcoins ?
 8 2017-10-23 22:01:32 <Dizzle> I would imagine "bitcoin-server". Classic was an alternative implementation with different consensus rules from bitcoin.
 9 2017-10-23 22:03:53 <volure> ok.
10 2017-10-23 22:03:55 <volure> Thank you :)
11 2017-10-23 22:28:18 <dviola> hi
12 2017-10-23 22:29:05 <dviola> I don't fully understand what happens when I need more than 100 addresses? if I click on 'request payment' in qt I will eventually end up with lots of addresses
13 2017-10-23 22:29:52 <dviola> there's no limit to how many addresses I can create?