[guyht]

Its truly amazing to see such a large bounty for an open source project. Even though this bug poses no security threat, the reward offered is akin to those offered by the big power houses (FB, Microsoft, Google) for providing fixes to critical security issues.

[maaku]

Well to be fair in this case the bounty was setup before the recent rise in price. It's only getting attention now because it's now worth something.

But the donors could have backed out and did not, and there are other similarly-sized bounties in the bitcoin community (I currently make my living off of community donations as a bitcoin-core developer).

[cryptocoin]

The two donors I see are gavin and theymos, the former receives bitcoins so the rise in price doesn't affect him, the latter paid nothing himself since those coins were all given to him. There's is also someone else that contributed about 1 BTC, but that cannot be taken back except wtogami himself negotiates with this donator to send it back.

Anyway, I think the attention is well deserved and I hope this contributes to a real fix. The current situation makes me not want to use the official bitcoin client under osx, at all. And this will be the case for a long time now, since I have no idea whether the bug will be correctly fixed.

[maaku]

Note: to my knowledge there has not been any loss of wallet due to this bug. You simply have to endure the annoyingly long process of re-indexing the block chain after a corruption.

[cryptocoin]

The bug is unrelated to losing a wallet, just because the wallet is not even using leveldb (it is still at BDB). Your last sentence was the reason for my last earlier paragraph.

[tlrobinson]

This thread (and funding of the bounty addresses) was started on Nov 18, the day Bitcoin on MtGox touched $900. Did the bounty start earlier?

[asuffield]

Don't set too much store in the MtGox price - it's not real money, because all their bank accounts are frozen. The value is high because it represents the substantial risk that nobody will get any of that money.

[bct]

broostoryco, you are hellbanned.

[maaku]

Yes, sometime back in spring or early summer I believe (based on my memory of #bitcon-dev conversations.. I don't frequent the scum-infested bitcointalk much).

[nwh]

It's an infuriating bug, there's no real reason for it, and no pattern as to what triggers it. Some users see it daily others never see it. It's been around long enough to seriously irritate some users, hence the bounty.

[nullc]

In particular, it seems to not manifest itself for the technical folks who are likely to actually solve it if they can reproduce it and yet be quite frequent for others.

I wouldn't be shocked if it ultimately turned out to be due to some setting that gurus would never have enabled. :)

[dmix]

Yeah lets be honest, it's probably something that's a pain-in-the-ass to solve. Unpredictable/difficult to repeat. Open-source devs need some motivation for this one clearly.

[Aqueous]

This has all the symptoms of a race condition.