Bitcoin

I accidentally -torcontrol=1 today (instead of -listenonion=1) and was confused that it was accepted, as the argument needs to be host:port.

Expected outcome would be an error message and exiting.

Useful skills:

• C++
• Understanding of bitcoin core's initialization sequence

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Describe the enhancement

In the docs, I'm not seeing any /api/v1/healthcheck endpoint or whatnot (heartbeat specific, not referencing ping). Potentially returning the time of last heartbeat and any errors (if present).

This would be highly useful for monitoring and ensuring nothing crazy is going wrong. This would make monitoring from another server much easier and with some simple sc

Creating a new issue based on lbryio/lbry-sdk#877

• Update ensure_directory_exists() to check that the directory is writable by the current process.
• If it's not, return a useful error
• Add tests to cover the case when
  • download directory does not exist
  • download dir exists but is not writable
  • dir exists an

Problem

When $ docker pull solanalabs/solana is executed, no image is pulled because latest tag is not specified now.

Proposed Solution

Add latest when new version is released, if this is a good first issue, I wanna contribute.

Background

When doing a closechannel, you need to give a txid and index, separately. Having the option to provide a channel point would be useful.

Marnix
What would be the risk in accepting a chan_point in closechannel? :thinking_face:

guggero
_on the RPC level it's a channel point. so

Description

The "send payment" dialogue after seller taker accepted my offer is telling me to "start payment using sepa instant"; the account I used is normal sepa.

Version

1.8.0

S

Reading currencies, alphavantage returns a greeting note ("welcome") and this note raises an error in alphavantage.py line 363.

            elif "Note" in json_response and self.treat_info_as_error:
                raise ValueError(json_response["Note"])

For this reason, alphavantage does not work in home assistant.

As discussed on UX channel on Mattermost, we have plenty of features that sometimes may not be entirely clear to people who use BTCPay. Adding a concise description of features may help with this.

_For example, explaining a payment request as a invoice

Those two things tend to stall a bit on startup. It would be nice to have the [0%]... output for them.