From 903a25583604b73e8b139c591b1e4a8a5402cbba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 12:47:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix: "bits" should be a hex-string, not a number (that
 just doesn't make sense)

---
 src/bitcoinrpc.cpp | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp b/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp
index e9d8ca6a04..6e2eac5a7e 100644
--- a/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp
+++ b/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp
@@ -1773,7 +1773,14 @@ Value getmemorypool(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
         result.push_back(Pair("transactions", transactions));
         result.push_back(Pair("coinbasevalue", (int64_t)pblock->vtx[0].vout[0].nValue));
         result.push_back(Pair("time", (int64_t)pblock->nTime));
-        result.push_back(Pair("bits", (int64_t)pblock->nBits));
+
+        union {
+            int32_t nBits;
+            char cBits[4];
+        } uBits;
+        uBits.nBits = htonl((int32_t)pblock->nBits);
+        result.push_back(Pair("bits", HexStr(BEGIN(uBits.cBits), END(uBits.cBits))));
+
         return result;
     }
     else