If you made any points to address, I might have something to write here.

(The reason it started to become an issue in 2015 was that blocks were beginning to get close to being full. Which came to fruition in early 2016)

That's because that's what RPis use. Intended to provide an operating system for small, lightweight devices. Design parameters that are totally irrelevant for being able to validate the blockchain. Also no SATA interface which makes a difference since validation is very IO bound. Better a small PC or Intel architecture based SBC. An obsolete dust-laden PC from the shelves of Goodwill would be a better device for those purposes.


Some do, some don't. Certainly there are some connections in there but how relevant they are is unclear. I know I'm no fan of Blockstream and I think they have their own motivations. Certainly they appear to be a company which has spent a lot of money with little income. I suspect that's behind their hashrate selling shenanigans recently.

Ivermectin is apparently available at vet supply stores. Not sure about HCQ but there is also the dark web (I haven't checked there in a while but with HCQ readily available in many countries, I'd bet it can be found easily).

It would be nice if the price could stay up for a bit. It seems the only reason it goes up right now is so that it can slide soul-crushingly back down again.

Beginning to feel like that bear market again.

Many would have been happy with cautious size increases. There's no real justification behind the 1MB (as would be expected from it being implemented as an anti-DOS measure when blocks were tiny) and the theoretical maximum while still maintaining your goals is much higher than that.

I'd advise not getting wrapped up in Raspberry Pis. They are cool devices and I own many but they are not optimal for this kind of service by any means. They are radically underpowered and even within the realms of SBCs, there are more powerful options available. It's not a binary choice between cell phone processors from the early 2010s and supercomputers in datacenters.

I also disagree with the usefulness of "validation nodes". They don't have zero value but they're not as useful as people think and they're certainly not worth crippling the network for just so people can run them on sub-par hardware. If your security is worth $40 per transaction, it's certainly worth more than a $40 computer.

Meh, there's noise everywhere and to my eye, a lot of the noise in r/btc is from trolls (of the bitcoin maximalist and (non-bch) shitcoin variety). Though I have to say that I don't use Reddit anywhere near as much as I used to since they got hijacked by the left (though a few technical subs are still OK). I find bch less interesting these days anyway. Because it was formed from a split, there was a window where it had to succeed or fail and I think we're out of that window and success hasn't been attained. It's clear the honey-badger is still the honey-badger and now it remains to be seen how it deals with capacity issues (I am obviously not as optimistic for LN as you are).

Just of note, I tend to deliberately keep that argument out of here. It's not really relevant and tends to upset the natives. I'll usually only bring it in where I think it's directly relevant and then only in relation to BTC itself (i.e. I'll discuss capacity but not in relation to other coins which have addressed it).

Yes, this is because Theymos decided to purge r/bitcoin of dissenting opinions when there was only Bitcoin.

You might have been able to talk yourself into custodial wallets being OK but not everyone agrees. If you don't like being around people you disagree with then yes, you should probably stay out of there.

Yes. Politicians will get less greedy any minute...... now

.....now


....now

It's a thumbnail. Click for bigger. (Though I do plan on increasing the size of some of the text a little).

Windows 10 installing and enabling shit on my computer without asking again (News & Interests). I need to get off of this shit.

It's always hard to find for me too. Most other places put your avatar next to the link or vice versa.

The irony is that nobody will be able to get the GPUs to play it because of shitcoins.

Correct. I only have access to what is provided by the API. I don't see an option for that there.

https://www.bitstamp.net/api/


Possibly. Bear in mind that the explanation is more for the uninitiated who might not be familiar with these terms. Those familiar with trading are likely to just "get it". It's basically the bottom part from bitcoinity.org made 3D.

If it stays up for more than four hours, consult a doctor.

Looks like the FBI question has resolved to them gaining access to a custodial wallet.

Not that I ever doubted the security of Bitcoin but such things tend to scare the horses.

The asks are what people are selling for, the bids are what people are wanting to buy for. Asks are always higher as otherwise, there would be a sale. Market buys and sells buy or sell from the closest first.

Bitcoin and bitcoin mining in particular is bringing huge amounts of wealth into the CCP currently (I'm surprised that that isn't used as more of an attack, in fact). Whatever they do publicly, this has to be borne in mind when evaluating the likelyhood of it being true.

As to replacing the dollar, yes. Not sure if it will be their own deal or some BRICS concoction. Depends how much clout they feel they have, I suppose.

Definitely an option for backup. I could also just use my own servers if that fails. Though not using them was more for opsec than bandwidth concerns.

Nah, fair play, ChartBuddy shouldn't be posting broken stuff. He originally stored the images on my own server so there was no need for error checking. I just need to add some in.