its kinda like watching paint dry.

im sitting here trying to imagine what tools you can hang from a hard drive nailed to a wall. and i thought i had a pretty good imagination but im drawing a big blank here.

ive seen clocks made from platters, speakers made from the armature and such but this is some way out of the box thinking to me.

uh, rank means nothing to many people. they are here to learn. makes no difference what rank someone is if that person is  informative and helpful.

thats like thinking about that million dollar scratch ticket you lost behind the sofa till the dog ate it or something. why live a nightmare over and over.

 citadel citizens?

there will (most times) always be someone willing to pay a bigger fee than i and bump me out. but youre right, with proper planning i wouldnt care if it takes days to confirm.

my tentative plan is regularly cash out an amount that should last at least a few months at a time in normal circumstances. just hope an emergency doesnt come up where i need it fast (hours or a day or so tops). but again, thats on me as i should have sufficient fiat reserve for such things.

EDIT this reply wound up in its own topic due to some error on my part. sorry for cross post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5264273.msg54864403#msg54864403




sure, now. im talking years out (if it doesnt die off in the meantime)

just the money constraint. perhaps youre so loaded that 100+ grand for a datacenter and update cycle that will be needed eventually is a barely noticeable expense for the convenience and security. so say 50 grand for a casual setup that maybe that would last a couple years? so whats the upper limit for "just verifying" my transactions?


i agree here. work is needed. it is being done. i may not agree with some of it but stuff is happening regardless.

huh this post was meant to be a reply to a post in the WO thread, unsure how it got here as a new topic (user error im sure).

but since its here..

one thing ive done in case of miners bombing the difficulty (or vice versa) and the occasional mempool problems is park a bit of coin on exchanges (yes not your keys etc) but at least its there to sell on a moments notice. yeah it can be confiscated, stolen by aliens, all that.

but until there is a fast way to get a tx on chain to somewhere, even if an exorbitant fee is needed (which im actually OK with), it wont work the way i need it to when the mempool is full and im in an emergency situation. i can pull cash from a bank in an instant more or less. try to pull btc out in a cold wallet for whatever in a hurry during peak fomo.

please note im not a big blocker as that has issues of its own. but hopefully the folks with the bulging brains will come up with something.

* achievement unlocked *

sure, now. im talking years out (if it doesnt die off in the meantime)

just the money constraint. perhaps youre so loaded that 100+ grand for a datacenter and update cycle that will be needed eventually is a barely noticeable expense for the convenience and security. so say 50 grand for a casual setup that maybe that would last a couple years? so whats the upper limit for "just verifying" my transactions?


i agree here. work is needed. it is being done. i may not agree with some of it but stuff is happening regardless.

sure, now. im talking years out (if it doesnt die off in the meantime)


just the money constraint at some point as it will ever cost more as time marches on.  perhaps youre so flush that 100+ grand for a datacenter and update cycle that will be needed eventually is a barely noticeable expense to you for the convenience and security. so say, for the average mook a 50 grand minimal setup (not now im talking later if this ttakes off and actually stores  useful data) for a casual setup that maybe that would last a couple years? so whats the upper limit for "just verifying" my transactions?


i agree here. work is needed. it is being done. i may not agree with some of it but stuff is happening regardless.

well you just answered the two questions i was going to ask

wait.

wouldnt it make it more interesting and thus more worthy of an interview?

oops methinks i may of stepped in something

i think idiocracy is the big grey(ish) box everything else is in.

the fed? heh

surely satoshi would have had to put some constraints on block size at some point, even if it was just to accommodate the then current technology. after all he was refining it till he left.

and no dont ask me for ideas if that was anyones intention.. me brains been running on fumes for a long time.

all i want is a node i can run purely to validate my own transaction and check my balances. not a 24/7 node, just for my own use.

i would rather do that on my own equipment, say prosumer class  (is that still a word - high power personal computers HEDT and ECC maybe but beefed to the max) and/or a decent server or two (failover) and enough raid for the blockchain.

i can live with that. i mean rpis are out as well as most regular desktops. but yeah ya gotta pay to play,

but bsv seems to want much much more.

no worries either way; ive been penniless. good for character building IMO. thankfully bitcoin has changed that considerably, among my other endeavor of course

funny the hate on coinbase. yeah i get they have been and are problematic in many ways due to the rules. but never a problem here. to each his/her own.

decentralization = ONE (ok manybe a few) datacenter that has the capacity to process this BSV nearly infinate size (at some point) gigabigabloatware data where everything including the kitchen sink and toilet plus the contents of those that goes down it and is stored on chain? i guess always wanted to know the exact composition of my septic tank contents. a "decentralized" blockchain that only huge AWS instances or other supercomputers and the likes likes can run?

i think they pioneered that in china (Hong Kong?)  somewhere else anyway.

hockey sticks to slap back tear gas canisters were another "return to sender" item pressed into service.