The facts are simple on this IMO

1. Most people don't even get the reason we use money at all, and they don't care
2. So even fewer people are ever going to understand why PoW is such a smart solution for anti-corrupt money


I can just imagine the exact sort of person I'm thinking of, reading this and saying "b-b-b-but Bitcoin is the most corrupt money! It's the dark web!"


And the answer is simple: it's not corrupt when everybody has an equal chance to use it. Only well-connected people can use the regular banks to get away with corruption. Everyone drinking alcohol in prohibition America was a criminal too, until they revoked prohibition laws. Magic!!


and so -

Q is it worth using energy so that we all have an equal opportunity to use our own money how we choose?
A It's not even relevant, because even though Bitcoin achieves that, it's impossible to stop it even if you disagree

Bitcoin was designed to be unstoppable, being freely available to everyone was only a side effect of that

please stop repeating this nonsense (can you not read the thread?)


Ubuntu and Mint (along with Red Hat and Fedora) are amongst the worst choice you could make.


The main reason for people ditching Windows these days is because Microsoft are capturing ALL data from Windows computers (and rolled out a "free" update to Windows 10 to make this task easier).

Ubuntu and Mint both included similar stuff, capturing web data and sending it all to Amazon. All to help you, of course!

you're ignoring that an overriding desire for materials can manifest at the group level as well, the fascist and communist movements of the C 20th demonstrated this abundantly.


The soft-fascism of the latter half of C20th up to the post iron-curtain world of C21st is certainly a far more insidious problem. I am concerned that people are beginning to romanticize totalitarian socialism again, without really taking in the full subtly of the overall issue. Of course, it's being sold as "liberalism", or liberating, no different to the C20th version. And it seem no coincidence that the establishment & the media are attacking genuine liberal philosophy in at least 4 or 5 different ways while socialism makes it's comeback.

Working in a team is a perfectly valid strategy for life. Being forced to work in a team against your will is only necessary if the team is led by dictators, and this time around is no different. If your ideal way of living is so convincingly good, there's no need to bully anyone into doing it, they will join your team willingly.

Sorry, I did get Neil Bush mixed up with Jeb Bush, corrected


Jeb doesn't have direct ties with Epstein either AFAIK, simply that the light-touch prosecution deal was brokered under his watch (Jeb Bush was Florida's governor at the time)

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This whole story seems like MORE bullshit tbh, the newsroom anchors are just autocue readers that don't really care about the content they're delivering. Let it never be forgotten that newsanchor Katie Couric was one of many celebrities attending Epstein's overt "Welcome Home from your child prostitution prison sentence, Jeff!" mansion party in New York. Presumably Couric's excuse is that she was there "reporting undercover", or that she "didn't know"
 
And so it seems like the reaction we're supposed to have to this "leak" is: 'Oh this anchorwoman is a total hero! She's SO against this corruption at the ABC newsroom, I'll totally trust everything that comes out her mouth from now on!!'. She could've quit and gone public, yet she chose to keep her job and keep quiet

How stupid do ABC think it's (non) viewers are?

RPi4 Bootloader EEPROM info

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/booteeprom.md


Should be possible to get this on regular Debian based images by adding the Raspian repo to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

one of the fixes resembles the problem @IcyGreen was having (intermittent boot issues)

Price pollution? Is that correct? Just before this thread contineus, I just need to check, you're going with "price pollution"?

it does seem strange that someone as technically minded as Stroustrup doesn't understand the point of proof of work, only people who don't are capable of characterizing it as a waste (when it is in fact the complete opposite)

a pro-liberal, anti-corruption system that uses energy to achieve those qualities is a waste? what sort of human being can say that?

1. That's not your energy, someone else paid for it.
2. It's already been demonstrated on this page that it doesn't use much energy (inane comparisons like "as much as Luxemburg" notwithstanding)
3. If you want to tell people to stop using energy, maybe target something destructive that uses far more energy than Bitcoin i.e. the military
4. It's also been demonstrated that Bitcoin uses a high amount of renewable energy, you just seem to have moved the goalposts and now just want to tell people what to do with their own stuff


also, I suspect you don't know what the energy in Bitcoin mining is used for

the West has that too, it's just segregated into separate platforms (facebook, airbnb, uber etc). For now.



the West probably has that also. Black markets must be pretty politicized, centralized and controlled, otherwise the price of illegal goods wouldn't be so uniform, price wouldn't rise and fall uniformly, supply wouldn't abruptly stop uniformly.

ok, but Bjarne Stroustrup is not a banker, and seemingly unrelated to banks

wrong again, it's not correct in any way shape or form



no it doesn't



Which part of "those 2 things have no relationship to each other" do you not understand



but clearly you don't get it, because you'd stop saying they're related to each other if you did

usual advice applies:

• Put the /.bitcoin/chainstate folder on your fastest available disk (/chainstate is ~ 2-3GB during sync), add a symlink to it inside /.bitcoin folder
• Increase dbcache setting in your bitcoin.conf file (or as a cmd parameter to bitcoin executable) to a healthy proportion of available RAM
• If you're using a disk with Linux filesystems (ext3 or 4, btrfs etc), when you mount <IcyGreens_disk_name> <IcyGreens_mountpoint>, slip in -o noatime,noreltime as an option (check man mount for full details)

so if you have e.g. 8GB RAM, smash dbcache up to 2000MB or even 4000MB. 16GB RAM, put it up to 8000MB. Big speed increases.

Also, Bitcoin Core 0.19.0.1 has improved code for syncing, translating to a ~ 5-10% speed increase (depends on how big dbcache is set). 0.19.0.1 will be out before the end of the week (probably)

that's incorrect

Transactions aren't related to the amount of energy used to mine, if that was true then:


...which is 100% wrong

energy used in mining only finds the next block. It's trivial to demonstrate this; every once in a while, a block is found with 0 transactions processed in it. That block is subject to the same threshold requirement as all the blocks before and after it (during the ~ 2 week window where the difficulty of finding a new block is static).


I would suggest actually reading more than 1 article about bitcoin mining before you venture strong opinions on the subject publicly, as you've ended up repeating a whole string of statements that are factually wrong, not just this one

so I kind of see what you mean, but it's really not an unexpected difference


Given nodes A and B, running uninterrupted 24/7/365:

• A having 450 and B simultaneously having 750 is not unusual
• A having 4500 and B having simultaneously having 7500 is a little unexpected
• A having 45,000 and B having simultaneously having 75,000 suggests a problem or a config difference between the nodes (max mempool size and min relay rate can be user configured, and could elicit such a disparity)
• A having 45 and B simultaneously having 75 is not unusual if transaction load is low (i.e. you could've seen this on December 25th every year up to now)
• A having 4 and B simultaneously having 7 is very unlikely, and suggests a problem with both nodes (or that you're on a Bitcoin ForkCoin )

So a whole number multiple in difference only really ought to raise eyebrows when the total network load is very high. At relatively low loads, wide variations can easily exist within expectations of proper operation. As you saw yourself, the difference lasted only briefly at low loads anyway. The main material difference is probably that the node with 450 tx mempool dowloaded the whole block, whereas the node with 750 tx mempool could reconstruct the block from it's mempool using compact block hints.

True or false:

• Bitcoin is used for moral reasons
• Bitcoin was created for ideological, moral reasons
• Bjarne Stroustup is not an ethicist
• Fiat currency is used by criminals
• No moral code can stop Bitcoin, however it is judged

sure.

ask yourself though: would you, Vishnu, like to buy some Argentinian currency? Wanna exchange it for some BTC? No? Well why would a typical BTC holder in Montevideo or Santiago feel any differently. They likely don't want USD or EUR either, so selling BTC for ARS is nothing short of suicide.

"perfect" in this case means non-aligned or dis-harmonious, future changes are likely to make mempool contents slightly less aligned than they are now.

Any reason why you need to hear this more than once?



Are they connected to each other, or to the wider internet? It sounds like the latter, and so you cannot expect them to be receiving the exact same relayed transactions when each node will be connected to different  peers. Again, this is by design. There are both tx privacy and network robustness reasons for this.

Your concern is entirely misplaced. You should be feeling the opposite: if you had completely identical mempools across your separate nodes, it would be a symptom of something being very wrong with the bitcoin network, and that the algorithms to diversify node connections across the internet and to obscure the source of a given tx were not performing well.

Don't forget Neil Jeb Bush. Bush was a 2016 presidential candidate, and Florida governor at the time of the 2008 court case, which involved depositions about Epstein prowling for victims at Mar-a-Lago (and this is a big reason why the story took off at all, The Miami Herald was the only sizable media outlet to report on Epstein).



And the FBI. And whoever Epstein was working for to obtain all the blackmail material.

it makes me laugh how modern socialists say "capitalism is the evil problem", and yet the government deciding the price of everyday goods is silently ignored. I'm sure they'd all start ejaculating from their mouths if some Prime Minister started reducing prices, and the fact that the subsidies were all borrowed from future taxpayers would be dismissed with "shut up, that's too complicated, who are you, Dr. Spock?"

a question of perspective IMO.

There's "illegal" and then there's "immoral". There are many forms of legal transactions that many people would consider immoral, and there are many illegal transactions that many would consider moral. Of course governments must express disapproval; plenty of others hold the opposite opinion, i.e. government sycophants and their corporate cohorts (arguably not much difference between these categories, anyone who's a perennial loser in the corporate rat-race will maintain loyalty out of greed and a lack of courage)


It's easy to underestimate this story IMO, Xinhua is the media outlet closest to the Chinese Communist Party. When all's said and done, the "black" (i.e. "free") market is a boon to government insiders, as they know they can ratchet up prices to many multiples of the profits in the market for legalized goods. Sure, marijuana might be getting the government soft-touch all over the world these days, but there's never going to be enough public support for legalizing meth or child pimping to be able to use your bank account for that kind of trade. But demand will always be there for all kinds of unsavory stuff, and who better to conduct it than those very very bad apples who are nothing like the rest of the government

The tagline: For bleached chicken meat or self-destruct pension plans, there's fiat. For everything else, there's Bitcoin^TM