BADecker you'll be happy to know that I found Jesus!
He was in a bar downtown for three days. His wife was pissed and my lawn needs to be mowed again.
Well, he always was fond of the old booze you know. Water into wine and all that. |
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Also the Pi took hours to compile the bitcoin core from source. More swapping out.
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Notice that the God of the Bible only destroys those who are against Him.
A god that rules by anger and fear, is not worthy of my worship. He must fear me, because I'm still here, not destroyed. |
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I'm considering grabbing a Raspberry pi 2 and hook up one on my old HDD's in order to run a Bitcoin node here at home  I gave up with the Raspberry Pi node. It kept running out memory and swapping out. |
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Notice that the God of the Bible only destroys those who are against Him.
Err no, I've never noticed that one. I have noticed, however, that man is eager to destroy/kill those that are against religion. |
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Better still, don't use any of them.
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-snip-
I guess someone could obtain the list of node IPs (trivial), there would be a slim chance those machines could contain bitcoins for stealing.
People who know what they are doing keep them offline however, so the risk is then gone.
So its the same risk whether I keep a node running 24/7 or 6/5. I dont see the point honestly. Besides that, the IP alone is not really helping. The actual node could be behind any number of network devices (e.g. a NAT router) youd have to attack first in order to get to the machine with the keys. Unless of course bitcoin core itself would be vulnerable to an attack. A SPV client is also easily detected by a malicous node and you know they have coins otherwise it makes next to no sense to run one. Thus IMHO a SPV client is actually a more logical target, considering that the obstacles to reach the coins are basically the same. Again, assuming that the client itself is not vulnerable to a direct attack. I also thought we are talking about full nodes on dedicated machines (or VPS) here. I would not expect that a single one of those to have a wallet with any funds. I know I have disabled the wallet on my node. Well as I said, the chances are slim. |
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never bothered with it, even i know it is useful for the network, there are some risk involved and also it consumes something, they need to incentivate it with a reward, even a small one would be better than nothing
What risks are you concerned about? you could be for example an attack target by someone maliciousantivirus can't put in quarantine some virus and afftecting in this way my full node, even if virus can't harm me, it can be avoided with linux but still... problem related to bandwidth limitation, due to providers ecc... Why is a machine running a full node more likely to be a target? I guess someone could obtain the list of node IPs (trivial), there would be a slim chance those machines could contain bitcoins for stealing. People who know what they are doing keep them offline however, so the risk is then gone. |
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Christians understand that 1+1=2. They also understand have a shaky theory where this whole universe came from, something that atheists mostly don't.
FTFY You angry Christians are funny. Indeed, the angry Christians should curb their anger. Best just curb the religion completely. They will then be free and happy without the chains. |
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I don't currently own any 24/7 node, but I'm thinking about it. Anyways, I run my home node pretty much everyday, and 24/7 on weekends...
Probably best to have a dedicated machine for it. |
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Christians understand that 1+1=2. They also understand have a shaky theory where this whole universe came from, something that atheists mostly don't.
FTFY You angry Christians are funny. |
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the problem for me arises when people point to it as "THE WORD OF GOD"- and this goes for all religions and holy books.
I think this is extremely dangerous for a lot of reasons, chief among them that we don't know that this or that is indeed the word of this God or that prophet instead of manipulations of some long ago A-holes that wanted to scare the crap out of people to keep them in line and/or subjugate them.
The other is that these things are then too easily manipulated, as there is no arguing "THE WORD OF GOD" taken from any holy book, even if it is batshit crazy. I guess what I'm driving at is that this sort of finality removes any common sense from any sort of analysis, which just opens the door on way too much manipulation by people that desire to manipulate others for their own ends.
Without conclusive proof then that this is indeed THE WORD OF GOD this takes this general guidebook for basically not peeing all over everyone else and turns it into what may arguably be the deadliest weapon in the history of the planet.
What an excellent post. My thoughts exactly. It is dangerous, very dangerous indeed. That's why I cringe inside when I read BADecker promoting it so casually (a few posts up unfortunately.) It could be THE WORD OF GOD, but much more likely just THE WORD OF MAN. There is a third much more dangerous scenario however, it could be THE WORD OF THE DEVIL. I'm steering clear at all costs. |
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We need to examine the consensus of the best Bible scholars.
I'm not sure I like the sound of this. They are human, and humans are corruptible. The church could pull the strings what they said easily, just a few little quiet brown envelopes would see to that. A wise investment with a good potential return for the church. Also if the scholars had "caught" religion themselves, their opinion would be immediately bias and highly suspect. I mean listen to what they have to say sure, but take it with a large pinch of salt to be on the safe side. |
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We do know, however, that the Bible was barely changed. The Dead Sea Scrolls show that the variations are minor, even from the Bible of today.
The dead sea scrolls are only evidence that the bible is old. But we knew the bible was old anyway, which was never in dispute. However, don't make the classic mistake of believing because something is very old, it must be true. Lies do not age and mature into truth. |
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There are lots of violent evils books in the world, some are quite entertaining. That's fine, whatever subject your into. Whatever floats your boat.
However, when people actually start believing them to be true, this is when the problems start.
So yes, read the bible and enjoy the story, but... If you for a microsecond actually start believing it, you must stop, put the book back in your fiction section of your bookshelf and walk away fast. Very fast indeed.
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never bothered with it, even i know it is useful for the network, there are some risk involved and also it consumes something, they need to incentivate it with a reward, even a small one would be better than nothing
What risks are you concerned about? |
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Yes I run a full node at home 24/7. Just doing my bit.
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Let's play a game. Lets see who can spot all the Popescu sockpuppets that will inevitability pop up in this thread. They'll turn up, oh yes, you can be sure of that.  Just six posts later one has popped up... [noise]
LOL. Well spotted. |
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Let's play a game. Lets see who can spot all the Popescu sockpuppets that will inevitability pop up in this thread. They'll turn up, oh yes, you can be sure of that. |
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But no! The problem is not storage, but bandwidth. At least that's what many claim. Bandwidth becomes a problem at over 1 MB every 10 minutes? My moderate Internet connection can download 1 MB every 1/8th of a second. Yes, but apparently there are people with 56k connection that want to run full nodes... And now that I think about it, it's still enough to handle 20 MB every 10 minutes, isn't it? Yeah I remember those 56k modem days. That's 56000 bits per second, not bytes. It wouldn't cope with 20MB blocks. |
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