I have doubts about the whole thing, but it does look like real handwriting...

I get "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC" errors after a short while. Does it mean that you restarted the pool, or is it something else ?

Of course, it shouldn't be the only security measure, but that's a very helpful one. Trying a password on 100k accounts is slighly more difficult, because you need 100k user names.

Locking an IP doesn't protect against distributed attacks. A temporary lock of the account seems preferable to a loss of hundreds of bitcoins. Simply locking an account for one minute makes it horribly slow to try a brute force attack.

I registered a worker and found a share, so that part works. Having a statistics page would be nice, but I suppose that's already on the todo list.

You could also open-source it, but not release it for free. I'm not convinced people who pay for a slightly faster miner would rush to distribute it for free if they were allowed to.

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This is what I mean. Most "leftists" believe society is responsible for fulfilling the basic needs of everyone. In fact, in the country I live in, it works. Homeless people don't starve or freeze to death unless they refuse help. I see no evidence that voluntary charity would achieve this. Hence the inability to convince those leftists.

There are not, unless your include the other factors like morals in the usability function of people. Even if you do include those factors, no study has ever shown that it was enough.

Let me be clear: I'm not saying that anarchy cannot work because of this, I'm somewhat of an anarchist myself. I'm sure there are lots of solutions. Yet this is an issue, as you cannot rely on a free market to fulfill the needs of everyone; nowhere in the definition of a free market can you see that there is some guarantee that everyone can achieve survival. Dismissing the issue is just wishful thinking.

But there is no economic incentive for the strong to help the weak. Presumably morals would play that role in an anarchist society but it is a very real problem that can't be ignored.

I'll be playing the devil's advocate here, but you'd have to explain to those "lefties" how a "survival of the fittest" world doesn't hurt people, because they see the State as a way to attenuate disparities among the strong and the weak. Convincing people does require some level of empathy, not just using logical fallacies.


Again, this is a logical fallacy (more precisely, a straw-man argument), because "lefties" are not advocating dictatorship. They see the State as being made of many people, not just one benevolent dictator.

Provide legal and monetary incentives to form cooperatives and associations instead of corporations. Then, when people are used to being active parts in such cooperatives and associations, progressively allow associations to replace some of the State's functions.

If you just make the State disappear today, you will not get anarchy, you will get chaos. Self organization doesn't magically appear as the state disappears, it is built over time. And there can be many different outcomes, including a lot of bad ones. The State should gently steer people towards a fair organization by ensuring that such organization is already there before it relinquishes control. Of course, this is the dream of Communism, and we now that the State rarely does that even when it promises to, but still, I believe it would be a good intervention.

My crappy GPU, installed by default on my $500 computer, is as fast as a dozen old pentium 4's.

Is your laptop dual core ? Cpuminer doesn't use more than 1 core unless you tell  it to.

According to Ryo's paper, your old towers will not be profitable if you pay for electricity.

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This is all about perceived value (miners hope to gain much more than the current value) and flexibility (amazon offers more than computing hashes).

I wonder why no big player seems to be using the strategies described in the paper. They seem easy to implement. Could it be that big players rely on brute force and don't care about electricity costs ?

I can only speak for myself, but I'm not so much hating homophobs as avoiding contact with them and pretending that they don't exist. If the hater shouts in a forest and no one is around to hear him, does he make any sound ?

Look at the bright side: you can vote to try to get rid of that 1984 crap. Members of the rest of the world can only watch and despair.