there's nothing to get around, segwit being activated won't invalidate your block. pools were mining non-segwit blocks long after activation, they probably still are

after all, segwit was a softfork, that means everything that was valid before is still valid afterwards

you're right, it's not

don't really understand your point though, we're talking about the "new blockchain tech usurps satoshi's model" aspect, not general "future problems"

hey this is cool!

all we have to do to deter trolls from setting up threads with sock puppets is threaten the predictable arrival of said trolls before they turn up!


it's mighty convenient that this thread was so transparent, take note troll patrol

meh, it's a tough call, I'm not unenthusiastic


There's a bad aspect to the Linux laissez-faire model: too much choice, to the point of being overwhelming. That's part of the reason why the "main" distros (red hat, debian, slackware, gentoo) rose to the top in the 2000's; there was so much choice that people chose by listening to the technical assessments of people they trust, not by making their own judgements. And to a certain extent, that's how it's continued, distros like Ubuntu just built on top of the trust built up in the Debian brand.

Taking the trust out of the decision making process is therefore the best route around that issue, and so the "source based" distro was born (I think gentoo and crux were the first). Now of course, that approach simply saw a proliferation of models, but at least it's easy to see which is better (gentoo wins on ecosystem and support/community, guix and nixOS have the best trust-less tech model)


So MX? It's cool that they're following Unix principles and dropping Systemd. But the whole Linux/Unix model is advancing further in the trustless direction, and that's the trend I'm gonna follow. As a Bitcoiner, trustless tech makes more sense to me.

everyone behaves like anarchists most of the time

we all hang out with friends, meet new people in social situations, or go to businessplaces to trade with other people

laws mostly don't drive behavior in those situations (they're only the safety net for when a small minority of people start to act like complete dicks). The vast majority of behavior involves people pretty much making up their own rules for how they're going to treat each other, and they do it because they know that cooperating and working together makes everyone better off. It's just peer-to-peer government, you're all figuring out the way you want to work together, because it makes everyone happy.

and for those situations where someone does act like a dick, it's easy: cut them out, stop dealing with or talking to them. It works 99% of the time, they either change their mind, or they never come back. 1% of the time they become even more of a dick, and when you think about it, legal action is not strictly necessary to handle that tiny proportion of problem people, most people can still deal with issues like that without outside help (it's actually better for everyone, especially yourself, if you do that).

the biggest dicks around these days are the people we give all the power to; government workers and corporate executives & managers. Instead of protecting everyone (their supposed job), they protect themselves and their friends.

It's not democracy anymore, it's just the old-school feudal system all over again; they're like the lords, and we're the peasants. I'm not cooperating with that bullshit, and neither are millions of people around the world these days, check out the news headlines for the proof

no, it was Sergio Demian Lerner's concept. Although arguably it's just an evolution of the "tree-chain" concept, which was proposed by (former?) Bitcoin dev Peter Todd



that was my idea (but maybe Peter Todd suggested it as part of tree-chains? Not sure ) But it's really just a potential solution to the "2140 problem"; when the block subsidy ends, how do we incentivize mining new blocks? So it would seem like inducing armageddon for no reason if it was proposed to be rolled out any time like today, but 2140 is not today

soldiers are psychologically rather like football supporters or a wolfpack; tribal & territorial

If I was a foreign army fighting the EU army, a biiiiiig part of my tactics would be to try to split the EU army, to turn the regiments against each other. And it would be really easy, whichever way Macron wants to arrange the smorgesbord on the plate

great point, it turns out Stroustrup has done little or no reading on the subject of Bitcoin mining (I am embarassed to have forgotten that cgminer is what drives all mining units, I doubt that's changed even in 2019)

exactly this was suggested when "Directed Acyclic Graph" chains were newly proposed.

A big problem was how to mine using a chain that's really structured like a tree, how do you arrive at consensus on newly distributed money? And of course, the answer was to start with a satoshi style PoW uni-chain, mine all the coins, then fork to a DAG chain once there are no new coins left.

au contraire, there are people who purport to take themselves (and similar ideas to the OP) seriously who are promoting this basic concept. I expect them (and their alts) to arrive in the thread fairly promptly.

But this newbie is most certainly not one of the alts, trying to astro-turf this approach to consensus algorithms. How fortunate it is though for that contingent, that the OP is expressing a simplified handful of lines bringing the topic up

well, Stroustrup is well-known as the deviser of C++. That is seemingly unrelated to banks, which is closer to what I meant. Didn't realize he's now working for a bank, I have no idea about the rest of Stroustrup's employment history either

that's where you're going wrong

if you think you can do this without learning some really 1st principles basics, you're more likely to make mistakes and become frustrated.

Right but the FBI have this habit of showing up in other countries to arrest people, and besides, the number of countries that have minimal/zero taxes applying to cryptocurrency who also don't have extradition treaties with the US are probably few or none.

The only way to avoid the US free-range plantation levies is to quit citizenship, which is difficult as they probably won't even allow the process to begin unless you already have a residency permit in a different country. Because being an official citizen is so great, the US in particular makes it incredibly difficult to leave the club. It's nothing like being being a slave at all!!!

nah. relax, you're gonna have a panic attack if you don't breathe inbetween sentences, y'know

it's easy, they only sent transactions with the minimum fee, but 90MB of them. Because there wasn't much demand for transactions over the weekend, the backlog got cleared up pretty quick.

Additionally, the transactions were all standard pay-to-public-key-hash, which meant they were not segwit, and blocks with those type of transactions are weighted more heavily, and so drag the possible maximum block size lower. And it didn't really make any difference despite that.

But alyssa!! You are queen of scare stories when it suits you


here's one of your posts where you tried to scare everyone into buying etheruem, "because Flippening"


...except when people are using mempool space, then everyone else is telling scare stories, huh? how many transactions do people make in ethereum and litecoin these days compared to bitcoin, it's still almost nothing, isn't it?



I like this one, where you say crypto isn't money because taxes:



more "Flippening" scare stories, backed up by good old bitcoin judas:


this never actually happened, right? oh but it will, it just needs time (and maybe more pump & dump FUD stories from you)  



How come you're telling it straight today, need to build up some reputation for credibility again?

I now remember that modifying the minrelayfee constant in the client source code would screw up the fee estimator logic. So there's alot of nodes out there that depend on fee estimation that would never want that patch. Still, no reason not to reduce the default minrelayfee, you're right that 1sat/vbyte is the minimum, and that feerate propagates fine atm

2 party coinjoin makes so much more sense than the multiparty form used by the purpose-based Coinjoin wallet software. What's the point in having anonymized outputs when it's so easy to flag them as an obvious product of a coinjoin? You can say "but I'm not smuggling fighter jets, I'm just a North Korean transsexual whistleblower trying to protect my privacy", whereupon someone may say "prove it", and there goes your privacy.

2 party coinjoin, if done right, makes it impossible to go on fishing expeditions to persecute people using coinjoins, and blockchain analytics gets many, many times harder. So SNICKER is definitely a step in the right direction, I'm gonna take a look over the details

right. You need to add spam at high fees to spam effectively, not the lowest fee possible as in this case

ok!

your Pi has a main disk (SD card usually)

The top of the tree is / (which is equivalent to C:\ on Windows)

You're always logged into a user account

That account has all it's files at /home/<IcyGreensUserName>, the name is probably the default name chosen by Raspbian

Bitcoin puts all it's config files in /home/<IcyGreensUserName>/.bitcoin

One of those folders gets read and written to constantly during syncing, and that one (.bitcoin/chainstate) can be put on a fast disk (e.g. SSD) to speed sync up massively

So that Bitcoin doesn't get confused and think the chainstate folder has died and gone to heaven, you put a link telling it where to look for it in /home/<IcyGreenUserName>/.bitcoin, cos that's where Bitcoin looks for the chainstate folder

Like this:


If you do ls -lh /home/<IcyGreenUser>/.bitcoin you'll see the link file in there, and it'll also show you where the link is pointing to

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Then, open a new file called bitcoin.conf in /home/<IcyGreenUser>/.bitcoin. Do  nano /home/<IcyGreenUser>/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

Type dbcache=2000 into the new file, then do Ctrl-o, then Y, then press Return, then Ctrl-x (Ctrl-o is save, Ctrl-x is quit)

Now when you start bitcoin, it's using dbcache=2000 as an option. You can add other options to bitcoin.conf the same way, just open it in nano, and put only one option per line.