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Source to their statement would be great, since censorship could mean many things.
https://x.com/LeonidasNFT/status/1964225563725291732?t=tQBdTCaD_CV-tWzbnpD4JQ&s=19
The censorship here is purposely trying to limit their usecase of Bitcoin.
Thank you, i'll quote it so everyone can see his statement.
An open letter to Bitcoin Core,
Any serious attempt by Bitcoin Core to tighten policy rules or censor Ordinals and Runes transactions will be met with decisive action. If necessary, the $DOG Army will fund the development and maintenance of an open source fork of Bitcoin Core that strips out nearly all policy rules, and that thousands of people will run to make it abundantly clear that Bitcoin is and must always remain censorship resistant.
The Ordinals and Runes ecosystem is tired of being gaslit for actually using BTC as money every day while contributing over half a billion dollars in transaction fees to strengthen Bitcoin’s security.
I am not here to virtue signal like @adam3us
or represent a bunch of broke, conspiracy theory lovers like @LukeDashjr
.
There are over twenty Bitcoin startups that operate economically relevant nodes and have collectively broadcast nearly half of all Bitcoin transactions over the past two years that would welcome the expanded design space for their applications and protocols that opens up if they were only required to adhere to consensus rules rather than arbitrary policy restrictions.
I have also had the privilege of speaking directly with miners and mining pools representing more than 50% of Bitcoin’s total hash rate. I can state with certainty that they will accept any consensus valid Bitcoin transactions with competitive fees attached if the process is made simple and secure.
There is no meaningful difference between normalizing the censorship of JPEG or memecoin transactions and normalizing the censorship of certain monetary transactions by nation-states. Both would set very dangerous precedents.
The $DOG Army and the Ordinals and Runes ecosystem will not sit idly by while transaction censorship is normalized on Bitcoin. We will defend the principles that have always set Bitcoin apart, such as open access, censorship resistance, and neutrality at the base layer.
Any serious attempt by Bitcoin Core to tighten policy rules or censor Ordinals and Runes transactions will be met with decisive action. If necessary, the $DOG Army will fund the development and maintenance of an open source fork of Bitcoin Core that strips out nearly all policy rules, and that thousands of people will run to make it abundantly clear that Bitcoin is and must always remain censorship resistant.
The Ordinals and Runes ecosystem is tired of being gaslit for actually using BTC as money every day while contributing over half a billion dollars in transaction fees to strengthen Bitcoin’s security.
I am not here to virtue signal like @adam3us
or represent a bunch of broke, conspiracy theory lovers like @LukeDashjr
.
There are over twenty Bitcoin startups that operate economically relevant nodes and have collectively broadcast nearly half of all Bitcoin transactions over the past two years that would welcome the expanded design space for their applications and protocols that opens up if they were only required to adhere to consensus rules rather than arbitrary policy restrictions.
I have also had the privilege of speaking directly with miners and mining pools representing more than 50% of Bitcoin’s total hash rate. I can state with certainty that they will accept any consensus valid Bitcoin transactions with competitive fees attached if the process is made simple and secure.
There is no meaningful difference between normalizing the censorship of JPEG or memecoin transactions and normalizing the censorship of certain monetary transactions by nation-states. Both would set very dangerous precedents.
The $DOG Army and the Ordinals and Runes ecosystem will not sit idly by while transaction censorship is normalized on Bitcoin. We will defend the principles that have always set Bitcoin apart, such as open access, censorship resistance, and neutrality at the base layer.
I have thoughts about his statement.
1. It seems making OP_FALSE OP_IF ... OP_ENDIF as non-standard also considered as censorship.
2. Runes use OP_RETURN and Bitcoin Core 30.0 will loosen OP_RETURN usage, so it's weird this tweet talk as if there's plan to "censor" runes.
3. Each Bitcoin nodes broadcast all transaction on their mempool, so i don't see anything special with those "twenty Bitcoin startups that operate economically relevant nodes".
4. It's weird he mention monetary transaction regarding censorship, but later doesn't mention plan to defend monetary transaction.
I guess some member don't adhere to "don't feed the troll" these days.
I would like to share this classic meme/saying.
It is important to have such options
Why though? Especially since we all know that on the Internet, everyone is male unless proven otherwise. I would like to share this classic meme/saying.
Can what Leonidas, an Ordinal's developer said if bitcoin developers reverse their decision and want to censor Ordinals transactions
Source to their statement would be great, since censorship could mean many things.
I think Ordinals and BRC20 may stay.
They will stay. Until this day, AFAIK many developer don't even agree to make OP_FALSE OP_IF ... OP_ENDIF as non-standard script, when the script would never executed. In addition, no monetary/financial transaction would ever need to use such script.
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They argued that they generated money for bitcoin miners which are maintaining the security of bitcoin network.
Of course. And they also started bloating the UTXO set, which means, that there is more and more disk space needed, to run a pruned node. In the extreme case, the size of the chain can be comparable to the size of the UTXO set. Fortunately, we are far from that, but now, everyone can see, how to spam the chain. So, that kind of things can be done: blocks can be filled with a lot of outputs, sending zero satoshis to the UTXO set, or a lot of non-consensus data in the witness space, behind OP_RETURN, or anywhere else.It's also to worth that the UTXO growth force you to use bigger RAM capacity or use fast SSD (to read/write UTXO change quickly).
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have you installed stress-ng?
have you installed stress-ng?
stress-ng is just different software to perform stress test. The point of my suggestion is to perform CPU stress test for certain duration and see how hot is your chromebook during maximum CPU usage.
I forgot to mention EPS (Electrum Personal Server). This can be an option as well.
EPS last updated 3 years ago, so IMO it's not ideal option.
Btw, in 2022, Jameson Lopp posted an article comparing the performance of various electrum servers. Give it a look, just for your information.
Also see this benchmark, https://www.sparrowwallet.com/docs/server-performance.html.
Re: [BETA] [NEW] beta.ninjastic.space (forum search, archive and data visualization)
I thought about storing only the post diff, but then I need to rethink how my search engine works right now. Maybe there is another solution...
Have you ever considered having a manual scraping button? For example, a user would visit your page related to the post and click the button, and the scraping would be executed.
To prevent abuse, you would put a general time limit until the button is used again.
I also see it as possible DoS attack. Someone could make a bot to request to many threads to be re-scraped once it passed time limit.
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I'm still wondering why this happens to a pool. So far I could only observe this for Foundry USA and ViaBTC. Any explanations or ideas for this?
My speculation is those pool run multiple servers either for redundancy or allowing miner on different region to have lower latency/higher bandwidth. Node on those server immediately broadcast mined block, without checking whether other of their server have also mined block with same height first.
Re: [BETA] [NEW] beta.ninjastic.space (forum search, archive and data visualization)
When I read this thread, I thought: if someone creates a thread and after a few minutes changes its entire content, ninjastic.space will stop keeping this historical record. This could be a strategy to create a scheme for those who want to do something wrong and be difficult to detect.
People already do scenario you describe, AFAIK usually it's used to make detecting multi account harder.
I remember you saying a while ago that you would scrape posts multiple times. Will you always do this, ensuring that every so often it checks for changes, even if a post is several days, weeks, or months old?
Perhaps this is a waste of resources that is not very useful, because we know that fortunately most posts are not edited very late.
Perhaps this is a waste of resources that is not very useful, because we know that fortunately most posts are not edited very late.
I'm also curious about it. Total thread will grow over time, so i doubt it's possible or practical without strict criteria which thread/post should be re-scraped.
^ thanks for that - all installed
I ran stress but I guess because there isnt anything running its not reporting anything.
I guess its beneficial to run it when its processing.
I ran stress but I guess because there isnt anything running its not reporting anything.
I guess its beneficial to run it when its processing.
I'm not sure what do you mean by not reporting anything. But stress only give minimal output on terminal, here's an example with 4 thread and 10 second duration.
Code:
$ stress -c 4 -t 10
stress: info: [9905] dispatching hogs: 4 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
stress: info: [9905] successful run completed in 10s
stress: info: [9905] dispatching hogs: 4 cpu, 0 io, 0 vm, 0 hdd
stress: info: [9905] successful run completed in 10s
You'll need to use different application in order to know current CPU and other part temperature while it perform CPU (and other kind of) stress. There's no benefit if you run stress together with Bitcoin Core.
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I just waiting for the SSD to be delivered now. Is there anything I should/can be setting up
ahead of the storage?
I just waiting for the SSD to be delivered now. Is there anything I should/can be setting up
ahead of the storage?
Aside from download and verify authenticaty of Bitcoin Core (along with other cryptocurrency application you plan to use), there are things you may want to do.
1. Make sure you've updated all package/app, if you haven't do it.
2. Enable ZRAM. Basically it's used to compress data on RAM, which is better than using swap file in most cases. Since i also use debian, i can provide a short guidance.
Code:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install systemd-zram-generator
sudo nano /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf
systemctl daemon-reload
sudo apt install systemd-zram-generator
sudo nano /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf
systemctl daemon-reload
Your /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf should look like this.
Code:
[zram0]
zram-size = ram
zram-size = ram
3. Do some CPU/RAM stress test and monitor temperate of your device during test.
I bought a new notebook with Windows 11 installed. I tried it for two days, and got rid of it. I installed Ubuntu on the drive, and it is much faster and easier to use for my purposes. Copilot and cloud storage, together with all the spyware and vulnerabilities make Microsoft products a non-starter for me.
Yes, I am also thinking of switching to Linux, I have also tried Linux Mint before, but the problem is that I do not like using Linux because I have been a Windows user for a long time. And there is no such support for games in Linux, and there are also problems with Adobe products. But i know Linux is open source and best for security .So I am thinking of switching to Windows 10 for a few days.
Some of information you know it's outdated. These days, many Windows games can run on Linux with no or little configuration. The biggest proof is Steam Deck (portable gaming device) that use Linux. Unfortunately, i still hear running adobe app on Linux is still not user-friendly enough with limited support.
Actually, this problem mainly occurs when transferring files over 50 GB. Since I downloaded the Bitcoin core, which is about 600 GB, this may be the reason for the problem.
What is of big size is the blockchain, not bitcoin core itself. And the blockchain is split into a shitload of smaller files (128 MB), you are in no danger of having 50 GB size.
Your windows' backup file or some game related data files are more likely to have been causing issues.
From what i understand from some news, over 50GB refers to total write/copy size rather than size of single file. It's also worth to mention that Bitcoin Core perform lots of read/write during sync if you don't have enough RAM capacity to store whole UTXO/chainstate data.
These days, a country announcing that they will make bitcoin legal is not as rare anymore.
It's still rare to see a country legalize Bitcoin as currency or payment method though. AFAIK most country legalize Bitcoin as investment or property asset, which isn't aligned with Satoshi's goal about Bitcoin as P2P money.
Re: Scam Alert on Bitcointalk - old topics being edited w/ scam links, e.g. Swapzone
People or group behind this changenow and other kind of "exploit" is really persistant. They have tried many stuff such as creating many new account to obtaining high ranked account. I also see they create thread while locking it afterwards and not locking the thread while leaving false reply that the "exploit" works.
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Has anyone succeeded in doing this? Is this feasible what Powerjumboo wrote?I haven't tried what he wrote. But i expect it does not work since i've stated that most Bitcoin node won't relay such TX (sending tiny amount to other address). I did quick search, but unable to find any indication either SafePal or Trust wallet send your TX directly to mining pool that include non-standard TX.
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If there are thousands of transactions in a block, and I only need to prove one, do I just provide the hashes along the branch?
Yes. To be exact, just the associated TX and TX hash of other TX on involved branch.
How much smaller is this compared to downloading the full block?🧐
It's much smaller since AFAIK the data you need is only,
1. Block header (80 byte).
2. The transaction itself.
3. Total branch of the merkle tree multiplied by size of TXID (32 byte). For full block, i expect it'll have 13 branch which can store up to 8192 TX. So the size should be 416 bytes (13 x 32 byte).
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It's pretty well documented that Jack Dordey is the biggest donor to bitcoin developers.
Go to spiral.xyz and compare names with current core Devs.
Then there's also:
https://whofundsbitcoin.com/
Although quite misleading for overblowing HRF's contribution, Jack Dordey is the biggest outlier by bar in terms of individuals.
Go to spiral.xyz and compare names with current core Devs.
Then there's also:
https://whofundsbitcoin.com/
Although quite misleading for overblowing HRF's contribution, Jack Dordey is the biggest outlier by bar in terms of individuals.
Thanks for sharing more detail. Looking at https://whofundsbitcoin.com/ and verify the source, i agree Jack Dordey can be considered as outlier among other individuals. But from quick search, he seems to have little control over spiral.xyz.
Despite coming under the umbrella of Block, Spiral operates completely independently of its parent company. Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block and ex-CEO of Twitter, has little direct control over Spiral. The company’s lead, Steve Lee, told Bitcoin Magazine in a recent interview that “Spiral decides how our team runs, what we work on, and how resources are spent,” not Block or Dorsey.
Now I want to go back to Windows 10.
As reminder, it's just about 1 month and 1 week before Windows 10 no longer receive update. I don't expect average people would bother to pay for extended security updates that least for 3 additional years or switch to IoT Enterprise/LTSC version that receive update until 2032.
How did Windows 11 decrease the lifespan of your SSD though? I am confused about that.
I also wonder about that since some news state the update may make the SSD vanish/unable to detected after heavy write activity.
What do you think?
I believe it's one example of "Enshittification". Not very surprising when they include so much information and feature on both homepage and each coin page.
time to move to Coingecko?
I already use Coingecko more frequently than Coinmarketcap these days.
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But who would run CoinJoin in Wasabi Wallet 1.x if he/she truly cared about privacy. Definitely he/she would run Wasabi Wallet 2.x, no?Handbook you mentioned show Wasabi Wallet 1.x screenshot on "Case 2: Wasabi Coinjoin Analysis".
Plus I'm not talking about opening a direct channel to himself/herself. It's merely to use two different custodial Lightning wallets from different builders and sending a transaction to himself/herself from one wallet to the other wallet.
I see, although IIRC those custodial LN wallet expect you to provide liquidity. And with such amount, i expect available route to send such amount would be limited.
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0.1BTC outputs with the current price seems like an awful lot of money to condense in a single output. In my opinion, having the ability to create 0.01BTC outputs would be a helpful addition, but understandably, if it's not already possible today then I don't think it will be considered for a while. Because I don't think zkSNACKs is working on a newer version of WabiSabi anytime soon.
FWIW CoinJoin protocol on Wasabi Wallet 2.x create varied amount of output.
So, there are 79 denominations from 0.00005000 BTC up to 1374.38953472 BTC.
In the last few years, his organization initially founded to support bitcoin core development monetarily, spiral.xyz, has become the most major source of funding for bitcoin developers and related events.
Source: https://xkcd.com/285/
Jack Dorsey has also invested in chip manufacturing and claims to want to fundamentally change bitcoin:
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/jack-dorseys-block-inc-reveals-potential-upgrade-on-industry-standard-bitcoin-mining-rigs/
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/jack-dorseys-block-inc-reveals-potential-upgrade-on-industry-standard-bitcoin-mining-rigs/
After reading that article/news, it seems he actually wants to improve efficiency when someone mine Bitcoin partially by introducing modular and re-use property. I don't see anything that could change Bitcoin fundamentally.
Quantum vs ZKP? I don't think you understand what ZKPs are.
ZKPs excel at proving statements without revealing data. It helps in enhancing privacy, scalability, and functionality on Bitcoin like PoR(proof of reserve) for exchange audits
ZKPs excel at proving statements without revealing data. It helps in enhancing privacy, scalability, and functionality on Bitcoin like PoR(proof of reserve) for exchange audits
You summarized problem with OP's comparison nicely, although AFAIK usually it won't help scalability since cryptography for ZKP have bigger size than non-ZKP ones.
Actually, how critical is this quantum threat?
Nobody knows for sure when will quantum computer is mature enough to pose realistic threats to cryptography used by Bitcoin.
Could ZKP be its successor?
No, what needed is quantum resistant cryptography. While you can find cryptography that have both quantum resistant and being ZKP, it's unlikely to be chosen to replace ECDSA/secp256k1.