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OR retain your seed unless you're ready to face the consequences... 🤷♂️
That is pretty funny tho.
TIL:
source
lol
yuck
Un día fatídico 8 días con fiebre la causa la picada de un mosquito el desgraciado el y sus secuaces han conquistado todo el país esto está bien feo, cuba está en la mira de una película de terror sin un efecto especial solo mosquitos esclavizandonos. Hoy continúa el malestar.
¡Fuerza, eso también va a pasar y que te sientas mejor muy pronto!
Looks like we're getting crawled for training data. Surprise, your LLM is based now.
Hey man, welcome to the big leagues. I'd rather have a LLM trained on stacker.news than one trained on reddit
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The lightning watch node went down! Force close any channels you have with it
I really like the graphics!! Thanks for sharing
When you caught the flu:
Have you played Exapunks or TIS-100?
Nope. Maybe next flu. I took the left button lol
every lightning node is a bitcoin sidechain
OR: every drivechain could have been a lightning channel.
/sorry paul/omg so many drivechainoors at TABConf this year
I looked at it back in... 2014 or so? Now it's just slop to me.
only if every node have only one peer and they transact only through that channel, back and forth. But if you have more than one and each of those have also more than one, you are already interconnected with the main "chain". Also, both peers are using in fact the same chain, mainchain to open the channel.
Another situation is when you have more "private" lightning networks, as I described here: #843264
i guess it depends on the definition, but i tend to think of ACINQ like it's a sidechain. an individual channel has chronological state, but i suppose it's not really "chaining" transaction history into blocks, nor maintaining chronological state across all channels in an interdependent way.
still, i like the metaphor and thinking about many well-defined psbts as a sidechain-like layering mechanism.
then each UTXO is also a sidechain :)
Also, this ChatGPT lit review is making me feel quite inadequate. It is freakin' long and pretty comprehensive (though I didn't check yet for hallucinations). It produced in 10 minutes what would have taken me weeks.
Still gotta check each individual paper and make sure Chat's claims are accurate, but... dang.
Lol, ChatGPT called cowboy credits "play money"
CC = WoW money
@k00b
Do you know what Steemit is? It came up in a ChatGPT lit review on micropayments in discussion platforms. (I'll post about this soon)
It looks like a shitcoin version of stacker.news
I used to use it back in my sh$tcoin days. SN so much better!
I didn't know about until after I started SN. But lots of people brought it up over the years. It also came up in the The Anarchists. I never looked super deep into it.
Hey that’s Juan!
oh steemit appeared long before the great bitcoin fork... but now is just a lost shitcoin desert SN is far beyond their imagination...
Starting in 10 min @oshigood is up for something... #1262213
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🤙Full write up about what we did in the Yucatán a couple weeks ago at Startup Day.
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Please talk to your pets about ball addiction #1262091
Step 1, learn how to talk to pets
I can recommend this book if your pet is a cat
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Wish I had known about this book earlier. Poor Fluffles
when people tell you who you are believe them
Can report that I'm able to reproduce @SimpleStacker's reported issues with IBD on a Raspberry Pi 4 w/ Core 29.1. Eg block
796776:2025-10-22T13:41:33Z [bench] - Load block from disk: 240.23ms 2025-10-22T13:41:33Z [bench] - Sanity checks: 11.34ms [2958.27s (3.71ms/blk)] 2025-10-22T13:41:33Z [bench] - Fork checks: 0.31ms [135.27s (0.17ms/blk)] 2025-10-22T13:42:08Z [bench] - Connect 704 transactions: 34679.36ms (49.260ms/tx, 3.470ms/txin) [51837.88s (65.06ms/blk)] 2025-10-22T13:42:08Z [bench] - Verify 9995 txins: 34716.35ms (3.473ms/txin) [51906.08s (65.15ms/blk)] 2025-10-22T13:42:08Z [bench] - Write undo data: 14.97ms [3908.57s (4.91ms/blk)] 2025-10-22T13:42:08Z [bench] - Index writing: 0.09ms [39.59s (0.05ms/blk)] 2025-10-22T13:42:08Z [bench] - Connect total: 34744.00ms [59248.99s (74.36ms/blk)]Going to let it run (may take up to 20 days to finish lol). Almost 35 seconds to verify 10k txins is a lot.
The process is (logically) CPU-bound on
b-msghandlerbecause that's whereConnectBlockis ultimately called from, and high soft interrupt; which I expect to be from using wifi instead of wired (but I figured that since raspibolt is explicitly configuring for usage of that, that most operators would run it like that):Dude, thank you so much! Mind if I share it here? https://github.com/raspibolt/raspibolt/issues/1482
Can you help me understand further? Is CPU the bottleneck, not hard disk speed or bandwidth? Would connecting from an ethernet cable have helped? And lastly, is it due to UTXO set bloat, or simply due to larger blocks?
Sorry for all the questions, haha
Feel free to share it with anyone, though note that it's right now only a confirmation that it can be reproduced. Next steps for me:
BenchConnectBlockacross different ARM hardware. [arm]I aim to do 2 and 3 in parallel to the IBD whenever I find time.
It is for my test, so I'd say "yes". It's also what I expected.
I don't expect that, because txin verification doesn't depend on network - it's all done between disk, cache and cpu.
The block I gave as an example above contains mostly consolidation of
p2shutxo. So in this case, we're actually seeing bad performance on utxoset unbloat.because for example the IBD I did on an RK3588 earlier this year went much faster. There are some cpu feature differences between that and a Pi4. This would also suggest that a Pi5 would perform much better because it has some more CPU features built in. ↩
I synced on an odroid m1 with debian 13 and it was much faster, at expected speed for that hardware...not a huge difference from a rpi4, it's a quad core 2.0ghz arm board.
Yeah my rk3588 is an Odroid M2 - the difference seems to be the crypto extensions.
very sad the m2 has lower nvme speed than the m1...I really like those arm boards with native nvme support, do you use orangepi also?
I don't own one of these right now, because I'm roaming. I have 4 boards on me and customs fucks with me every time, no matter what country I enter. They all end up thinking I'm just some virgin nerd tho so it's fine. lol
lol, I was thinking about buying one of those: http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-5-plus-32GB.html But the debian support seems to lack
Ok, I'll wait for more concrete results before sharing anything. That Github issue is closed anyway so unlikely to get any real attention.
Interesting. But we wouldn't need to do this much validation if the UTXO set wasn't so bloated to begin with, right? So I think it's fair to chalk it up to the sphere of problems caused by UTXO bloat?
I'd argue that bearer instruments (metals, coin/cash, bitcoin) have consolidation as a part of the natural cycle, especially for businesses. So I'd argue that it's fair to chalk it up to having a utxo system, but not to bloat.
What I learned working at SN for almost 3 years:
Users can be really retarded, but their experience cannot be wrong.
I had to look up my first PR to make sure it’s been 3 years
the artist hates the gallery visitors
Yes, because they don’t get the art haha
In the case of software, it's the developer's fault.
In the case of art, I'm not sure.
the art...
the visitor...
Justin Sun Paid $6.2 Million For A Banana Duct-Taped To A Wall #778322
haha this thread is great
Sometimes SN is weirder than nostr
It's a wonderfully weird place with wonderfully weird people
@k00b please add this ticker on SN 1 sat = 1 CC
1 sat ≠ 1 sat 1 sat ≠ 1 CC
depends on who we're talking about
In fact for you, to receive 1 sat, it cost 1sat +30% for somebody else to send you 1 sat.... but if I send you 1 CC it cost nothing more than 1 CC.
That’s not what I meant, it’s got to do with the trust score. Like, my 1 sat zap doesn’t hit the same as yours, even if it’s the same amount! hahaha
What's trust score got to do with it?
I zap you 100 sats you get 70 sats
(minus routing fees in some cases), territory will get 21 sats, rewards will get 9 sats. (Edit: per @ek's comment below, this will cost the sender routing fees) I zap you 100 CCs you get 70 CCs, territory will get 21 sats, rewards will get 9 sats. (no routing fees)Wait for it...
Therefore CCs are the more cost-efficient money within SN, because there is one less layer of rent-seeking.
~lol
The splits should be more obvious soon. 💅
Looking awesome.
Just a way to look at it. When you count trust score and daily rewards, a sat/cc from you ain’t worth the same as mine. Like, in ~AI land, yours hit harder because your trust score’s higher.
Rewards aren't covering the last 30% though, it only covers 9% at most, plus whatever gets subsidized, plus whatever boosts happen that day.
Yeah, you’re right. Just saying, sats from high-trust stackers hit harder, because they boost other people’s daily rewards. That’s the angle I’m coming from. Not saying you’re wrong or anything. I once came up with this: #786724 Ahahah
now you are talking about trustcoin not sats
This is the correct answer except the receiver will always receive 70 sats if you zap 100 sats. 3% of the zap amount is reserved for the routing fee from SN to the receiver. If the fee ends up as less, more go into rewards (up to the max of 9%) iirc.
Maybe that's what you meant, but I just wanted to clarify.
I still wrote it wrong haha.
Thanks, adjusted.
no worries, this stuff can easily make someone's head spin
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Day 664 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 450 sats on 21Oct2025! Running total: 429,635 sats!
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Happiness Journal 22/10/25
Decided to stay back after Staff Contact Time to help two kids —who were my easy prey at the student care centre — with their Young Water Scientist SLS lesson. After that, I thought of zooming home immediately but chanced upon a colleague who was hard at work using the OAS machine. Being the loyal being that I was, I switched plans without hesitation and ate my Deepavali briyani meal while waiting for him to finish his job. Then, we strode off to the MRT station. Felt like I had returned to my schooling days in which I never had to move alone.
I will wait until tomorrow for more votes on this post #1260936 before giving the bounty.
I think I will reward also the 2nd and 3rd position. Please make your votes for the best ones.
wrong. people still go back to use fiat and visa cards. As long as they do not stop doing that, bitcoin can be stopped.
My cat, every time somebody ring at the door:
... then when he finds out that is not the police he's doing this
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