RustyRussell

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   by RustyRussell 3y ago

   Please don't do this. He's repeatedly denied it, and your ignorant claim can only bring him and his family trouble. (Also, I've known Adam for a number of years and I can personally vouch that it's not him!)
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   by RustyRussell 3y ago

   I'm sorry, I think you misunderstand the technology. Hardware virtualization covers much of the CPU cases, but there are still three attack surfaces: handling the guest instruction traps on the host side which can actually get quite ha
3. 63.▲
   by RustyRussell 3y ago

   https://tdb.samba.org/ Trivial key/data database with great performance and robustness. Embedded in surprising places (e2fsck!) and my go-to unless I need Sqlite3.
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   by RustyRussell 3y ago

   Perhaps. I would have phrased it "Nobody understands IP fragmentation", but sometimes when delivering to a room of experts you need to increase the volume a little bit. Of course, it really depends on whether you can actually bac
5. 65.▲
   by RustyRussell 3y ago

   I always said the fourth virtue is fear (of complexity). Keeps the others in check, particularly hubris:)
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   by RustyRussell 3y ago

   Despite the brilliant work by some IBM engineers (much from my ex-colleagues at OzLabs) there was no strategy to get commodity Open power. Even opening up was more a "throw over the wall" rather than a sustained effort. Developing
7. 67.▲
   by RustyRussell 3y ago

   Dropped in the latest Power chips I believe. I had a friend who worked on it: he called it simply "decimal floating" because there was no point :)
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   by RustyRussell 3y ago

   I was told by a recent contributor that my approach (i.e. requirement) to git messages is "unique". Apparently my Linux kernel background is showing, but all my commit messages look like the one shown here! If about existing code
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   by RustyRussell 3y ago

   Oops, I read further: you did use unique ids, and blacklists! I did that too. Now you're not db-lookup-free on use, so you need to think hard about what all this actually gains :(
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Compulsory plug when someone uses macaroons: using an HMAC is overkill. See https://github.com/rustyrussell/runes for a simpler alternative and implementation (this has C and Python, but there's also a Rust implem
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    This is ridiculous, sorry. The NY AG investigation showed Tether was actually mostly backed at the time (surprising me, too!) And the Blockstream FUD is tired (I am the longest serving technical employee at Blockstream)
12. 72.▲
    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    For those who don't know the jargon: an O(1) Visa gives you constant-time access to the US.
13. 73.▲
    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    This looks great! I wanted to bundle a chain of certs, check that the leaf was <some domain> and its key signed <some data>, and that the bundle provided a path to a locally-trusted root. This allows third-party serving of signe
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Hilarious! But I remember the first time I saw such a program which never freed anything: jitterbug, the simple bug tracker which ran as a CGI script. It indeed allows a very simple style! Meanwhile, use ccan/tal ( https://gi
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Yes. The history of authorities protecting users before failure in the cryptocurrency world is fairly empty, however. TBH I'm not sure if they're allowed to operate in NY though.
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Yes, the NY investigation was all about this: they patched up the loss and quietly changed their terms to being backed by cash or equivalents . And they later detailed the $1bn Tether printed for Celcius in return for collateral (once Celc
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    This could well be true! But remember, the crypto exchange market is also extremely large and profitable, and yet exchanges keep turning out to be massive frauds. The number of people who promised to keep your money safe and had long term i
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Except we know of occasions they printed tether in return for collateral promises, rather than actually for cash. Not to mention filling a hole with Bitfinex stock when one of their processors got raided. Now, it's just a question of d
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    You keep saying this. It's not true. (I work for Blockstream, and we have no current employees in the top 10 contributors for this release AFAICT)
20. 80.▲
    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    instagibbs has worked for Blockstream in the past, but that's all I can see.
21. 81.▲
    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    This is blatantly false. And Luke never worked for us. (I am the longest serving engineer at Blockstream).
22. 82.▲
    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    I would learn a lot, but I really want a printed version! Maybe I can convince the local print shop do to it double sided and bind it?
23. 83.▲
    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Ok, I did a double take. It's a different Rusty playing with futexes!!
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Sigh. I did not know that, thanks :(
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Worth noting: libbitcoin is an obscure project with an impressive name. In that it's not used by bitcoind or any wallets I know of: it's mainly of interest here because the book Mastering Bitcoin used it for examples.
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Wow, it's still active! I remember when MBP wrote it while we were working at OzLabs together. One day I'll get back to that rewrite of ccontrol using modern distcc's features...
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    This first paragraph is simply untrue. You are always holding a valid signature to spend the latest funds. The additional assumption vs simply holding your own funds is a throughput requirement: that miners not censor your transactions for
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Well, in practice the mining subsidy is highly variable, as most miners' costs are in local currency, so fees are already set by the market. But I agree that the NFT thing is really a side-effect of fees being low (thus, cheap distribu
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Yes, Bitcoin is designed to migrate from the current inflation subsidy to fees paid by the users of the system. https://rusty-lightning.medium.com/the-three-economic-eras-o... for more detail that you probably want...
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    by RustyRussell 3y ago

    Oops, too late to edit, but apparently this is a paid inscription service, not a single whale user: https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1663383996561072129?...