bityard

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2911.
by bityard 8y ago
> Broadcasting in the open (i.e. not hiding the message) that Alice signed transaction X, unless Alice runs a business producing these transactions (i.e. Alice runs an exchange) - I am not seeing how that could be constructed as "co
2912.
by bityard 8y ago
No, one public/private key pair can be used to generate or sign as many certificates as you like, as often as you like.
2913.
by bityard 8y ago
You now have me wondering whether I should try shutting off all of my circuit breakers (except the fridge) for the whole of this weekend. Now that I've said it, I kinda want to do it.
2914.
by bityard 8y ago
Not just high performance ones, high _endurance_ ones.
2915.
by bityard 8y ago
Or buy high-endurance SD cards that are _designed_ for heavy/frequent writes instead of the cheapest thing on ebay.
2916.
by bityard 8y ago
The problem is that regular SD cards were made to store photos and music once in a while, not host an entire operating system. They make high-endurance SD cards that _are_ more reliable and _can_ handle being written to constantly but every
2917.
by bityard 8y ago
The problem is that SD cards were designed for portable storage of photos and music, which is a completely different use case than running an OS or database on top of them. They're being asked to do something they were not designed for
2918.
by bityard 8y ago
They make high-endurance SD cards these days. They have the same reliability (or better) as an SSD but in a small package and for relatively cheap. These should be used in virtually all Raspberry Pis that see any non-trivial amount of disk