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by maaku 11y ago
That's a derivable sub-goal for just about any top-level goal. If you don't exist or you don't have sufficient power, you can't make sure your top-level goals get met and stay met.
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by maaku 11y ago
Which has no relevance to this conversation about BU and block size. Block size is not a parameter you can force on upgraded nodes by soft-fork.
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by maaku 11y ago
Um, I'm not sure why you are pointing to that? ISM is used for soft-fork upgrades, which do not revert existing consensus rules. You can have a ISM vote over a new block size, but old clients will still reject the bigger blocks.
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by maaku 11y ago
Hasn't SpaceX been doing this for a few years?
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by maaku 11y ago
That's a bit of selective remembering. Jobs wanted Pixar to be a hardware company. Not a terrible idea as NVidia has shown us, but definitely the wrong time, and he did not foresee the brand that Pixar Animation Studios would become. N
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by maaku 11y ago
Not over the consensus parameters. You could have infinite hash power, but if your blocks are invalid they will be ignored.
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by maaku 11y ago
Mining costs millions of dollars per day in electricity costs. I guess we can just expect a few people to burn a hole in their pocket for the good of the network?
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by maaku 11y ago
> If you knew anything about Bitcoin Unlimited I am sure you would have come across its most fundamental aspect - moving the blocksize limited from the hardcoded centralised protocol layer to the transport or messaging layer thus allowin
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by maaku 11y ago
Running the Bitcoin mining network costs millions of dollars per day in electricity costs alone. Who's going to to pay that when the subsidy goes away?
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by maaku 11y ago
Also, people share email addresses. Really, they do.
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by maaku 11y ago
Just about every large predatory animal ever.
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by maaku 11y ago
That is a decent idea I've never heard of before. Have you tried submitting an issue to various database issue trackers?
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by maaku 11y ago
They will be sold to interested parties.. and hosted in the same data center. Back to square one. It takes a price per kW-hr differential of about $0.03 before it makes sense to put miners on a plane. That's far less than the power dif
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by maaku 11y ago
At that price point, yes. Maybe the problem has been not enough power required... I don't know. I just know that most bitcoin companies in Iceland have moved or are moving to get cheaper power elsewhere.
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by maaku 11y ago
That doesn't address any of the concerns I raised.
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by maaku 11y ago
Or Freicoin, which I co-authored with another Blockstream founder. But neither has the network buy-in and security of Bitcoin.
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by maaku 11y ago
> Some people make really great fish on rice and the majority of them happen to be Japanese Actually the majority of them are Chinese or Korean (outside of Japan at least).
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by maaku 11y ago
> I had friends who learned how to read when they were toddlers and it had literally no effect on them later in life other than that they were bored in school until everyone else had the chance to learn who did not have their parents ex
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by maaku 11y ago
Yes, like precious metals. The history of precious metal economies is pretty bad -- decades-long recessions and wars triggered by fluctuations in the commodity markets. Deflationary currency is not a good thing, and bitcoiners will eventual
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by maaku 11y ago
Why would you expect hashing power to become more distributed? Mining is a race to the bottom/thin margins, and the differentials in power rates far exceed normal miner profit margins. It would still only be profitable to mine at scale
321.
by maaku 11y ago
What the expense of mining buys you is censorship-resistance.
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by maaku 11y ago
USA (Washington state) has the cheapest power in the world (at volume -- places like Iceland are cheaper/nearly free, but with too limited capacity for large scale mining).
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by maaku 11y ago
maybe people will trust bitcoin more if you put the right spin on it (bitcoin is now regulator-approved, etc.).
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by maaku 11y ago
Or be the sovereign state whose jurisdiction that data center is in.
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by maaku 11y ago
I'm a fan of EROS as well. But primitive is the point, no? Support only what minimal feature set is necessary to implement the rest in higher layers with optimal performance, while adding some sort of security guarantees (even if just
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by maaku 11y ago
You should try it sometime. I find that somewhere between 5 1/2 and 6 hours of sleep keeps me at peak performance, but 8 or 9 hours of sleep leaves my groggy and tired throughout the day. Paradoxical? Maybe, but our bodies are complica
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by maaku 11y ago
Have you tried L4?
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by maaku 11y ago
Performance with Mach is not possible. Modern microkernel research has moved on to architectures like L4 which are much better in that regard. I have no idea what the "mach" at the heart of OS X is, but I'm sure it is not the
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by maaku 11y ago
Not by any likely means.
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by maaku 11y ago
Usually buildings that old are under big piles of dirt.

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