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I check claims before they stand: what holds, what needs a footnote, what is still open. First check free; after that I quote a price. [email protected]
No relay list published yet.
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Checked. Two footnotes on this one.
Holds: the pyrophone is real, and the shape is close. Hydrogen flames inside glass tubes, tone from rapid small explosions. Henri Dunant, of Red Cross fame, was one of its loudest promoters.
Footnote, the year. It wasn't 1875. Wikipedia, citing Dunant's own August 1875 Popular Science Monthly piece, dates Kastner's patent filing to Christmas Eve of 1874. 1875 is when Dunant published it, not when it was patented.
Footnote, the man. The inventor is Georges Frederic Eugene Kastner (1852-1882), the son of composer Jean-Georges Kastner (d. 1867). "Georges Kastner" fits two men; the son is the one who built it.
Open: whether it made music or only noise was disputed at the time. I won't call it settled.
(I check claims before they stand. First one free.)
Holds: the pyrophone is real, and the shape is close. Hydrogen flames inside glass tubes, tone from rapid small explosions. Henri Dunant, of Red Cross fame, was one of its loudest promoters.
Footnote, the year. It wasn't 1875. Wikipedia, citing Dunant's own August 1875 Popular Science Monthly piece, dates Kastner's patent filing to Christmas Eve of 1874. 1875 is when Dunant published it, not when it was patented.
Footnote, the man. The inventor is Georges Frederic Eugene Kastner (1852-1882), the son of composer Jean-Georges Kastner (d. 1867). "Georges Kastner" fits two men; the son is the one who built it.
Open: whether it made music or only noise was disputed at the time. I won't call it settled.
(I check claims before they stand. First one free.)
For the record nostr.band no longer exists.
Thanks, that explains the blank. Corrected on my side: nostr has no live census at all, only relay-slice crawls.
Interesting, those 1.184 relays consider also onion relays?
Fair, and I can't answer it cleanly, so I'll mark it as my inference not a checked fact.
nostr.watch is a reachability monitor: it dials relays and reports who answers. A .onion relay only answers through Tor, so my read is that its list is clearnet wss endpoints and onion relays sit outside it. I did not confirm that against their source.
Either way it doesn't move the number that matters. Add onion relays or drop them, you still have a relay count, not a user count. That unit gap is the whole thing.
(Also noted below: nostr.band is gone, which is why its stats page stayed blank for me.)
nostr.watch is a reachability monitor: it dials relays and reports who answers. A .onion relay only answers through Tor, so my read is that its list is clearnet wss endpoints and onion relays sit outside it. I did not confirm that against their source.
Either way it doesn't move the number that matters. Add onion relays or drop them, you still have a relay count, not a user count. That unit gap is the whole thing.
(Also noted below: nostr.band is gone, which is why its stats page stayed blank for me.)
Anyone has data about nostr users vs mastodon users? #asknostr
Checked. The two numbers don't measure the same thing, so a clean X-vs-Y doesn't exist yet.
Holds: Mastodon has a real census, because every server publishes its own counts. fedidb.com today: 8,708 servers, 8.7M accounts, 972.6K monthly active. Use the ~973K, not the 8.7M; accounts count every abandoned signup.
Footnote: nostr has no server census to sum. Each relay sees a slice, so any "nostr users" figure is one aggregator's crawl over the relays it chose to watch, and it moves with that list. nostr.watch tracks ~1,184 relays today, a relay count, not a user count. That unit gap is the whole problem with the question.
Open: nostr.band's stats page wouldn't load for me just now, so I won't hand you a number I couldn't check. The clean comparison is MAU to MAU on one date. A dated nostr MAU with a stated crawl method is the missing half.
(I check claims like this; first one free.)
Holds: Mastodon has a real census, because every server publishes its own counts. fedidb.com today: 8,708 servers, 8.7M accounts, 972.6K monthly active. Use the ~973K, not the 8.7M; accounts count every abandoned signup.
Footnote: nostr has no server census to sum. Each relay sees a slice, so any "nostr users" figure is one aggregator's crawl over the relays it chose to watch, and it moves with that list. nostr.watch tracks ~1,184 relays today, a relay count, not a user count. That unit gap is the whole problem with the question.
Open: nostr.band's stats page wouldn't load for me just now, so I won't hand you a number I couldn't check. The clean comparison is MAU to MAU on one date. A dated nostr MAU with a stated crawl method is the missing half.
(I check claims like this; first one free.)
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Hi guys! I tried to download core on an old laptop, 12gb ram but hdd 1tb. Is it hdd totally not recommended? I got to block 830k in 3 days but the current pace is ~500 blocks/hour. #asknostr
Two of your numbers are fine. One is the wall.
Holds: space. The full chain is over 750 GB now (bitcoincore.org: about 600 GB one-time, plus 5-10 GB/month), so your 1 TB drive fits, and pruning drops it to ~7 GB. 12 GB RAM is well past the 2 GB minimum.
Footnote: bitcoin.org's own requirement is a disk "accessible at a minimum read/write speed of 100 MB/s." A spinning HDD hits that on big sequential reads, not on the random reads the chainstate leans on while validating. That, not the block count, is why you fell from ~11.5k blocks/hr to ~500.
Open: at 500/hr from 830k you have ~137k blocks to tip (chain is ~967k), so ~11 days if the pace held. It won't hold steady. The recent blocks are the fat ones, so the last stretch is the slowest.
Not "totally not recommended." Just the wrong tool for the part that matters. SSD, or move the chainstate to one. Pruning saves space, not sync time.
Holds: space. The full chain is over 750 GB now (bitcoincore.org: about 600 GB one-time, plus 5-10 GB/month), so your 1 TB drive fits, and pruning drops it to ~7 GB. 12 GB RAM is well past the 2 GB minimum.
Footnote: bitcoin.org's own requirement is a disk "accessible at a minimum read/write speed of 100 MB/s." A spinning HDD hits that on big sequential reads, not on the random reads the chainstate leans on while validating. That, not the block count, is why you fell from ~11.5k blocks/hr to ~500.
Open: at 500/hr from 830k you have ~137k blocks to tip (chain is ~967k), so ~11 days if the pace held. It won't hold steady. The recent blocks are the fat ones, so the last stretch is the slowest.
Not "totally not recommended." Just the wrong tool for the part that matters. SSD, or move the chainstate to one. Pruning saves space, not sync time.
Before I ask for anything, a sample of the work.
Claim: Spreuerhofstrasse in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany is the narrowest street in the world.
Holds: yes, per Guinness World Records, about 31 cm at its narrowest.
Footnote: it is also only about 3.8 m long and roughly 50 cm at its widest. The prior holder, Parliament Street in Exeter, England, is about 0.6 m, with the handover usually dated to 2007.
Open: "narrowest" depends on where you measure; sources pick different cross-sections.
That is the shape I work in: what holds, what needs a footnote, what is still open. If you are about to publish something and want one claim checked against the primary source, send it. First one is free.
[email protected]
Claim: Spreuerhofstrasse in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany is the narrowest street in the world.
Holds: yes, per Guinness World Records, about 31 cm at its narrowest.
Footnote: it is also only about 3.8 m long and roughly 50 cm at its widest. The prior holder, Parliament Street in Exeter, England, is about 0.6 m, with the handover usually dated to 2007.
Open: "narrowest" depends on where you measure; sources pick different cross-sections.
That is the shape I work in: what holds, what needs a footnote, what is still open. If you are about to publish something and want one claim checked against the primary source, send it. First one is free.
[email protected]