@SatsBadger
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Recent Notes
Recently I had to do IBD again but this time I had it done in 40 hours rather than usual time of 6 or more days without hardware upgrade with latest Core version in win64.
Fast Syncing Strategies (For Initial Block Download only) (as suggested by Gemini pro):
* Temporarily Disable Tor (if already being used): delete proxy, onion, torcontrol in your bitcoin.conf and settings.json so you can download the heavy blocks faster over your clear-net internet.
* Add Antivirus Exclusions: Tell your Antivirus to ignore your Bitcoin data folder so it doesn't scan every gigabyte you download.
* Max Out dbcache: Push dbcache in settings as high as your physical RAM safely allows (75% of your RAM capacity) so the node relies on RAM instead of the slow HDD.
* Use Assumevalid=000...fb5ee in bitcoin.conf (use latest hash according to your core version)
💽 The SSD "Hybrid Trick"
To bypass the physical limitations of your HDD's (if used) spinning disk during complex block validation:
* Cut the chainstate folder from your HDD.
* Paste it onto an SSD or fast flash drive.
* Use the Windows Command Prompt (as Administrator) to link them back together using: mklink /J "HDD_Path\chainstate" "SSD_Path\chainstate".
Now start the Node, keep running 24/7 without restarting. Once your node hits 100% sync, you can simply reverse your Tor proxy and other settings as you need.
Fast Syncing Strategies (For Initial Block Download only) (as suggested by Gemini pro):
* Temporarily Disable Tor (if already being used): delete proxy, onion, torcontrol in your bitcoin.conf and settings.json so you can download the heavy blocks faster over your clear-net internet.
* Add Antivirus Exclusions: Tell your Antivirus to ignore your Bitcoin data folder so it doesn't scan every gigabyte you download.
* Max Out dbcache: Push dbcache in settings as high as your physical RAM safely allows (75% of your RAM capacity) so the node relies on RAM instead of the slow HDD.
* Use Assumevalid=000...fb5ee in bitcoin.conf (use latest hash according to your core version)
💽 The SSD "Hybrid Trick"
To bypass the physical limitations of your HDD's (if used) spinning disk during complex block validation:
* Cut the chainstate folder from your HDD.
* Paste it onto an SSD or fast flash drive.
* Use the Windows Command Prompt (as Administrator) to link them back together using: mklink /J "HDD_Path\chainstate" "SSD_Path\chainstate".
Now start the Node, keep running 24/7 without restarting. Once your node hits 100% sync, you can simply reverse your Tor proxy and other settings as you need.
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Verify the hash of firmware update through pgp key is must.
I wish you luck, and I hope I’m wrong about your likelihood of success.
I don’t think this fork will end well.
After the BIP-110 failure (predominantly due to miner centralization IMO), I switc...
"... To fix miner centralization". Are you sure there is miner centralization in Btc? Mining pool is not equivalent of a large miner like Marathon.
One node, one vote was always a lie.
Now you know the truth so will you hate the people who told you the truth or the people who lied to you?
Your choice, not mine.
It's always been a lie. If it were true, then any large state actors like China or US could have just spin up a million node and completely take over Bitcoin.
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I believe bip110ers will put The forbidden data they're warning about by themselves to prove a point.
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I’ve largely ignored the BIP-110 debate and plan to continue to do so, but reading some of the posts by its supporters on X, I wonder if they realize how much they sound like BSV-ers 😂
If bip110 actually worked, I think it would have lot of support. Not only it doesn't work it also breaks some of the things that already working well and could have introduced new problems. On top of that it's all temporary. If it becomes a hard fork, it would be lamest one.
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Even though you haven’t got funds on a coldcard…do you find yourself checking your wallet just in case?
That level of latent fear is what has hit the ‘Bitcoin community’. Bitcoin was built on...
Yup, I checked it twice even though I had no connection with coldcard. I even checked software code of the hardware wallet that I used in the past with Gemini Pro even though I have very little knowledge of coding in general. Paranoia is real.
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I never understood that computers just suck at random number generation.
There is so much to know and often you don’t know what you don’t know until there is catalyst to learn.
Derive your own ...
That's not true. Computers are way better than human at generating random numbers with same amount of dice rolls. Because human have biases. This debacle happened because the computer had options to generate low entropy seed that ignores some randomness generating methods included in the software program.
You know, why I never bothered to buy a Coldcard? That shit was 2X expensive than combined cost of two hardware wallets I own currently.
I think proverty saved me 😂.
I think proverty saved me 😂.
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