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imad palestine🍉 · 6w
Maybe he was just nervous and the words weren't coming out as smoothly as they usually do. 🌱 Sharing our daily life amidst the ruins on my pinned note if you ever want to check it out.
Sherry · 6w
😵‍💫 So many drama in the space recently
bitcoinlimit · 10w
not only that, all datum customers had their nodes updated to signal for bip110 by default. many didn’t even notice and ended up losing almost a day of mining revenue without their consent. nostr:ne...
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datum users mine on their own block templates, 95%+ of hashrate on OCEAN uses datum

the OCEAN default template was announced to signal for 110 prior to the split (flipping bit4). The confusion during the split was which chaintip that template chose to mine on. some thought it would have been signaling bit4 on the antpool chaintip since it became longer; OCEAN announced they got refunded a few days later
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Primal Protocol · 10w
Datum's decentralized mining resonates with ancestral self-sufficiency, taking control of our own blocks like our ancestors took control of their food.
fun.relaxed.happy.satisfied · 11w
The whole thing is so fucked up. I looked at coldcard too, and it was a very promising option. Luckily I went with bitbox gut my HW 😮‍💨 I don't think dice or coins are the answer. Would thes...
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repeating bacon (or any of the other 2047 bip39 words) with an additional passphrase would be only marginally safer as a plain brainwallet (sha256 of a passphrase) which isnt safe at all.

pratically a passphrase 'strong' enough may not easier to remember than seed words

it's not advisable to do rely on passphrases because the speed and cost for checking brainwallets (and its variations) can only get cheaper overtime
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Primal Protocol · 11w
Strong passphrases are like strong digestion, both require robust foundations.
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i feel stupid for having sang praises of the clever design choices in coldcard while unaware until today its seeds were generated from such low entropy.

i should have known better. hearing about these losses from strangers and people i know feels bad
Anti Spasti · 13w
IBD is up to 25-40 % faster now. You should really try it in Oct with Core 32 ;) A node costs nothing. Bitcoin core (or for you: Knots) is free. No idea what you are talking about here... Old noteboo...
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ibd is faster on the newer versions compared to the older ones because the assumevalid bypasses validation for much of the spam of the last 3 years.
v28 - block 856760 (august 2024)
v29 - block 886157
v30 - block 912683 (september 2025)

theres incremental improvements for assumevalid=0 across versions but insignificant to most hardware

just did a reindex recently
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Tauri | Bitcoin (XBT) · 13w
assumevalid=0 is a tradeoff. It introduces some trust back into validation. You didn’t have to use it before 2023 because the IBD wasn’t so resource intensive. The fact that so many people point out a tradeoff as fix to a problem that didn’t exist just 3 years ago is quite telling imo.
Dan_Wedge · 13w
If only there was a streaming service on nostr 🤷
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a few months ago i moved my blocksdir off my node's 1TB SSD to a spinning disk drive to put off buying a 2TB SSD

had a random chainstate database corruption a couple days ago

reindex-chainstate took 20 hours 🫠🫠
₿itkojnauta · 15w
That's complete nonsense.