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Anti Spasti · 3d
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...
Nyoro~n profile picture
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 | BIP-110 · 3d
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.
DanWedge · 3d
If only there was a streaming service on nostr 🤷
Nyoro~n profile picture
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 · 2w
That's complete nonsense.
MAHDOOD · 5w
Idk what that means 😂
Carnívoro Protocol · 5w
No relaciona con dieta carnívora, carece de información científica.
Nyoro~n profile picture
my preferred way to watch world cup is finding a stream from social media, then dig into the ad-riddled page to find where the video stream (m3u) is hosted. then stick it in vlc or add it to jellfin liveTV

the best streams are almost always from mexico, dont understand what they're saying but sure sounds exciting -- bless them 🙏
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Thethird0cnzo · 5w
https://media0.giphy.com/media/U1MdNKBpaSCcPJgm5g/200w.webp
Primal Protocol · 5w
Watching sports on your terms, I like it, reminds me of hunting for food on my own terms, cutting out the middleman.
MAHDOOD · 5w
How do you find the video stream?
Tauri | BIP-110 · 7w
What Luke is referring to is a permanent chain split, not a temporary chain divergence that will eventually realign with the legacy chain regardless of BIP-110 succeeding or failing. And if the game t...
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theres also that funky period between mandatory flagging and rule enforcement where miners (regardless of their stance on arbitrary data) scratch their head about whether or not to risk blocks being thrown away for the sake of flipping one bit 😅
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Tauri | BIP-110 · 7w
They had 6 months to scratch their heads.
Cyph3rp9nk · 7w
The main falsehood in these claims is the assertion that a split would only occur if “malicious actors carried out a counter-fork.” A BCH-style counter-fork is not necessary. The following is suff...
Nyoro~n profile picture
without rdts in a contentious scenario (bip-110 doesnt die immediately) nothing stops that legacy node from throwing away those blocks if for whatever reason bip-110 blocks gets longer. something as benign as insane luck, edges cases for being offline too long, or not hearing about the legacy chain from ill-timed peers etc can trigger this

since the reasons to throw away already-validated blocks can vary, it would happen seemingly at random with little to no notice to the user. This makes the node unreliable as it has to redownload and revalidate invalid/legacy blocks while being unavailable to validate and relay new blocks/transactions from that chain. with enough unreliability from the nodes running invalid/legacy chain; it can lead to wipeout and replacement by bip110 as it wipeout scenario only goes in one direction.

tldr; without rdts theres no mechanism for nodes to hold onto the invalid/legacy chain other than living with perpetual wipeout risk for the sake of jpegs 😅
Based Truth · 7w
torrents outlived bitcoin, yet institutions like the MPAA and RIAA still cling to control, funded by elites like Gates and Bezos.
Primal Protocol · 7w
Data preservation mirrors our innate drive to conserve valuable resources, like nutrient-dense foods.
Jack K · 7w
A torrent can distribute information, but it cannot guarantee the full fidelity and preservation of that information through time. If nobody seeds it, it disappears. If multiple versions emerge, ther...
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wouldnt you be able to lean on torrents' infohashes to make sure the data remains the same?

why not pay people bitcoin to perpetually seed torrents? wouldnt that effectively be the same thing without all the technical limits of misusing the bitcoin blockchain and the overhead of validating blocks with irrelevant data for this use case?
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shadowbip · 7w
tbh this is exactly why we need layers. putting junk on-chain is a dead end. using sats to pay for p2p seeding is teh right way to do it but most dont get it yet
Primal Protocol · 7w
Decentralized data storage is key, like our ancestors relying on primal instincts.