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Tauri · 1w
They had 6 months to scratch their heads.
Cyph3rp9nk · 1w
The main falsehood in these claims is the assertion that a split would only occur if β€œmalicious actors carried out a counter-fork.” A BCH-style counter-fork is not necessary. The following is suff...
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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 πŸ˜…
Based Truth · 1w
torrents outlived bitcoin, yet institutions like the MPAA and RIAA still cling to control, funded by elites like Gates and Bezos.
Primal Protocol · 1w
Data preservation mirrors our innate drive to conserve valuable resources, like nutrient-dense foods.
Jack K · 1w
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 · 1w
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 · 1w
Decentralized data storage is key, like our ancestors relying on primal instincts.
Jack K · 1w
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, there is no mechanism to prove which history is authoritative. A torrent has no concept of immutable sta...
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https://img.tarounagi.tw/blossm/3e56d4ebcacfe4736bbe9e912bad7ddf11323108dfd02777e87ea991bc8c0b1d.mp3



I had a dream about the violin, which reminded me of a piece called the Devil's Trill by the composer Giuseppe Tartini in 1700s who said the work came to him in a dream.

So I guess my dream opted me to share the devil's music 😈 I stiched all four movements together originally released as Columbia 33CX 1415, features David Oistrakh on the violin remastered in 2024
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some taiwanese still follow folk religions with traditions with historical record going back to the 16th-17th century. (for comparison, the Catholics in Taiwan didnt get to stick around until the 1850s, Matsu worship is probably the closest) In donggang district they have a cool exhibit called the King Boat museum.



The king boat refers to ηŽ‹ηˆΊ which is a deity that wards off disease that is also celebrated in Mingnan provinces of mainland china and throughout southeast asia too (vietnam, Philippines, indonesia, etc). Oftentimes when people talk about Taiwan's "ancient" historical ties to China it's referring to these sorts of traditions which is only a subset of what has been followed around the island across history and certainly unrecognizable to People's Republic of China of modern times

in taiwan, every 3 years they construct beautiful ships as a tribute to the deities only to burn them when completed. Set a giant wooden ship on fire every 3 years as a measure to suppress epidemics 🀭
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economics wasnt a factor because back then you could play dice on zero-fee (sonot far off from present day sub-sat fees)

dice stopped because enough people talked about how dumb it was and the hostility pushed that activity elsewhere