It checks out. 100% checks out, including the two errors back before block 100,000.
Friendly public service announcement: buy bitcoin and take custody of it. Time is running out.
You can thank me in a decade. In effusive prose or performative art, thx.
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That is beyond cool. Youâre got good heritage! I can only imagine the stories!
If I werenât a physician, I would have had a lot harder time hodling bitcoin since 2010.
Had I not been a physician, I would have had a shit ton more bitcoinâŚand more time to pursue the field.
Life is full of such trade offs.
Be safe. Orange pill without losing too many sats!
I just checked the entire bitcoin blockchain, including every signature, from start to finish.
Now Iâm gonna try the same from finish to start. I just compiled bitcoin from GitHub and this should contain the fix for the big I found in 2021 while attempting this same exercise.
This is why you should run your own node. In USA, you can be compelled in a court of law to provide a private key in certain settingsâŚif your hardware wallet provider is also your node, they can list off for the government all they keys you definitely do ownâŚ
If you want the utmost in privacy, use blockstream.space for a totally offline bitcoin node. Not even your isp can know you have bitcoinâŚ
I like the âcome and take itâ patch. I got the same one on my body armor. Still havenât gotten a ghost gunner thoughâŚI build mine the old fashion way with hand tools.
One time, I thought it would be a good idea to put my locker combination on the bitcoin blockchainâŚToday I went to look at the specially crafted address where I put 0.00xxxxxx bitcoins to encode forever my combination. I never bothered to keep the private key, foolishly thinking that if the transaction were spent, my combo might be gone.
So I went to look at that transaction todayâŚit looks like all the inputs were tiny dust transactions from these hokey sites that would send you like 0.01-0.0001 bitcoin for clicking a link or looking at an advertisement.
To think my attention could have been worth hundreds of dollars :)
I figured Iâd test my new 2.5 Gb routerâŚ
So Iâm syncing the bitcoin blockchain from
genesis from one machine to another on 2.5Gb Ethernet adapters. Not quite the throughput I would have hoped for (peak like 800 Mib/s), but the good news is: bitcoin checks out. The blockchain is still valid, from day one to this moment.
Also, did you know you can verify bitcoin forwards and backwards? I discovered a little bug while going backwards: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/22596
Someone figured out why it did that and recently patched it!
Dogs rock. I have an American Akita that is emotionally intuitive and very kind. Fiercely defensive and very loyalâŚmy Akita has a little Pomeranian that happens to be the alpha dog, paradoxicallyâŚ
If you have time for a movie and donât mind sad stories, the movie Hachi is what convinced me to get a dog. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachi:_A_Dog%27s_Tale
Just your friendly reminder that you donât need internet to sync a bitcoin node from scratch. All the data you need is literally hitting you on the head whenever you are outside.
https://blockstream.com/satellite/
If you have a satellite dish sitting around, youâre most of the day thereâŚitâs freeâŚ
I have two dishes connected to two satellites and get a 3 Mbps data feed with all new bitcoin blocks and transactions with historical blocks beamed down on a 21 day loop.
I was a graduate student at a rather well known not for profit multi specialty private group medical practice located in southeast Minnesota during the time when modifying MR pulse sequences was minimal risk and part of routine clinical care. When I returned some years later as a radiology resident, even the world famous clinic had been hit with the ban on pulse sequences (which was obviated by having patients sign up as research participants in a non-existent study with no research aims).
Vacation. Travel. Sunny most days in SW US. Might be worth it. Good luck!
Rock on.
I built my first computer since 1998 while visiting in-laws in Chicago at Christmas. The only restriction was that it had to fit in my carry on bag.
I built a mini-itx with 64 GB RAM, intel 13700k cpu, three 4TB pcie4 NVME drives. With three partitions in raid 0 & btrfs, I get 18 GB/s read and 15 GB/s writes at 128 MB (the size of the bitcoin block files). $1700 before storage. Not a bad deal. No gpu, but I ainât a gamer.
I can confirm it reindexes the blockchain crazy fast (Iâll have to look at exact time in debug.log, maybe an hour for rescanning blocks.datâŚ)
MehâŚI donât fault the upstart for wanting to get things off the ground fast. And I donât fault CK for ceasing to make it trivial for competitors to get started. All is fair in love and war.
Having used coldcards since the first device, the evolution has always been along the lines that solves problems the inventors themselves had faced. This method yields something very useful for those folks who are like the creators.
But this is but a small fraction of the market. Regular people might enjoy the (presumed) innovations of a fork. This is the nature of foss & the market.