Oh, really? I just quick skimmed Amazon and saw they still want a prescription, but I guess I'll have to dig deeper.

It's really annoying to me that you can't buy one without a prescription (or by circumventing normal procurement).

For Mastering Bitcoin, the publisher wanted to go with Bitcoin-the-network and bitcoin-the-currency. I was fine with that, as its what I normally used, but I discovered when working with the non-Bitcoiner editor and proofreaders that they had a hard time guessing which was which. I got a lot of queries about whether I really meant to use caps (or vice versa for lowercase), especially since I did occasionally use the wrong case. Next time I work with normies, I'll probably ask to just use common noun casing throughout.

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nostr:nprofile1qqsvvk9qy7qx2gzed6wazxtureunuxljam66za6yr3p02zc0qhz57jqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs0dsl3l noted in discussion on Delving that you only need a proof of transaction contents (e.g. the coinbase outpoint) if the tx is exactly 64 bytes. Otherwise, a proof of tx size is sufficient, which is compatible with SHA midstate verification (i.e., ~100 bytes max data).

Are you sure about this answer? I thought a default node would keep stale blocks it downloaded indefinitely, only deleting them from disk if it was configured to prune.

It's very imprecise. Worse, it's only useful for individuals who contribute large amounts of hashrate, i.e. those who could reasonably solo mine. nostr:nprofile1qqsvvk9qy7qx2gzed6wazxtureunuxljam66za6yr3p02zc0qhz57jqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs0dsl3l makes the point that the difficulty of preventing block withholding could be a significant contributor to limiting pool options: https://mailing-list.bitcoindevs.xyz/bitcoindev/Zp%2FGADXa8J146Qqn@erisian.com.au/

That seems like it could be compatible with banning withholders. Thanks!

You detect it with statistical analysis. If Mallory is excessively unlucky, e.g. she's submitted 3x as many shares as necessary to find a block but none of her shares were blocks, you ban her.

What auditability? I thought nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0907cz8 was talking about eliminating miner identity, which prevents eviction of misbehaving miners.

I'm all for anon mining, but pools that allow it now put themselves at risk of block withholding.

If there's no traceability, there's no way to ban miners who perform block withholding attacks. nostr:nprofile1qqsvvk9qy7qx2gzed6wazxtureunuxljam66za6yr3p02zc0qhz57jqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs0dsl3l has recently written about this problem and potential solutions (e.g. oblivious shares, which alas requires an invasive hard fork).

I ground slept for about 10 years and thought it was great---except when I was sick and wanted some place to lay when feeling miserable. Alas, my fiancee insists on a bed.

Ejecting garbage into space during battles and fleet maneuvers could damage their own ships, so they had to be prepared to store it for hours or days. But trash is bulky, so they compacted it. Also, maybe compaction was followed by incineration or some other processes to destroy any potentially classified material that accidentally got thrown away.

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So you save 50 kb on the query but may receive a response that's bloated by potentially more than 50 kb of unwanted data?

Isn't that 0.01% error rate over the total number of public keys in the set? E.g. if I follow 1,000 out of the 1 million publeys on nostr, I'll get guaranteed updates from my 1k follows plus updates from about 100 random people (1e6 x 0.0001)?

Congratulations!!!

We'll be covering Dark Skippy in Friday's Optech Newsletter. I'm guessing nostr:nprofile1qqspgwdt6s5cz9j74nxdq34a2ed26x0jx99f8tvm6zdds03ng2lvn8cprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkc2zf4ja would be happy to have you as a guest on the subsequent Recap podcast next Tuesday.

I have an Amazon Basics wireless mouse that's starting to fail, with the scroll wheel having worn down. Looks like I paid $13.99 four years ago, so $3.50/year.

I'm unaware of any evidence of long term storage in any prehistoric society of large amounts of honey or fat. The quantities needed to significantly extend human life during famine are huge and preservation using prehistoric methods was difficult and unreliable. It's much easier to keep animals alive than to store their fat. It's much easier to have bees guard their own honey against predation than to have humans guard it.

I don't understand why I've haven't been able to buy a router in the past decade that just works well continuously and supports more than 4 clients.

Left a reply about what I think might be the issue: https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/issues/1465#issuecomment-1546706665