haha I would challenge the idea that consciousness is subordinate to the deterministic laws of physicsā¦ the body seems to be a hardware system (constrained) whereas consciousness seems to act more like an unbound frequency waiting to be observed by the receiver albeit the receiver remains bound by their specific hardware constraints
If I could go back to my 20s, I would buy a yacht on the yachttrading platform, because the yachts bought here have increased in price. https://www.yachttrading.com/
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Hahahah yes actually I think about this a lot
Sure. Or people running homebrew systems would tell you. But I digressā¦ still a great conversation for nostr. Thanks š
How would you know? You would never be given access to information like that if it existed
I agree, which circles bc to my point about.... as long as it is not concentrated in the hands of the few. Do you see what I mean now
Iām worried that there is exactly one group of people working on this and their motivations are at odds with the success of Bitcoin, yes
Yes, I will do my best as I also donāt consider myself a programmer. Some of this you probably already know but to build on logic.
As you know, bitcoin relies on mining validation to discover blocks. This is done using hardware that does āhash mathā. Once upon a time, we used CPUs but now we use ASICS.
ASICs are much much faster than anything else at completing this math because they were optimized to do ONLY that.
But ASICS are just chips- the result of low level builds. Low level means that the programming language gives the operator direct control over the systems hardware.
Bitcoin software uses C++ programming language.
C++ software uses things like pointers etc (this allowed us to be able to basically give our Bitcoin addressā to live at and other weird things but itās dependent on hardware/software sync).
the miner itself (aside from the ASIC chip which runs the hash math) requires instructions to operate. miners use ARM and Iāve recently seen arguments for x86ā¦ but these are proprietary meaning thereās rules to using theseāinstructionsā (see tarriffs, fees, or vendor lock ins)
Whereas, RISC-V and even other even newer (and potentially more lightweight) ISAs (instruction sets) offer competition as they are open source models and open source iterates v quickly.
All of this is to say ASICS could be betterā¦ they could become faster potentially and whoever has early access to that hardware that does optimizeā¦ would be the fastest in the world at validating blocks and potentially other operational forms of compute.
No quantum computer required.
You have made a point! Your point was that you arenāt worried about quantum computing?
I agreed! Neither am I!
I am, however, worried about advancements in hardware that may be able to perform the same operations that everyone equates to the quantum compute capability
You referred back to the quantum compute article you postedā¦ I questioned why as it does not pertain to my comments about parallel programming languages and advancements in low level hardware optimization
Understand that bitcoin core is written in a programming languageā¦ this programming language allows for very fast math at a low level (ie, hash math) the difficulty adjustment/ hr is the product of multiple nodes running math in parallel until one discovers the correct block and earns a mining reward
Iām sorry. That was rude and not a way to talk to another human but Iām lost and youāre acting like Iām not making sense but you are not making sense
Yes, I said that. And I meant it.
What are you fucking asking me!? Holy shitā¦ this conversation makes no sense
I have, yes, verified that these people are not full of shit considering they are not running local AI on superclusters
Yes I opened it. I read it. It did not pertain to anything I said. In 2020, I received a university funded grant. During that time, I did a massive deep dive on quantum physics. Iām *once again* not talking about quantum compute.
My guyā¦ I literally have the Planck constant tattood on my arm
Iām not the only person worried about mining pool centralization. I think that this has been brought up in the larger community time and time again. See everyone person pushing solo mining initiatives.
But what Iām rlly worried about is advancements in low level programming. The idea that hardware will remain constrained in the ways it is today just seems totally improbable to me.
Not because this effort is being put into bitcoin but because this effort is being put into AIā¦ thereās a chance AI labs have already stumbled upon compute that would be a threat to modern day cryptography and broader encryption schemes.
This push for quantum resistance isnāt about quantum computersā¦ we know that quantum computers fall into a state of decoherence if the qubits are even mildly affected (ie, temperature change and/or observational tools)ā¦ IMO this is a feature rather than a bug
Itās about hardware improvements that will supersede anything we have ever seen beforeā¦ the funding for this being heavily concentrated in the hands of a few, ie computational neuroscience and biohacking labs
There are other projects (ie, blockchain competitors) modeling this in hopes of applying it to supercomputing methods
How fast can math be done matters
What would be that absolute worst case scenario of a 51% attackā¦ why would you and I work through this scenario? Itās been worked through a million times
Getting annoyed by people who talk
No you still do not get it. We only freeze other peoples coins. That is how we get rich. Its simple.
Thank god someone has come up with a solid planā¦ does seem like this is the path to riches, the math maths
Okay do you volunteer to freeze your coins too lol
Yes and also he always used to make fun of me for bitcoinā¦ not in a mean way but definitely in a condescending way
But also it was $60k the last time he did and lol we see how that worked out for the both of us
Oh nice! Thanks!
You guysā¦ I lost my alby invite code that I got like 9 mos ago. Do I need to go through the waiting period to get a new one? Do we even still need access codes on there? I wanna bolt 12
Woke up in a reality where Jack looks like Mel Gibson
When I was 8, I asked my dad who was an electrician, ācan we build a circuit board?ā felt special.
In 2013, I said to my boyfriend āletās run a rasp piā 2nd gen. felt like a wizard.
In 2020, I said to my community āletās run a serverā felt like a God.
The other day, as one of my best friends was leaving my house and I said, āDo you think we should run a supercluster?ā
Hardware is where itās at boys.
2 people is not a circle jerk
Sure does!
āThis random girl is a problem, but also helpfulā