if you really want to update all packages, I went this route before (and broke my node), but figured out what works. Add this to /etc/apt/preferences.d/pins

then run 'apt update && apt upgrade'

note: do this in the chrooted environment

note2: this will also update the kernel to 6.11

```

Package: *

Pin: release a=stable, stable-updates, stable-security

Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *

Pin: release a=stable-backports

Pin-Priority: 400

Package: *

Pin: release a=unstable

Pin-Priority: 50

Package: linux-image-amd64

Pin: release a=unstable

Pin-Priority: 500

Package: btrfs-progs e2fsprogs firmware-* geoip-database libcpupower1 linux-cpupower qemu-guest-agent smartmontools socat tor tor-*

Pin: release a=stable-backports

Pin-Priority: 500

```

Welp… I fucked up my StartOS node by using “apt upgrade.”

Fan-fucking-tastic.

Doing a system rebuild and restoring from backup.

still mind blowing to me that my lightning node sends me cryptographically verifiable receipts of cytographically verifiable transfers on a decentralized L2 network of computers that are on top of a cryptographically verifiable ledger built on exahashes of proof of work.

wtf is even happening

Who has a fiat job?

is testnet4 bugged? Seems to be taking 20min for a block #bitcoin

Thnx mate. Want some tBTC for testnet4?

I watched the documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery. Overall, it was decently entertaining and did a good job of covering a lot of Bitcoin's history. However, there were some inaccuracies or misleading portrayals. For example, the documentary failed to mention that "Bitcoin Jesus" (Roger Ver) is now primarily associated with Shitcoins, inaccurately claimed that Blockstream takes a portion of all Bitcoin transaction fees, and misrepresented the Blocksize War. It also completely omitted any discussion of the Lightning Network and framed Blockstream as a centralized force behind Bitcoin, which doesn't accurately reflect the decentralized nature of the Bitcoin's ecosystem.

As for the ending conclusion... Is it Peter Todd, because he's incredibly intelligent, invented Replace-by-Fee and understands Bitcoin better than most? I don't know and I don't care. It doesn't matter who Satoshi Nakamoto is. Bitcoin is stronger because we don't know.

What I do know is that since the journalist misrepresented Blockstream and the Blocksize Wars, it seems likely that other aspects of the documentary could also be misrepresented, like the portrayal of Peter Todd and the attempt to connect random dots to Satoshi Nakamoto.

haha! not much grafana/prometheus content out there yet for BitAxe yet I suppose. The dashboard I showed here is in my PR in that repo.

Trying this now! I found this note from a simple google seach 😱

I believe the current plan is to have a v28.1 release later that's a little bit more relaxed about weird invalid stuff. So if things break, and you can't quickly fix them, maybe wait for that release.

But don't wait passively: actually open a github issue.

Many things to ponder. We'll know much more by year end, I think. Do you know why there is a 2 hour rule, and whether it could have been make just 1 hour? That would have helped.

Many things to ponder. We'll know much more by year end, I think. Do you know why there is a 2 hour rule, and whether it could have been make just 1 hour? That would have helped.

I get the 20 minute rule. About 2 months ago basically the chain would move along nicely and if it stalled for 20 minutes wiz would mine a diff=1 block. PortlandHodl has an asic so he donates some hash to keep it ticking along. But spoofing 2 hours forward, I dont think is in the spirit of things. And what seems to be happening is that every diff adjustment we are getting high % increase (double digit or 90% sometimes). I think its good to play around on, because we are going to have a lot of problems when the block subsidy goes away, so this gives us some early warning of what sort of things can be done. If that makes sense.

Yeah I think we can do better. My block erupter from 2013 is getting hot! I feel there's too many spoofed timestamps. But at least it's testnet so we can war game some defenses. Ive been writing a stratum server and client in the last couple of days. It's almost working but the hex formats can be tricky. I think the community should get together and try to defend #testnet4, even with CPU, but if someone has a bitaxe, that would be huge.

Deep in the weeds of this one. The diff seems to keep going up.

Too bad I use start9 and would have very gladly tried your relay "haven" 😔