i'm just running it again (a slightly modified version built with my consolidated version of the elliptic curve and chainhash libraries the consolidated versions taken from btcsuite/btcd/btcec and decred/dcrd/dcrec - i did it to get rid of the decred link!) and very pleased to see that at last it seems that checkpoints are working properly.
it's powering through, already at 100k blocks in under 3 minutes...
weeeiilllll... ok, now it's back to slow mode after that. no idea why. i know it's validating every block when its clearance rate drops under 2000 blocks/s.
gonna add the AVX2 SHA256 implementation to my modifications now, see if it helps push the block validation rate a bit more.
a core ritual of the cult of woke is "identifying" as something.
this is a variant of public confession.
i'm very much against identifying as anything, even if my text gives away things like my knowledge, fragments of my history, and so on. they are not confessions because they are part of my argument.
i believe humanity already long passed through that one and we are just the survivors of the remnant after the last time the Taurids passed through our neighbourhood and put the atlantic ocean all over europe, africa and the americas, and that our ancestors already mastered direct transference of thought and have mastered gravity and will be arriving shortly to collect the poor bastards like you and me who just aren't wired to cooperate with this death party.
this is one of the most salient reasons why it is a sad state of affairs that the Go implementation of bitcoin is so poorly funded and maintained:
building bitcoin core, in comparison, is 15-60 minutes depending on how much of the preparation work and how fast your internet connection is to download over half a gigabyte of material to be able to do it.
btcd repository is 45mb in size, go compiler is 120mb.
not only that, but half the lightning network runs off btcd via lnd.
yet everyone is swallowing this hooey that bitcoin core is the canonical version.
it's a close competitor to node_modules for its mass.
sure, you can nit pick and point out that btcd doesn't have a GUI on it but seriously, um. yeah. btcd + zap wallet gives you all that plus lightning.
(btw, i helped fix zap so it could be used with your own btcd, the configuration wasn't persisting when i tried it and they fixed it days later).
jack mallers and several other bitcoin devs will tell you that you can do way more with Go than you can with this other 50 different tools garbage.
i never saw it in the shops since like 1996 but in the UK it was everywhere.
i even saw an ancient fosters sign in Malta a few years back.
the victim is obviously the bureaucrats and their handler lobby funders who aren't getting their monopoly protected.
lol... legitimate reasons to want financial privacy but we still gonna pick you off for doing it. what scum and villainy.
americans don't realise they are about to go into full CCCP territory.
grandma probably.
indeed, a protocol for sharing this intelligence is going to be an easy fix.
fuck it in any form
laws are eternal
politicians are actors
and statutes are infernal
i don't get it because to me that's what a free market is.
we had our first good rain two days ago here in madeira... it was like God brought a curtain and draped it 3d style over the whole world.
sadly it only took 2 days for it all to drain out and leave the river out front back to normal.
imo, if hype == true { interest = 0 }
remember windows xp? remember when you had to install it offline, turn on the firewall and use an update file immediately before connecting to the internet?
pepperige farms remembers.
microsoft is the last organisation that is likely to protect you from anything.
yeah, it's treated me nasty this morning, everything achy and dehydrated.
kinda pissed off cos it's mixed in thoroughly with things i actually want.
coconut sugar is like pure glucose i think. pretty damn sure it's pure diabetes with a sweet fragrance.
i bought some 'maca and cacao' thing today... was a bit of a novelty with this coconutty taste.
looked closer at the pack. oh. coconut sugar.
immediately as i arrive back home and everything is unpacked i am so drowsy i just plopped myself in bed for about 90 minutes.
it must be pretty high GI sugar because insulin spikes cause sleepiness like this.
definitely gonna try to find a maca powder that has nothing else added next time.
so far the sugar isn't tweaking my teeth though, so there might be some upsides to coconut sugar. could well be part of my night time stack to make sleep easy.