@BBoingo @jonmatonis @adam3us @Joi @qntra @techreview This is exactly the level of discussion I expected.
@bergalex @alansilbert @kristovatlas heh, that post is exactly why I posted these tweets https://t.co/CzcgcsJDLc
@alansilbert @bergalex @kristovatlas Security inherent to a trustless ledger is valuable, but it’s incredibly difficult to “sell” security.
@alansilbert @kristovatlas Bitseed does have some nice automatic recovery logic, but requires using twice as much disk space.
@pkothbauer Don’t forget to forward the port! https://t.co/2E3pHOk14I
I’m pleased to report that @BitGo users have been completely unaffected by the stress test. 100K+ txs in mempool. https://t.co/jK0WiG9SvP
@jm111t Note that I am referring to laymen, not people who are deep into cryptocurrency.
@kristovatlas Slightly. I think bigger burden is convincing people of value proposition and of installing a node on an always-on machine.
@kristovatlas I myself use the node monitoring service offered by @port8333
@kristovatlas Any Linux guru can set up an Upstart or Monit daemon ;-)
Helping people see value proposition of trustlessness is a matter of education. Making it easier to sysadmin nodes is a technical challenge.
Even if it was “free” to run a Bitcoin node, most wouldn’t b/c
A) They don’t see the value proposition
B) They don’t want to be a sysadmin
@Kosmatos I suspect you’re overlooking the many hours you spent climbing the Bitcoin learning curve.
The greatest cost of running a Bitcoin node is not bandwidth, disk space, or CPU cycles. It’s the time required to learn, run, & maintain.
@masonic_tweets Them bitcoins ain’t actually free!
@bitstein @pierre_rochard @qntra @jonmatonis @adam3us Opinionated journalism is fine. Ad hominem attacks and false information is not.
@anarcholiberty @jonmatonis @adam3us @Joi @techreview @qntra is hateful inaccurate propaganda; their useful points are overshadowed by it.
@jonmatonis @adam3us @Joi Are you seriously suggesting that @qntra even deserves to have its existence acknowledged by @techreview?
@twobitidiot For all we know, they’re scooping up the coins themselves and releasing the private keys for plausible deniability.
@cypherdoc2 Nodes won’t relay double spend transactions
@cypherdoc2 Users are scooping up the private keys released by CoinWallet to their addresses full of dust & consolidating the outputs.
On the downside, blocks are going to be full for the forseeable future. On the upside, watch the UTXO set shrink: https://t.co/7Nn2EZ34MG