The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

March 2016

@oocBlog @kristovatlas All the more surprising that during periods of full blocks, some miners prioritize low fee consolidation txns.

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BrendanEich New site design: brave.com

New blog post from @_mtr and me on the BTC-based, anonymous Brave Ledger: brave.com/blogpost_3.html

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@kristovatlas I wonder if @oocBlog has ever attempted to reverse engineer mining pool prioritization rules…

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@SlackHQ Already did; apparently being signed into a dozen teams with lots of channels on each requires a ton of memory…

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“Where’s the warrant canary in the Reddit transparency report?”
“We’ve been advised not to say anything about it.”
https://t.co/07Ln7t00d8

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@masonic_tweets Thou shalt not use the blockchain for “cloud mining” dust payouts.

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This leads to the question: do miners prioritize low fee transactions with many inputs and few outputs b/c they consolidate the UTXO set?

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3 recent full blocks with < 800 txns due to low fee large data txns:
https://t.co/rOryBzNl75
https://t.co/4dA0wd25Wg
https://t.co/5Q96fQBppB

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@lykle Not necessarily sent via bitcoin p2p network; I suspect lots of miners have private APIs

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@lykle Someone could send them directly to miner, or perhaps there are enough nodes relaying nonstandard txns that they propagated normally.

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@1Cal83 @DonutShorts @pmarca Federal regulations make banks not want to touch marijuana revenues.

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It’s only one phone.
It’s only sixty three phones. https://t.co/zEvRPIPt88
It’s only hundreds of phones per city. https://t.co/wsVUETpmXe

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Bitcoin Core’s scaling roadmap projected an April release date for Segregated Witness. Will they make it?

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.@OPENDIME == first bitcoin bearer bond. Great for privately trading batches of “investment” coins. Off-chain for limitless scalability!

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ErikVoorhees Beautiful 3d visualization of the Bitcoin blockchain - balls are transactions occurring in real time. bitbonkers.com

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Study by @el33th4xor, @socrates1024, @ittayeyal & others argues that block sizes up to 4 MB are safe for Bitcoin. https://t.co/MIn2Ax5zEz

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You’d think the poisson distribution of bitcoin blocks would balance out, but it’s a throughput net negative b/c fast blocks aren’t filled.

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@OPENDIME Will there be any way to back up an opendime? I’m guessing not, since that could pose a problem for its cash-like attributes.

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.@CloudFlare proposes adding proof of work to @torproject browser as a replacement for captchas. https://t.co/c5pCWelNP2

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RT @johnbiggs: I just published “Bitcoin and a matter of trust” https://t.co/iDxV5Rxn6j

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@TaoOfSatoshi How do they decrease block space contention? They run their own semi-trusted chain that can be used as a caching layer?

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@masonic_tweets @acityinohio Indeed; we’re going to need the avg txn fee to approach 0.01 BTC in order to offset the subsidy halving O:-)

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@theonevortex @Xentagz No, I mean from ~10 sat / byte to 40-50 sat / byte. Talking about fees in terms of pennies is nonsensical.

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Higher txn fees ought to indicate more demand for bitcoin in general. The exchange rate has doubled during this period of fees quadrupling.

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Recommended bitcoin transaction fees are 400%-500% higher than 6 months ago. pic.twitter.com/3ksHaJHQSY

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The first release of @openbazaar will have plenty of limitations, but there’s a long term plan to address each one: https://t.co/HNf80uvllV

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One thing I’ll note about miners selling preallocated block space: they won’t be able to hide it. We are watching. https://t.co/M35WRfTR1b

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You’ll need mad WordPress skills if you want to develop the Disneychain. https://t.co/aUjqQkytbB

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@GitKilbert Nah, watching exchange rates just makes my head hurt. It’s madness.

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@ziggamon That would have been a P2SH -> P2SH transaction

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Someone just moved nearly 100,000 BTC from P2PKH to P2SH addresses. https://t.co/1uLc1hjDVe

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@Snowden @TimesofIsrael Digital signatures aren’t sufficient? :-D

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Looks like @Coinkite is the latest Bitcoin company to pivot. If you’re a Coinkite user, come on over to @BitGo! https://t.co/BD5vTlOKgr

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To clarify: the supply available on the market. From what I’ve seen, most miners are HODLers & don’t sell all coins. https://t.co/8UDjAfgQGW

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Halving hype heating up w/106 days left. I doubt it affects supply substantially, but if enough people do, price → self-fulfilling prophecy.

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@jgarzik That’s what happens when you enable global unauthenticated write access! Sounds like a job for biometrics…

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Nice timing. @TraceMayer recently asked: “I wonder why Sergio hasn’t found any @ethereumproject vulnerabilities?” https://t.co/u4CmbteQs2

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balajis 12/ That is: self-driving cars, ride-sharing, drone delivery, and hyperloops take cars *off* the roads. Like email reduced need for postmen.

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Interesting viewpoints! “Ether is not really meant to be a speculative asset that increases in value.” - @TraceMayer bitcoin.com/podcast

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Beware: it’s quite easy to send ether into the ether - there is no address validation if the input is all lowercase. https://t.co/etGWmWZAb9

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@flyosity Unless they have a mini nuclear reactor in that thing, no way it can process several gallons of water per second.

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ThatPrivacyGuy Looking for a VPN? Check out my Comparison Sheet with unbiased, independently verifiable data on over 100 services! bit.ly/21fsFxQ

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@mikeclouser I never would have guessed that @CathyReisenwitz is over 35 years old! Maybe she can teach @GovGaryJohnson how the NAP works…

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@santisiri @balajis It’s a meaty book, but I highly recommend it! Same goes for “Debt: the First 5000 Years”

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If you want to hear what a cryptocurrency-based ponzi scheme sounds like, call 1-855-230-2223.

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Arrested for restroom misconduct:
Transgender citizens: 0
Politicians: 5+
@NCSenateDems @MyNCSenate @NCHouseGOP @nchousedems @PatMcCroryNC

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Digital Bitbox hardware wallet released at $120 price point: digitalbitbox.com/betashop
KeepKey drops price 60% to $99: keepkey.com

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Anti-authoritarians may be diagnosed with mental illness because mental health professionals are highly obedient. https://t.co/tpiXW5JaaX

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Enjoyed being on the Technotopia podcast w/ @johnbiggs to discuss how blockchain tech will revolutionize the world! https://t.co/ceFIhNz4x9

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@templarenegade @Blockstream I suspect that it was many transactions over a fairly long period of time, but only @n1ckler knows for sure.

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I’m seeing more transactions with high hard coded fees from 0.0005 to 0.001. Overpaying by an order of magnitude! https://t.co/BfqIEPfenk

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Now we need a “require from blockchain” library so that we can run the scripts @petertoddbtc embedded in it. https://t.co/PEzN9hr3Zn

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RT @brianbondy: .deb files for Debian and Ubuntu available for 🦁 Brave 0.8.2 https://t.co/CErX1GO9y5 Install with `sudo dpkg -i brave_0.8.2…

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RT @rusty_twit: I’ve started a lightning development blog: https://t.co/ulr8n6je73

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RT @kristovatlas: I’ve written a new article about the central planning of digital money, and what we can do to fix it. https://t.co/n9sG7M 

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@roasbeef Nice; now how about some animated lightning strike sprites?

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Today’s adventure in Java development led me to this gem: https://t.co/SjwHhLVHF4

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@asheshbadani I’m still seeking any Red Hat employees in NC to talk to about your blockchain plans; please shoot me an email :-)

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bencxr Excited to launch the world’s first multi-sig web wallet for @ethereumproject! Check it out at: ether.li

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World’s first multi-sig @ethereumproject web wallet: ether.li
Kudos to @BitGo engineers @bencxr, @masonic_tweets, @barathcj!

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coindesk BitGo Engineers Launch Ethereum Wallet Side Project bit.ly/1UkJoS1 pic.twitter.com/1nLIq6nNjs

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@hcarpach Whoops; I figured @SurBTC would correct me if it was wrong. I wasn’t aware that SurBitcoin is different from SurBTC!

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Gregory Maxwell, Michael Marquardt, & Pieter Wuille collected 42 BTC as a CoinJoin bounty; it’s still available… https://t.co/boX08iRc4r

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@kristovatlas IDK; looking at peerinfo I don’t see anything weird. Perhaps @orionwl @pwuille @port8333 @TheBlueMatt can speculate.

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New Statoshi chart: peer ping times. Seeing a wide range of pings:
Lowest: 13ms
Median 126ms
Upper: 10+ minutes!
https://t.co/psmoGnZvOY

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Just wait until VR is perfected; I suspect we’ll imprison people in their own mind. https://t.co/RJhxmDJSDz https://t.co/GUr48Jf39k

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.@SurBTC (Chilean exchange) doubles user base to 90K in 1 week after Venezuelan govt publishes anti-BTC propaganda. https://t.co/jKTXKrrdhs

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@ddahlke REPLY “SHOWMETHEMONEY” TO SUBSCRIBE TO HIGHLY UNTARGETED ENTRY LEVEL PHP PROGRAMMER JERBS!

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Slow clap for Reddit user “anti-fragile” who clearly knows how to play the karma game. /cc @slushcz pic.twitter.com/osz8x5LI2L

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@slushcz iii d & e are the changed parts regarding the voting calculation; it was originally just 20th percentile. https://t.co/TMBVOUzPSh

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@slushcz @brockpierce FYI @jgarzik did fix the BIP100 21% attack issue by clarifying that 80% is req’d for either direction.

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Great talk about privacy in Bitcoin by @n1ckler. Fun fact: someone used an SPV wallet to receive 60,000+ BTC. https://t.co/JxoVLVHgI6

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New Statoshi stats: breakdown of realtime and aggregate node bandwidth usage by p2p message. https://t.co/RAtwalxWwk https://t.co/yIdWrDdiNO

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@drwasho If it becomes common for pools to pre-sell block space, we’ll have not one but /many/ (opaque) fee markets ;-)

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@bgok IDK, if you don’t have $10M in capital to invest in starting a mining operation, it may be cheaper to lease preallocated block space.

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If we get to the point where a significant portion of block space is pre-sold by miners to institutions, it could cripple fee estimate algos

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As block space contention increases, institutions may prepurchase from miners. Note that @YourBTCC & @21 already mine txns for their users.

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If Bitcoin mining pools published their txn selection algorithms & provided fee recommendation APIs, the fee guessing game => a fee market.

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Reddit has started tracking all the outbound links you click - here are several ways to bypass the tracker: https://t.co/ZXVizLWl4m

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oocBlog Animation of hyperbolic transaction fee density (btc/kB) model pic.twitter.com/wrJ7llSGMU

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The Observer Effect is particularly nasty in code when you have a job that normally blows up but runs fine when debugging output is enabled.

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@niccary @blockchain Will be interesting to see how this affects the fee market. :-)

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@bhorowitz @polemitis @21 has built the next pingdom. Don’t be fooled, this is the first of many new internet kingdoms.

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Irony is when you try to save RAM by compressing in-memory serialized objects only to find out the compression library has a memory leak.

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@mikestable @ddahlke Yesterday I had to go spelunking into the JVM’s garbage collector and learn about C/C++/native heap memory. *shudder*

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@mikestable A little lead never killed anybody… what’s a little drain bamage and homicidal mania between citizens?

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@brianchoffman YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE BITCOINS SO I’M SELLING @MikeTyson BITCOIN ATMS ON @openbazaar

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PessimistsArc When it’s an idea: “won’t work”
When it works: “won’t catch on”
When it catches on: “It’s a fad”
When it’s not a fad: “it’s an addiction!”

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wikileaks RELEASE: Search engine for 30,322 Hillary Clinton emails wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/ pic.twitter.com/hGlsCUKWDY

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Bitcoin wallets shouldn’t enable segwit until ~1 month after soft fork activation due to security issues. https://t.co/rQ1l8Z7HgE

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@TuurDemeester They need to get lightweight clients working soon; sounds like they also want to shard the blockchain (never been done AFAIK)

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@mikeinspace @21 It’s easy to point and laugh at those who try to radically change the world; in the long run no one remembers the skeptics.

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@NickSzabo4 A fitting cover for the Book of Satoshi https://t.co/KipNU2eJ0n

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This is how you Internet of Things. https://t.co/TLiALuKIvj

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@flyosity Psh, Trump will just donate more money to himself.

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RT @21: You can now earn bitcoin for helping others monitor uptime and latency.
https://t.co/NI8yj28ikI

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@MrChrisEllis I wonder if @coinbase cares that their checkout is facilitating a suspicious crowdsale? prismchain.com

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@MrChrisEllis @Prism_Chain @PumpUpBTC Who /wouldn’t/ want to invest in “A BLOCKCHAIN ENVIROMENT”

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@lykle I’m not worried about it; there are plenty of possible solutions depending upon the use case. I’m focused on https://t.co/4AtWsIQtRJ

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@lykle Yes, 0.12 has performance improvements but I’m talking general data processing - the blocks get larger and larger as you approach tip

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Processing Bitcoin’s blockchain is like watching a Windows 95 progress bar - the closer you get to 100% complete, the slower it becomes.

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Amazon files patent to replace passwords with selfies. https://t.co/WdjPfTp4jX

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Well balanced post from @jratcliff on the future of Lightning Network. https://t.co/TQdxhUidwO

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20% think the current node cost is fine
41% think it should be lowered
39% think it can be raised as value increases pic.twitter.com/GKeZ0Rqqs3

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@JustusRanvier Soooooo remove the block size limit and let the market figure it out?

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@JustusRanvier Cost / benefit analysis is much more straightforward with revenue generating business + they aren’t a shared resource.

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@pig_poetry If you get bored post-digitization of consciousness, just throw in a Thread.sleep(10000*TimeUnit.YEAR) w/interrupt conditions.

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@jonhbit What are you thinking, like meshnets / bitsats?

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@gavinandresen Gotcha; it doesn’t seem a perfect comparison since it’s not a consensus DB; there are workarounds. https://t.co/3x4h3l2qpE

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@deadalnix You mean remove the block size limit? Performance characteristics & thus resource cost are result of work by Bitcoin devs.

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@_drgo Or should it be based upon the benefit to the average user (amount stored / transacted?)

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@realSimonBurns @gavinandresen Big concern seems to be that demand that exceeds capacity changes the economics of using the network.

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@sylvandb Cost of running a node is the question I keep coming back to with regard to scalability debate: https://t.co/4XYdmZr0mW

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@fredzannarbor @_drgo Because disk space, CPU, RAM, bandwidth, electricity, etc are not free.

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What should we target as the acceptable cost to run a full Bitcoin node? (for “other,” please reply / heart replies)

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@gavinandresen Sure, but only BGP tables are a shared resource & their growth is limited by IP address space. https://t.co/BaQsGhMujf

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@pierebel Digitizing consciousness ought to achieve the same effect :-)

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“Life” goals:
1) Extend bio lifespan 10X
2) Digitize self into galactic mesh network
3) Escape heat death of universe into parallel universe

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@gasull Sure; larger blocks will affect the fee market, though I’d bet that any new cap will eventually be hit & cycle will repeat.

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@mikeinspace I consider a PC “slow” when I have to wait a perceptible amount of time for it to accomplish something; I still do it a lot.

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6) This brings us to the debate over fee markets and whether they are necessary at this point in time.
GOTO 1

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5) There is no objective way of categorizing which use cases belong on the blockchain and which don’t; we let the market decide via fees.

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4) Think of it in general terms of PCs. My PC 20 years ago was slow. My PC today is still slow. More complex software uses more resources.

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3) This is because there is no such thing as “enough computational resources.” Developers will use all resources available to them.

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2) As long as Bitcoin is backed by machines with finite resources, there will be contention over their use and availability.

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1) The first step to finding inner peace with the Bitcoin block size debate is realizing that it will never end.

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@kristovatlas Maybe they lost it or already blew it on dice games and dark markets.

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Leapfrogging in the opposite direction, it seems.
“RSCoin would be a tool of state control”
https://t.co/FjA5iluIE8

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20% polled think ether will be a store of value.
20% of ether holders are using it for non-speculative purposes. pic.twitter.com/fs1PBM0dXS

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RT @khannib: I aggregated all the fee estimations APIs I could find into one dashboard. Have a look: https://t.co/VEYoKtqayd https://t.co/U…

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I suspect that active traders have become frustrated by bitcoin’s sideways movement & are excited to see action. https://t.co/n8QwwK2LXl

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For those of you who own ether, are you:

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Will ether prove to be as good a long term store of value as bitcoins?

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RT @21: The First Micropayments Marketplace.
https://t.co/P8G5SooifD

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keynote TL;DW: @POTUS warns that strong encryption is a menace to society, fails to mention that it has existed for decades.

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“If the government can’t break into everyone’s computers, child pornographers & terrorists will run amok!” https://t.co/trLQRw4d0m #SXSW2016

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@kristovatlas I didn’t hear anybody in the audience booing, so that might tell us something as well…

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“If tech community won’t build sophisticated back doors, something bad will happen & Congress will force sloppy back doors” @POTUS

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@brianchoffman IDK about you, but I set MAX_ARGUMENT_LENGTH = TimeInterval.YEAR

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@masonic_tweets Indeed, everyone should focus on building that which interests them rather than tearing down others’ pursuits :-)

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Skepticism is healthy, but after thinking of all the ways an idea might fail, try thinking of ways it might succeed. https://t.co/9hL26ujmAr

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2008: BTC whitepaper released.
Cypherpunks: “It’ll never work!”
2015: Lightning Network whitepaper released.
Bitcoiners: “It’ll never work!”

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@cypherdoc2 It’s a design decision in open source software; if you don’t like it, you’re free to change it.

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@cypherdoc2 Right, but last I heard, LN devs intend close channel tx fees to be ~10X normal in order to safeguard against market volatility.

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@cypherdoc2 Open fees will be same as any regular tx; close fees face additional future prediction challenge - sounds like they’ll be high.

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@cypherdoc2 “spam attacks” do pose additional challenges if miners set policies to ignore txns via characteristics other than fee rate.

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Bitcoin transaction fee estimation is a goldilocks problem wrapped in a future prediction enigma shrouded by a miner mystery.

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oocBlog historical block size animation

goo.gl/HvlFtY pic.twitter.com/SXf3WSEzAw

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@kyuupichan Subscription via bloom filters is different from account discovery though; it should at least maintain some internal state…

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@JustusRanvier Sure, they’re recoverable, but to an ordinary user they’re gone. At the very least, inciting a panic.

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@kristovatlas spec allows for a send failure tolerance of 0 if a future send succeeds. Lookahead should be based on acceptable tolerance.

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@kyuupichan Twenty is probably fine for external chain, but no gap for internal chain is not fine. Besides, these operations should be rare.

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I wonder why no one on the Bitcoin devs list seems interested in an issue that could result in loss of bitcoins… https://t.co/cXviYl1W6f

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Paying a fee rate of 222 satoshis / byte is ludicrous today - it won’t get your transaction confirmed any faster than 50 sat / byte.

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Much higher fee rates today, but looks like it’s b/c users are increasing hard coded fees to 0.0001 * X. https://t.co/rGt1P52j0R

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“Exploring Zero-Knowledge Proofs” by @ManishEarth https://t.co/dArwgR9Z0A

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Blockchains automate bureaucracy, increasing efficiency while reducing risk. Now the question becomes “what bureaucracies will we build?”

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@bitcoin3000 @JorgeStolfi It would take a decent # of txns. Strings can be stored in output scripts; see https://t.co/ipuKKMdUpy

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@el33th4xor Good to hear that sidechains are already being used in production!

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If you want to operate as a middleman to extract value from a network that eschews middlemen, you must first create value to extract.

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@BtcDrak @G1lius @Kanzure @rusty_twit Is something wrong with the dev mailing list? No posts in 4 days. My post 24 hours ago is in limbo…

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Users who collect many low value outputs via mining / faucet / etc payouts are more affected by higher fees. https://t.co/qP4UdLtTsT

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@ziggamon Correct, though Blockchain’s situation may be different.

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.@OneMorePeter reports from the front lines: time cost to manage support tickets is rising. https://t.co/UjwNJmMeiP https://t.co/qnYxuK9jew

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Excited to announce our next Triangle Bitcoin & Business speaker: Veena Pureswaran, co-author of IBM’s ADEPT concept https://t.co/DeB0JtlYfu

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“On the blockchain, any sufficiently inefficient process is indistinguishable from spam.” https://t.co/EqiEuSWy95 https://t.co/GKlwWdxloR

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For every economist there exists an equal and opposite economist.

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Blockchain obituaries of Robin Williams, Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash, Gandhi, MLK Jr, Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein: bitcoinstrings.com/blk00172.txt

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@el33th4xor @NickSzabo4 @gavinandresen Indeed, miners just want to get paid - IMO the only definition of Bitcoin ‘spam’ is the fee offered.

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@NickSzabo4 How much do you think it ought to cost to rickroll the blockchain? https://t.co/KiP67wi0Ys

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A poor craftsman blames his tools. An expert craftsman becomes a toolsmith. Keep this in mind when you’re unhappy with open source software.

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@juscamarena @kristovatlas @BitGo You’ll probably want to subscribe to this issue https://t.co/WETwg7vyXB

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.@petertoddbtc used his script for posting padded text to the blockchain to post itself to the blockchain. bitcoinstrings.com/blk00251.txt

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@juscamarena Having fun with Eternity Wall? By my count your name is in the blockchain 389 times!

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Someone stored the entire text of @gavinandresen’s “Time to roll out bigger blocks” post 58 times in the blockchain. bitcoinstrings.com/blk00265.txt

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Meta: @twitter convo b/t @adam3us & @jgarzik about blockchain data… stored in blockchain. bitcoinstrings.com/blk00249.txt pic.twitter.com/vZS5WuiHFH

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By my count the blockchain has been rickrolled over 20 times so far. bitcoinstrings.com/blk00157.txt

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Throwback Thursday: my first technical post as a Bitcoin engineer, published 1 year ago. https://t.co/EmnIhKpBvH

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@juscamarena @kristovatlas @BitGo *shrugs* isn’t that just a mining policy update? Any miner could implement it today.

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@cypherdoc2 @BitGo IDK, would require deeper analysis to actually see how many low fee incoming txns we received that aren’t confirmed.

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@CathyReisenwitz If Hillary becomes Prez, can she pardon herself?

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@brianchoffman Happened to me once with a professor in college. Class was rolling but managed to keep straight faces upon his return.

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@zWVlkseDmg @BitGo Our standard response is to tell the user to contact the person / wallet that sent the transaction & fix their fee.

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Report from front lines: outgoing @BitGo txns are mostly confirming quickly. Sharp uptick in support cases for incoming txns not confirming.

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“… innovations such as @BitGo Instant are more useful than ever.” - @champbronc2 of @BitQuickco https://t.co/CtRlG1LDK6

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@ryanxcharles How’s that dynamic block size limit working out for ya, @ethereumproject?

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“Mandatory upgrade” == @ethereumproject is hard forking its way into the future. https://t.co/cozgQ822t2

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