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

January 29th, 2023

In order to sync a Bitcoin node quickly from scratch you need both fast hardware and plenty of bandwidth. The follo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…c0

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@druidian Can still be sybilled. What’s far harder to fake is the attention graph, per @hivedotone

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@sassal0x It’s even more amusing that you’re trying to build outrage based on Luke, who is arguably one of the most… https://t.co/DYFshs3WYR

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@sassal0x Adam Back has never contributed to Bitcoin Core.
Your ignorance is confirmed.

~/code/bitcoin$ git log —… https://t.co/mjWIl2jHso

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@BITCOINALLCAPS @BashCo_ Can you be more specific? I’m not seeing any abberations on my node. https://t.co/vvgpZp7hAd

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@ducebagger @BoringProtocol Ain’t no way you’ll achieve gigabit speeds after hopping through a bunch of raspberry pis.

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One more week of testing and I’ll release my DIY Gigabit VPN guide. Unfortunately, fewer than 1% of readers will be..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…v1

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Me: “Aw sweet, Goldeneye for Switch lets you play online!”

Nintendo: “You must have friends to play online.”

Me:

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@billbarhydt @Excellion It’s just the topic du jour for folks to be upset about.

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@adam3us @criptobastardo You can’t fight economic reality for the long term; just look at how Veriblock worked out…. https://t.co/jGgq4ragGd

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lopp pic.twitter.com/z6sUoPrVVV

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The EPA recommends limiting ingestion to 0.004 parts per trillion (ppt) for PFOA & 0.02 ppt for PFOS to prevent neg..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wv

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A Bitcoiner trying to remember how to access their ultra cold storage. pic.twitter.com/r6jsxCCV2h

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@maxtannahill @Meister_Ancap @ottosch_ Good point. Though folks who run wallet infrastructure on behalf of others c..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…EF

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In my 4th annual Bitcoin node sync performance report I tested 9 different implementations to see how they stack up. blog.lopp.net/2022-bitcoin-n…

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@nvk This perspective is even applicable to Lightning. It was technically possible to construct HTLCs without SegWi… https://t.co/aoKyz34rhs

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@nvk This reads to me as a defeatist attitude that because there is no known perfect scaling solution, we should no… https://t.co/J5gfNfBryQ

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@nvk Yes, it’s always about trade-offs. My main point being that, all else being equal, if we can improve the secur… https://t.co/FaBmRLhNnm

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@add_BTC @nvk It’s a hard problem. No one can see the future.

I’d posit that similar arguments can be made in the… https://t.co/3MsX8ucmZN

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@add_BTC @nvk Correct. And yet this fact should not be a convenient excuse to cover our eyes and ignore every possi… https://t.co/qC7soRUNR4

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@nvk Are we not seeing the same trajectory?

* Sidechains (centralized pegging)
* Chaumian mints (centralized custo… https://t.co/qWA4rrMoS8

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@nvk If the threshold is “need” then nothing will meet it other than CVEs / looming breaking issues. Bitcoin will,… https://t.co/64QH2sD3up

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@nvk Multiple years between new features already feels pretty “less” to me. Given that the design space is so huge,… https://t.co/8vjkytu1M3

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If you don’t like a project that someone is building on Bitcoin, your only option to stop them is to build somethin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8x

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@byronhambly It’s a pretty well known story. I’ve written several articles about it on my blog. twitter.com/lopp/status/91…

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@Meister_Ancap @ottosch_ We tested Fulcrum in the more recent report that you can find here.
blog.keys.casa/electrum-serve…

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