asciilifeform: all i got is a stopwatch. the idea is, mod6 et al can run same stopwatch, on other boxes, with other types of disk
asciilifeform: and i will point out, none of my findings so far contradict mircea_popescu's original 'it sits and waits for the disk.' only question was, where.
asciilifeform: mno, we had a thread where i cut'em up into classes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you, using my patch or similar, determined that type1 (verification) blackhole consists of any substantial portion of something other than db wait -- i'm all ears
asciilifeform: sadly i have 0 solutions, only moar problemz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that was in re the verification blackhole (the most common type observed on dulap)
asciilifeform: the 'type 2' (non-verification) blackhole goes right back to the fundamental question of 'something to all comers', how much disk thrashing does a derp get to invoke simply by coming up with a not-yet-banned ip and a pseudonode.☟︎
asciilifeform: incidentally, rationing by ip is a nonstarter, notice that the requests come from a multitude of 'nodes'.
asciilifeform: for as long as the enemy is able to keep up the 'gimme, gimme, gimme' flood of 'ahahaha, you're giving something to allcomers! well where's mine'
asciilifeform: this is the mega-prize, folx, the blackhole that can carry on unabated for hours, days, weeks.
asciilifeform: (grep for 'received getdata for: block')
asciilifeform: instead we see what appears to be a node simply pecked to death by queued-up getdata-for-block flood
asciilifeform: grep for 'received block' -- it does not appear again in this log. because we are blackholed OUTSIDE of the verification delays.
asciilifeform: we start with where 454862 was received, and (in record time, as it was tiny) accepted.
asciilifeform: a blackhole certifiably NOT connected with block verification.
asciilifeform: finally caught this beast in the wild, in real time
asciilifeform: 'Thursday's watershed attack on the widely used SHA1 hashing function has claimed its first casualty: the version control system used by the WebKit browser engine, which became completely corrupted after someone uploaded two proof-of-concept PDF files that have identical message digests.'
asciilifeform: 'Rules to receive the up-to-$10,000 award from Project Veritas - Project Veritas only offers awards for valuable video or other media types which was legally obtained. It is important for the submitter to follow all local, state and federal laws while obtaining video or other media for submission.' << snoar
asciilifeform: miners get one hell of a free ride, while node operators get such a thick shaft, that there are -- contrary to appearances - virtually none left.
asciilifeform: (ssd ain't cheap, and its price is ~rising~, don't take my word for it, go and see)
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: it ain't 'a cost', like buying a hammer, it's a monotonically-increasing bleed
asciilifeform: node -- bleeds and bleeds. and -- turns out -- operating proper nodes, ain't cheap, esp. with bitcoin's retarded non-O(1) verification, with the db idiocy
asciilifeform: there ever being any, is a perversion
asciilifeform: punishments are beneficial, even if a beheading does not grow a corresponding new head on somebody else, or undo the crime which led to the sentence
asciilifeform: possibly it makes more sense to think of the hypothetical 'god fee' as a ~punishment~ of tx-ignoring miners, rather than a payment to relayers.
asciilifeform: proper implement. eats file on stdin, hash out.
