asciilifeform: however 'bbet scenario' would then also be abolished.
asciilifeform: ('value at birth' naturally implies 'encompassed by the signature')
asciilifeform: (alternatively, could require that a tx include a 'i want to live in block N' value at birth! and if it doesn't get into N, it is invalid for all time. but this would have serious engineering tradeoff, 'canned' txen as discussed in old mircea_popescu article would be impossible.)
asciilifeform: a mature (i.e. mined) tx's id will then consist of the concatenation of the block number it lives in (say, 64bit, enough until long after sun burns out), then a 10-bit offset into the block (0..1023) , then hash of payload.
asciilifeform: tx is, e.g., 1024 byte, then 1024 tx live in a block, etc.
asciilifeform: a method of bitcoinating where you can actually get ~100% of the socialism out (as contemplated in, e.g., the gossip threads) would, i suspect, be a similar jump.
asciilifeform: there were not so many tech leaps comparable to hard vacuum (which makes possible everything from triode -- ergo, tuned radio, cathode tube, geiger, electron microscopy, 1,000,001 everyday items )
asciilifeform: pretty straight case of 'naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret'
asciilifeform: trb node is, for instance, continuously engaged in the sin of 'something to allcomers'.
asciilifeform: so it likewise was with 'let's make a bottle with 0 socialism'
asciilifeform: ('hard', for n00bz, i will reminds, is when mean-free-path of particle is longer than the container is wide along any axis)
asciilifeform: (e.g., edison, was very frustrated, because it is physically impossible to get ~hard~ vacuum using , e.g., torricelli's methods, but he did not know this )
asciilifeform: bitcoin reminds me of... early attempts to pump hard vacuum.
asciilifeform: as nonsocialism themepark, if you will
asciilifeform: but that was ~whole motherfucking point, even of early bitcoin
asciilifeform: (... and, having to wait half hour for block eatings is not pain ?)
asciilifeform: while we're on subj of idiot db: i looked into how to sanely aggregate writes in bdb. turned up 0.
asciilifeform: (you can get multiported memory, no questions asked, even now. but not, for some odd reason, packaged into any device you can use with a comp...)
asciilifeform: btw not only do i ask for this, but i would even buy a multi-ported ssd. to ACTUALLY read from two holes at same time. because in some applications, you can guarantee consistency using YOUR OWN system, and don't need to rely on some idiot's lock
asciilifeform: i recall one where i asked how to force unlocking for reads in pgsql , and found answer was 'fuckyou'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what were 'slave reads' ?
asciilifeform: so 'perfect' for 'the web' aka 'thing that does not actually need to work to any spec'
asciilifeform: what, every ddos maggot gets an accurate copy of the item he supposedly reads?
asciilifeform: 'stay up' is not same as 'all requests complete' neh
