asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you can use jurov's viewwe
asciilifeform: and no one has any idea whether it even fires
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: sometimes 'grandfather's pistol' problem is complicated when it becomes evident that grandfather never actually shot anyone with his pistol
asciilifeform: current trb, by default, nails down the early (300k?) blox
asciilifeform: say martians show up with magical comp that can orphan 2009 blocks
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: let's do gedankenexperiment.
asciilifeform: mats: lolnoshit, 'seekoority incident', the backstage folx who helped mr.pistolero do his thing, needed to cover their retreat
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i have nfi why you and mod6 did not pick it for a release, can only answer for myself. yes, the hardcoded header checksums thing is ridiculous. but no, there is such a thing as a historic, immutable planet earth blockchain, and trb ought to include default-on sanity check of ~some~ kind for long-ago blocks.
asciilifeform: mats: usg certainly would not like anything like diplomacy to carry on between ru and tr
asciilifeform: using this ^ method, it was -- and remains -- possible to operate a useful node sans ethernet plug.☟︎
asciilifeform: ntry’s banks with currency deposited by Venezuelans racing to get rid of the paper bills while also devastating Colombian-border currency traders he blames for the bolivar’s precipitous plunge in value against “the criminal dollar.”'
asciilifeform: elsewhere, in nearby monkeystans, https://archive.is/5Q1U8 >> 'Venezuela’s president said Sunday that the sudden decision to scrap the country’s most-used currency bill was an economic triumph over the country’s enemies even as the government sent troops and police to cities where riots and looting broke out over the measure. In a national radio and television broadcast, Nicolas Maduro said his abrupt action had flooded the cou
asciilifeform: 'But the experts could not think of another example of a president-elect continuing with any private security after Election Day, when Secret Service protection expands dramatically for the winner. In fact, most candidates drop any outside security the moment they’re granted Secret Service protection. Trump’s spending on private security, on the other hand, actually increased after he was granted Secret Service protection in Nove
asciilifeform: (qt, believe or not, does, a standard cpp compiler won't eat raw qt code)
asciilifeform: wx is gnarly but at least doesn't require entire preprocessor!
asciilifeform: originally wx (which is the 'pepsicola' to qt, there were and are precisely 2 cross-os gui libs that work at all, wx and qt. wx is the c lib)
asciilifeform: to briefly revisit upstack, when is the last time that anyone verified that all of the circulating coin (i.e. unspent outputs) can trace their descent to valid coinbases ?
asciilifeform: gavin et al definitely did not want anyone to experiment with replaying the universe, no.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: quite likely it is stuck in the 'initialblock' idiocy, yes
asciilifeform: only by tallying up the circulating coin, neh ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i catastrophically misunderstand, for so long as we continue to count gavinistic payments as actual coin, and forgo 'trace to coinbase', there is a hole wide enough to drive a tank through, for conjuring coin from thin air
asciilifeform: so mod6's simple 'search after $blocknum' worx.
asciilifeform: probably. i imagine the use case for this knob is simple, 'i want to know if i've been paid, and the counterparty has no time machine, so it'll happen some time after $lastblock'
asciilifeform: (which could indeed take you through the entire history of the universe, but chances are -- it won't)
asciilifeform: mod6: as i understand it, the cure is to scan backwards until the search tree terminates in coinbases for all branches.
asciilifeform: interestingly, it is used only in the miner.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in so far as i can tell, that union is at best a screaming idiocy, and at worst a boobytrap, it is a way to straight-out arithmetically munge a pointer without provoking gcc warning
