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mircea_popescu: the thing i proposed would fall in between, so this'd be three.
mircea_popescu is contemplating writing an article of these, with pros and cons etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway. to not get entirely sidetracked : the exact sense in which wallet should be separated from rest of trb needs a lot more thinking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform works about as well as everything else usg.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the case that the current set of derps doing the mining will be allowed to continue remains dubious.
mircea_popescu: thopugh i suspect the words urge and resist are misemployed.
mircea_popescu: because you simply can't get the taint out of the stupid head. it's born with it, will die with it.
mircea_popescu: this is quite likely how it works, though the taint is currently attached to the txn itself rather than the inputs. while supplies last, anyway.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that those txn are valid in all respects.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point being, the miner cartel brink-of-war event didn't proceed, but "equipment" derived from it is now widely deployed, and as you can observe it can selectively disappear txn from the mempool.
mircea_popescu: unless there's 17 btc to dream about and blood in the water from decapitated project nobody actually gives a shit about the network.
mircea_popescu: pretty eggregious nonsense, vaguely surprised nobody gave a shit about it then, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that they are reported as doublespends.
mircea_popescu: now high-s are doublespent automatically by transactions that oficially "do not exist",
mircea_popescu: that finally got irretrievably broken as i reported here a while back.
mircea_popescu: and unsurprisingly, the one that got 0est of prb effort.
mircea_popescu: BUT! coinbase selection is the MOST IMPORTANT part of bitcoin privacy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don';t think the wallet should do only signing. it should also do coinbase selection.
mircea_popescu: or any blocks in general. only you can spend, therefore only your updates are interesting to it.
mircea_popescu: MAYBE something like "only open port is X and only process connects to it is Y and ALL Y does is push data out so and so" may work.
mircea_popescu: they do not belong on an internet-connected machine, to be clear.
mircea_popescu: it's just somehow assumed it does ; but there's no reason for it to.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also acceptable. but in neither these designs does wallet have access to blockchain.
mircea_popescu: phf yes but it seems it was at least tacitly agreed a package of tools is acceptable rather than monolith.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin wallet is very literally superset of nuclear briefcase.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform EXACT same as the derps doing nuke security explained they expect in yest linked article. "that the authorised people can launch easily and no one else can period."
mircea_popescu: IF the wallet is correctly implemented (as discussed, text files etc), then fixing any problem is trivial for the operator.
mircea_popescu: i'm not altogether sure such a drastic separation can be implemented - but it seems theoretically possible
mircea_popescu: phf in principle wallet has all the knowledge of blockchain it cares about.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, wallet could run as entirely separate process, and relay its txn by connecting to a node as if it were a node. except it asks for no txn.
mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/LCAnf << even the most rabid socialists. the tinge of schadenfreude, delicious as it may be, is still the only distinguishing decoration between "tory" and labour.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform weirdly enough, the uk press moved to a "trump will win" stance, from sky to telegraph etc.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why they find it remarkable, it's the end game for middle class womanhood since well before the french revolution.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the Alert system having long been long purged << extra words!!!
mircea_popescu: also, what do you mean "whom" ? address ? you'll have duplicate indexes.
mircea_popescu: prolly the linchpin of the entire thing, if we can actually use off the shelf fs we can almost even proceed.
mircea_popescu: guy is kind-of left in that "sarcasm" school of the 90s where you pick an anecdote and blow it up. the thing that got hot topic'ed into cracked.com and by now is so fucking forgotten it almost has cachet again
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, talk to putin, i didn't come up with the shit.
mircea_popescu: what with their terrorism of pointing out that mosul and aleppo aren't that far apart.
mircea_popescu: or, similarly, take rt. largest program of education of one group of idiots at the expense of another, "read this so you don't get stupid enough we have to nuke you"
mircea_popescu: well, depends. how's qntra using random ustard for money ?
mircea_popescu: lol someone loses their job for being bad at it ? where this, in the us ?!