asciilifeform: network - bitcoin. function - propagate blocks, transactions, as traditionally expected. load - sustained attack from every usg orc on the fucking planet, plus legitimate users.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is not clear to me, at this juncture, that a network consisting ~largely of~ items like pogos could function under sustained load
asciilifeform: and the store-block-index-in-ram-at-all-times is also a no-go.
asciilifeform: but the 'infinite pile of tx until fills ram' is a no-go;
asciilifeform: now that libc is shot in the head, it builds ~and~ runs.
asciilifeform: everything else is purely a matter of rebuilding as per my original recipe, but rotorized.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the principal item missing is a sane txpool
asciilifeform: has never fallen behind, spontaneously, by so much as one block (the one notable exception was the day when the db locks thing wedged ~every~ honest node)
asciilifeform: it is telling that, of my three therealbitcoin nodes, the only one which has not suffered an unexplained malfunction of any kind is the one which is where i can personally see it !!
asciilifeform: (and will try to make it look cheaper by selective vandalism of folks who do not go along. algo used by all states at all times.)
asciilifeform: and there are people working on making running a node 10,000+ times more expensive....
asciilifeform: contracts terminated on technicalities
asciilifeform: mains cables will (are!) be mysteriously yanked; fiber - cut
asciilifeform: as attacks of every conceivable kind ramp up.
asciilifeform: running an honest public node is expensive. far more than i realized. and will be getting more so.
asciilifeform: but they work so long as they fit within 'hobbyist' budget, and the results pass some minimal bar
asciilifeform: in the sense that the folks paying for it are not getting anything like their money's worth. and yes, this is true for many activities, from fixing old cars to raising children;
asciilifeform: call it an energy leak, in the sense of 'memory leak.'
asciilifeform: and this is without any megablox idiocy !
asciilifeform: (in the sense of supporting a healthy network)
asciilifeform: and it is not clear to me that there is enough of this to go around
asciilifeform: it is quite conceivable that a node can only be run for the abstract imperial glory of something else, something very lucrative
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-08-2015#1256166 << even if you did, the point i was trying to make is that we have right now this risky situation where running a proper honest node actually costs serious dough, and it is not clear that this cost can ever be recoverable☝︎
asciilifeform: 'But while they're definitely (relatively) safer than the early versions, the Osprey is still not safe enough to entrust with the leader of the free world's life. As such, the presidential Osprey has not yet been designated a "white top," meaning President Obama is not allowed on board, but is currently undergoing further reliability testing. There's no word on when that will be completed, so for now, it will serve as a $67 mi
asciilifeform: 'The aircraft is manned by a crew of four—pilot, copilot and two flight engineers—and can carry as many as 32 troops or 20,000 pounds of cargo. Or, in the case of the President's jaunt to Martha's Vineyard last Saturday, a contingent of White House staffers, journalists, and Bo, the president's pooch. But not the president himself. No way, he's not allowed anywhere near this thing.'
asciilifeform: if this were a project with an actual budget, and the machine were colocated, i would include a lithium-cell-powered MAINS LOGGER in there. and then WELD IT SHUT with own hands
asciilifeform: ^ and this may even have been the objective of the switch-flipping monkey
asciilifeform: it is only by a stroke of luck that therealbitcoin did not perma-wedge from corrupt db, also.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even if you were speaking of the kind of kvm which has a power relay, it remains to be asked WHAT KIND OF TARD would flip the relay on a customer's box without written permission
asciilifeform: i am reminded of the old thread re: mpex disk drives.
asciilifeform: monkeys will try to pull out the cable, and the only solution is a man with an axe standing there and chopping their hands off, every time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i strongly suspect that if it were somehow the case that trilema goes down for weeks-to-a-month every time it loses power, it would also lose power with some regularity...
