asciilifeform: i sorta want to start doing this thing where we for blocks 0 ... n, sha512sum block_n | gpg ... ☟︎

asciilifeform: applies cleanly to same tree

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: tried the block dumper patch yet ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: where did you build it ?

asciilifeform: stator?

asciilifeform: well, let 213.130.38.26 et al chew on a crypted turdstream

asciilifeform: and connecting through that

asciilifeform: i'd have tried tunneling 8333 from some very distant place

asciilifeform: and did mircea_popescu ever learn of a cause for the nonsense in question ?

asciilifeform: no spares yet ?

asciilifeform just heard, at close range - out of window - a bird devoured by cat. nature's music.

asciilifeform can sorta see where mircea_popescu is going

asciilifeform: mod6: no hurry

asciilifeform: what was the sexual element in 'come back with operating system in 6 weeks or go flip burgers' ?

asciilifeform: (as in army)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one can educate in a brutalizing/disciplinarian context

asciilifeform: 'listen maggots, in six weeks come back with a basic unix'

asciilifeform: the better schools use a kind of 'riker's island' approach anyway

asciilifeform: ditto engineering, programming, etc

asciilifeform: somebody's gotta teach the damn stuff

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-06-2015#1180855 << the non-gay mathematicians et al will have problems with this algo ☝︎

asciilifeform: incidentally, anybody who wants can now easily serve http://yourthing/blocks/x ☟︎

asciilifeform: naturally

asciilifeform: for testing only

asciilifeform: it's in the tarball

asciilifeform: decimation: you can use my tree from last night

asciilifeform: anybody build that thing ?

asciilifeform back

asciilifeform bbl

asciilifeform: trinque: i'd suggest trying that one on for size before resorting to archaeological dig

asciilifeform: trinque: btw, it is my understanding that most of the opengenera enthusiasts are using the 'snap4' unofficial warez x86-64 port now

asciilifeform: i already have some

asciilifeform: np

asciilifeform: trinque: will answer when i wake up

asciilifeform: but there is a time and place for it

asciilifeform: because it sorta defeats the whole point of a p2p gizmo

asciilifeform: i'm not thrilled with the idea of folks doing this as daily practice

asciilifeform: (less, with compression)

asciilifeform: in principle, when we get 'eatblock' it will be possible to pass around a 'naked' blockchain with upper bound of its mass being $blockheight MB

asciilifeform waits to learn what cthonian horrors will be uncovered by folks using this item

asciilifeform: why this was not included from day 1, who can say.

asciilifeform: anyway, pretty obvious how to use.

asciilifeform: ./bitcoind dumpblock 217040 217040.bin

asciilifeform: forgot the

asciilifeform: oops

asciilifeform: ^ example, freshly pulled from mircea_popescu's box

asciilifeform: 580c13b6492b526d2564398e5f28d17aa4d2e97c3321aa47908bf02da12237425cb0c17e6fdfbab1f347d5c4e1851c96b1e0ee36c088b18ae4ef3ed6e5bd1099

asciilifeform: $ sha512sum 217040.bin

asciilifeform: would need to dust it off, see if still runs

asciilifeform: (pgpgram if interested)

asciilifeform: trinque: you can have one for the cost of postage

asciilifeform: trinque: i'm sitting on a stack of those

asciilifeform: trinque: dks used to supply the mac and video board to go with it, when you bought from him

asciilifeform: craps out block x on demand

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: does the thing we spoke of

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see log. new patch

asciilifeform: oh and it only works in certain macs, with certain videoboards

asciilifeform: trinque: macivory ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu we have blockshitter

asciilifeform: ^ there he is!

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-06-2015#1180722 << have you tried buying from the fella who is living in a warehouse full of'em ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: fix it yourself. this can be part of you signing the thing 'i read it...'

asciilifeform: '(CORRECTED) (EXPERIMENTAL) Raw Block Extractor'

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-June/000104.html

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al:

asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!

asciilifeform: which one's that

asciilifeform: all looks same on my emacs

asciilifeform: no idea

asciilifeform: for this

asciilifeform confirmed that merkletree is not needed

asciilifeform: and iirc the BuildMerkleTree() is not necessary

asciilifeform: at line speed.

asciilifeform: (if suicidally brave) ☟︎

asciilifeform: after that, one could sync over 'netcat'

asciilifeform: now who has the balls to write 'eatblock' ! ☟︎

asciilifeform: here it is.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu asked for this (after mircea_popescu asked, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-06-2015#1180491 ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: '(EXPERIMENTAL) Raw Block Extractor'

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-June/000103.html

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al:

asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!

asciilifeform prepares to release mighty cool thing

asciilifeform: (last i checked. which was some years ago.)

asciilifeform: it'll be somewhere south of 2k usd

asciilifeform: http://www.symbolics-dks.com << if you want one, talk to this fella

asciilifeform: 'macivory' was on the other hand pretty much as good as it got

asciilifeform: it is barely a step above the original 'cadr' machine

asciilifeform: (they were among the original mit licensees, yes)

asciilifeform: 'explorer' was the crappy texas instruments lispm

asciilifeform: you can get these from dave schmidt, virginia, usa

asciilifeform: you may be thinking of symbolics's 'macivory'

asciilifeform: microexplorer ?

asciilifeform: just less actively retarded

asciilifeform: so not 'more inventive apple'

asciilifeform: (initially)

asciilifeform: trinque: hypercard was written by 1 guy

asciilifeform: (as seen in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568 )

asciilifeform: get the real one

asciilifeform: trinque: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=658