asciilifeform: ers for which no block is stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support.'
asciilifeform: 'Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software. Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or other programs... The block index database will now hold head
asciilifeform: (question pertains to exit nodes, naturally)
asciilifeform: shinohai: since you did link it... here's a mega-question for 'tor' enthusiasts. what's to stop a 'malicious' (diddles traffic) node from routing its circuits -back into tor-, and having some other exit end up looking like the guilty party ?
asciilifeform: this isn't lethal, but it does call for certain revisions in mainboard design. presently, i have reopened it, adding test points. and considering splitting mainboard in two, even. (also for testability)
asciilifeform: if the rng batch is any indication of general quality of the vendor.
asciilifeform: i mean that we have a pad defect rate of about 15 percent.
asciilifeform: e.g., -imagine- i pull the trigger and am out of several 10e3 usd. i now have half a dozen complete units. none of them function. what have i learned? that i am retarded? or that there is a solder void beneath a different decoupling capacitor on each board, summing up to a dud in each case but indistinguishable with my instruments
asciilifeform: the defect rate is of concern because of the impossibility of -immediately and conclusively- establishing WHICH when i get the crate.
asciilifeform: if it is on account of some imperfection in the design, however minute - different matter☟︎
asciilifeform: if i get a crate of duds on account of manufacturing defect, that's one thing, they take it back, try to fix. this costs months of added delay, but can live with
asciilifeform: among other things, it means that the first batch of cardano HAS TO work.
asciilifeform: undred and seventy-seven times, cut once' attitude.
asciilifeform: i must point out, for what is probably the seventh or eighth time, that i have no safe means of selling any bitcoin whatsoever while i live in usa. (selling for paper money, theoretically possible and suicidally dangerous, does precisely nothing to offset ANY of my living OR engineering expenses.) THEREFORE entire operation is financed from my fiat salary. this imposes certain constraints, and a 'measure seven-thousand seven-h
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-06-2015#1155855 << this was covered in an earlier broadcast. considering that these things will cost several hundred usd -each- to produce at mf, i would like to establish that they can produce even -one- defect-free unit of that board size and pad count. thus far, the defect rate suggests that they could not.☝︎
asciilifeform: likewise, each unknown is stamped with a date of last gcd-ing, as well as sha512 of the mass product at the time this was done.
asciilifeform: the mechanics of a correct phuctor are, roughly: thing keeps track of keys, rsa moduli within, as existing phuctor does; but instead of flagging 'phuctored' moduli, we keep table of known factors (associated with respective unknowns, which, in turn, may be yet-unphuctored moduli -or- fragments previously created by successful phuctorings)
asciilifeform: as it is, the gigantic turds yielded by the current gcd finds will not break apart
asciilifeform just woke up to the fact that he was a fool when originally wrote phuctor. a phuctored modulus must fragment into factors, each of which is in turn subject to all future attempts at phuctoring
asciilifeform: i recall that mircea_popescu asked for a real-time phuctor ticker.
asciilifeform: williamdunne: the dates are entirely unusable. see thread
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: can the rss thing be made to work as expected in the form of a #b-a bot ? or too b0rk3d
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: earlier link to freshly phucked key
asciilifeform: aaand we are now at precisely 40 phucked moduli.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is the second or perhaps third instance thus far that i have found so far of someone who -will- be spoken to using phucked key if anyone ever bothers to speak to him
asciilifeform: so no sample of undiddled modulus for this key is known.
