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mircea_popescu: ascii_field anyway, mind that pogos are not intended to be THE ONLY solution to relaying. they are just supposed to be a type of solution.
mircea_popescu: just pointing out that drums were good enough for marching and not good enough for precision bomb strike
mircea_popescu: ie, exactly like drummers (if you think about it, drummers are EXACTLY each guy pushing the other, sound has a speed, and it pushes ears)
mircea_popescu: it is a form of dead reckoning, yes. so bad in principle.
mircea_popescu: natural drift is a problem, yes, but you reset on each block.
mircea_popescu: in a year he has to replace a million btc worth of blocks.
mircea_popescu: yes. the only way this attack would work is with a major chain replacement investment.
mircea_popescu: to answer your q : hitler's block is rejected on the basis that it's too far off from the last block pogo accepted.
mircea_popescu: so, pogo has on disk last block 5, bvlock timestamp 1000
mircea_popescu: doesn't matter how old that block is. the block coming after it will be ~10 minutes later.
mircea_popescu: because when hitler block shows up, the disk has a block it ends with
mircea_popescu: jurov 5 couldn't have been that far off and be accepted from 4.
mircea_popescu: now, this theoretically is vulnerable. but practically, can you construct the attack for me ?
mircea_popescu: once it accepts a further block, it resets its clock too.
mircea_popescu: suppose it's not empty. so, pogo thinks time = last block on disk
mircea_popescu: because you mined block 5, with a bad time, someone else mines 6 with a right time, pogo is now on block 6.
mircea_popescu: this is a horribru example. so, miner has 10% of the hash, 10% of the bnlocks are badly timed. what of it, pogo resets on the remainder.
mircea_popescu: again : if you have block x, from a year ago, when you get block x+1, the styamp on block x+1 will be, 1year ago + 10 minutes
mircea_popescu: the next block to wahtever it has on disk is not going to be too much from the future.
mircea_popescu: but the next block it gets wouldn't be more than two hours off.
mircea_popescu: and setting the time to "timestamp of the last block it actually has on disk" is going to what ?
mircea_popescu: and you don't like having to start it by manual command because myeah.
mircea_popescu: held together by the superficial tension of hemorhagic diarhea
mircea_popescu: nevertyheless, that is a marked improvement over the current situation
mircea_popescu: it is held together by the superficial tension of frog entails.
mircea_popescu: you take it down and start it over with new magic touch
mircea_popescu: from there on, iut carries on by simply syncing its clock to last accepted block.
mircea_popescu: this, you have to do. like it or not we dunno how to abstract it away.
mircea_popescu: so, when you start the pogo, you provide it with the human touch, divine spark, politica time.
mircea_popescu: oh, openssl put out a bug ? best make sure the fucking calculator pulls it in.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i know i'm fed up with random shit depending on random shit, but it's not mere stupidity. it's just them trying to make sure shit permeates everywhere.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if he does the assbot thing i'm definitely going to allow selected l2 people to manage f.mpif pcs.
mircea_popescu: but iirc the star trader quit and the fund closed down or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: in any case i recall f.mpif had an investment with a derivative something for a few months.
mircea_popescu: in the end it came to exactly the same thing, not scammed anyone to anyone's knowledge, and why exactly would i put so much power in the hands of inept fiat "regulatory bodies"