asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can't even begin to fathom how true this is
asciilifeform: but if it has antecedents, the chain of those is followed to the end and the terminus is dropped.
asciilifeform: and when the limit is reached, one is picked for eviction from the cache
asciilifeform: what they did is to set a limit (default == 750) of 'orphan blocks' (terribly confusing term, nothing whatsoever to do with orphaned chains)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'Явка с повинной облегчает совесть и удлиняет срок.' (ru. jailhouse proverb: 'a guilty plea lightens your conscience and lengthens your sentence.')☟︎
asciilifeform: basic 'laffer curve' idea, it would seem
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a number of locales are in the process of raising fuel tax, yours may be one of them
asciilifeform: if anyone here is fond of www programming, can write one of those quizzes, a la 'which genocidal dictator are you?' --- 'what will you be in u.s. prison for, ten years hence ?'
asciilifeform: usa is a tar pit the likes of which cannot be imagined by folks unfamiliar with the subject. those without money - cannot afford to make even basic preparations to flee; those with some - e.g., with a profession - know full well that they are not needed or wanted outside of the usg sphere of influence; those with serious money - understand (or sometimes don't) that their 'wealth' is really a creature of usg, and really lives i
asciilifeform: trinque: that's more of an issue if you're actually worth money
asciilifeform: it's rather puzzling why they haven't reached the point where the condemned is required to wear a wireless microphone, camera, and shock collar
asciilifeform: chumpatronics aside, they also have the more pedestrian objective of creating GBs of turdsactions that bob about in mempool indefinitely, blowing up memory footprint in non-mitigable ways
asciilifeform: these two misfeatures are not accidental 'derperies' but have very specific, well-thought-out purpose.
asciilifeform: ultimate purpose of which is usg escrow of coin.
asciilifeform: 'multisig' is yet another chumpatronic engineering structural element, just as nlocktime is (see link)
