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mircea_popescu: if you're even vaguely familiar with
the victim it's pretty evident.
mats: is your joke-bit still flipped
to 'off'
mircea_popescu: the stakes are pretty high, us itself is
trying
to pivot
to an ir middle east. doesn't look like
they have enough non-retards in
the whole foreign service
to pull it off, but hey.
mats: stir
the shit-pot real good, mebbe disrupt .ru-.tr-.ir
talks
mats: i wonder what excitement is left in
the days remaining
to current potus
mircea_popescu: anywya, getting back
to mats '
thing, i find it
truly amazingthat
the ustards actually have
the unmitigated audacity
to
try and rhodesia
turkey.
mircea_popescu: except of course
there isn't a lot of usfilm agit-footage about how checksum deterred bad white guy.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; checkpoint does exactly nothing
to solve
the problem. it is more in
the same vein of feel good cure, like "mace" spray.
mircea_popescu: there's no requirement
to show ~you~ have a safe heaven in order for something
to be law
mircea_popescu: just like woman who permits
this deserves all
the cum she gets.
mircea_popescu: there is no provision made
to rescue
the node
that can be stuffed in dark alley
mircea_popescu: yes, once said martians appear you can make
the forced mistake of a or
the force mistake of b.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 18:22 ben_vulpes: also god bless cpp, i want
to know where "mapBlockIndex" is defined have
to grep
the fucking codebase
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1585903 << you can also use ctags
that comes with emacs. you do "ctags -e -R ." in
the root of codebase, and
then M-. will
take you
to
the definition. (M-. first
time will ask you for
the
tags file, which will be in
the root of codebase)
☝︎ mircea_popescu: if your "choice" manifests itself only after
they ask
the question, it is improper
to call it a choice.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 18:19 asciilifeform: it is not such a simple
thing, ben_vulpes . you can choose which game
to play, by some rules --
they own, by others --
they do not.
mircea_popescu: this absolutely requires smarter guy on
the usg side shot. and
there will be some shooting.
thing is
there's not
that many competent dudes on us side.
ben_vulpes: more frequently i just regenerate my
tags file.
ben_vulpes: not only is
there state smattered everywhere but it's inscrutably altered by who even knows what when
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not
that ;
the guy was
the architect of
the dept of state's most recent and most embarassing failure.
ben_vulpes: also god bless cpp, i want
to know where "mapBlockIndex" is defined have
to grep
the fucking codebase
☟︎ ben_vulpes: and
the checkpoints are at
the root of
that by my read.
ben_vulpes: but
that
the
thing won't lan-mine is abhorrent imho
ben_vulpes: perhaps,
though, 'grandfathers pistols' problem rears its head here.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 18:10 asciilifeform: using
this ^ method, it was -- and remains -- possible
to operate a useful node sans ethernet plug.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1585867 << fyi i successfully used
this method
to get
the node somewhere into 200k block height on a airgapped libretto by
transferring blocks over rsr232/ZMODEM. couldn't get it any further because started getting weird memory issues, i suspect 1.6gb is not enough..
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Lesson of latest initial sync in progress,
things
that were milestone last
time
this year are but one further year of blocks away from completion
ben_vulpes: also
this 'win' is baked into how
the blockchain works.
ben_vulpes: what rules are
these
that
they might not win?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: if martians produce longest chain with greatest difficulty i
think by
the rules of
the game
they own bitcoin
☟︎ ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i disembark
this
train shortly, but yes lets
ben_vulpes: isn't
that sanity check "show me a block with a higher diff and lineage back
to
the genesis block"?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> yes but you're also experimenting with "interesting objects
these people" and it's gonna get you in hot water with 'em. << See steps 8 and 9
ben_vulpes: embarassing as it is
that i'm only now finding
that
trb doesn't solipsistically mine, i did determine
that it validates
the whole chain.
mircea_popescu: history-as is has some various peculiarities, such as
this.
mircea_popescu: but
the discussion wasn't
that, it was "rewalk history" bla bla.
ben_vulpes: so
there's no 'at block XXX use iAmRetardedBlockValidator'?
mircea_popescu: no, on
the contrary,
to retroactively orphan what were valid blocks at
the
time
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: and
the rules were changed
to permit
these busted
transactions?
mircea_popescu: there were at least a dozen blocks including breaking
txns. at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: blocks ~prior
to
that date~ ; not
the current blockchain.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 14:30 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1585556 << i dun get it, is it at any point unclear
to reader how
to get in contact with
the coauthors??
there is a big, fat 'contact' button,
that is not enough ??
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 17:36 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes managed
to fish it out. so : incorrect
txn validation leading
to improper coin generation was found on august 6th 2010 ;
the fixing version is 0.3.10 (15 aug). because block validation rules change
there, i'd expect all blocks prior
to
that date
to not work in any sane eatatron.
mircea_popescu: if /me worked for
the us secret service, /me would be getting permanently lost in $farcountry just about last week.
mircea_popescu: experts also don't have
the winner's keen incentive
to get rid of
the praetorian guard, and permanently.