asciilifeform: https://archive.is/gRPSR << meanwhile, in prng lulz !

asciilifeform: https://zeptobars.com/en/read/bitfury-bitcoin-mining-chip << such as

asciilifeform: https://zeptobars.com/en/read/Espressif-ESP8266-wifi-serial-rs232-ESP8089-IoT << oh hey

asciilifeform: in yet-other western tech, https://archive.is/YcSdC << 'A mid-2016 security incident led to Apple purging its data centers of servers built by Supermicro, including returning recently purchased systems... ... A source familiar with the case at Apple told Ars that the compromised firmware affected servers in Apple's design lab, and not active Siri servers. The firmware, according to the source, was downloaded directly from Supermicro's

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-01#1620408 << lel, wasn't he the d00d with the 'btc bank card' ☝︎

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/zElXA << in other lulz, mr.t utters the Officially Unutterable !

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/ZAnHt << in other unsurprises

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619935 << incidentally it now occurs to me that danielpbarron's vectorized-coin solves this problem. (picture the quantized an-addr-is-born-when-a-block-is-mined-and-changes-hands-via-sigs scheme, from old thread; but with the twist that you can mine a variety of different sizes of coin. which remain fixed at selfsame size for all of eternity; they merely change owners.) ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, https://archive.is/Rw5QK << 'The "Beat the Boss phone" is an £27 micro-telephone built into a Bluetooth headset with only trace amounts of metal in its construction; it is lozenge-shaped and is designed to be rectally smuggled into prisons, jails and courtrooms.'

asciilifeform: ( http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-13#1582699 << thread ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619766 << classical bitcoin likewise makes 0 guarantees to the user. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619760 << this is the biggie. you ~gotta~ have fixed-width TX, ruat caelum, because it is the only way to not have the system grind to an exponential halt over ~decade. because it makes O(1) input verification ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-25#1618145 thread ) possible -- and - provably - no other geometry does. ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619760 << this is the biggie. you ~gotta~ have fixed-width blocks, ruat caelum, because it is the only way to not have the system grind to an exponential halt over ~decade. because it makes O(1) input verification ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-25#1618145 thread ) possible -- and - provably - no other geometry does. ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619756 << the 'rotten fill' thing was simply a restatement of 'a tx is not a tx unless it is valid, and a block is not a valid block unless it consists wholly of valid tx.' cribbed straight from classical bitcoin. phrasing was, evidently, confusing. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619755 << later realized that the protocol ought to permit returning an unfilled cask to the parent, so he can reissue it to another child. this would make for a less unforgivably-tightly-coupled system ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619483 << funnily enough , this is what i had sketched out when i mentioned http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619409 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619482 << right now, keeping a node is -ev for almost everyone who could be doing it. only oddballs with countereconomic motivation of one kind or another (e.g., trb experimenters) , plus miners themselves, plus serious txers ( e.g., mircea_popescu ) have a desire to do it. there are not so many of these. it is rather like relying on entirely on coprophagics for your sewage disposal needs. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619455 << to relay SUCCESSFULLY, trinque . (not to /dev/null) ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619314 << this is potentially interesting imho ☝︎

asciilifeform: trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-25#1618581 << was one hypothesis. ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( e.g., https://medium.com/@dourvaris/my-2015-macbook-pro-retina-exploded-119ea5ea9d1f <<<>>> https://archive.is/p6Z3q <<<>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20170227191525/https://medium.com/@dourvaris/my-2015-macbook-pro-retina-exploded-119ea5ea9d1f )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619219 << this is actually a regular thing -- recall, various pools have wwwtronic forms into which you can piss a tx directly ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619009 << i'd much like to hear the details of this, if they exist somewhere. because the Official version makes 0 sense ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/with_cache.txt << the cache thing, to current time ☟︎

asciilifeform: so far it's dulap <--> zoolag.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1585884 << possibly this ☝︎

asciilifeform: in very other lulz, http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2017-February/031615.html ( https://archive.is/jLUGT ) << 'Bruce Schneier has recently published an impassioned plea for a United States Federal Internet Security Agency, which would likely gain control of civilian cryptography, among many other munitions.'

asciilifeform: 'Rules to receive the up-to-$10,000 award from Project Veritas - Project Veritas only offers awards for valuable video or other media types which was legally obtained. It is important for the submitter to follow all local, state and federal laws while obtaining video or other media for submission.' << snoar

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-25#1618589 << was spot on ☝︎