Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@jernej @TechConnectify A lot of that "cost cutting" is also weight savings, which matters a lot for already-heavy electric cars.

Luxor mined a block with four full-rbf replacements at once: https://web.archive.org/web/20221224215544/https://fullrbf.mempool.observer/

Two from my OTS calendars (including a $165 fee). And two others that I didn't create.

Great example of how legacy payment systems are totally busted: https://www.raspberrypi.com/verify/

"My dude slowed down gravity in mid air 🤯"
https://youtube.com/shorts/Q7qCU4jOLyQ?feature=share

Dance battle or physics homework problem?

Part 2: https://youtu.be/DANTP2n8x3c

"Back from the front: a British volunteer in Ukraine"
https://youtu.be/TCbD4WBqPg4

Excellent video.

@ademan Yes.

The archive.org link has the raw hex of both transactions if you want to take a look.

Interesting! Foundry USA mined a full-rbf double-spend, with a few minutes between tx #1 and tx #2: https://web.archive.org/web/20221221022035/https://fullrbf.mempool.observer/

My best guess is this has something to do with unconfirmed inputs. My stock v24.0 node saw both tx #1 and tx #2 at the same time initially, but rejected the latter for spending an unconfirmed input. Then a few minutes later, it accepted tx #2 once the input confirmed.

@nvk not working.

@nvk No sewage community?

You obviously haven't seen the septic tank pumping part of YouTube. Or the thriving community of plumbing blockage clearing videos. I'm sure they have conferences too. Shitty ones.

https://youtube.com/@PoorPumperSociety

@ademan @silverpill @pwuille Thet could work too.

@silverpill @pwuille “transaction lookup can be expensive” just provide a merkle path from the confirmed tx to the block header.

@silverpill @pwuille Both. Though payments don't necessarily mean paying someone in particular: you can also sacrifice BTC to make a cryptographic identity expensive to obtain.

This is probably better than hash cash as it's easier to determine the value of the payment/sacrifice.

@pwuille I think the big problem we're going to see is that Mastodon has much worse protections against spam than Twitter does. That's not a problem yet. But it will be in the future. And dealing with it could destroy the ability of small instances like mine to federate with others.

If email didn't have big companies like Google pouring money into anti-spam, it'd probably be dead already.

Bitcoin can fix this by making spam costly. But the people behind Mastodon hate crypto currencies.

@excellion@bitcoinhackers.org In fairness, this is probably a matter of ethics not stupidity.

Musk is probably betting on the fact that US law will probably let him get away with banning links to other sites. The same way Apple can get away with banning side loading.

And if his goal is to successfully crush left wing Twitter, he's still achieving that. Mastodon isn't going to replace what Twitter was for the left.

Sad though.

@TechConnectify Reading comprehension...

I have two rented VPS servers running full-rbf nodes that were previously in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, quite close to the front lines in Kherson.

The hosting company finally gave up and moved their whole operation to a Kyiv data center this weekend. Russia has been trying to destroy the entire Ukrainian power grid for two months now; wouldn't be surprised if that hosting company can't get enough diesel fuel in Mykolaiv due to demand by other critical services.

Sad.

@waxwing The movie! It's basically a cross between The Goonies and Dr Who. 😂