Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

“Robot Overlords Trailer”
https://youtu.be/03Y7sd_LLEU

Better than I expected.

The image is from https://fullrbf.mempool.observer/ BTW.

Interesting! A full-rbf doublespend just got mined by... a miner on P2Pool!

https://mempool.space/tx/9c8a9cc21cc80ff6ee5daffe8f9283b5501e8333e81b3077cdf97b35a3434959

I didn't even know P2Pool still existed. And it kinda doesn't: according to https://web.archive.org/web/20201029044054/http://p2p-usa.xyz:9334/static/ the expected time between blocks right now is 3.2 years. Looks like the last block was 2 years ago.

Seems like the particular P2Pool miner that found the block had a high minimum fee, as the block only contained the high-fee parts of the mempool: https://miningpool.observer/template-and-block/00000000000000000001f6fc9422b5e1babc73f135d4a2ce3550494f54b601ac

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-December/021270.html

Full-RBF Peering Bitcoin Core v24.0.1 is released.

tl;dr: this ensures you're connected to other full-rbf nodes, by advertising a FULL_RBF service bit, and connecting to four additional nodes advertising that service.

From my talk at bitcoin++ @niftynei

https://bitcoincdmx2022.sched.com/event/1EwjH/teach-the-controversy-full-replace-by-fee

Why I'm Less Than Infinitely Hostile To Cryptocurrency
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-im-less-than-infinitely-hostile

"RevengeFor.com - Russia will be punished for everything!"
https://youtu.be/Y1ba5tFJxCI

Nice.

A tale of two particles - The Works in Progress Newsletter
https://worksinprogress.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-particles

(Yes I know they're all imported school buses; that's the first one I've seen where they hadn't painted over which school system it was from)

Neat: that bus has travelled 4000km from a Kentucky school system to serve as a chicken bus in Guatemala.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_transport_in_Central_America

TIL Guatemala has a _lot_ of Taco Bells.

“Thor is the God of War. Yet Thorium can't be used for nuclear weapons. It's a complete scam.” @giacomozucco

All regulations are backed up by the threat of acute lead poisoning.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/is-rsv-another-virus-from-a-lab

It's better for everyone if you run my full-rbf branch, as that makes for a stronger, decentralized, set of interconnected full-rbf peers. But if you just want to use the new 'mempoolfullrbf=1' option in the upcoming v24.0 release, that's ok too.

If you want to run full-rbf, and don't have any full-rbf peers, you can connect to these nodes:

full-rbf1.tbtc.petertodd.net
full-rbf2.tbtc.petertodd.net
full-rbf3.tbtc.petertodd.net
full-rbf4.tbtc.petertodd.net

...and for testnet:

full-rbf1.tbtc.petertodd.net
full-rbf2.tbtc.petertodd.net
full-rbf3.tbtc.petertodd.net
full-rbf4.tbtc.petertodd.net

I've also made a branch of Bitcoin Core v24.0 with preferential peering, to auto-connect to full-rbf peers:

https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/full-rbf-v24.0