Nostr notes by TheKayman

I’m genuinely curious about the issue with dice rolls. Are you ...

2026-08-04T08:19:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…8q2e
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I’m genuinely curious about the issue with dice rolls. Are you saying it’s an opsec issue or an entropy issue? Assuming the goal is to generate a minimum of 128 bits worth of entropy.

I think you’re missing my point. I’m saying, regardless of ...

2026-07-19T09:53:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…a2gk
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I think you’re missing my point. I’m saying, regardless of what the hashers of foundry do or don’t vote for, foundry have made it clear that they are willing to run bip110 (with the caveat that this info is true)
Ultimately if the hashes decide against bip110 the decision still rests with foundry, who to reiterate are obviously neutral on bip110 for them to be giving the courtesy to their hashes.

If foundry were against it, wouldn’t it make sense for them to ...

2026-07-18T22:36:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…0cn6
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If foundry were against it, wouldn’t it make sense for them to not offer the option at all? Foundry ultimately gets to choose.
Assuming this is real, the fact that they have offered the choice to its hashers means they are willing to run bip110. This means they must have tested a node implementation that enforces bip110. To me this doesn’t sound like opposition, it sounds like neutrality. A neutral party to bip110 will always run bip110 if it becomes clear that opposing it is becoming increasingly riskier.

This is a ~100kb image, give or take the extra metadata added by ...

2026-07-18T22:25:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…58kl
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This is a ~100kb image, give or take the extra metadata added by iPhotos. 100kb seems sufficient to get a high enough level of detail.

I’m going to assume he’s being honest, but he’s missing the ...

2026-06-21T00:23:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…3j5s
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I’m going to assume he’s being honest, but he’s missing the bigger picture, which is, clearly people are pointing out that IBD greatly slows when it gets to about 2023. His argument seems to be it “it was fine for me so it’s not a problem”.
From my point of view I know that the 2 times I attempted to IBD on my older laptop, the first took about a month and the second time I had to give up on, because it completely stalled, (had to resync cause I accidentally corrupted the data).
It’s pretty clear to me that from my experience and from hearing other people’s experiences that IBD on older or less powerful machines is an issue especially for node adoption.
Maybe other factors such as internet bandwidth and proximity to the nodes bootstrapping yours has a great effect on IBD. However on the more powerful machine I bought, with the same internet bandwidth and proximity other nodes it took just over 2 days. This is obviously greatly reduced from 1 month, suggesting in my case at least, hardware was the greater bottle neck.