Gambler's ruin still the only relevant theory.

Got around to updating my mining setup: bitcoin-node-> pool_sv2 -> bitaxe This is _so_ much better than a year ago! A lot of engineering going into many different components to make this happen.

Scoreline doesn't flatter them, but Stormers did well with a half stacked crew.

New fall of civ 😊

The secp pull request just got merged: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/1765

Replaced it with our own implementation. It got increasingly difficult to keep it patched, since its upstream is not actively maintained. Also frees the project from yet another supply chain.

v32 is shaping up nicely. landed: - Removed libevent - Removed boost signals - Added support for BIP 434 and 323 - A >30% improvement in IBD and validation speed - Improvements to the txospenderindex, shrinking it by 20% and making its creation faster - Continued p2pv2 rollout - A host of improvements to the ipc mining interface likely to make it: - OpenRPC specification for automatically creating and documenting RPC clients - Proper mempool based fee estimation for avoiding over-estimating fees - Support for caching RPC responses - Fixing a bunch of RPC and REST denial of service bugs - Reducing txindex size by over 60%, as well as making its creation faster

Sure, if you are going to publish a UASF client that activates on minority hash, this might be something nice to provide, but I don't think this is really a big deal. The goal of a UASF is to become the heaviest pow chain at the fork height, or very shortly thereafter. From their delusional perspective that seems coherent to me.

I don't know, is it really a bug? If you want to change to a lower pow chain, run invalidateblock.

Johoe ❤️