lol…well, those pirates learned that America really doesn’t like it when you mess with our boats. The US destroyed half the Iranian navy in 8 hours for an attack during freedom of navigation exercises to reopen the gulf back in the 70’s I think… A lot of global trade has been enabled by US boats guaranteeing freedom of navigation…the lack of a piracy tariff (nation state tariffs are barely different and bad enough) has enabled economies to develop in historically unlikely places.

Whoa… Interesting fact: if you go to Walt Disney world, in Epcot Morocco, there is a facsimile of a letter George Washington wrote to the king of Morocco…I believe it is framed under the title “America’s first friend,” which is a nice way of looking at the conflict and “Treaty of Peace and Friendship.” Apparently Morocco was held hostage too by the same pirates, but history is always tricky to parse finely.

I’m dying…that’s hilarious

True story. And that’s why Morocco was the first nation to sign a treaty with the US.

I believe in the next 5 years there will be a proper accounting of the death toll on both sides of the jab…my best guess is that that jab saved fewer lives than originally thought and took more lives than anyone would have guessed. I also think eventually as data comes it that it will no longer be obvious, or thought to be obvious, that the jab is safer than the disease. Remember, the natural history of slowly mutating viruses is to become more widespread by spreading better…this generally requires not killing you or making you so sick you don’t socialize. Successful viruses become circulating vaccines, in a sense.

That is a brilliant way to say it. 💯%

Ah, I thought that animal facing away from the camera was a cat! Balanced has been restored to the force.

We are clearly entering the end of the age….cats and dogs lying down together…soon it will be lions and lambs.

Such an unfortunate way to start

I remember someone joking about being a billionaire — a satoshi billionaire… Back then, this did not make one rich at all…it couldn’t even make one a new car owner. And while I still don’t think a satoshi billionaire will ever be as rich dollar billionaire (in my lifetime), the joke has lost its humor… It used to be hilariously outlandish to think of 10 bitcoins as being a sum so big it could change one’s life…but the reality is dawning that it will be enough to change many lives… Watching the monetization of bitcoin has been unbelievable…and I didn’t believe it when it mattered most…but because believe it now, I gotta get to work. I’m on call this weekend.

Bitcoin cannot simultaneously have lower volatility and blow off tops at such high multiples of the prior cycle peak.

So utxo bloat isn’t a big deal? My understanding was that the Utxo set that gets freed from ram is cached by OS and loads essentially instantly when enough unused ram is available for cache, but if you run out of ram and have to free cache that loading from disk takes much longer…I could be wrong. When I run top on my node, available ram drops over time until there’s less than 1 GB of 15 GB free…but the OS could be caching other stuff too.

Meh, you’ll make it. See ya tomorrow.

I see what you are getting at with dbcache…but I don’t think that limits size of utxo set in ram (or system cache thereof)… Anyhow, constantly swapping from ram to disk in random fashion is really slow; as many entries in the utxo set will never be used again, these can be offloaded from ram and decrease swapping. We know the order utxo will be used during IBD, so it is possible to store these sequentially on disk and convert random swaps in to sequential ones. Try syncing a 1 or 2 GB rpi from Genesis. Or even just reverifying the chain with that little ram and the problem becomes evident…I’m not sure such little ram even works for ibd anymore.

To fix the bitcoin utxo set, we need tiered storage. ProVably unspendable outputs are pruned, which makes sense, but proBably unspendable outputs stay stored in RAM. This is dumb. We should write these to disk and only pull from disk when part of a block or upon spending tx notification. Yes, it takes longer to eval block/tx, but by definition this should a rare event. What is wrong with my thinking?

Because we said so :)

Agreed. And we must use the term “food” loosely.