Yes, it's a part for sure. But, as you've mentioned, we really need to start thinking hard about network level primitives which are open and we can build on.

Took about 4 days. Really slowed down on block verification in 2023.

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My Yubikey of many years just died. Took its secrets to the grave.

Starting an initial block download on a Pixel 4 running PostmarketOS (pruned because only 120 GB internal storage). Let's see how long this takes.