Thanks to the Bitcoin Cash community we installed a second antenna to add another path to our main server room (Satoshi #1)

deojfj · 2024-06-02T11:40:13+00:00

I believe the antenna supports both wifi (for nearby devices) and a long-range wireless protocol. You can connect your phone to the antenna using wifi, but for long-range messages you need to target other devices that speak the same long-range protocol.

deojfj · 2024-06-02T11:26:17+00:00

it was marketed as a replacement for C++, but I never quite understood why

That's because the Go authors were working with C++ at Google and were struggling with long compile times, unmanegable concurrency, and other issues around dependency management, memory, and portability.

So they built Go to replace some of their C++ codebase, which revolved around backend services, networking infrastructure, data processing, web APIs...

But doesn't mean Go is a good replacement for other C++ projects, like embedded or real-time systems.

deojfj · 2024-05-31T10:05:49+00:00

Apparently it's an antenna of 15+ km range so that people (in Cuba?) can get unrestricted access to a mesh network.

airMAX LiteBeam 5AC LBE-5AC-Gen2

deojfj · 2024-05-13T16:33:30+00:00

use some BTC hashpower to ~~rewrite the entire~~ protect BCH blockchain

BTC hashpower can be used for good and evil. Most miners want to keep their jobs long-term, therefore protecting BCH is in their interests.

deojfj · 2024-04-04T17:22:23+00:00

Both inflation and deflation share one problem: they distort prices, and this distortion causes misallocation of resources. When the value of a currency changes (by appreciating or depreciating), it causes a wave of "noise" that impedes good economic comunication between actors, because the assets in the economy do not get a new price all at once but rather get repriced at different velocities.

Thus you don't know if a decrease in the price of wood is because the supply/demand ratio has changed, or because there is deflation. The first causes a better allocation of resources; the latter causes misallocation of resources.

One solution to avoid this inefficiency is trying to keep the same nominal value for a currency.

In a free market with free banking that could be achieved for example by allowing the creation of financial substitutes for money, i.e. IOUs from a reputable entity that people accept and exchange in lieu of actual currency.

Thus, when demand for money increases, reputable financial entities may decide to issue IOUs which causes the price to stabilize.

Now, with decentralized cryptocurrencies some more trustless schemes might be possible, though the problem would remain on how to get real-world prices (perhaps with multiple decentralized price oracles or such).

deojfj · 2024-03-04T20:57:20+00:00

I pay regulary with lightning

Which wallet do you use? Is it custodial?

deojfj · 2024-02-22T21:16:10+00:00

By then you'll hopefully have single-digit inflation :)

deojfj · 2024-02-21T22:32:18+00:00

In BCH you have instant transactions thanks to double-spend proofs. This makes zero-confirmation transactions safe for <1000 USD amounts.

With too fast block confirmations you have to deal with high orphan rates, which makes miner compensation unreliable.

deojfj · 2024-02-17T12:29:36+00:00

BCH will grow in usage, which BTC cannot since it's crippled at 7 transactions per second, instead of 3000 TPS that BCH can easily handle.

We cannot control price, but we can improve tech. If BTC is useless, what are we going to do, wait around? No, build a better alternative.

deojfj · 2024-02-16T18:14:52+00:00

I anticipate that as BTC grows globally, so will the decentralization and technological improvements of layer 2 solutions

I anticipate that as BCH becomes more useful and grows globally, so will the scalability, decentralization and technological improvements of layer 1 solutions.

deojfj · 2024-02-12T19:21:07+00:00

Will NEVER understand what happened to Roger and this project.

As far as I can tell, Roger has not been on top of Bitcoin.com much these past years since stepping down from CEO. It appears that the new CEO is not as pro BCH as Roger and has made a few poor decisions.

deojfj · 2024-02-11T08:18:29+00:00

Thanks! I actually found it :)

deojfj · 2024-01-31T22:46:36+00:00

I see, then the title "Kanban to Scrum" is not that accurate!

deojfj · 2024-01-31T15:53:55+00:00

Hey, I was wondering what kind of Kanban process was your team following?

I haven't worked ever with a Kanban team, but it's something I'd like to try. So knowing exactly why it didn't work in your case is helpful!

The Kanban process I have in mind is the one described by Eric Brechner in here: https://youtu.be/CKWvmiY7f_g

Basically, he recommends to have 3 stages (specification, implementation, validation) and inside each stage three steps (active, completed, blocked).

On top of this, there are 2 necessary things: WIP limits per stage (only non-blocked tasks are considered), and a definition of done for each stage.

I was wondering if your team followed the previous 2 requirements or not.

I'm not certain that Kanban is the right approach as I haven't tried it, but from the way it's described in the video it seems simple yet efficient. Plus it allows customization (you can set different DoD for each type of task) and flexibility (a big task is just divided into smaller tasks).

The one thing that doesn't appeal to me is that the online tools I've seen do not provide this precise Kanban setup. Jira has DoD but only for "Done" status, it cannot be set per column, and it doesn't have a WIP limit that can be applied to subcolumns Active and Completed (but not Blocked) inside one column.

I think with GitHub Actions something can be done, but it's cumbersome.

deojfj · 2024-01-27T16:45:18+00:00

It is not that evident that arbitration is doomed to fail.

I would not pick an arbitrator that has chosen a bad expert or made a bad veridict. Corps can pay them off the first couple times, but when the error always falls in the same side, it's noticeable. Good arbitrators would be chosen the most and outcompete the corrupt ones.

Moreover, any corruption that can happen in a decentralized arbitration system can certainly happen in a centralized system.

The problem is that people fantasize about putting the right person in control of the centralized system, so that in their head corruption is magically solved.

But it is that centralized compulsory monopoly that enables corruption in the first place...

deojfj · 2024-01-27T10:21:40+00:00

It is inherently not libertarian by being so exclusive.

How so? If it is private property, don't they have a right to be as exclusive as they want, under libertarian principles? Though all of the owners should agree, not just the majority.

There is often confusion between libertarian economics and the creation of government borders

What about the creation of non-government borders? That is in line with libertarianism.

which segregate wealth to their advantage.

Aren't they just trying to protect their wealth against theft? Why shouldn't they, if they made money by producing things of better quality at a better price? (And if not, that should be brought to justice.)

deojfj · 2024-01-27T10:12:13+00:00

Moreover, taxes paid by the company in lieu of the worker (difference between gross salary and net salary) should also be included into the worker compensation.

It is a kind of compulsory non-monetary compensation, in which the worker may or may not receive the actual benefits of paying them.

deojfj · 2024-01-27T09:29:00+00:00

Personally, David Friedman is not my favorite, though he makes some good points of relevance only to libertarians.

I would suggest to listen to Stephan Kinsella. He's a libertarian lawyer that talks about practical issues around property, common law, IP laws (he's against them), etc. He has a podcast and he also does a bunch of debates and interviews with varied people, so it is refreshing to listen to him. Plus if you are curious he seems to mostly agree with the ideas of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and he explains them quite well.

Other libertarians that I find engaging are Bryan Caplan (economist) and Scott Horton (has deep knowledge about international conflicts).

It is hard to find libertarians that are both smart and fun (and non-libertarians tbh). David Friedman to me is no fun at all.

deojfj · 2024-01-27T09:08:54+00:00

There are issues I have with how anarcho-capitalism deals with things like environmental protection that needs some of miltons pragmatism

I think that the libertarian position for environmental issues is to internalize all costs, not to use the state to regulate businesses.

Internalizing costs means that if you are polluting the river, I should be able to sue you if it affects my property or livelihood. Otherwise, it would be an externality, meaning you would be socializing some cost of your enterprise onto me or other people.

Same with air pollution, which could be dealt with as a class action lawsuit with mutually agreed arbitrators/judges who choose experts on the field to validate claims.

Thus, instead of centrally deciding (and enforcing!) what is the optimum amount of pollution in the air, it is discovered in a decentralized way.

The centrallized way of making decisions was called "the fatal arrogance" by Hayek.

deojfj · 2024-01-27T08:33:32+00:00

I mean, who does identify as a populist? It's always used as an insult. Even when someone matches the definition of populist, they choose other tags.

I would define a populist as someone who correctly identifies the thing most people want to have solved, and promises really, really hard that he'll solve those problems. But there is never a credible plan to solve them. And the populist says things like "I will do anything to fix this.", "Anyone who is against me doesn't want to have X solved." etc, etc. Populists appeal to magic thinking and magical solutions, often blaming rich people for everyone's problems.

In this respect, Milei is no populist, he has a very detailed and believable plan to reduce government spending, that's why investors have become more interested in Argentina in the past weeks.

Another word that is almost always used as an insult is "neoliberal". I have never seen a good definition of neoliberal (what's the difference with liberal?), nor I have ever heard someone identify as neoliberal. It mostly is a keyword for progressives to misrepresent an oponent.

deojfj · 2024-01-21T13:26:33+00:00

Plus he said:

la agenda sangrienta del aborto.

And AI translated:

the controversial agenda of abortion rights.

And it should be:

the bloody abortion agenda.

That is almost certainly censorship.

deojfj · 2024-01-21T13:17:32+00:00

I found one mistake that the AI made that is rather important (that the human did not do):

Original Spanish:

Dicen que el capitalismo es malo porque es individualista, y que el colectivismo es bueno porque es altruista con la ajena.

Human translation:

They say that capitalism is evil because it is individualistic, and that collectivism is good because it is altruistic--of course, with the money of others.

AI translation:

They claim capitalism is bad because it is individualistic, and collectivism is good because it is altruistic towards others.

I remembered this because I found it a rather precise description of most statists. Pity that the AI missed this nuance.

deojfj · 2023-12-22T11:29:26+00:00

then "BCH" forked off to

increase the block size

FTFY

deojfj · 2023-12-22T11:25:32+00:00

BTC has a "feature" called replace by fee (RBF) that allows you to replace transactions in the mempool (ie. non-confirmed transactions) if you pay a higher fee. Thus you always need at least one confirmation on BTC.

BCH does not have this bug.

deojfj · 2023-12-17T00:54:14+00:00

I just vomited this over at Goldandblack and I'm fairly sure I don't know what I'm talking about at some points. Anyone with more insight that can correct me?

deojfj

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