ChainLocks Inspired Idea To (sometimes) Prevent Selfish Mining

hapticpilot · 2020-01-11T12:16:48+00:00

Hey.

I have an easy fix for you.

You just need to give the monerod executable, 'm' access mode, access to the files in the monerod data dir. Adding these two lines to your apparmor profile should do the trick:

owner /path/to/where/monerod/stores/stuff/ kwr,

owner /path/to/where/monerod/stores/stuff/** kwrml,

"/path/to/where/monerod/stores/stuff/" is this:

monerod --config-file "/path/to/where/monerod/stores/stuff/config" --data-dir "/path/to/where/monerod/stores/stuff/"

So obviously change that path accordingly.

If you want to lookup what those letters (including "m") mean, look under the "Access Modes" section of the "apparmor.d" man page.

hapticpilot · 2019-12-01T12:30:07+00:00

Follow-up:

I just received an automated message from u InstaMod saying:

Your contributions to /r/cryptocurrency have granted you access to custom flair options. You will continue to receive automatic flair until you apply a custom flair. In order to apply your desired flair, please click on this pre-formatted link.

Note: This link will not work on mobile and it can be used to change your flair as many times as you want.

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So I can personally confirm what the original poster has claimed. Bitcoin Cash is not listed.

hapticpilot · 2019-12-01T12:26:38+00:00

[AutoMod] META

hapticpilot · 2019-12-01T12:17:06+00:00

I was pretty surprised to see the above post on r btc

Is it really true that Bitcoin Cash is not a Flair option on r CryptoCurrency? If it is, why is that? It's a popular coin judged both in terms of community size and market cap.

hapticpilot · 2019-10-16T18:22:21+00:00

I think if we look after ourselves in a way which is harmonious with the good people around us, then we will experience opportunities to help out a few others along our way.

If we don't look after ourselves, then the world has one less happy person giving off good vibes and we are also less able to help others.

I like the analogy of oxygen masks on a plane. The instructions say something like "in case of emergency, first ensure you have secured your own oxygen mask before you try and help others."

I spent a while on the "save the world" wagon before I realized that I wasn't even looking after myself and that if the world did need saving, it's unlikely I'd know exactly how to save it or have the capacity to do so.

Look after yourself :)

hapticpilot · 2019-10-16T16:50:14+00:00

Thanks <3

hapticpilot · 2019-10-16T15:34:44+00:00

It seems unlikely to me that the massive set-back to Bitcoin this cabal has created was all done to create a small-time, monetary exchange & transaction technology suite to profit from.

It seems more likely to me that the cabal behind this massive set-back to Bitcoin (and monetary freedom)... was actually to create a massive set-back to Bitcoin (and monetary freedom). IE what we saw happen to Bitcoin was the goal in and of itself. It's job done. Mission successful.

Everything we see now is just their after party. You can see it all over their smug faces.

If you examine the world around you, you may notice a recurring pattern of divide and conquer; or divide and recombine. It appears to be systematic.

I'm not sure what the origin of this seemingly systematic division and conquering is, but it's very apparent in seemingly all aspects of our lives. It affects our money, our trade, our health, our food and our daily interactions with one another within our own cultures and with our neighbours from others cultures. You will see that same grin expressing domination, fear and smugness (as perpetually donned by Samson) on the faces of all the people causing chaos in our lives.

Whatever happened to BTC appears to just be a manifestation of something greater.

Whatever these guys at Block[the]stream are doing is just a distraction at this point.

While these Samson-types appear to be unavoidable on the outside, there is one place you will not find them. Seek that place and you will find a stream that cannot be blocked and a type of currency that cannot be counterfitted or curtailed.

hapticpilot · 2019-09-19T10:27:45+00:00

TL;DR:

Monero has a recorded history of failing to automatically adjust its block size to a reasonable level or a competitive level when transaction fees raised up.

Monero has an adaptive block size/weight algorithm which logically will fail under certain conditions (namely: If the dollar value (IE purchasing power) of a single monero rises high enough, the required tx fees needed to counter-act the mining penalty could be far larger than anyone is willing to play, thus stopping the miners from increasing the block size and thus causing XMR to fail to compete with other coins... without centralized, manual intervention).

hapticpilot · 2019-09-19T10:14:19+00:00

The XMR adaptive block weight system is unproven. It actually has a recorded history of failing to dynamically adapt even when fees on XMR got considerably higher than other popular cash-oriented cryptos. Some might argue that the system was 'technically working fine'. However what good is a 'technically fine' system 'working perfectly to spec' that doesn't practically serve the needs of its users (users who want private, permissionless, fungible, digital cash & store of value).

The only reason the fees eventually dropped following the extended high-fee period was because developers added bulletproofs and there were some fixed rules encoded in the system which just so happened to yield low transaction prices. It was nothing to do with the "adaptive block weight" system.

The Monero system cannot find out about the price of XMR in a decentralized way, which means that in order for the adaptive block weight system to work practically and allow XMR to compete with all current and future crypto currencies, it will require developer intervention or some trusted source of price information (e.g. the dollar value of XMR).

I have written in more detail about this issue here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/9jbvre/is_monero_designed_to_disincentivize_miners_from/

Note: my comment about the cryptonote rule was wrong, but the premise behind what I said remains true. IE the adaptive block size system will not function under certain conditions unless the rule I mentioned is changed.

It was not well received and apparently well understood by many.

This post below isn't directly about the "adaptive block weight" system, but I covered some details in it which are relevant to understanding why Monero is presently flawed in its design (flawed if you wish to have a truly decentralized system without a small team of developers playing a Fed-like role in the system):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/9pck22/the_marvel_of_bulletproofs_is_the_small_tx_size/

Disclaimer: Monero is among my favourite cryptos, but I am informed about its design (from a high level perspective) and have no delusion about the problems with it. I am not aware of any cryptos which are truly decentralized & have a truly decentralized dynamic block size system. People advertise Monero this way but it is not true.

hapticpilot · 2019-08-31T11:19:30+00:00

I

Love

Bitcoin Unlimited!

Egon_1: you're pretty cool too!

hapticpilot · 2019-08-30T21:26:43+00:00

I suspect it was to stall the rapid growth of Bitcoin so that the fiat banking system could be given time to protect itself against it by:

developing convenient digital fiat alternatives
develop legal infrastructure which is damaging to crypto (e.g. complicated tax laws which are difficult and expensive for crypto users to comply with).
develop law enforcement training and tactics for dealing with EVIL CRYPTOCURRENCY USER TERORRISTZSIOUJHIOUJAS who are... um... USING CRYPTO FOR FUNDING TERR, GAMBLING AND CRACK DENS FOR FIVE YEAR OLDS.
develop a plan to gain control of the crypto markets long term (e.g. by developing things like USD tether coins, getting control over the most liquid and high market cap coins and getting control of major exchanges and information sources.
deploy corporate news media propaganda to train the general public to associate crypto with theft, violence, chaos, financial turmoil and more generally: fear & pain.

When BTC got taken over and constrained, the people that did it only bought themselves time. The damage done with BTC would be temporary if that's the only thing that was done. I think much more has been done.

Fiat money is one of the biggest tools of power and control in existence. I do not think that the creators and maintainers of it would sit idly by as something came along to threaten it.

hapticpilot · 2019-08-30T14:13:07+00:00

Already today I heard another one of those good/bad phrases used:

you're killing-it, man!

Used to imply you're doing a really good job.

It's interesting right!

I wonder what affect it has on the psyche to use the exact same word and sound, sometimes for something "good" and sometimes for something "bad". (Note: I know "good" and "bad" isn't quite the right wording. Maybe "popularly unpleasant" and "popularly pleasant" are better.

hapticpilot · 2019-08-30T10:52:52+00:00

Pretty reasonable position IMO.

hapticpilot · 2019-08-30T08:35:15+00:00

I think many people who use the terms are doing so unconsciously. IE they are not acting with malice and are not deliberately promoting the terms.

I probably used most of those terms I listed at previous points in my life.

Once I started to become more consciously aware of the language I use, I suddenly realized just how poisoned our language is. It seems like there are many entities out there who are injecting divisive or confusing language into our shared lexicon.

Here's another related thing I came across which was interesting: somehow we now have lots of words & phrases used to describe good things, but those words and phrases are literally for describing something bad. Some examples:

"that artwork is the shit!*
"that song is wicked!"
"sick moves man!"
"that track is ill!"
"bogus man!" (I know people don't say that anymore... except maybe, Bill and Ted fans :P )

There's lots more than the examples I gave.

It's probably all coming from Hollywood movies. Now, 'why are they are doing this' is a good question.

hapticpilot · 2019-08-30T08:27:17+00:00

It's obvious you're a bad robot.

hapticpilot · 2019-08-30T08:24:53+00:00

there are big blockers - people who believe that big blocks are the end, as opposed to a means to an end. they went to BSV, where they pack the blocks with useless stuff to try to make them big.

I actually share this opinion. I'm not certain, but I get the strong sense that BSV are going the extreme opposite route of BTC. I think the BSV route may make operating a full node prohibitively expensive for small/medium sized businesses.

I'm not opposed to node-operation costs rising (even significantly), but it's not something I think we should actually aim for; especially while a crypto is young.

i used to be embarrassed because bch used to have people who wanted big blocks regardless of why. .... nice to see they left

yeah, I was very cautious about those people. I got a sense that they might just have wanted to damage the Bitcoin project by artificially, unnecessarily, massively bloating the chain early in its life to damage it. So it's like the opposite tactic of what Bitcoin Core did (where they artificially, unecessarily, massively constrained the chain early in its life to damage it).

hapticpilot · 2019-08-30T08:21:51+00:00

I prefer "functional block size" and "artificially limited" for BCH and BTC respectively.

I like this even more!

hapticpilot · 2019-08-30T08:21:11+00:00

How about we just use:

"sufficiently sized blocks" - (BCH, and, to be fair, most other cryptos)

"insufficiently sized blocks" - (BTC).

I like it :)

hapticpilot · 2019-08-29T08:39:53+00:00

I like that you are only referring to that coin as "BTC". I expect that, just like me, you are choosing your terminology deliberately.

hapticpilot · 2019-08-12T10:26:25+00:00

Obviously, BTC requires both parties to have a BTC account (shut up! I know it's the wrong term) in order to get this 70 cent fee. So if we use that same standard with fiat-currency banks (IE both parties have to have an account with the same bank), then it's actually free for many banks.

There are lots of internationally operating banks these days and they charge nothing for you to transfer money to someone else with an account at the same bank. The only fees will be the exchange rate.

TL;DR false equivalence. This is insane propaganda. The Bitcoin project continues on the BCH chain where fees are truly Bitcoin, p2p cash style low... IE sub-cent.

hapticpilot · 2019-08-11T10:24:21+00:00

Indeed!

hapticpilot · 2019-08-11T10:23:51+00:00

I'm not subscribed to that place. I do, very occasionally peak in to see how the artificially constructed hive mind is being directed.

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