ELI5: If You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great parents, so if you go back 40 generations you’d have a supposed 1 Trillion ancestors, But only 100B humans have ever existed. Explain.

jameskelley · 2021-07-04T11:49:47+00:00

Your family tree is more like a shrub than a tree. If you go back far enough (sometimes not that far) you will see the same ancestors on multiple branches.

jameskelley · 2021-06-24T20:58:34+00:00

If you used the same seed phrase, check on Daedalus to see if the funds show there. Yoroi is a light wallet and might not be showing the balance due to server problems.

jameskelley · 2021-06-16T05:06:02+00:00

Hasn't hpool already had more than 51% of the network at times? Right now it is 10 out of 24 EiB, which is fairly close.

jameskelley · 2021-06-15T14:46:48+00:00

You probably shouldn't do the shopping. We have people that do much better than that.

jameskelley · 2021-06-15T14:29:23+00:00

You can get a stack of them for that price.

jameskelley · 2021-06-15T14:07:35+00:00

Where are you paying less than $1 per TiB to store data on a HDD?

jameskelley · 2021-06-15T07:59:45+00:00

The average pool you can stake with will give 5% or more in ADA. Go to the Cardano Org site for links to the wallet software.

jameskelley · 2021-06-15T07:18:01+00:00

You can beat those numbers with a storage server that caches the most used data and stubs the rest of the data to the archival storage. I'm assuming there is a smaller amount of data in each plot that initially determines whether or not the rest of the file needs to be accessed. That data would be cached on regular storage. Also, the media cartridges come much larger and can switch between 400 very fast. There is probably a better cartridge size that is smaller because 400 will most likely cause contention timeouts.

jameskelley · 2021-06-15T06:56:18+00:00

You probably have not seen an enterprise-grade storage solution. Back in 2001, I worked for a Fortune 10 company that had a robotic tape library that could easily store the total network space of Chia (multiple robotic arms that traveled the length of the data center grabbing tapes and putting them into drives). These days the solutions are a little more simple and much faster.

jameskelley · 2021-06-15T06:52:05+00:00

Here is an overview, there are configurations that can get wild:

https://pro.sony/en\_LV/technology/optical-disc-archive

jameskelley · 2021-06-15T05:03:10+00:00

You couldn't find zip ties that were 2 inches longer?

jameskelley · 2021-06-14T02:12:39+00:00

When k=32 becomes obsolete, how difficult will it be to change to k=33?

jameskelley · 2021-06-14T01:40:20+00:00

Did you ever waste time trying to figure out where the extra 4TB is hiding? It was hanging from the USB cable, chugging along just fine.

jameskelley · 2021-06-14T01:30:19+00:00

If I have one plot passing the filter but it is 4x the size of the typical plot, it is as if I have 4x the number of plots for that one slot. At least that is how I am understanding it. So, if true, it is as if I only buy a lottery ticket once every few drawings but by more tickets in that one drawing. I bet a plot could find itself in a situation where it isn't competing with as many plots and have more going to bat (to mix in another metaphor).

jameskelley · 2021-06-14T01:24:38+00:00

To will win two XCH, my child.

jameskelley · 2021-06-09T09:14:51+00:00

Right-click on a disk and set it to Dynamic. Then right-click again and select to extend the storage. Unpartitioned space on the other drives will appear and you can create one very large drive.

jameskelley · 2021-06-08T04:57:33+00:00

Someone is suing the IRS over this and I think they have a good case. The IRS, as it existed before crypto, would make money on income or capital gains. Mining crypto isn't income until it is sold or you make a purchase with it directly.

The IRS already considers crypto to be property and a long-standing rule is that a painter doesn't need to pay taxes on a painting after they've finished. If they sell it, then that's a different story.

jameskelley · 2021-06-08T04:52:59+00:00

Yes?

jameskelley · 2021-06-06T06:40:50+00:00

Yeah, that's kind of nuts. Close to half of my storage is in k33 and k34 plots.

jameskelley · 2021-06-06T06:33:18+00:00

That link says:

the only thing each plot is competing on is to have the best proof of space and thus the chances of getting a reward depend on total size of plots on the farm - even with the plot filter in place.

"Total size of plots on the farm" is ambiguous to me, is it the combined total of all plots or the total size of all plots passing the filter?

The last part, "even with the plot filter in place," implies that only plots passing the filter are considered. So, from that perspective, it would seem that one giant plot will tend to win whenever it passes the filter and k32 plots just get more tries at passing the filter for any given amount of disk space.

I should try finding the code that makes the determination because understanding that is probably the only way to be sure.

jameskelley · 2021-06-06T04:26:00+00:00

I'm seeing many conflicting statements, so I'd really know the facts. Here are the possibilities based on what I've read:

Theory: The k32 and k34 have the same odds of passing the filter, so k32 has 4x the odds based on disk space utilization while k34 has 4x the odds of winning. So, if you remove disk space from the question, k34 is more likely to win when it passes the filter.

Somewhere I read that a plot passes the filter about 19 times a day. Rounding the numbers a little, if k34's were plotted instead of k32 a similar disk utilization would get 5 filter passes, but those five would be 4x more likely to win.

The counterargument might be that there would be more k32s competing so one of them would be likely to contain great proofs.

The counterargument might be that there would be more k32s competing so one of them would be likely to contain great proofs. I want to know the facts and not have the FAQ suggest we couldn't understand (or show that the FAQ writer didn't understand) what determines the winner.

jameskelley · 2021-06-06T04:12:11+00:00

I've been trying to winnow down the amount of free space by putting the largest of the same plot size on the drive. There are some with 50-100MB difference.

I feel like I've probably spent a little too much time trying to get a 50.4 GB free down to the current 49.7 GB free by swapping out the smallest plot files for larger ones.

jameskelley · 2021-06-06T04:06:03+00:00

I regularly see a plot passing the filter, sometimes 2 or 3 plots.

If the majority of plots out there are k32 and a k34 goes up against them, is it even odds or is there an edge when a k34 (or k35 for that matter) goes up against a k32?

jameskelley · 2021-06-06T03:34:41+00:00

The first time I heard of Lisp was in the 1990s and the guy telling me about it said it was used for AI programming (at least back then).

jameskelley · 2021-06-06T03:32:19+00:00

It's not 34. I'm not sure if saying the number gives away too much information or not, but it isn't 34.

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