bloatedGoat

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by bloatedGoat 1y ago
Source? In any case, a fork of Bitcoin with bigger blocks has existed for years and the market doesn't prefer it despite all the big names and companies hyping it up at the time of the split. Satoshi left Bitcoin so there wouldn't
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by bloatedGoat 2y ago
If all you care about are transaction speeds then use the lightning network. Instant settlement of bitcoin and much lower fees. There are protocols like Cashu [1] that allow you to transact offline anonymously for no fees and settle on the
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by bloatedGoat 2y ago
Transaction fees have been about as low as they can possibly be for months. It costs roughly $0.15 to move a UTXO right now. The people who argued for increasing the block size were making a tradeoff between decentralization and "low&q
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by bloatedGoat 2y ago
There are methods that make it feasible to train models over the internet. DiLoCo is one [1] and NousResearch has found a way to improve on that using a method they call DisTro [2]. 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08105
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by bloatedGoat 2y ago
There are ways to combat spam that still allow for anonymity. One example is proof-of-work. You can require a submission do 3-5 seconds worth of work on typical high end laptops/phones so that it becomes cost prohibitive for someone to
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by bloatedGoat 3y ago
The fentanyl crisis should serve as a warning here. Precursors can be made in labs elsewhere and smuggled in and assembled in a lab of nearly arbitrary quality if a hostile nation state was motivated. Perhaps $20k isn't enough but $20M