Early days Linux Kernel Code was just mailed around via Email. And torrents (also usenet but we don't talk about bruno) were there for distros from the very beginning.
I'm so convienced that all major Bitcoin projects should embrace that - I would actually argue we should switch to torrent first, github second right now.
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how about a node for plebs that acts as 1. Tor gateway 2. Torrent server with everything Bitcoin needs (is every block automatically a torrent?) 3. gossip server may help full nodes in someway 4. i'm sure it could do many other things.
Plus 'the Bitcoin backup node' should be able to fully spawn Bitcoin from scratch
The key is the simplicity that software like Umbrel etc. installs and can be run by the plebs like me, they are growing in number just look at the pace Lightning nodes have grown over the last year.
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i appreciate the response.
careful about assuming the value of the raspberry pi. it isn't a secure computing environment. 2 of its 6 cores are closed source, and those are the cores used to boot the machine. (3)
tor, it appears, has been owned for a long time. (1)
in the event of a network warfare event, i assume that every internet connected rPi will be susceptible to being consumed (then attacked in retaliation) as part of a botnet.
imo, simple software is great. yet Umbrel is also a centralized service provider (for now, i'm aware there are efforts underway to resolve that to some degree). how many Umbrel (or any software we rely on as bitconers) devs could be coerced, or fooled to incorporating seemingly innocuous changes to the stack that are chained together to result in calamity. (2)
tl;dr- bitcoin itself needs to be hardened. relying on the rest of the porous web technology stack to support bitcoin in the event of a sustained, coordinated, multi-party network war is a hazard.
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Tor isn't pwned, stop FUDding. Even the article itself says that the bug isn't all that bad and that they are working on fixing it. And besides, almost every time the government has deanonymized Tor users it was because of their shitty OPSEC. And we have I2P anyway, so we aren't fucked even if Tor gets broken.
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This. Side channel attacks on Tor to break unlinkability are certainly possible in theory. But in practice the Tor network is pretty strong.
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I don't know much of anything about Tor, but a cancelled presentation evidence does not make.
I did find this
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9343014
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You can already download Bitcoin like that: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-23.0/bitcoin-23.0.torrent
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"can" is nice but "does as the default option" would be better.
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"can" is nice but "does as the default option" would be better.
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Torrent