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It's pretty good! I'm about halfway through now.
Another good one is the movie Dope (2015).
And I'm sure we can squirrel up some more.
It doesn't have to go through 18 years of transactions. It could take a widely accepted checkpoint and just verify from there. With eg utreexo, it's easy and cheap. My half baked node spec (just a spec mind you) does this.
Yes, you're a luddite @Scoresby
What you really want is a specification, which is at least read and understood (if not completely written) by a human. And it should be possible to verify that the machine written node follows this specification.
Bitcoin has struggled with the specification thing but there are green shoots everywhere these days. I was working on one myself.
Very cool! I wonder if the defcon tamper evident village will take a run at defeating it.
https://infosecmap.com/event/tamper-evident-village-def-con-33/
Blockstream used to be the best of bitcoin. and the core of bitcoin core.
Now blockstream is just another shitcoin.
Get it new.
Stross is a brilliany writer and just cause he's wrong about bitcoin doesn't mean he isn't entertaining as hell.
nah I don't think he was ever libertarian.
Stross was always about the post scarcity scenario. Bitcoin is digital scarcity embodied.
It's everywhere in his writing, blogs. AMAs.
he's a scottish socialist / cornucopian / abundance mindset kind of guy. like iain banks.
course he hates bitcoin.
love his work though!