Cash on the internet.

Got the coins/block validation logic split PR'ed. Made some progress on a flat file header store. Maybe there is hope for stateless, or even sans-io block validation through the kernel library after all :)

Thank you msvc for consistently making c++ coding more miserable.

Review progress on the kernel API has stalled over the past month. Not sure what to do about that. Maybe there are just not enough people that care?

Cash on the internet.

Finally read his autobiography, a long read indeed. I was familiar with most of the events in the book, but all the politicking, descriptions of his leadership, and moral dilemmas he found himself in were fascinating. What took me aback was how true he stayed to his positions throughout his life. I don't think this was because the book tried to paint a coherent picture of his inner monologues over 50 years. Such a contrast is clear when he describes his impressions of society and his homes compared to how he remembers them. His vision always remained clearly communicated, even during the negotiations in the transition years. The book is accessible to any South African (and beyond) reader. He really was capable of communicating in a way that was not exclusionary of entire groups of peoples. The key thing for me during all his negotiations and organising was how he tried to include as many people as possible. He fought movements within the early ANC trying to make it a Xhosa only, or South African only, or black only organization. This was the true guiding thread in the book for me, a theme that carried over into prison quarrels, later covert negotiations, and the most dangerous portion of government talks in 1993.

It's not austerity, it's targeted government slashing.

Three of a perfect pair

> rm .git/index.lock Something must have gone really wrong.

So I did a deep dive into assumeutxo the past two weeks and... well... the code is in a very rough state. I feel like if we really want to improve it, it is going to take a bunch of long, arduous refactors. Maybe it is just not worth it, and there are more important things to focus on, like splitting up cs_main.

Ça ira!

System is kernel panicking again, so I updated the bios again, but to no avail. Pretty puzzled at what might be wrong. Logs indicate another microcode problem, but also crashes as soon as it starts the display server.

Nissan 1400

Delving Bitcoin

Disclosure: LND Excessive Failback Exploit

The following disclosure is copied verbatim from a blog post on morehouse.github.io, reproduced here to facilitate discussion. LND 0.17.5 and belo...

I wonder if the 1 year disclosure cycles are the right approach here. Shouldn't updating lightning nodes be a fast thing, done routinely?

It is always a good idea to tell other people what to feel.

Jamaica for me was somewhere between Far Cry 3 and the Eastern Cape (complete with modern day self-proclaimed impis). What a wild place!

Sure hope that confiscating the one toothpaste I had along made the world a safer place.

Dankie Kitsie!

My last trip to South Africa has instilled back a deep longing to go back again. The Karoo and its people are just very special, something that touches me to my bones.

The new jinjer album is excellent