Soon going back to the dry stone walling construction site.

Steady progress on a kernel C header over the past week. Still a couple of warts, but I feel it is taking shape now. https://github.com/TheCharlatan/bitcoin/blob/704a93637ab74b23f69c4d8e19d0aeb130312f74/src/kernel/bitcoinkernel.h

"We are 138" Banger.

Who needs chatgpt when they have valgrind?

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Very nice blog post by Zeta about proof of work vs proof of stake.

Common Prefix — The Battle of Blockchains: PoW vs PoS Unveiled

A perspective on the long-standing battle between proof-of-work and proof-of-stake blockchains.

Some good progress happening again on the bitcoin kernel. Managed to kill the last few annoying gloabls and can finally work on a first C API pull request.

"My name is Henry, and you are here with me now."

After a full year working with c++ again I feel like it really doesn't offer anything that I would miss were I be writing Rust instead. On the contrary, on multiple occasions an otherwise sane refactor was criticized for opening the door towards dangerously extending the lifetime of a variable - a problem that would have been trivial to handle in Rust. Also the techniques suggested for handling these situatons in c++ were mitigations at best.

I've so far never had a bad day spent using valgrind.

Trust me, the Ballmer Peak is real.

Your action: Bigoted and mutinous. My action: Mutually beneficial and logical.

Why is my riscv devboard running more stable than my Ryzen desktop?

Tjoppies en slaai 🤤

Bundesverfassung, Art. 13 1. Jede Person hat Anspruch auf Achtung ihres Privat- und Familienlebens, ihrer Wohnung sowie ihres Brief-, Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs. 2. Jede Person hat Anspruch auf Schutz vor Missbrauch ihrer persönkichen Daten The Constitution, Bill of Rights, Article 14 Everyone has the right to privacy, which includes the rights to have - a) their person or home searched; b) their property searched: c) their possesions seized; or d) the privacy of their communications infringed.

Gotta say, using 4 programming languages at the same time to work on the bitcoin kernel is kind of fun.