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If you don’t see it in the conf file then there’s a hard coded default that is automatically set by Bitcoin core. They bump that default value up on every new release. During reindexing of assumevalid blocks I see low cpu usage. I’m not sure what the bottleneck is there. Nothing in my system seems to be maxed out during that assumevalid part of re-indexing/IBD.

2026-01-14 02:55:40 UTC

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Reindex is basically an IBD minus the downloading of the blocks. Bitcoin Core just re-reads the existing blk files from disk instead of downloading them. Chain state, undo files and indexes are all recreated from scratch. Things might have been optimized in the newer versions but I remember reading that IBD could sometimes actually be quicker than a re-index.
I was testing v30 now and it does seem to use all the available processors more evenly than I thought but I need to see how it looks when it gets past blocks from 2020. That’s where all the ordinal transactions started happening. Wondering if those segwit transactions are processed in a single thread.

2026-01-14 01:37:36 UTC

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I think 6-8 hours is about as fast as you’re going to get. Not sure if you saw that GitHub link I posted but it looks like they’re working on more parallelization for post v30 and one comment said it gives a 30 to 50% boost in IBD

2026-01-14 01:32:03 UTC

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What cpu were/are you using?

2026-01-14 01:18:08 UTC

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Even after it goes past the assumevalid= (in Bitcoin.conf file) block?

2026-01-13 22:22:34 UTC

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https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/34121

2026-01-13 22:20:45 UTC

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Script validation is only partially parallelized. So you’ll hit the single thread cpu bottleneck before any other bottleneck on a modern computer with fast Internet connection. That’s what I’ve seen in my testing.

2026-01-13 03:29:45 UTC

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If you look at overall cpu usage it seems low... But verification is a single thread process. So one of the 8 or 12 logical CPU's will be maxed out. Buying the fastest single thread CPU would be upgrade that would make the most difference.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
GPU's are good for parallel processing not really good at single thread performance. That's why they're never used in Bitcoin nodes.

2025-12-19 11:43:51 UTC

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“The wheels of [in]justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine"

2025-12-17 04:41:35 UTC

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Congrats!

2025-12-16 15:05:55 UTC

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Or you can say they’re full of rice and gravy

2025-12-16 12:53:18 UTC

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I don’t think the utxo bloat is as big a deal as it’s made out to be. In my way of thinking… you’re admitting that Bitcoin has a bad design if you think it is a big deal.
During initial block download the loading and unloading of the utxo set from the hard drive is becoming trivial. Segwit and Taproot have now made verification of the chain more cpu intensive. If you think utxo bloat is a very big deal then I think you need to consider those two changes as being bad decisions for Bitcoin. They will save you storage and keep the full size of the blockchain data smaller in exchange for increased cpu usage. I think that is a bigger deal than storage space.
If you’re running a public node or a private node for a business and you need to be able to process/query LOTS of transactions then maybe storing the full utxo set in ram will be beneficial. If you’re running a personal node then I don’t think running the full utxo set in ram is necessary.
What you’re basically looking for is a shortcut, skipping proof of work for the node… i.e. checkpoints. There are several already included in Bitcoin Core.
Have you looked into this project? It’s doing a shortcut on the utxo set to bootstrap IBD.
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/utreexo/
Also the project led by Eric Voskuil, libbitcoin, is a full Bitcoin node server/client/wallet that is designed from the ground up. I think it might have the ability to keep the full utxo set in ram. Still a work in progress… they’ve been working on it over 5 years maybe closer to 10.
https://github.com/libbitcoin

2025-12-12 05:31:54 UTC

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Probably The Sphere in Las Vegas

2025-12-11 21:03:04 UTC

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I ask my wife that all the time.

2025-12-11 15:42:53 UTC

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Bruh!

2025-12-11 04:11:40 UTC

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Just watch the memory usage. It never really gets much over 1gb with the default setting. So there's no way it's keeping the whole utxo set in ram.
At a certain point the bottleneck is not ram swapping (I think going above 16gb dbcache has deminishing returns) but the single thread CPU performance. I don't think you're going to get a performance boost from pruning the utxo set if that's when possible. So even if your pi has 16gb of the ram the poor single thread CPU performance will be the main bottleneck.

2025-12-10 22:42:00 UTC

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Typical 4 year cycle people would say next top is 2029, meaning the next four year cycle starts 2026. So top could be in 2026 and then down for 3 years and then who knows from there.

2025-12-10 22:31:00 UTC

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Alternate possibility is the 4 year cycle continues but top happens at the very beginning of this next 4 year cycle.

2025-12-10 03:28:03 UTC

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Bitcoin core by default only keeps around 450mb off the utxo set in ram. So I'm confused about what you're trying to accomplish.

2025-12-06 18:13:03 UTC

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A close relative of mine gave birth to 8 kids all naturally and all very easily (no complications). She has basically no athletism and doesn't really pay attention to her health/diet. So, anecdotally, I see it being more genetics.

2025-12-03 17:30:51 UTC

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Scroll to bottom for an answer from one of the main Core devs…
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/96185/does-cryptocurrency-really-need-timestamps

2025-12-02 21:24:24 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/ugPWpkjy7I0AAAAC/german-germany.gif

2025-12-01 20:57:25 UTC

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Pretty sure he was talking about this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

2025-11-25 22:48:17 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/2DfGGp0tQx0AAAAC/arnold-schwarzenegger-getting-ready.gif

2025-11-24 18:47:19 UTC

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His grandfather:
https://www.fia.org/hall-fame/articles/william-j-mallers-sr

2025-11-24 01:43:30 UTC

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The two types of people are those who prewash/rinse and don’t overload the dishwasher and those who don’t

2025-11-24 01:16:57 UTC

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I already run OPNsense. Is there a way guide to replicate this on OPNsense

2025-11-23 02:00:59 UTC

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Flat part of the s curve. Another 5 to 7 years before the ramp up

2025-11-22 04:38:29 UTC

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Look at how currently live in major cities compared to how people in poor countries live?

2025-11-22 03:20:12 UTC

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#TooSoon

2025-11-22 00:18:55 UTC

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Usually it’s never gonna taste as good as the first time unfortunately.

2025-11-21 21:13:17 UTC

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Very early on Saylor said he had his own personal large Bitcoin stash. I haven’t listened to him in a couple years so not sure if he mentions it anymore. I always that he might be selling his personal stash to his company.

2025-11-21 04:57:55 UTC

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Proof of Delivery. It was a pleasure doing business with you.
https://blossom.primal.net/31e2be8dd363a574605b97505955d5ae91922264863d84cab9ed52b426fd2fd2.jpg

2025-11-19 03:25:41 UTC

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Alan Watts references him in his talks...
https://www.organism.earth/library/search?s=Krishnamurti&author=10

2025-11-15 20:06:30 UTC

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Costa Rica is my guess

2025-11-14 16:49:21 UTC

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Sounds like a winner

2025-11-14 00:52:51 UTC

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I guess completely sovereign might be too strong as you still need to be able to protect your access to energy and your buildings,miners, etc.

2025-11-14 00:43:30 UTC

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They're not dumb. So maybe ask yourself... What amI missing in my thinking? Why would they mine instead of just buying?
In my thinking... If you can mine your own transactions into the Bitcoin blockchain you're completely sovereign.

2025-11-11 14:38:21 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/f059eda37413ae0a97be298ed98ced6ed1d2be23523b3cd7ec2db57f595a9c94.jpg

2025-11-11 08:02:06 UTC

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That’s like the least Czechoslovakian name ever

2025-11-10 20:06:53 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/6a6c025a19664fa776c50653c277eb3c262fb7e10c2f3671c62b36ad158fda4a.jpg

2025-11-10 13:19:13 UTC

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Sir that’s not being very agreeable

2025-11-08 02:39:58 UTC

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I prefer Akira’s Alan Watts stuff… McKenna’s voice is so nasally. Can’t listen to him for too long 😁

2025-10-31 23:38:13 UTC

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#MoscowMuleTime

2025-10-31 16:48:37 UTC

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Have you stopped using SimpleX? I don't see a link in your bio.. I'm using primal

2025-10-27 02:27:17 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/81718279ed3c86813a6f85016c8db0ebc513014e3e22ff3a4f7f58f57edf07ae.jpg

2025-10-26 17:00:54 UTC

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As the wake of the ship fades out, so does the past. You can look back there to explain things, but the explanation disappears. You never find it there. Things are not explained by the past, they’re explained by what happens now. That creates the past and it begins here.
That’s the birth of responsibility.
~Alan Watts

2025-10-25 01:54:33 UTC

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How about this… “discrete blocks of reality” seems like non-starter to me. There being a Planck time, the smallest amount of time measurable, as opposed to continuous time where there no smallest unit of time… Planck time, I would think would make superposition/quantum more possible and not less. Because in those gaps of nothing, anything can happen so anything is possible in the next time tick. Continuous time wouldn’t allow for that.

2025-10-24 21:14:45 UTC

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Segwit is Dashjr’s baby. So he would be part of the long con too then.

2025-10-24 15:02:03 UTC

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Reading that made me think of this passage from Watts….
But now, a perfectly logical person would therefore say that the notion of the Self—the Ātman, as the fundamental reality in which everything else exists—is meaningless. And, of course, from a logical point of view it is.
But at the same time, just because something cannot be put into a logical category does not indicate that it isn’t real. The Self, you see, bears somewhat the same relationship to the world as the diaphragm of the speaker in this radio bears to the music you’ve just been hearing. None of the music was about the diaphragm and nobody said anything about there being a diaphragm. The diaphragm, as such, didn’t come into the picture, and yet it was everything in the picture. All those different noises were vibrations of this thin film of metal. So, also, with your eardrum. So, also, with the apparatus of your eyes.
So one might ask, then—just as you say, “Well, what is it on? What is the music on? Is it on tape, is it on a speaker, is it on a drum?” Whatever the variations may be, we can ask the question, “What are you all on? What is all this on?” And the Hindus answer, “It’s on the Self”

2025-10-22 23:18:20 UTC

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Did you prompt for a cross between Cindy Crawford and Jessica Alba?

2025-10-22 02:26:25 UTC

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I’ll go with the Taoist idea that they arise mutually. Sometimes the belief is before the emotion.. sometimes the emotion is before the belief.

2025-10-21 23:11:01 UTC

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I think this it trying to be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN

2025-10-20 02:48:25 UTC

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Gonna end up being about 5 days like my spinny disk took

2025-10-19 22:49:37 UTC

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Reminds of this
https://blossom.primal.net/8e6b5c6605429fc86ee687871274e5d103e6e7ce864dd50bdf547cc5939113ad.jpg

2025-10-19 02:51:09 UTC

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I don't remember the reasoning... But you don't want the mining rigs to be useful for anything but mining Bitcoin. It's supposed to be better for Bitcoin that way

2025-10-19 01:37:50 UTC

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It's the home of Comcast so they better

2025-10-16 22:29:51 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/Dmtnnn1eWQkAAAAC/come-on.gif

2025-10-16 03:22:56 UTC

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I wanted to see if splitting up the Bitcoin data files over separate disks would help decrease the ibd (chain state, data blocks, indexes and rev blocks all on their own ssd’s). It didn’t. Single thread cpu performance and having 32gb dbcache seem to be the most impactful on ibd. I don’t mind setting the assume valid to be around a block hash that’s 6 blocks old at the start of the ibd either.

2025-10-16 03:16:44 UTC

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If it’s a spinny disk then it took my test node 5 days to sync (txindex also on). Same node with nvme swapped in place of spinning disk took 11 hours.

2025-10-16 02:40:20 UTC

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IBD is usually not network bound. Either cpu or disk will be the bottleneck.

2025-10-15 23:39:09 UTC

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Alan Watts chillstep meme… nice

2025-10-15 20:07:15 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/9ztJHmL8RxMAAAAC/big-brain.gif

2025-10-15 12:44:34 UTC

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Looks ok on Primal…
https://blossom.primal.net/434d6dc41769fb67b0aeb746777d2f4a96eb40429e68ebe4cd1a95e98e16d8ff.jpg

2025-10-14 23:35:17 UTC

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Not really

2025-10-13 02:26:45 UTC

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💪

2025-10-10 00:44:46 UTC

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She may have actually been hit by the car that got slammed into if she had been walking on the sidewalk.

2025-10-08 00:59:02 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/Q2SfuLGBUSoAAAAC/delicious-tasty.gif

2025-10-05 04:13:33 UTC

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The block data is xor’ed (obfuscated) so it would most likely not trip malware detection/antivirus.

2025-10-05 01:35:53 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/q3lRMaVVWAcAAAAC/goodbye-catch-you-on-the-flip-side.gif

2025-10-04 23:17:59 UTC

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Grandfather Fartface has a nice ring to it

2025-10-04 20:37:38 UTC

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And deep prayer is a form of meditation.

2025-10-04 13:28:24 UTC

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Did the Greeks use Iesous for Yeshua in their writings?

2025-10-03 15:51:13 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/056422675cc01d2f8b430ec8d3b7ad88a76f99a80b50f8318c0e0d1194656e5e.jpg

2025-10-01 04:03:03 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/tK5fR0B-l5kAAAAC/its-happening.gif

2025-10-01 02:10:23 UTC

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"the thinker of the thoughts is just another thought" ~ Alan Watts

2025-10-01 02:06:17 UTC

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Basically the guy he's interviewing says the dry fast activates your body to create all 220 types of stem cells. So if you don't believe that can be true then you'll find this to be BS. I haven't done any further research but I'd like to try a 7 day dry fast anyways just as a mental will power type exercise

2025-10-01 01:48:20 UTC

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Always looking for cognitive biases is sorta it's own cognitive bias.

2025-10-01 01:31:15 UTC

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Mr Tone Vays put out this video about dry fasting recently...
https://www.youtube.com/live/oOS-prA-1bc

2025-09-28 02:30:19 UTC

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Next year focus on getting users to run their own Primal servers.

2025-09-26 23:42:23 UTC

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I was wondering when someone would bring up the XOR’ing of the blocks but I that’s still just basic decoding… just like decoding a jpeg from Bitcoin blocks that aren’t XOR’ed. The xor key is hardcoded unless you specify your own in the conf file. So it’s not a secret.

2025-09-26 20:43:02 UTC

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Cached basically means temporary... kinda the opposite of the blockchain which is permanent (exception for re-orgs)

2025-09-26 20:28:13 UTC

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I can see it both ways... So I guess it's a matter of defending your position in the Supreme Court I guess

2025-09-26 20:25:47 UTC

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Ok... The mempool is definitely a cache but the full blockchain could still be up for interpretation?

2025-09-26 17:46:31 UTC

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Too bad YouTube keeps deleting more and more of these videos for copyright infringement. I'm going to eventually have to post what I've downloaded to Nostr.

2025-09-26 17:41:49 UTC

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Or these....
#nevent1q…7cuv

2025-09-22 02:35:17 UTC

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Seconded