It's finally done. Parmanode now has new strap-on software... ParmaRAID. You can combine multiple external hard disks into a bigger logical single disk (RAID0). Another option is to have two drives automatically mirror each other for redundancy and safety (RAID1). You don't understand... If you don't have a one terabyte hard drive you can collect all your smaller ones into a RAID and use that to run a node with Parmanode. Spread the news. FUCK YEAH.

It's ridiculous that when you download an image file to run a node, eg raspiblitz....img.gz, a Mac will automatically unzip the download and throw the original in the trash. You are then left with raspiblitz...img and when you hash it you'll get the wrong hash. Because you're hashing the extracted (wrong) file. You have to take the original out of the trash and has that.

The magic of digital signatures and how it works, high level (necessary to understand the #Bitcoin Whitepaper)... Without digital signatures it's not possible to prove your own something digital without a trusted central authority. What you own is a secret number, a number that is large and not guessable and only you know it. Only you knowing it IS the ownership. This number is the private key, or convertible into the private key format. From the private key a public key is made. It is determined by the private key and is a reproducible calculation. The public key has the name suggests is revealed publicly, and is used in a way to prove that you know the number that produced the public key, WITHOUT REVEALING THE PRIVATE KEY. That is the essence of the invention of public-private key cryptography, and his magical. You are proving you know a number without revealing the number. This is necessary because if you reveal it you no longer own it because you are not the only one that knows it. I won't actually going to all the math today, but broadly this is how it works... Any data is selected to begin with, and all digital data is essentially a number. This data is called the message. The message is manipulated mathematically with the private key, another number. That number in a digital SIGNATURE. The public can then take three pieces of information and EASILY and cheaply confirm validity or invalidity (true/false)... 1. Message 2. Public key 3. Signature If the result of combining these three numbers is valid, then it can be concluded that the private key that produced this particular public key is known by whoever produced the signature. This is applied in Bitcoin in a genius way where the message is the transaction and includes the public key inside the message, and who is being paid (via public-key/address). All of that is in the message. If you begin to understand this you can then make sense of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Note that it is not the address that is used for the cryptography... The address is like an abbreviation of the public key. Using an address instead of a public key in the message saves data. When a transaction is signed ie when someone wants to prove they own the private key to an address, they will reveal the public key that creates the address. The public can then confirm that that public key creates the address that is being spent from.

Don't let your emotions get in the way of accepting the truth

Even if you're ot a developer, learn to use git on your computer, and sync your documents with GitHub. Ask ChatGPT to explain it to you like your IQ was 80.

G'day, not everyone needs to be their own bank, nor someone else's bank, nor dentist. #Bitcoin isn't designed to maximise barter. Fiat has besmirched retail banking with malincentives. Bitcoin fixed retail banking, it's not going to end it. Bitcoin ends CENTRAL BANKING.

Bitcoin is the only thing that is too expensive and too cheap at the same time.

New hack to find the phone number to businesses that don't want you to call them...

Outrageous

Parman's wife: "Should we subscribe to this food mag?" Parman: "No. Use internet." Wife: "But there's something special about a book." Parman: "The internet is way better - there's a bunch of autistic people nerding out on food." Successfully saved #ƨats

The "ohfuckening" is when Bitcoin is suddenly in such huge demand, it's not available on exchanges, and no one knows what price it is because there isn't one. Oh fuck, indeed, slave.

There is no science/research/evidence without the existence of free speech. All the statistics become unreliable.

Bitcoin trading tips #23 ... The less obvious the chart pattern, the less likely it's a genuine formed chart pattern, so the result will be random The more obvious the chart pattern, the more likely that everyone can see it, so the result will be random EVERYONE CAN SEE THE TRIANGLE, DICKHEAD

If you make your own pastirma, you can have it with whisky at 2:30 in the morning any day you want. Recipe...

When you see a dip, what do you do with it?

Tax is theft, and the proceeds are partly used to make you and your neighbour believe it is necessary. Inflation theft in a nutshell: 1. Supply of money doubles for free, government goes on spending spree to buy votes and pay for tax enforcement. 2. Your assets double in price, no problem? Think again, you now owe capital gains tax on it; it's being taken from you. 3. Wake up.

RAID data storage is cool... In one type, you can join data drives together and create a big drive summing the capacity of each. In another setup, you can have two disks that behave as one, with data mirrored across the two, giving your data some protection with redundancy. Coming soon to Parmanode, just adding some final touches and doing testing. How is this related to Bitcoin? Well if you had a few small drives you could RAID them together and use it as your data storage for the timechain.

Today we celebrated the halving, I mean, our anniversary, with dinner at our favourite Japanese restaurant. We included our daughter - after all, it's kind of like a birthday for our family. My own parents always expected my brother and I to make a "big deal" of THEIR anniversary - God forbid we'd forget to call to congratulate. But now I truly understand; it's not just about them and their relationship, as my brother and I thought... It's the anniversary of when the family formed, which the kids are obviously a part of. I get it now. I don't know why it only hit me this year.

Bagel recipe, as promised, bitches

Bagels – Bitcoin Guides

Soon, all Bitcoiners are going to get really good at doing... 3.125 ÷ 2 = 1.5625 It's just math.