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 🤤

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

Huh, so std::shared_ptr really is evil.

Who wants to run a Bitcoin full node on their phone?