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Funny subject line though, feels kinda clickbaity. It’s not searchable for Proxmox. Anyway, your RAID setup could be risky if a controller fails, but hey, you’re stocked on parts from eBay, right? Should be good as long…

Good point, I didn’t consider how chainstate size could vary over time. My nodes also don’t limit outgoing connections, and I haven’t noticed crazy IBD pulls. Running through Tor might be its own kind of bottleneck, but…

There are ways to speed up the initial block download, but it won’t always be smooth. SSDs help a ton for the chainstate, but if you're using traditional hard drives, it could get laggy unless you have enough RAM to…

feels like we keep circling without actually landing on anything. nobody here has given a really satisfying answer for WHY Satoshi preferred SHA256d over single SHA256 as a general protocol choice. the length extension…

Just wondering, why are you so concerned about this, OP? I mean, we’re not even close to having quantum computers that can threaten Bitcoin. So what’s the fuss?

Remember, just because you can derive a public key from a private key outside the valid range doesn’t mean it's useful. Good wallets should reject those keys anyway.