>On this particular point, I go way back further than you.
Definitely know who you are (LMDB programmer &c), and your contributions to world & crypto tech – thanks (few people can claim, like yourself, that their code exists on BILLIONS of machine). I've ALSO been in cryptospace longer than Monero's existance... you are hands down a better programmer than myself (I'm a bluecollar electrician), with much more name recognition.
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BUT: You aren't listening to my "layperson user behavior report" about a common and known behavior of the default getmonero.org node. I would love to help you&team better stabilize/configure the default client behavior/options...
Please don't let hubris stand in our way of spreading the gospel of crypto. If you want me to sign some custome statement with a BTC hash (dating back to the earlytimes) just send me a postcard (I no longer use email). But you shouldn't need that to listen.
>just killing the process will never corrupt the blockchain DB
I would love to show you how easy this is to reproduce, even on fresh installs of Ubuntu and/or MacOS on otherwise-stable hardware (never tried Windows... easier?).
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Loved your 2019 talk on "is XMR still ASIC-proof" – is it still, in 2026, in your opinion? Your line about ~"our goal is to make a hash algorythm so dynamic that if you designed an ASIC processor for it... it'd essentially just be a CPU"~ – classic quoteable.
Definitely know who you are (LMDB programmer &c), and your contributions to world & crypto tech – thanks (few people can claim, like yourself, that their code exists on BILLIONS of machine). I've ALSO been in cryptospace longer than Monero's existance... you are hands down a better programmer than myself (I'm a bluecollar electrician), with much more name recognition.
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BUT: You aren't listening to my "layperson user behavior report" about a common and known behavior of the default getmonero.org node. I would love to help you&team better stabilize/configure the default client behavior/options...
Please don't let hubris stand in our way of spreading the gospel of crypto. If you want me to sign some custome statement with a BTC hash (dating back to the earlytimes) just send me a postcard (I no longer use email). But you shouldn't need that to listen.
>just killing the process will never corrupt the blockchain DB
I would love to show you how easy this is to reproduce, even on fresh installs of Ubuntu and/or MacOS on otherwise-stable hardware (never tried Windows... easier?).
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Loved your 2019 talk on "is XMR still ASIC-proof" – is it still, in 2026, in your opinion? Your line about ~"our goal is to make a hash algorythm so dynamic that if you designed an ASIC processor for it... it'd essentially just be a CPU"~ – classic quoteable.