On 04/03/2017 01:48 PM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> The RPM spec files are coming. The issue right now is simply
> space.
>
> I have a 128 GB SSD that was *mostly* empty but not empty enough,
> it got to 95% full before I killed the syncing.

See mins here:

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-server/wiki/Hardware

> I order a 256 GB Intel SSD from Amazon but even though the invoice
> says SATA III they sent me a M.2 and I didn't return it because
> what they sent me is actually better than what I ordered. I asked
> them if I could keep it and they said sure.
>
> So anyway I have to find a low-profile pci-e card for M.2 and I
> think that's better anyway because I can get one that supports two
> and buy a larger one in future if/when needed. I want to research
> them first, make sure I get one that works well with stock CentOS
> kernel etc.
>
> So that's the delay in the RPM spec files. Part of it.

No worries, thanks for the effort and the update.

> The other part is I have been brainstorming for a potential
> alt-coin. I am not happy with where Bitcoin is going. To me the
> refusal for increasing blockchain smells like artificial scarcity
> of a resource and creating artificial scarcity of a resource is
> something I see as a mechanism those with wealth use to leech more
> money from those without, and I suspect that is the goal, with the
> additional leeching to take place on the second-level off-chain
> networks that Blockstream has filed numerous software patents for.
>
> But on the other hand I am not really satisfied with BU either,
> for several reasons I won't detail, though I am running the BU
> client currently.
>
> I've been brainstorming an alternative coin, with protocol level
> facilities for scheduled hard-forks including a mechanism for
> smoothly dealing with contentious hard forks should they become an
> issue.
>
> I'm still brain-storming, but if I go forward I would probably want
> to initially fork libbitcoin to use as the library a reference
> client is built against.

Cool, keep us posted.

> A PDF (built from LaTeX which is what I use for all my
> word-processing needs) describing it is at
> https://leprecoin.org/LepreCoin-20170403.pdf
>
> It's not bitcoin but any feedback would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Michael A. Peters (aka Alice Wonder)