Interesting, will take a look. Regarding your questions:
- Historically, reputation and web-of-trust models have been tried with mixed results (see PGP/GPG history)
- Proof of work for human validation can probably be gamed, useful as a potential workaround for rate limiting/DDOS mitigation though (check how Tor uses it)
- I'd be very skeptical providing my full KYC details to a new service, perhaps a host verification a-la Let's Encrypt could be useful as a Layer 1 "KYC" tier?
As a quick solution before implementing the more sophisticated suggestions in this thread, you can try getting a small cheap VPS from somewhere outside and trafficking all your traffic through it via sshuttle[1]. For example, Vultr (not an endorsement) has some with ~$3/month that should be sufficient for your case.
I'm now wondering how many decades are still being lost because of similar bugs in other OSes that don't get as much scrutiny, like OpenBSD or even FreeBSD.
FreeBSD is doing a great job catching up to Linux, yes, (not in the ZFS case though where they were the pioneers) but once you start catching up you have to, well, continue catching up in perpetuity.
Yes please. ECC support by now should come by default, both in CPU support and in motherboards, RAM chips etc.
At least AMD Ryzen supports it, but the fact that one has to spend a lot of time to research through products, specs, forums and internet chats to figure out a good CPU, m/b & RAM combination that works is cumbersome, to say the least.
> As far as I can tell, hundreds of millions in drugs and contraband are regularly transacted using Bitcoin. Billions in global capital controls and taxes are evaded every day with Bitcoin. The fraction of black market participants who are revealed on the basis of "chain analysis" is still a rounding error.
Some bold statements there. Do you have any evidence to provide?
Maybe, if you completely disregard everything else that Bitcoin puts on the table, and how much energy is required to sustain the infrastructure it will make obsolete.
There's also CMU Typewriter text if you want another serif monospaced font. Looks wonderful in high dpi I believe. I've hacked mine to put slashed zero.
I found that one of the most important insights when studying how computers work on a fundamental level, is that deep down data and code don't make much difference. This realization can open the gates of looking at higher programming language concepts in a new light; even if one never delves into bare metal engineering.