<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: lightweb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lightweb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:49:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lightweb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A high-throughput multicast Bitcoin transaction distribution system, with a roadmap towards billions of transactions per second.<p>Features:<p>- Control channel for block header announcements, operational mechanisms, and network topology automation<p>- Separate channels for subtree, subtree grouping, and transaction load<p>- Transaction load sharding by deterministic multicast group membership based on TXID<p>- Transaction specialization filtering and retransmission both unicast and multicast, to connect edge networks only interested in a portion of the transaction load for whatever reason<p>- NACK-based retransmission of missed packets via hash chain gap sequence tracking (per sender, per shard) with automated caching endpoint beacon discovery and tiered network distribution<p>- BGP-AnyCast based transaction ingress<p>Basically all the topology pieces to scale the actual small-world network for Bitcoin miners or transaction processors; dense at the core, with layered and sharded group distribution towards users at the edges. Right now just site or org-scope multicast in planned, but provisions are being made to extend via MP-BGP eventually.<p>For BSV Blockchain but could work for the other Bitcoin variants too, if they ever wanted to scale.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 20:05:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087365</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LLMs still leave something to be desired for DevOps related work; infrastructure code. There is still not really enough context available when crossing the division between the hardware, OS, and software.<p>For Terraform, specifically, Claude 4 can get thrown into infinite recursive loops trying to solve certain issues within the bounds of the language. Claude still tries to add completely invalid procedures into things like templates.<p>It does seem to work a bit better for standard application programming tasks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:36:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798526</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Craig is still Satoshi, no matter what a court has (temporarily) ordered him to state. Craig has followed the legal process 100% for years at this point, paid every (massive) court-ordered payment. The majority of cases feature him as defendant because Bitcoin ultimately threatens the establishment and must be controlled at any cost. This is the true source of the negative sentiment and constant attacks.<p>He just today waived privilege on X and began outlining accusations against his previous legal representation for not following his explicit instructions, and instead followed orders from a man who has been recently convicted in a UK court, is facing bankruptcy in that country, and has fled as a fugitive from justice. The rabbit hole goes deep.<p>Craig and the BSV Association have worked together with AWS and Aerospike to conclusively prove the Bitcoin protocol is capable of scaling to at least 120GB sized blocks, at over 1 million P2PKH transactions per second. The BTC core team said this was impossible, yet BSVA has provided data from a public cloud provider, with geographically distributed nodes to prove it is. What's more, it's been stated that it does so at an initial cost that is drastically less than most anticipated. These costs are highly likely to be lowered through optimization.<p>The majority of opinions expressed in this thread will most certainly be abandoned in time when the full body of work can no longer be ignored. One only needs to perform a simple patent search to discover the depth of research and innovation established on blockchain, and then realize that the sheer number of applications and grants are not the work of someone attempting to pull a con. It is true innovation, the same way Bitcoin was and is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:23:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41543508</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41543508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41543508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Will this processor suffer from the same vulnerabilities as was just discovered on the previous M1-3?</p>
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<p>BTC is 7 TPS because MasterCard et al neutered it.<p>Bitcoin is professionalizing. It's built for everything in the world to be timestamped with super low transaction fees.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:07:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39483217</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39483217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39483217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is more Bitcoin than BTC at this point. It follows the whitepaper completely.<p>3 Petabytes of data after 6 months. This is all done on AWS currently.</p>
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<p>Bitcoin BTC tops out at 7 TPS.<p>Visa tops out at around 50,000 TPS.<p>This is just an initial target test. Bitcoin scales unbounded.<p>10M TPS next target.<p>This is also just layer 1. It's designed for additional layers expressed through transaction script (with all op_codes enabled, which unlocks a complete Forth environment).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:56:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39483073</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39483073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39483073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A new distributed version of Bitcoin is now processing 1 million transactions per second. It's doing this on a test network setup between the USA, Europe, and Asia. People said it could not be done. They were wrong. Proof of Work.<p>EDIT: I can see by the comments so far that nobody gets it. Well, you will get it in time. It's really happening, and yes, this is Bitcoin adherent to the original whitepaper, and in line with the original code base before it was hamstrung with unwise revisions and changes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:11:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482426</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bitcoin wallets are collections of private keys and corresponding public keys. They may or may not also be linked together hierarchically using ECDSA math, and possibly encrypted as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:38:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39447288</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39447288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39447288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "FinCEN proposes new rule for residential real estate held in trusts or LLCs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SWATing. Security concerns for certain people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:46:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315296</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "AWS charge for using IPv4 expected to bring $1B/year and speed up IPv6 adoption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check this out. IPV6 integrated with Bitcoin generated addressing. Every packet gets a unique address. Security implications are profound.<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.15842.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.15842.pdf</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:04:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234371</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Ask HN: How are quantum computing companies making money?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a case of grift by continual fundraising on (mostly) false cybersecurity fears. There are no really useful quantum computers and there won't be because it's mostly a scam. Feel free to downvote me but if you search hard enough, past the marketing hype and billions continually poured into research you come to this truth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:19:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544188</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544188</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. I eat whole foods, mostly organic, no artificial anything if I can help it. I can't eat out much anymore because of not knowing what is in the food.<p>I switched to maple syrup or honey for all my sweetener needs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:32:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37861056</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37861056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37861056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. I stopped eating refined sugar and drinking any alcohol and my 90% hearing loss in one ear + tinnitus has gone away in about 3-4 months. I was suffering with it for years.<p>I also had all mercury fillings removed by a specialist with the correct equipment and procedures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:37:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857796</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Is IPv6 faster than IPv4?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0yESuI96c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0yESuI96c</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:42:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756503</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Is IPv6 faster than IPv4?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Originally, Bitcoin had no limits in place including the block size. That was added later.<p>The original protocol scales to trillions of transactions per second. The secret is the Merkle tree and the block header. The block headers only take up megabytes and are easy to keep track of and distribute.<p>Simplified Payment Verification was outlined in the whitepaper.<p>The protocol is meant to be used between peers, not between users and nodes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:52:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752883</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Is IPv6 faster than IPv4?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Think on solving BGP vulnerabilities through micropayments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:49:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752847</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Is IPv6 faster than IPv4?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Think a new IP address for every packet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:32:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752620</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Is IPv6 faster than IPv4?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IPV6 becomes supercharged when you layer it with the original Bitcoin protocol. It integrates Cryptographic Generated Addresses in IPV6 which is an extension that has been around for awhile but never implemented.<p>Here is the founder and chair of the IPV6 forum giving a speech about it just a couple of weeks ago: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE3Vsbo1NPs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE3Vsbo1NPs</a><p>Really cool engineering things are being worked on in the background.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:32:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752616</link><dc:creator>lightweb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lightweb in "Autism affects the microbiome, not the other way around"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a lot of research that contradicts these notions, and also practical advice on how to remedy through food choices, if one is inclined to look into it. As with anything, it's a controversial subject, probably due to the severity of autism and the real difficulties of changing one's diet radically.<p><a href="http://www.doctor-natasha.com/gaps-book.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.doctor-natasha.com/gaps-book.php</a><p><a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325046" rel="nofollow">https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325046</a><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/978904.Gut_and_Psychology_Syndrome" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/978904.Gut_and_Psycho...</a></p>
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