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Thanks to Rdbase for doing this!!

I am a huge fan of F1 and will be watching every Practice, Quali and Race for sure!

What are everyone's thoughts so far about the 3 day test?

So far for me the questions are:

* Has Newey pulled a rabbit out of his hat? Red Bull and looking solid
* Is the McLaren pace real? fingers crossed for big DAN!
* Is Mercedes "Saandbagging"?
* Tsunoda super quick in the last session, is he the real deal?
* Ferrari seem off the picture AGAIN...

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^  And word going around that Ferrari is a toxic environment to work in.  They pressured poor Vettel into baldness then he called it quits and took a pay cut to be with Aston Martin.  I think his new team will be good for him tho.  Let’s see those hair follicles revive!  

@rdbase wait did you say races started yesterday? I see one week from my news but maybe I don't understand how things work.
Still looking for a good AlphaTauri outright or # of podium finish type bet!
He needs to drive a Tesla for that to happen, look what it did to Elon! Or maybe it's a ploy to auction off each follicle as an NFT...

^  And word going around that Ferrari is a toxic environment to work in.  They pressured poor Vettel into baldness then he called it quits and took a pay cut to be with Aston Martin.  I think his new team will be good for him tho.  Let’s see those hair follicles revive!  

^  And word going around that Ferrari is a toxic environment to work in.  They pressured poor Vettel into baldness then he called it quits and took a pay cut to be with Aston Martin.  I think his new team will be good for him tho.  Let’s see those hair follicles revive!  

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It is hard for a Ferrari fanatic to read these words, as they resound as an answer and a question at the same time in the reality of the context that is lived.

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That would pretty much mean a total break of SHA-256.  The purpose of a cryptographically secure hash is to make the outputs computationally pseudorandom with respect to the inputs.  You imply some clever way to use a correlation between the inputs and outputs for other types of calculations.  Even MD5 (or even MD2) isn’t that broken.

Furthermore, a Bitcoin mining ASIC can’t even do SHA-256.  It does a particular part of a double-SHA256 calculation, on a very specifically structured piece of data which cannot have any other structure.  Any repurposing of an ASIC must be based on that exact format.

Per the bitcoin.SE quote in my prior post:


The word “midstate” means that the CPU in the machine running the ASIC does the first part of the SHA256 calculation.  Where are the first 28 bytes of the Merkle root?  Already hashed into the midstate, together with the block’s version number and the hash of the previous block.

Substantially all that the ASIC does is to complete the hash that was already started, hash the hash (for double SHA256 as specified by Satoshi and required by consensus), compare the result to the target, and, if it failed, increment the 4-byte nonce so that it can try again.

That is the innermost loop of an optimal implementation of the Bitcoin mining algorithm—the part that must be run most often.  It needs a CPU to feed it newly calculated parameters from grinding extraNonce in the coinbase tx, thus changing the Merkle root (also, potentially increasing the timestamp).  Fortunately, a CPU can keep up with this.  The CPU only needs to feed the ASIC new data after every 4,294,967,296 failed hashes; thus, the ASIC is doing almost all of the computational work, by many orders of magnitude.

Even a slow ASIC chip nowadays can run through the whole nonce space a number of times per second (and a pro-grade ASIC miner unit contains a bunch of these chips).  For comparison, each core of my very slow, Satoshi-era CPU would take almost an hour and a half to run through the whole nonce space.  My CPU could keep up with feeding an ASIC chip—easily so.

It is all done this way for reason of efficiency.  The ASIC can do that innermost loop orders of magnitude faster than any CPU or GPU, at much lower electrical power cost.  Everything except for the innermost loop is stripped out.  The innermost loop is directly programmed into the silicon; it cannot be changed.

An ASIC that did generalized SHA256 hashing would be more complex.  That means more circuitry, more transistors—more power use.  Mining is a hot competition with thin margins, at best.  Ask any miner if he wants an ASIC that is even a few percent less efficient, and see what answer you get!  It’s like asking a Formula One race-car driver if he wants an air conditioner, an in-dash CD changer, and some handy cup holders in his car.

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N.b., this means that miners are deeply invested in Bitcoin.  Their hardware is absolutely useless for anything except for the exact inner loop of the Bitcoin mining algorithm.

A hostile miner can try to attack Bitcoin with a contentious hardfork.  That has been tried by Jihan Wu, and others.  It does not seem to work out very well for them!

A hostile miner with an unlimited external budget could attack Bitcoin outright.  (E.g., a hypothetical government agency attack.)  But that means destroying the value of the hardware that is needed for the attack.

Miners and mining pool operators can censor transactions.  That is being done; and I consider it to be a significant threat.  Countermeasures include Stratum v2, Payjoin, and CoinSwap.  Miners should have a strong incentive to adopt Stratum v2, because it has technical improvements that miners need (e.g., protection against hashrate theft attacks).

But overall, a typical business-minded miner who acts only in his own selfish financial interest must protect Bitcoin.  If Bitcoin loses value, he loses financially—and if Bitcoin fails, then all of his fancy ASIC hardware is absolutely worthless garbage because it can’t be repurposed.  Miners are financially locked into Bitcoin.

Much though I myself wish that mining could still be done on commodity hardware, let’s not lose sight of the fact that ASICs also have a benefit to Bitcoin.  Glass half full/glass half empty, etc.

Right okay, so I know next to nothing about F1 these days. Definitely been aware that the prancing horse is not at the top of the pyramid. Looking at underdogs, since that's what I know: Haas, Alfa Romeo and Williams... think any of these 3 can break out of the bottom?

Aston Martin I see has the eye for some of you, and just saw Vettel's now with them.

But for no reason other than to jump on the Tsunoda hype train, I'm going to see how his odds might be for podium finishes with AlphaTauri. Give me the odds and I'll throw some satoshi at him.

This is the Motorsports.
We always see someone bypassing the regulation with the innovation, this is why we are getting more, faster safer cars/moto.

If they gain is too much the trick will be banned the following year.

For example, now in F1 we also have the Mclearn who is the only one using a special back on the car and they probably have an huge advantage.

~snip 2021 calendar image~

Cool!  I think you guys should consider doing some sort of F1 prediction game ala FJ’s Jackmate.    Kinda like fantasy sports..?  There’s seems to be increasing demand for it around here from what I’ve been seeing.

Edit:  Nope Newey’s good but RBR can’t beat that Merc power unit.

And yes, Merc def sandbagging.