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Portions are quoted from bitcoin/bitcoin#29028

fanquake commented on Apr 21 2024, 12:59 PM GMT+2

@levantah thanks, however we'll refrain from linking to sources other than our own website.

levantah commented on Apr 22 2024, 5:42 PM GMT+2

Thank you @fanquake , https://github.com/bitcoin please delete the previous comment and this one the same way. And Thanks.

levantah commented on Apr 22 2024, 6:59 PM GMT+2

This may be also off-topic. Feel free to delete even without reading.

Just to explain where I am coming from, there was a Chaincode Labs Bitcoin seminar done partly by some Core developers and for each run of a test-case it would download Bitcoin binary to Github infrastructure by calling this: wget -q https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-26.0/bitcoin-26.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz. It was rather slow. Now imagine hundreds of students. A Bottleneck I would say.

I have no idea how someone would be able to get in here and help, coming from outside and not being part of the group for years, not having power/health to go to conferences and meet people in person. For years I've been ignoring everything saying that Bitcoin lived without me for so long, it does not need me. But this is not what people like Greg Maxwell write. So according to what I read I would like to help but being turned down repeatedly doesn't make me want to try again. Thanks and all the best!

achow101 commented on Apr 22 2024, 11:58 PM GMT+2

@levantah Contributions are certainly welcome and desired, you can take a look at any of the open issues, particularly ones tagged as "Good first issue". However, as Bitcoin Core is security software, we only want to link to our own official sources for releases. While we appreciate the gesture you did by hosting a mirror of the release, it is still something we cannot point people to, and for the safety of our users, the comment is removed. While I don't doubt that you are only trying to help, what you linked to was on an unknown website, hosted on unknown infrastructure, run by an unknown person.

Thank you @achow101.

So here is some more explanation:

unknown person: I have parents and siblings so someone knows me. My brain and spinal chord MRI can be seen at https://mri.anyone.eu.org/ and I have a name but that may not be important here.

unknown infrastructure: A recycled MacBook Pro '12 (x86_64) running Linux and Bitcoin Core on it. See https://ln.anyone.eu.org/bitcoin.txt for more details and see https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/ln.anyone.eu.org for some history. The current internet connection is the cheapest locally available 50/10 Mbit fiber optic. Was DSL before. IP address is changing on every reconnect, but that is easily coped with using a shell script which checks and updates the subdomain v4.bublina.eu.org when needed. The CloudFlare is used fully (was DNS-only, pointing to v4 previously) as a cache since recent DDoS attacks on alt Signet faucet I run.

unknown website: https://nic.eu.org/ is around since 1996 and works great for me. I used freenom (.tk TLD) in the past but had issues with yearly free renewal. Also used a shortcut (ln.uk.ms by FreeDNS but that subdomain space seemed to be taken down by its owner) in the past, as it is helpful for me to write less characters on the keyboard.

I actually would not care to reveal my identity. Have done many patches under my real name. And if anyone comes to take me places I go. But still I feel like I know too many people already and remember many of them (Multiple Sclerosis has nothing to do with memory loss, I would say the opposite, since other people get drunk or smoke, none of which I do).

CloudFlare actually allows me to "deploy" (let's see how long it works) an almost empty site (this repo) which only makes sure the caches are filled and then it works pretty well. Here is the latest one from https://cfpages-cache.pages.dev/:

FINISHED --2024-04-26 08:36:47--
Total wall clock time: 1m 13s
Downloaded: 158 files, 9.1G in 1m 6s (142 MB/s)

The files hosted can by checked fo theit SHA256 hashes and the hasfile can be checked for PGP sigs. No idea what can go wrong here.

HTH