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@andablackwidow

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ABW
@andablackwidow Aug 25, 2025, 1:48 AM UTC

Undo session and other live mode optimizations

## Recent optimizations After unplanned health related delay here comes third article of the series about recent optimizations that started with pool allocator and followed with comment archive. This…

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@andablackwidow Aug 1, 2025, 12:32 AM UTC

Comment archive - for node operators and technical

## Recent optimizations This is continuation of previous post about latest optimizations. This article is going to contain description of second optimization listed there - comment archive. We've cam…

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@andablackwidow Jul 23, 2025, 8:13 PM UTC

Pool allocator optimization - for node operators and technical

## Recent optimizations Recently (as in the course of last couple months - how the time flies) three big ticket items from my dream list for Hive were done. And since those are significant optimizati…

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@andablackwidow Mar 25, 2025, 1:00 AM UTC

Checkpoints (for node operators)

## What is it? Checkpoint is a configuration option where you can specify id of block that has to match when node is about to process it. If block does not match given id, the node should stop. For b…

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@andablackwidow Jan 14, 2025, 2:18 AM UTC

Flood protection in 1.27.7

Since version with the features I'm going to present here was already officially released, I though it is high time to describe them. # TL:DR If you are a witness or a node operator, it would be nice…

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@andablackwidow Feb 20, 2024, 5:35 AM UTC

Soft fork vs hard fork (technical).

This is a continuation of discussion with @edicted from comments under that article. While the article itself is not about difference between soft and hard fork, somehow that topic emerged when we ex…

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@andablackwidow Dec 5, 2023, 2:49 AM UTC

Fragile state - a development story (technical).

Some of you might have heard that RC will become part of consensus some time in the future. The plan is to make all necessary changes first, then leave it with no changes for one whole hardfork, to m…

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@andablackwidow Feb 10, 2023, 6:22 PM UTC

Inside HIVE to HBD conversions (slightly technical).

When I read first article of @edicted about conversions, I was sure I have to write detailed description of how it works. However literally as I finished reading I've noticed price of Hive falling on…

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@andablackwidow Dec 13, 2022, 3:15 AM UTC

RC stats in 1.27.2

I kind of wanted to wait for official announcement, but it looks like there might be none. Maybe because 1.27.3 is just around the corner and it also requires full replay? Since 1.27.2 was already de…

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@andablackwidow Nov 8, 2022, 11:57 PM UTC

Plush banhammer.

As everyone knows (or at least should know) it is not that Hive cannot have censorship, but the points of opportunity are decentralized, therefore if there was actual censorship on the platform, it w…

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