ASTROHACKER

Tips, a Password Reset, and Four Thousand Transactions a Second

October 4, 2026 · Max Commits

It’s only been two days since EarthBucks is to Astrohacker What Gmail is to Google, so this one is short. NuTorch learned to teach you things, EarthBucks got a way out of the forgotten-password hole, and the EarthBucks 2.0 mine doubled its throughput target twice. That last one comes with an asterisk, and I’ll get to it.

A Shorter Promise

The line under THE ECONOMIC SINGULARITY on astrohacker.com now reads: “We want you to be richer than anyone in history.” Fewer words, same idea. The About page keeps its own version: “In the end, you will be richer than anyone else in human history.”

NuTorch Tips

NuTorch now has a nutorch tip command. Every time you run it, you get one tip out of 310. Some are plain Nushell tricks, and some show off the native torch commands. If you only want a certain kind, filter:

nutorch tip
nutorch tip --kind nushell
nutorch tip --kind torch
nutorch tip --type pipelines
nutorch tip --level advanced

The full startup intro now ends with a beginner-level tip and a nudge to run nutorch tip for more. Tips are syntax-highlighted like the rest of the shell, and asking for one before the shell starts doesn’t drag in the tensor library, so it’s quick.

One catch: this is NuTorch 2.0.11, and it hasn’t been published to Homebrew yet. If your installed nutorch has never heard of tip, that’s why. It’s in the source tree, not in a release.

Forgot Your EarthBucks Password? Bring Your Key

If you still have your account’s master private key, you can set a new password.

Sign in with the key and go to /password. Below the usual password card there’s a new one for resetting. Paste in your private key, type a new password twice, and submit. Your browser checks that the key really belongs to the account, re-encrypts your key backup under the new password, and sends the server a proof plus the new backup. Your private key and your new password never leave the browser. The server swaps in the new password and backup together, and the old password stops working. Your keys and your funds don’t change at all.

To be clear about what this isn’t: it’s not email recovery, and it doesn’t rotate your master key. If you’ve lost the private key, this card can’t help you.

Ryan signed off on the flow, but it hasn’t been deployed yet. It lives in the EarthBucks app in our repository, not on earthbucks.com today.

A few smaller fixes came along for the ride:

  • The Settings page no longer squishes its content. The heading, avatar, and footer now line up with the rest of the app.
  • The mine page could occasionally draw your share of the pool as more than 100% when the totals arrived out of sync. It now stays between zero and one. The underlying numbers are still exact.
  • The EarthBucks pages now talk to the server through our v1 oRPC API. The old tRPC code is still around, and ripping it out is still on the to-do list.

EarthBucks 2.0: Fast, on One Machine

Here’s the asterisk. Everything in this section ran on a single machine with release builds, a fresh database, and simulated network delay. It’s not the live EarthBucks 1.0 chain, and nothing here is deployed.

With that said, the numbers are fun.

We’d already closed out a cleanup pass at a target of 1,000 transactions a second. The mine actually sustained about 1,200, and the slowest payment finalized in around 128 milliseconds.

So we made it harder. The next target was 2,000 transactions a second, with 70 milliseconds of artificial delay in each direction, the mine being replaced mid-run, and blocks being produced under load. Every payment had to finalize within one second. We tested both of the mine’s storage modes, and both passed at about 2,094 transactions a second over 126,000 payments. The slowest payment took 781 milliseconds. No errors, nothing dropped.

Then we doubled it again. Same delay, same mine replacement, same one-second deadline, 4,000 transactions a second. Both storage modes passed at about 4,188, each run pushing 252,000 payments. The slowest took 954 milliseconds, which is cutting it close but still under the line. Consensus checks, reading everything back from disk, and a clean shutdown were all part of the pass.

A fixed 70 millisecond delay is not the internet. There’s no jitter, no bandwidth limit, and no lost packets, and none of this puts EarthBucks 2.0 in production. What it does show is that the mine can keep up with a little over four thousand payments a second, with real delay in the way, without losing a single one. That’s a good place to build from.

Try It

If you build NuTorch from source, start it up, read the tip, and run nutorch tip a few more times. If you run the EarthBucks app from our repository and still have your account key, the reset card is waiting on the password page. Everyone else: the public chain is still EarthBucks 1.0, and the big picture is still in the manifesto.

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