Google is a very useful but a very dangerous tool for many things related to Bitcoin. Asking Google to recommend good wallets or exchanges can point you to fake phishing sites or Google ads created by scammers. Without knowing what you are doing and not having the knowledge to distinguish the good from the bad, Google can get you in trouble. You should at least have ad blockers installed in your browsers because Google doesn't care if it's advertising a scam for you to see.

Veće ulaganje u hardver je jedan od razloga. To onda za sobom vuće problem da oni koji ne bude htjeli ili ne budu mogli da snose te troškove će odustajati od full node-ova. Tu se gubi na decentralizaciji a node-ovi bivaju centralizovani kod onih imućnijih sa dubljim džepovima.

Za povečanje blokova bi bio potreban hard fork. Mreža bi se podjelila u dva smjera. Kad se to desi gubiš jedan dio korisnika jer će jedni ostati vjerni (nazovimo to tako) orginalnoj ideji a drugi otići na drugu stranu. Mislim da nije nikome u interesu da se još više djelimo i na taj način umanjujemo značaj Bitcoin mreže. 

Još jedan problem koji se je spominjao je da bi veći blokovi uzrokovali povečanje broja orphaned blockova. To su blokovi koji se prvo potvrde kao validni a onda se ponište jer to zapravo nisu. Mora proći određeno vrijeme da svi majneri dobiju najnovije informacije o najnovijim blokovima i tranksacijama u njima. Ako se blokovi povečaju, povečava se i to vrijeme potrebno za prenos svih podataka svima. Nemam pojma koliki je to problem u praksi jer je ovo samo teorija. Ako određeni majner kasni i ne dobije informacije o novom bloku na vrijeme, on može raditi na dodavanju transakcija na stari blok. A te transakcije i taj blok bi onda bili poništeni jer ne možeš jedan coin potrošiti dva puta. Na prvi pogled bi taj blok izgledao validan i bio bi možda i prihvaćen od onih kojima informacije također kasne. Ali kad bi se sve sinhronizovalo, blok bi bio poništen. Npr. zadnji blok koji je izrudaren je 821795. Zamisli sad da imaš majnera koji nije primio informaciju o tom bloku i ubrzo nakon toga izrudari svoj blok. U njega ubaci 80% istih transakcija jer mu kasne infomacije. Sve u početku izgleda ok međutim kod verifikacije bloka vidi se da nije uredu jer troši coine koji su prethono već bili potrošeni. 

Ethereum je centralizovan. Tamo je mnogo lakše predložiti i izglasati velike promjene. Ethereum Fondacija odlučuje šta će biti. Kod Bitcoina moraju da se usaglase majneri, mjenačnice, vlasnici full node-ova, itd. Ne možeš se dogovoriti sa ženom koji film pogledati, svako ima svoj ukus. Zamisli sad da o tome odlučuje cijeli Zagreb. Ali imaj na umu šta sam prethodno rekao da nije nikome u interesu da je 52% za jednu stranu a 48% za drugu ako će onda tih 48% odustati od Bitcoin mreže i graditi/rudariti njegov fork.

Not most of the time. All of the time. After you install a fresh OS onto it (Linux is recommended), it should never be connected to the internet ever again. Removing the network/WIFI cards ensures that you can't even mistakenly connect it to the internet.

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I am reading the response of Ledger's CEO and can't help but to giggle. The guy is talking about the standard security practices the company uses and goes on to say how multiple parties review code before it's deployed. They control who can access what internally, and if an employee leaves the company, they revoke all access rights. Sadly, everyone was asleep when it comes to the alleged ex employee who was able to upload the code changes without anyone else reviewing it and still had the needed access rights despite being an ex-employee.

https://www.ledger.com/blog/a-letter-from-ledger-chairman-ceo-pascal-gauthier-regarding-ledger-connect-kit-exploit

It doesn't cost you any money to generate a fresh address every time you need to receive Bitcoin, nor will you be saving on transaction fees by using the same one over and over again. Start doing that so it becomes a habit and also divide your activities in different wallets. Then, things like what you just explained won't happen.

You said that you used that same address several years. Have you received any coins to it from a service that has your KYC details? For example, an exchange, a casino, etc.? If you have, it would be very easy for blockchain analysis or any interested 3rd-party to figure out who you are based on what that centralized service tells them. You moving the older coins before you started receiving Sinbad payments doesn't matter. Bitcoin's blockchain is public. The same person that owns coins from a CEX also received BTC from Sinbad. That's what the blockchain will show. 

I never said that whoever created the vulnerability did it because they were lucky. My reply to your previous post concerned the amount of money that was stolen with the exploit. It was only around $600k (unless something changed in the meantime). That's what I meant when I said that Ledger was lucky, and they didn't do anything impressive. 

Nije nikakva tajna da iza Ordinals pokreta stoje protivnici trenutnog sustava Bitcoina i njegove mreže. Tu mislim na kapacitet blokova koji im smeta. Ali zanimljivo je čuti da zagovornici većih blokova i pričaju o tome i da na kriju da vode rat "umjetnošću" protiv Bitcoina.

Ovaj video nije nov ali ja ga prvi put vidim. Taj isječak možete poslušati ovdje:
https://twitter.com/GhostofMaplHodl/status/1735700193931092190?t=5wMDnc6rlgRHdFLlEsdTfw

Ko želi da posluša sve, evo i linka. Dio o ratu protiv Bitcoina počinje na oko 4:40.
https://odysee.com/@Anarchast:2/BTC-is-Now-an-Art-Gallery--with-Rafael-LaVerde-of-the-Crypto-Vigilante:a

You shouldn't be using the same address for different campaign and purposes. Create separate wallets (not addresses) for any activity that you do. That way it's easier to monitor and control the different coins. You don't want to end up in a situation to link a Sinbad UTXO with a KYC-verified coin and effectively prove that you are connected to both. Leave the Sinbad coins alone for now. When the fees drop, they'll need to be anonymized, and you better keep them away from centralized exchanges.

I couldn't believe the state of the mempools when I checked last night to see if the situation calmed down a bit because of the weekend. But I noticed that you needed to pay between 300 and 400 sat/vByte for a possible next-block confirmation. It's just insane what the banana monkey fanboys have created and done with the network. It's difficult to talk about a normally functioning blockchain if you need to pay a $20 BTC equivalent fee to send $10 worth of bitcoin. I can't believe I am saying this, but I hope they find a solution to what is now a problem.

To expend on what I said earlier, there is one more resource that you can save for later. It was originally created by Ratimov two years ago. The account now has a different name, and I have no idea what happened with him, but he locked and deleted every thread he ever created on Bitcointalk. Still, the Beginners & Help Encyclopedia was a great collection of the forum's best threads. You can still view an achieve of it here: Beginners & Help Encyclopedia

No problem. I am glad you did it. Uploading hundreds of images manually is not something anyone wants to do, that's why we now have the script that does all the hard work for you, and you only sit back and wait for it to finish. I just checked some of the threads where I noticed that you had broken images, and now they are fine. The images in your locked threads weren't replaced and can't be. I think you will have to unlock those topics manually (unless it was locked by the mods) and run the script again if, of course, you also want to replace those broken links.

To be fair towards the post-merit system newbies, it's harder now for them to rank up than it was in the past and before theymos introduced merits as a critical rank-up requirement. You didn't have to learn anything in the past, only your activity determined your forum rank. As long as your posts were good enough not to get deleted by the moderators, they remained and you gained activity, and ultimately rank. To advance in the forum hierarchy today, your posts need to matter for others to merit you.

Hi Fivestar4everMVP,

I couldn't help but notice that your OP has many missing images that were originally uploaded to Imgur, which no longer works on the forum. You can fix that with just a few clicks and reupload all the broken images to TalkImg automatically. Follow the instructions in Tag a user to update their broken image links if you are interested. It's not difficult.

Jameson Lopp offers some of the best resources you can find online. Start with the beginner courses and work your way to the more advanced guides after that.
https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html

If you like YouTube videos, check out Andreas Antonopoulos' Bitcoin for Beginners playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPQwGV1aLnTuN6kdNWlElfr2tzigB9Nnj

Other than that, there are tons of quality threads and tutorials here on Bitcointalk. Use the forum's search feature and search what you are interested in. Better yet, search via Ninjastic.space.

Open-sourcing their future work would be a positive step in the right direction, but I doubt they will take it. It also doesn't change the fact that their firmware was always closed-source up to this point. And you can't change the past and everything wrong or nasty that you perhaps committed in it. Even if they open-sourced all their past firmware releases, who is to say they didn't filter out everything bad (if there is something bad) before releasing it to the public?

It was just luck. It could also have been $600 million if a lot more users or whales connected and blindly used their hardware wallets during the time the threat was live.
The only thing that about this whole situation that deserves praise on Ledger's side (if it's true) is that they fixed the vulnerability in 40 minutes after finding out about it. But it shouldn't have happened in the first place, lowering the importance of their fix. 

Here is the problem I have with your thread Jenwi.
It begins with a question about how to earn merits. However, the opening post discusses how you told some friends about Bitcointalk, who then asked you how much you earned. Now, I seriously doubt they would be interested in knowing how many merits you earned. Why would that particular stat interest them? It has no value whatsoever outside of this forum, and those who aren't part of Bitcointalk wouldn't care about what happens with it. They probably asked you how much money, aka, bitcoin you earned, didn't they?

To answer the question you asked in your title, there isn't one specific type of posts/threads that earn people merits. There is a whole list of things you can do. No matter how you look at it, you will have to be willing to invest time and/or knowledge to get it right. Unless people can see from your posts that you know what you are talking about and that you spent time articulating your thoughts properly, they will rarely merit you.

My tip, begin reading and learning about bitcoin, which should be the reason you are here. After that, start browsing the forum and participate in the discussions with other people in a natural and honest way.

When you have made yourself familiar with the forum and its different boards, you will notice that there are people who create threads with various stats. They get merits. Some other folks hunt for scammers, and they also receive merits. Other people create detailed tutorials or report on the most important news and developments relating to Bitcoin. They get merited by people who find those posts pleasant to read. You can even get merits for being funny.

You have to find your own way. That's how you will succeed in what you want. We can't tell you what do to except open your eyes, look around, and find what you like.     

I wouldn't call it dangerous. The volatility has always been there, and it's an integral part of the cryptocurrency scene. A rapid increase in value is also a volatile move, but people don't consider it and think about it in the same way. No one says that Bitcoin is dangerous because in the space of a few months, my purchasing power doubled. Volatility becomes an obsession only when it affects you negatively. But you have to be ready for it. OP has been a holder only for a few days. What would he do if his coins dropped 40-60% in value? Many of us have seen it in the past. @OP, you don't lose anything if you don't sell it.

I doubt it. I am pretty sure that their TOS (that everyone agrees to when purchasing and using Ledger software and hardware) says they are not responsible for any mistakes you make or any loss of funds. That's not exclusive to Ledger, though. They have stated that they will be in contact with the affected parties, probably trying to recover their coins. Some media already reported that addresses connected to the drained crypto have been frozen. Ledger will surely assist in whatever investigation comes from it.

Ledger has patched the vulnerable library and released a new Ledger Connect kit version. Now, every website that used the code from the older malicious libraries needs to perform the update on their end. Additionally, DApp users need to ensure that they are running version 1.18 on their machines as well.

Those who are using GPT Plus, the paid version of ChatGPT have access to GPT-4 prompts and some additional tools. That includes internet browsing capabilities, where the software has access to the internet. You also have access to the image AI system DALL·E. Just give it instructions of what to create and it will do the work.   

Trezor has announced a new end-of-the-year discount for their models Trezor One and Trezor Model T.
Trezor One is now available for €59. Trezor Model T costs €179. There is no discount for the Trezor Safe 3, which remains priced at €79.
The free worldwide discount still remains.

Thanks, but I found out more about it in the meantime. It all goes back that you don't simply click on ok, sign, or proceed without verifying every piece of transaction information on the screen of your hardware wallet. Those who were the victims of this drainer didn't do that. They blindly signed and/or gave permissions to the wrong thing.

I don't think they acted better either. MetaMask, one of the affected wallets, was silent for a long time instead of informing their users about what was happening.