I count 57 of those transactions since half way January. I followed that topic for a while, and got the impression most users only join to earn Merit. It would have been much better if they actually care about running Bitcoin Core, but I highly doubt it. I didn't read all recent posts, but I haven't seen a single user who actually used Bitcoin Core as a wallet instead of only completing the block download.
One of the reasons I followed that topic, was because I hoped I could dump some Merit there. But it didn't feel right. I'd say lower the Merit amounts there, most of the posts aren't worth reading.

If you think it's too much work to find your own good posts, why would you think I want to spend time on it?

Read A Quick Guide to Punctuation. Even better if you read back your own text before posting. That's step 1 towards earning more Merit.

Actually, he said the opposite. He's saying the current AI detectors are inaccurate. That's kinda true, but in his case I don't believe that.

That's like lowering the Merit requirement for Full Member to 70 instead of 100 Merit. And the "count down" as you call it would simply start earlier: "I have 60 Merits now, I only need 10 more to reach my free bump from 70 to 100". Let's not do this.

If you need/want 50 Merit, just make a good post and make me or other Merit sources see it.

This comes to mind:

Doesn't matter, they can just as easily create a new account. Chatbots are patient.
All it takes now it for someone to automate the whole process: create 10 new accounts per day, make each of them them automatically post 5 "AI" generated posts, and see what happens.
After a week: 70 accounts, with 350 posts per day. A week later: 140 accounts, with 700 posts per day. If half of them get banned, half remain. If some get Merited, they might rank up. After a year, the spammer may have enough surviving accounts to start earning money from signature campaigns. If they get banned, it doesn't matter because he still creates 10 new accounts per day. I don't have high hopes for the future of forums on the internet.

Why me? A much better example would be a Global Moderator and Administrator with alts.

There is no such thing as "American Bitcoin addresses". Miners can only mine valid transactions, which means your own wallet would have to create an "IRS change" output. That's not going to happen.

I'm sure. The only Forks I've ever seen that lack replay protection are BCH <> BSV <> eCash, but ever against BTC. And some of them may have upgraded their protocol since then (but I didn't follow it anymore so better safe than sorry).

If your wallet is loaded and you expected transactions made in 2011, there's no point letting it sync all the way since you're at 2016 already.

Thanks again for your flawless timing!

Not even close Okay, you're right about the kids, but after that, we started watching Predestination, which is filled with time travel paradoxes. It made me forget about the real time travel we do here.
Note to self (and spoiler): don't be my own father, mother and killer!

If only, I'm still ill on and off.

I don't think that's possible. Without chainstate, Bitcoin Core can't know which transactions in your mempool can't exist.

69 is fun too

There's no need to send Bitcoin to the old address. Bitcoin can be moved without any of the Forks replaying the transaction.

I would export the private keys, send some Fork dust to the addresses to force replay protection, and use a light wallet whenever possible for offline signing. Don't trust Fork wallets, and make sure you move your Bitcoins before doing anything else.
It is also possible to use the full chain wallets for Forkcoins, but it's usually not necessary.

You may want to read my Bitcoin Fork claiming guide (and service). Note that price information in that topic is outdated, and most Forks are worthless by now.

You're on a roll

I'll take 40 and 80 Here too: I had an account years ago, and haven't used it for a very long time.

I think this applies:

I've been surprised (and demotivated) by the lack of bans for chatbot plagiarism. It's very easy to produce, and time consuming to detect and prove. And because the forum barely bans them, the number of chatbot posts is only going up.

I hadn't looked at is that way yet. I always assumed it falls under the plagiarism rules, and thus should be handled by forum rules. But the lack of action from the forum could indeed be interpreted as a lack of rules against it, and in that case negative feedback might lead to change the same way it was used to tag shitposters before theymos introduced the Merit system.

That means you'll also need to be able to prove the seller gave you a certain payment request. I always considered LN to be mainly useful to pay services, and if you pay a service, it's also not possible to prove which deposit address they gave you (unless you get a signed message). Somehow nobody seems to care about that.

What's the use case here? Is it to be able to prove fraud, for instance when a seller says you didn't pay, while you say you did?

Deleting a hot wallet doesn't make it cold storage.

You're going to have to wipe and overwrite your entire hard drive, ideally more than once. But it's much better to create a proper cold wallet, and move your funds there.

That's probably because you ask Newbie questions

Your current setup is not a cold wallet, and even hardware wallets are not cold storage (unless you never connect them to an online computer).

To create a real cold wallet using Electrum, you'll need something like this:
Then create a new wallet.

Most people would instantly argue against memorizing the seed phrase, but this is a good scenario in which it can be useful.

Spam intensifies:

People Someone still pays 0.007 BTC to turn their precious Bitcoin into dust. I still think it's just one person doing this madness. They used to pay much higher fees for this, so it looks like they backed it down a bit to stop fees from going up much more.