If you check well, you will notice that NotATether is running a challenge of 14 days node running for 14 merits and that is why you see the 14 merits he gave recently. 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.
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Well sincerely speaking I don't know how you rate your quality post but if you feels like dumping them on my profile it takes only few minute 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? Well sincerely speaking I don't know how you rate your quality post but if you feels like dumping them on my profile it takes only few minute to dump such huge volume by clicking my profile to see post that worth it, I believe there are other several members who are coming across my profile doesn't feels like giving merits maybe till I report to them which is not cool although I know people are very busy with what they are doing both physical and online here. 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.
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I've left all my post unedited, when a good AI generated detector is finally developed, I will come back to this thread. Amazing... the guy basically said he'll come back to the forum when an undetectable AI tool has been developed, lol. 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.
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theymos can set the system whereby if you gained 70 to 80 merits the system should automatically credit you 20 to 30 merits instantly without having to apply for merits counts down 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: undoubtedly some people got screwed by this, and if they have decent posts, by all means, give them the 250 or 500 merit that they need to rank-up.
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How many times does it take for the user to wake up and realize that the neutral tag will soon turn into a red tag? 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.
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the irs could require all americans bitcoin addresses be setup in such a way that anytime a miner mined a transaction from one of their addresses, the tax was automatically taken out. 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.
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There's no need to send Bitcoin to the old address. Bitcoin can be moved without any of the Forks replaying the transaction. Are you sure? I was under the impression that even now 6 years later that TXs involving only pre-forked coins can still move the coins on the other chains. 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).
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What do you think? Should I shut down Bitcoin Core, or should I let it finish? 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.
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Two hundred and sixty-second week paid. Thanks again for your flawless timing! I blame my chores. My wife took my computer and I had to take care of the kids. I feel better now. Back to normal life, eventually. Not even close ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) 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! No medic anymore If only, I'm still ill on and off.
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Is there a setting in bitcoin.conf that get's rid of chainstate? I don't think that's possible. Without chainstate, Bitcoin Core can't know which transactions in your mempool can't exist. The chainstate directory contains the state as of the latest block (in simplified terms, it stores every spendable coin, who owns it, and how much it's worth).
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72K in one/two hour ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) 69 is fun too ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
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1) Send some real BTC to that address and then move all the real BTC with the dust off to a new address. There's no need to send Bitcoin to the old address. Bitcoin can be moved without any of the Forks replaying the transaction.
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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.
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You're on a roll ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) I'll take 40 and 80 ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Here too: I had an account years ago, and haven't used it for a very long time.
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Does bitcointalk consider AI generated post here in bitcointalk as plagiarism? I think this applies: To be so lazy that you won't even make up your own low-quality post, but instead save a few minutes by importing some garbage from the wider Internet, is a massive insult to this forum's community, and is proof that at least in that moment the only thing you cared about was money-making. If yes, he's candidate for a permanent ban. I think the forum admin needs to step up for this issue because it's not just one person who uses AI generated posts; it happens every day here on Bitcointalk. It's time to make forum rules regarding this matter. 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 tagged the member in question. When there's no rule in place to deal with this sort of shenanigans, one must use the tools available to them to combat it. 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.
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Yes 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.
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Assuming that there is a lightning network transaction between two people and they want to make evidence to be available to another person as witness 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?
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Since I have my seed phrase memorized and since I'm using Electrum for cool storage, for security I deleted the program from my Windows computer thinking that I could easily recover my wallet with the seed phrase. Deleting a hot wallet doesn't make it cold storage. I want to remove any trace that Electrum was ever on my computer. Can somebody tell me how to do this please? 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. It's funny that on this forum people assume that every question is from a newbie. That's probably because you ask Newbie questions ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) I've had several cold wallets including the Ledger before the notorious data hack, a trezor before it was stolen out of my hotel room and 2 versions of the Bitfi, the latest kept my bitcoin safe but I had to sweep the coins into Electrum as the wallets bricked. 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: Offline and running without hard drive storage:Get a Linux LIVE DVD. Use Knoppix or Tails for instance, or any other distribution that comes with Electrum pre-installed. Unplug your internet cable. Close the curtains. Reboot your computer and start up from that DVD. Don't enter any wireless connection password. Keep it offline. Start Electrum. Then create a new wallet. with memorization I can travel world-wide without customs asking me what is this weird little electronic device in my pocket or this note with 12 words on it. Most people would instantly argue against memorizing the seed phrase, but this is a good scenario in which it can be useful.
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Spam intensifies: ![Image loading...](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Floyce.club%2Fother%2Fmempool7.png&t=665&c=DLqTG9rml_xC7A) 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.
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