Airdropped Merit is what all users with a rank above Jr. Member received when theymos introduced the Merit system, in order to keep their current rank. I received 1000 at that time, LoyceMobile got none.

Are you willing to share it with me? Note: this does compromise your privacy and you should probably mix your coins again if you receive them. Any PMs sent clear text through the forum can be read by Cloudflare.
If it checks out, I'll create a topic in Scam Accusations for you (I've done this before).

He didn't. The only way to prove ownership of an address is by signing a message or transaction. Those fake wallet.dat files that scammers sell to gullible people don't have the private key. It's fake.
Don't waste your time or CPU cycles on it.

Did you download and verify the Letter of Guarantee? That's the only way to prove a scam.

When in doubt, get the raw data. Updated up to last Friday's weekly Merit data dump.

For a quick weekly impression, see LoyceV's Merit data analysis (full data since Jan. 24, 2018; not just 120 days) and search for "Total:"

I've been short on time ever since this year started. 2020 really has it's ways.

Correct. If some sources stop sending sMerit, and other sources don't get their source increased, it's inevitable for the total Merit distribution to go down. My source is piling up again too, I've sent less than my source amount in the past 30 days. But there's still more sMerit being sent than right before theymos' last source update.

For the paranoid who don't want to use a VPN all the time: would it be possible to setup a proxy server for this extension? Say for someone who doesn't trust BPIP with his IP information but trusts someone else to run the proxy?

How "unlimited" does this really have to be? I've never counted images in daily posts, and I don't even know if Bitcointalk's image proxy caches them or not. But I've said before it would be great to setup an (community) image hosting service dedicated to Bitcointalk. Any external service will at some point disappear, while the forum should last as long as Bitcoin is around.

I'll try a more realistic one: how about you get $1000 salary once a month, and pay your normal bills with it? Bills will go from high amounts like your rent to daily small amounts for coffee. Then you indeed can't use the same funds several times. It becomes slightly better if you receive your salary every week. You probably don't want an open channel with your employer (I wouldn't want them to know my remaining balance), so you'll still need a third party.

This is new: this spammer edited his post into something else. Found on https://loyce.club/badposts/spam.html. Current post:
Original post: this spam

The spammer made 12 posts, only one remains. He didn't get Nuked.

What can I say, I'm an optimist

3% sounds bad if you spend $1000 per month. But if you put $100 in a channel, and spend and receive $10 at a time, but do that 50 times per month, then $3 in fees doesn't sound bad at all! I spent more on my last on-chain Bitcoin transaction (I made a mistake on the fees, my fault).

You're probably right here. But I don't really mind, it's not as if Bitcoin nodes are currently making a profit. Some things are just done to support the network, and if an exchange (or casino) runs a LN-node, earning money from transaction routing is only a side-income, and not their core business.

I must admit I don't have the time to read it in-depth now. But I like this picture:

The thing is: I'm okay with the scenario on the left, if that means I can make many small cheap payments using Bitcoin. I'd prefer a fully decentralized system, but I get that won't happen.

My point is: you don't need a large balance on a node to be able to make many transactions, as long as you have transactions in both directions.

Yes. It may not have been the best example indeed. Here's another one: I think a node with 1 BTC in LN can process 10 BTC per day in transactions (given the right circumstances). At 0.25% fee that would earn 25 mBTC fees per day. Seeing this numbers makes me think it's not very likely to happen any time soon though, 0.25% is very high. For my last transaction I paid about 0.01% in fee. And that fee is for all nodes involved in the route.
If you can earn 1 mBTC by transfaring 10 BTC per day though a node that holds 1 BTC, it's still a pretty good profit.

LoyceV: 666,666,666

I know it's probably too high, but I couldn't resist anyway.

Instead of collusion, I think this was caused by a thread on a local board. Awareness lead to an increase in Trust relations, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

No. I think you're confusing Trust feedback with Trust lists. That happens a lot, I even made a topic about it: LoyceV's Beginners guide to correct use of the Trust system:

The topic is received a lot of support from community, including 15 translations:

The (valid) reason could be they think you leave bad feedback, or include bad users on your Trust list.
The (invalid) reason could be they don't like your politicial opinion or whatever.

I excluded you because I think you put the wrong people on DT2, as explained earlier. If you correct your Trust inclusions, I'll re-evaluate this

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Let's compare it to Tether for a moment: it's 24h volume is more than twice it's market cap. Each coin is "used" several times per day. The same will happen for LN-nodes, and the same happens with actual dollar coins and banknotes too.

Please do your share and use Report to moderator on posts that break forum rules.

The Skrill website literally says all accounts are personal.

So you thought it's a good idea to create the same topic again after it was deleted?

I'm pretty sure selling Skrill accounts isn't allowed:
See this more specific post from theymos.

I made this to quickly catch them: Finding spam and scams by keyword.

We can, but it'll end up on my BlueWallet so it uses the same nodes to send it out again.
I don't really want to use a Lightning casino for this (I might get tempted).

The only wallet I have that has enough incoming capacity is BlueWallet. There's not really a point in doing that, it'll just be an "internal" BlueWallet transaction that costs 0.3% in fees.

You'll need to scrape the data as a user. Or try Ninjastic.space - BitcoinTalk Post/Address archive + API, it currently doesn't have what you're looking for, but TryNinja might be able to add it.

It's also updated only once a week