As far as I know, this hasn't happened in a long time. It's probably something left from Bitcointalk's early days.
By now, I've reported over 10k posts. Theymos only asked me once to be a Mod, and it was by mistake. I'd love to have a delete button though

You'd be reporting posts for the wrong reasons. The right reason is a cleaner forum

I'd argue the opposite: a campaign manager is supposed to read many of the posts made in his campaigns. That's a great opportunity to Merit the good ones (and remove the users with bad posts from the campaign). That's not Merit abuse, it's doing a good job.
It may mean the campaign manager sends more Merit to users in his campaigns, because he reads more of their posts. But that shouldn't matter much, as there are 100+ other Merit sources too.

To call it Merit abuse, there should be something in it for the campaign manager. Unless you're going to the extremes of Meriting his own alts to join his own campaigns, I don't see that happening. Most campaign managers have earned enough sMerit to be able to do that without being a source anyway.

Ethereum is the shitcoin that abandoned it's one USP "Code is law" the moment is was convenient for the rich creator and his friends. The guy in charge created a hard fork to protect their money instead of being a reliable block chain. The fact that it's centrally controlled is really all you need to know.

The question was if they really don't store user funds. My answer was related to the short time between depositing and receiving your exchanged coins. It could be up to about an hour to get enough confirmations. What they do with the coins after that is indeed not your concern.

It looks like this link:
Was replaced by this link:
I must have millions of links to the old location, and the forum must have them too. So a redirect would be nice

You mean coins freshly minted by those evil miners who destroy the climate and emit more CO2 than my country? See what I did there? There's always another reason if a government wants to call something "bad".

There's a much better chance of that if this would be posted in Moving to Cloudflare.

I've long forgotten that

My take: Monero, like Bitcoin, is here to stay. If all centralized exchanges delist it, it only becomes closer to how it's supposed to be: private. Who are those people buying and holding privacy coins on a KYC exchange anyway?

Thanks again for your flawless timing! I had to rush dishes to make it (the old fashioned way, without involving time travel).

That makes arbitrage trading in the other direction possible. Say: buy XMR at Kraken, sell at eXch. I'm not sure what repercussions that would have.

Me too And more importantly: large Bitcoin companies (exchanges/casinos) are no doubt waiting too. In the past, we've seen large dumps of low-fee transactions in mempool once fees are low. It'll take a few days to confirm them all, after which they'll dump the next batch.

Don't do this!

Running anything with rood privileges when it's not needed is very bad practice. It's an unnecessary security risks, and doesn't fix the actual problem. If permissions are a problem, check all file permissions. Or create a new user and start fresh. But don't give root-access to anything that doesn't require it.

As a campaign manager, you mean? That supports my theory that some local boards have different standards than global boards. That's not necessarily a bad thing, until they move their posts to global boards.

I don't think there's anything theymos can do:
I assume Cloudflare does this to mitigate a DDOS. That leaves 2 options: no forum access at all, or an annoying Cloudflare page before accessing the site.

And I fear it only gets worse. See Smart appliances were a mistake on Reddit: a washing machine that uploads 3.57 GB of data per day. IOT devices are supporting DDOS botnets now even without computers.

I've seen many real life examples with banks: they just block the account. Here (in the Netherlands), coffee shops are allowed to sell marijuana. Government "tolerates" it, although technically it's still illegal. But they let it be. So the coffee shops buy marijuana from illegal producers. It's a typical Dutch thing: a half-arse solution that doesn't do justice to either side of the equation. The end result is that banks see legal companies that do business with criminals, so banks just stay away from them. Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands, but again banks reject them as customers. The small number of customers is simply not worth the hassle and risk to them.
With Bitcoin, I think it's a different story now. There are far more Bitcoin users than coffee shops and prostitutes, so rejecting them all would be a serious cost to the bank.
I don't know how a crypto exchange would handle this. I've seen reports of funds being frozen, but it's never clear if that's a legit case and what happens. My guess is they'll just report it to authorities so they're compliant.
Back to banks: In the Netherlands, almost 2 million "unusual transactions" per year get reported to government. The money laundering fines lead to a huge increase of reports. I think banks now report just about anything, so at least they did their part.

That's an interesting way of putting it. Cash is used by more criminals than anything else. The only reason it's seen as "normal", is because government approves of it. And they approve because they can control (and print) it.
I would argue fiat cash is a terrible system, and the more you understand how it really works, the worse it gets.
One of the main reasons I like Bitcoin is because fiat is so terrible, and continuously loses value. But ending the enternal inflation isn't in the interest of the ones in power. That may change if Bitcoin ever becomes big enough. I imagine a future in which fiat money has to compete against a currency that doesn't have inflation, so they can no longer print unlimited amounts.

That's a terrible assumption It's much more likely fees will either go up or down. And, looking at this graph, I assume it will go both directions once in a while.
If you're not in a hurry to spend those 100 small amounts, I would just wait. If fees drop low enough, I would consolidate them. Depending on how patient you are you could pay 2.1 sat/vbyte or 1.1 sat/vbyte in a few months. Or it may not happen for a very long time. But in that case, if you also have 0.02 BTC inputs, you can use those first.

It doesn't need to be 20, I'd probably go up to 50 now. It's not a hard limit.

Correct.

I don't know Trezor's own software, but you can connect your hardware wallet to Electrum. In Electrum, you can enable the Coins tab, where you can manually select (use CTRL) and spend (right mouse) the UTXOs you want. Note that you should never enter your Trezor seed in Electrum, just connect it and still sign your transactions on the Trezor.

That depends on your wallet. I don't know whether or not Trezor keeps broadcasting your transaction. Currently, the mempool limit is 4.95 sat/vbyte, anything lower than that won't even broadcast. But the same link dropped from 1.8 GB to 918 MB this year, so I have high hopes we'll get a good opportunity to consolidate inputs at low fee.

That is by definition impossible. If hackers can access it without physically breaking into the building, it wasn't cold storage.
Unless it was in cold storage and an employee manually approved a withdrawal from cold storage that was made without an deposit. That would be a new level of stupidity.

In an ideal scenario, an instant exchange only holds the user's funds until it has enough confirmations to complete the transaction and send back the other coin.

Thanks, I didn't find it at archive.org.
This means they had more than 50% in their hot wallet. Needless to say: that's incredibly dumb.

We're going to need a new rule next year:
Then again, someone would be very disappointed