Posts do not "drop off over time". Your posts were deleted for being spammy, irrelevant, or off-topic, and you are likely to be banned if you continue making such posts.

That none of your 50 32 posts were merited is a further clue that your posts are not contributing to the forum.

17800 merits every 30 days ought to be plenty.

If the issue is that shitposters keep complaining that they can't get merit, then yes, it indeed seems that not enough is being done about it.

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My reason is simple enough. Take my generosity and pay it forward.

They won't. A block cannot contain conflicting transactions. Only one of the transactions would make it into the next block (typically, whichever transaction happened to reach the miner first), at which point it is said to be "confirmed". Transactions that have not yet been included in a block are "unconfirmed" and merchants should be wary of unconfirmed transactions for exactly this reason.

Many block explorers will indeed show both unconfirmed transactions, and also a warning that they are in conflict.

As explained, that is not how it works, and in any case the seller would be advised to wait for the transaction to be confirmed before handing over the keys.

If he/she likes. This is what is meant by waiting for multiple confirmations, and provides extra security against chain reorganisation (which is what happens when a longer chain suddenly appears out of nowhere, typically due to a temporary split in network topology). The new chain may contain different transactions, so previously confirmed transactions can become unconfirmed again. Chain reorganisations longer than 1 or 2 blocks are extremely rare, however, for very high value transactions it doesn't hurt to be extra cautious.

Block explorers display whatever is currently the longest chain known to them. If a longer chain suddenly appears in a chain reorg, block explorers will switch to it immediately.

Tor doesn't run as root; it runs as its own user, which should match the owner of /var/lib/tor/bitcoin-service/ (it has to, since it created the directory itself). That's not the problem; this is:


SELinux seems to be blocking Tor from accessing its own files. I don't know why this is the case or how to fix it. Hopefully someone who knows about SELinux can help.

The purpose is that there's more wealth per person than there used to be, thus increasing the wealth and quality of life of each individual person. What you're suggesting boils down to "There isn't enough poverty in the world! We must increase the world population to fix this!" which is a despicable idea and you ought to be punched in the face just for thinking it.

Trolls aren't cute and nobody loves them.

I think you'll find Eratosthenes (who first determined the circumference of the Earth way back in 240 BC) was a bit before NASA's time.

Merit is not charity. If you want it, you'll have to earn it.

It's not fair. Higher-ranked users still need sMerits to reward other users. You should merit posts that deserve it, regardless of rank.

They're all just slight variations on the same theme. Except nihilism; how's that even remotely related to the subject?

Again with the stereotypes. Westerners actually don't typically wear shoes inside their homes. That's just something you see on TV, which does not accurately portray how people behave in real life. Nobody on TV ever says "goodbye" when they hang up the phone, either.

Probably this:
Protip: prefacing a racist rant with "I'm not racist, but..." doesn't fool anyone.

I reckon a lot of the people you're complaining about aren't even American; you're just assuming they are based on their language and behaviour matching your stereotype.

The incentive is that it allows me to incentivise other people into not shitposting, which directly benefits me and everyone else who wants to use the forum for serious discussion. Or it would if it actually worked to stop shitposters.

Merely out of intellectual curiosity, would you care to explain how being banned for blatantly breaking the rules of the forums (not to mention international copyright law) is even remotely comparable to the oppressive conditions of Nazi Germany?

What are you really trying to do? Are you trying to upgrade an ancient Bitcoin installation to the current version and getting an error relating to blk0001.dat, or what?

There already is such a limit. You cannot send more than 50 merits to a single user within a 30 day period.

Well, a non-fanatic can. The historicity of Saint Nicholas of Myra is well established. Though fanatics tend to be a little confused regarding the particulars of their own cult, even going as far as to claim that Santa Claus isn't Christian, when in fact he is the only Christian element in what is otherwise a pagan tradition. There's no reasoning with these people.

It is an indisputable fact that, on average, old posts are more meritorious than new posts. The reason for this is the same reason that the merit system was introduced in the first place.

Even faster, actually, since modern optimising compilers are smarter than nearly all human programmers. Unless you're John Carmack, you should expect hand-optimised code to run even slower than machine-optimised code (not to mention be much harder to debug).

No. Only merit sources regenerate sMerit.

What kind of SJW nonsense is this? If the victim actively provides material assistance to the criminal, they are indeed partially responsible for whatever happens to them. But don't take my word for it: ask your insurance company how quickly they'll reject your theft claim if they find out you willingly give the keys to a complete stranger.

Not quite. Theymos isn't even a party to these dealings; a better analogy would be to blame Ford for not doing anything to make car keys harder to give to strangers.

Huh? I get 2,563,893 to 1. Of course, the odds are better still if you don't limit yourself to that exact vanity address, or exactly the first and last digits of the hash, or that exact hash function (indeed, the use of such an obscure hash function suggests that many were tried in the hope of finding one that works). Nothing to see here, folks.