Your quote don't refer to the post of the Merit Contest only to the post in this thread. Where is it from? It can be found in this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5110093.0Essentially, the Stake.com signature campaign is running this contest, and markstivn98 has therefore linked his own post in here to try to gain merits to win the contest. Whether that breaks the rule of "Absolutely no asking for merits" as stated in the contest announcement is obviously up to the Stake.com team. |
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Some sites identify BTC as Bitcoin Core to distinguish it from its forks. I guess that's true? The only site I know of which does this is bitcoin.com, which is well known as a shilling site for Bitcoin Cash (BCH), owned by the scammer Roger Ver. It does this purposefully to confuse newbies who don't understand the distinction, and tries to lure them in to buying the scam coin that is Bitcoin Cash (BCH) thinking they are buying real bitcoin (BTC). The actual website you want to visit is www.bitcoin.org. Are there other sites perpetuating this nonsense? |
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But such little growth that we could watch is just temporary warming on the market. Temporary is the right word, since we have just dropped $300 in an hour. I don't pay much attention to the price, but the bunch of new threads predicting doom and gloom were hard to miss. Just as quickly as everyone jumped on the sudden increase to predict the start of an epic bull-run that would lead to $50,000, now the same people are declaring the bull market is dead and we will see months more of $3k prices. Fine by me though - I'm not done accumulating at these prices. A few more months of bear market would suit me fine. |
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That's exactly what I expected other demotions that aim at higher rank members. Now, that's a whole 'nother question. Although I think airdropped merit should eventually be removed (either in a "lump-sum" or a slow decay"), I'm less decided on demotions. I'm not sure it's fair to demote legendary members who have been here since 2010/2011 based on a system which was only introduced a year ago. That feels a bit too ex postfacto to me. I appreciate, however, that removing airdropped merit but not ranks would leave some legendary users going about with single-figure merits, which also seems strange. Also, if we removed all airdropped merit and demoted users accordingly, then based on DdmrDdmr's data here ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wl9a_Drl5LWPN3uG6pT3YPIYtkvRkZiGneukzHvVPoA) there would only be 7 legendaries and 28 hero members in the entire forum, which seem equally strange. |
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It's so funny if you think about it, the security 'expert' got hacked (if true), that's pretty deep. Given how horrendously insecure his hardware wallet is, it's not outside the realms of possibility. Bitfi was claimed to be "unhackable", and then it was hacked repeatedly within a matter of days. Since McAfee apparently thinks that a brain wallet is the highest level of security available for your coins, I wouldn't at all be surprised if his security for his online accounts is similarly poor. Bear in mind McAfee hasn't actually worked on any anti-virus software since he was kicked out of McAfee Associates in the mid 90s and they dumped his software. The fact he still touts himself as some kind of "expert" is the funniest part of all. |
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Assuming the merit system is permanent, and the forum survives for another 10+ years, there will come a point where the airdropped merits are insignificant to all "real" users, and only useful for chronic spammers who are completely unable to earn merit on their own. Everyone will have your new badges except for the worst of the shitposters. I think a neater solution therefore would simply be to either remove the airdropped merits, or have them start to decay slowly over time.
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I have no desire to get in to another pointless debate with tvbcof like I did in the other vaccine thread, as there is simply no point, but I felt compelled to at least point out all the mistakes in his medical "knowledge". The theory of operation with the tetanus/hCG sterilization method is that the hormone is needed to NOT have a miscarriage. It interrupts the menstrual cycle and keeps the fetus from being flushed. The technique is to make the woman's own body attack the hormone when produced so that she cannot carry a pregnancy. So, the vaccine is laced with the hormone itself. In the paper which claimed the tetanus vaccine contained hCG: 1 - The vaccine samples were tested using a method specifically designed for testing blood 2 - The vaccine samples were "disguised" to look like blood serum - they do not say what they used to "disguise" said samples 3 - Using their "disguising" method, along with an incorrect test, lead to even tap water testing positive for hCG 4 - The lab which carried out these sham tests has since lost its license and closed down 5 - The levels of "hCG" detected, even if we ignore all of the above and accept the test results as true (which they categorically aren't), was too low to cause an immune response 6 - The paper has been retracted because of the above errors 7 - When proper tests were independently run on the vaccine, no hCG was detected So in summary - there is no hCG, and even if there was, the levels would be too low to cause an immune response. As for SV40, it's known and published that the problem was discovered in the early 60's and when the existing stocks contaminated with this virus (or one strain of it at least) was used up, people stopped getting it. SV40 is widespread amongst humans, including those who are either too old or too young to have received the contaminated polio vaccine. There is also no evidence that it causes any harm. There is no way to get nano-sized particles of aluminum thought the gut lining absent severely damaging the physiology of that structure. Except there is. Aluminium in your diet and drinking water is absolutely absorbed through your GI tract, which is why aluminium is detectable in everybody's blood. For reference, we consume about 10mg of aluminium daily from our food and up to 5,000mg (5g) from a single dose of antacid medication. A typical vaccine contains around 0.01mg. I had both mumps and chickenpox, as did every other kid in my cohort, and I can assure you it was no big deal. And in other news, world hunger isn't real because I've just eaten. Anecdotes != evidence. My hypothesis is that the detergents (tween-80) they tend to add to the brew is one of the main reasons. I figure that it is added mostly to break down the lipid layers which make the blood-brain barrier do it's job (probably for the purpose of allowing other goodies in the concoction through) and often enough some bacteria or virus sneaks in as well. 1 - Polysorbate 80 is a surfactant, not a detergent 2 - Because it is a surfactant, it is added to several vitamins, supplements, and medications (not just vaccines) as a stabilizer (as well as many foods and soaps) 3 - The blood brain barrier depends on a lot more than "lipid layers" to do its job 4 - Polysorbate 80 does not "break down" the phospholipid bilayer which comprises cell membranes. If it did, your skin would fall off every time you used soap or shampoo and your GI tract would break down every time you ate anything from ice cream to BBQ sauce
See, you guys are on balance woefully ignorant of physiology and science generally. This statement, given your above ignorance on all things medical and scientific, gave me a good chuckle. |
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Which is why I'm asking this again and again that can't even DT members be trusted for this? It's not a question of trust. It's a question of bias. Even if you completely trust me (for example) to vote/select users based on what I think is best for the forum, I am more likely to select users whose views more closely align with my own than those whose views significantly differ. Everyone holds biases, intentional or not. Multiply that up a couple of times, and you are left with DT becoming an echo chamber of self-reinforcing ideas. This is not an optimal solution. Still, I think there is nothing wrong in asking their opinion on whom to be added to the DT members list, may it be public or in an encrypted format and only be seen by the admins. These data are already available by looking at each DT1 user's personal trust list here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;full;dt |
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I still remember the last time he tweeted about XVG, the price got pumped heavily. A quick pump that lasted for a few hours. But now, any coin that has his name as an advisor is dying. There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. What a trash coin that was. Looking at CMC, glad it seems to have died a death too. Marketcap peaked at $4.3 billion, now less than $100 million. Volume peaked at $1.4 billion, now less than $1 million. The only coin McAfee has ever recommended that isn't dead or dying is bitcoin. Can we see that as a recommendation to ignore everything he says, or just to stay away from alts in general? Probably both. |
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Even if satoshi's forum account suddenly woke up, I'm sure it's going to be met with scathing suspicion. It won't, because it has been locked by theymos: When will we see Satoshi's account being used soon?
You won't, since I locked his account long ago. The password hashes leaked in 2015 aren't even his original hashes. Even if someone did manage to properly sign a message from the genesis block, that still wouldn't be enough proof that they were Satoshi in my opinion. It is entirely within the realms of possibility that someone other than Satoshi had access to some of the initial private keys, intentionally or otherwise. Identity is far more than the possession of a forum account or private keys. |
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Bitcoin Core is the software which allows bitcoin to function. Very simply, you can imagine that Bitcoin Core is to bitcoin as Internet Explorer is to the internet.
Bitcoin Core functions as a full node, which means it will store the entire history of all bitcoin transactions ever made (known as the blockchain), and will verify any new transactions made. It will also function as a bitcoin wallet.
The top two links in the previous reply are good places to go for more info.
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I don't think McAfee is a respected member. I was literally typing this when you posted it. McAfee is a joke. The ICOs he shilled were purely for payment, as it emerged he was being paid over $100,000 for every tweet. Everything he did was for personal profit - he didn't care what he recommended, and he didn't care who lost money in the process, as long as he was paid. He's a criminal and a scammer, and the community would do well to ignore him. Here are a few of his "recommendations": Burst - https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/944206175100424193 - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/burst/ - dying, price from 12 cents to 0.4 cents, volume from $57 million to $12,000 Humaniq - https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/945293044252905472 - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/humaniq/ - dying, price from 61 cents to 0.8 cents, volume from $140 million to $50,000 Reddcoin - https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/944929837671690241 - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/reddcoin/ - price from 3 cents to 0.1 cents, volume from $200 million to $70,000 |
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See here for independent evaluations of many commonly used anti-virus programs: https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/Even Windows Defender isn't bad these days provide you aren't an idiot. The best anti-virus is common sense. Don't visit any suspicious links, and don't download anything without verifying/scanning it first. There are plenty of sites which will scan an online file before you download it. Don't give away your email to anyone and everyone to flood with malicious attachments and links, and definitely don't go downloading random altcoin/token wallets. |
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There are many different ways to properly cite/reference a source in a scientific paper. You can read about them all here: http://libguides.reading.ac.uk/citing-references/referencingstylesIn Satoshi's original whitepaper, he follows a Vancouver referencing style, where citations are simply made by a number in square brackets (or sometimes as superscript), with a list of references as an appendix at the end of the paper, listed in the order in which they appear in the paper. You can find instructions and examples on how to cite in the Vancouver style here, and how to construct your list of references in the Vancouver style here. For Satoshi's original whitepaper, I would cite it in the Vancouver style as follows: Nakamoto S. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. 2008. Available from: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdfFor citing a webpage, it depends very much on what part of the page you are citing, and if it is written by an individual author or not. You can see my links above to help, or post a direct link here and I can show you how I would reference it. |
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due to the fact that users frequently publish good and useful topics but no one gives them the benefit until it becomes like casinos rely on luck. This has been brought up many times before. It's impossible to properly quantify since awarding merit is completely subjective, but all available evidence is that this simply isn't true. There are several merit sources who spend a great deal of their time searching for good, unmerited posts - they are few and far between. If you do find good posts which you think deserve merit, please link to them in this thread: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source. Looking through your post history though, roughly half your posts seem to be in Off Topic - this board has one of the lowest merit-per-post ratios because it is so full of spam. I would suggest you will have a hard time finding many merit-worthy posts in there. |
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-snip- So just like Coinbase's new wallet feature, it's all backed up to a cloud server, protected by a simple user defined (and therefore horrendously weak in >95% of cases) password. Absolutely awful. If this is true, then this is worse than just installing a normal software wallet like Coinomi on your phone. At least with a software wallet, you phone actually has to be stolen or compromised first. With a cloud back up, your keys and coins could be gone while you sleep. I don't have a Samsung account, but what are the recovery methods? If someone hacks your email, or convinces your phone company to transfer your number (happens way more than you would think), then presumably they can just reset your Samsung account password and then use that to get your private keys? I'm disappointed to say the least. |
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To think of it, torturing is way worse than surrendering your crypto. Getting maimed/ killed just to protect your crypto is just too scary.
If you are in the situation of the "$5 wrench attack", there is also nothing stopping the attacker from forcing you to log in to your online banking or reveal your credit/debit card PINs and clearing out all your fiat as well. -snip- Deniable plausibility only works as long as it is deniable. A hidden and encrypted OS behind a password is no more secure per se than a hidden wallet behind a passphrase on a hardware wallet, provided you set them both up correctly and there is no way to prove they exist. |
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Really looking forward to the United - Liverpool game as a neutral! On one hand, I really like Liverpool at the moment and really want them to win the league over City, and on the other hand I've always loved OGS and what he's done for these United players in such a short space of time has been phenomenal. Will hopefully be a great game regardless of the score. No idea how my uninformed blundering has managed to get me up to second place, but I seem to have been managing to close the gap on LFC by a point or so each week. At this rate, I might catch you by the end of the season. Although saying that, I'm sure I've just jinxed it and you'll outscore me by 5 this week.  |
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