If the official bitcoin forum is all of a sudden gone for good, I think the lack of a main forum for crypto would make things harder to focus on. This forum's administration has focused a lot of their efforts to increase quality and encourage community participation. Any other competing forum I'm sure would be too commercial and leaning towards corporate interests, ready to sell-out to any altcoin that would pay best other than staying loyal to bitcoin.

In bitcoin, is there a distiction between full nodes? I thought it was only in Ethereum where Vitalik had redefined the term.
I think it'd be better to keep terminology for what a full node is simple. Either you store all of the blockchain or you are not a full node.

Similar situation with the Athens stock exchange market. People were expecting great losses and there was a lot of divestment. After all, Athens is a center for investment for the Chinese. Chinese corporation have leased the country's main port for 100 years! But today the market recovered with gains at 6.38% in a single session! Just a small market but it shows how fragile markets can be under a sentiment.

This brings up another question: What's the best way to explain what provably fair gambling is? Astonishingly, there's no video as intuitive like the ones created by weusecoins . It's surprising to me that nobody has worked on making an easy to understand explanation, not even casinos. Perhaps crypto gambling businesses would rather remain underground with their existing userbase?! Who knows. I think the possibility of somebody to understand the advantages of provable fairness are also based on their propensity to understand trust-based structures. If somebody can't comprehend that gambling can be done in a trustless way, or what even "trustless" means, then they have a lot more to understand other to be able to comprehend provable fairness in gambling.

This is a good way to create transactions without exposing a private key, but if the "Offline" machine connects to the internet at any point (even let's say after uninstalling the wallet and deleting private keys from memory) then the address no longer cold storage.

All you need to do is  store the public key. This key is good for giving to anyone. It can only be used to query the balance in the address and/or send BTC to you. Basically you'll only need to connect the wallet to the a machine with an internet connection once you need to move the coins. But remember that once your private key hits the net then your storage is no longer "Cold" and you should forget about any benefits associated with offline storage.

If you use the private key in a wallet connected online, you should move the rest of the coins to a new address generated offline if you'd like to maintain the benefits of offline storage.

I think porn sites are already aware of bitcoin but as a matter of fact would rather not accept it due to the amount of support associated with it. They have to dedicate too many man hours for what turns out to be too small of a source for revenue for them. It's proven to be the case with big social media website Reddit also. Who stopped accepting bitcoin citing that it wasn't used enough to justify integration. Seems like the general public isn't that interested in paying with bitcoin, regardless of the benefits. And in the U.S. it's also pretty easy to buy anonymous prepaid visa and mastercard from grocery stores which just drived demand further down.

Any bookmaker or at least p2p site where we could bet on super Tuesday outcomes with crypto? I'm specifically interested to see if there's any trusted site that provides good coverage for political events in the United States. Anyone know any good ones?

This very mindset to me is causing harm indirectly. Team owners in some leagues have proven that they an get away with anything, from match fixing to narco-traficking. Pumping money into betting that we know they can fix, is just earning them a bigger cut from their winnings based on their ability to fix results. The money is not maybe affecting the team's outlook, but ends up in the team owner's pocket to fund more criminal acts or launder some of their criminal earnings.

I hadn't thought of that... Indeed, more processing power would be needed if you have to go two pages deep and it's done frequently.
Profile "Last active" field is for log in time, which is not connected to having posted anything recently. Because of this, I'm saying that the the last post time metric would be more relevant in the top activity page. With latest post time you can see the metric that matters for a profile ranking up in activity.

I think that if latest post time is getting implemented, it'd be good to force a scrape for the top 1000 activity accounts and fill this field for them first. Other BPIP profiles could start displaying a last post time field once/if a profile refresh is requested. And after an post date field has been filled for a user, I guess updates could be happening by monitoring the recent page.

For what it's worth, I wanted to see how fast users' latest post times could be scraped. Bitcointalk doesn't take long to load but the rate limit is what makes the process harder. Here's the table I compiled. It might not be useful but I was just experimenting.

I wouldn't do that to be honest. Betting with crypto is hard to trace back to a real person's ID and I would guess that a government would never bother unless there's some really serious indications towards money laundering. I'd only track some gross earning if I'd wanted to cash out a big sum in FIAT but otherwise, if it's below tax limits then it'd keep it... No reason for government to know.

Such coins are not much more than a joke. 42 coin started as a joke and I am very suprised that it's still having ANY volumes at all. I'm wondering why any exchange would list it. With no incentive to mine it I could only guess that its network is probably very vulnerable to 51% attacks. Perhaps the volumes it even has on coinmarketcap aren't representative of reality. I now see there's also another altcoin above BTC but being a direct bitcoin fork I would guess it also doesn't have a great future. It only bets on having a big per coin value based on low maximum supply...

Today crypto also experienced some gains with most coins being Green. What's worrying to me  is that other major coins experience greater gains, but BTC is also in the green nevertheless. It's worth noting that there really wasn't any valid indication of support for levels above 10k USD so anyone claiming otherwise probably wasn't looking at buy/sell walls. Now the real test is lower level support and I think so fat BTC is showing good signs of support. If resistance subsides this time a rally would have better foundations to start on.

Thanks for this tool. It's very useful to have it as PM and I appreciate your work. I'm currently subscribed to a service that allows receiving notifications for merits and quotes but the issue with it is that these notifications simply go away once you click them. Maybe the OP bot could be upgraded to also have the option of notifying for thread responses and merits? Then it'd be a catch all service.

Also, regarding concerns users have had here, I think we should be appreciative of OP's efforts to create something useful. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. There's no direct harm that can come from being in the receiving end of a PM. As of having your IP grabbed from a website, I'd agree that it's a possibility but there isn't much that can be done with that alone. I wouldn't associate malice to that simply because of the username.

If you yourself don't know how to verify provable fairness, the existence of such technology means that every bet is verifiable by anyone. If you don't to it yourself means that you still trust that it works. But it's much better than verification by third parties. If let's say the casino has a seal from a trusted authority, the tests only happened in one time at a certain point for their games. This is also trust based but much worse than having every bet at any point as provable fair. With fair technology, anyone COULD verify their bets if they ever felt the need to. Everything else is pointless in comparison.

Next up, how to have an extra dose of serotonin administered to you automatically whenever something good happens to your bitcointalk profile. Connect IRL with the (((crypto space))). OP should join the Theranos board of directors for some more sci-fi scenarios.

My first question here, is how you get friends that are in crypto and online gambling in the first place? The very few people I have stumbled upon that knew about crypto dice (arguably the most well k own form of gambling with crypto) were also passionate IRL gamblers and would go in a casino any chance they had.

By investing principles, you should only invest part of your income after spending. With high risk assets, only a portion of that should go with them. Serious funds that I best in high risk investments maybe go in at 2% of their funds.

So if you are a working class person, spending 10% of your income in investment and let's even say 5% of that in BTC, then you put in so little that with the risk it carries is utterly pointless. Better put cash in a lottery ticket or a horse race every once in a while.

That would be nice. If you can keep both days fields then only for recently a drive accounts is also fine. But what really is the limitation that restricts you from getting latest post date for longer inactive accounts?

Pretty much any country with public insurance nd single payer medical care also allows private insurance. It's a common theme kn Europe. In my view it wouldn't make sense to do anything different. Why completely block a potential aspect of the economy from functioning? Naturally it only makes more sense for those wishing to have extra services for example, but still leaves space for a market.

To me though, the biggest achievement of a single payer system can be the price of medicine. Greece for example, has had a single payer system and anyone with employment can't opt out from having his primary insurance with the public funds. So it is a pretty strict system. But this system along with some smart legislation has allowed for Greece to have enough bargaining power with big pharma and now we have some of the cheapest medicine in the west.