Just had a power cut. I'll do it once I'm back up and running.

There is no new altcoin. The upcoming Ethereum fork (Constantinople) is an upgrade only, not a split in to a new coin. It plans to implement 5 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs). The upgrade aims to (very simply) make several things you can do with Ethereum more efficient and therefore cost less fees, and also continues the progress towards Proof of Stake.

You don't have to do anything with your Ethereum, regardless of where it is stored.

You can read more about the upgrade here: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/wiki/Constantinople-Progress-Tracker

This is some incredible investigative work. Even if these accounts are not owned by the same person, they are owned by the same two or three people who farm accounts, abuse bounties, and promote ponzis/scams for their own benefit.

Very interested to hear the response to this.

I mean, even if your culture has no such thing as plagiarism, I would still think the old saying "When in Rome" would apply. When you want to get involved in a new community, it is wise to learn their customs before doing so.

However, given the vast number of "Why was I banned" threads that appear in Meta, and that >99% of them are because of plagiarism, I do think a red text warning below the "Post" and "Preview" buttons would be helpful.

As of this morning, I now get 4 votes.

I think that would be sensible, not just as a punishment for being banned, but also so we don't see an ever increasing number of abandoned accounts with static trust lists. If a well trusted member goes rogue, we could be in a situation where we are permanently relying on other DT1 exclusions to keep them off DT1 thanks to unmaintained trust lists.

I think you're right. I had assumed the opposite - a combined total - but on re-reading theymos' post, I am probably mistaken.

Which one?

Presumably they could also have some combination of 250-votes and 10-votes to bring them up their earned merit limit.

My question is, let's say a hypothetical user with 10 earned merits has two users on their trust list, and both these users are one vote away from becoming DT1. How does the system decide who gets it?

Put me in for $6095.

There is a thread here (Collection of 18.509 found and used Brainwallets) with a pretty good discussion going about used Brainwallets, including a link to a collection of almost 19,000 used Brainwallets and their corresponding passphrase: https://eli5.eu/brainwallet/index.html. It doesn't show the private keys, but you can easily work them out for yourself from the passphrase if you want.

Your point is that some people are educated in a system where plagiarism essentially does not exist, and so coming here they do not understand it. I'm going to go off on a slight tangent here, but I hope you will indulge me while I make my point:

In my professional life, NSFW does not exist. I work in healthcare, and so am exposed to nudity, blood, guts, gore, malnourishment, injuries, deformities, military causalities, death, etc, on a daily basis. I write and review for journals, attend and present at meetings and conferences, lecture students, teach on courses, discuss online, and have never once seen or used a "NSFW" tag, even when the content includes some of the most horrific pictures imaginable. This is the standard that my colleagues and I live and work by.

However, I have the common sense to realize that if I am approaching a new medium of discussion, that it is wise to familiarize myself with and adhere to their rules, as these rules may be different to what I am accustomed to. If I went around sharing pictures of severed limbs and other such things that are commonplace in my day-to-day on this forum, then I would be banned and it would be entirely my own fault.

I'm afraid I have very little time for the people who protest their ban by pleading ignorance. It takes all of 5 minutes to read the rules.

Yes, but S_Therapist admits in this post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5096681.msg49212865#msg49212865) that utlptc is his other account, and the one he initially used to buy the S_Therapist account.

Edit: *used to buy the pkmoney account. My mistake.

I mean, yes, you could do all those things for increased security. But it would be safer, easier and cheaper to just use any old laptop/PC you have lying around, remove the WiFi card, format it, install an open source OS of your choice and run it as an airgapped wallet. Or if you want a really easy option, just buy a hardware wallet.

And you've been using it to cheat on forum giveaways:

If you bought BTC from him, why was he also paying you in cash? Regardless, you just said earlier in this thread that he visited you to pay back the loan you had given him:



Which is it? He visited you so you could buy BTC from him or so he could pay back his loan?

Which is why I said "consistently". You said he's only been to your house once, which would explain his IP matching yours once. If his IP matches yours consistently, then we know you are lying.

But as I said, IPs not matching doesn't prove your innocence.

This is easily avoided by using different VPN servers for each account, using one account on PC with landline/fiber and the other via mobile data, using one account only via Tor, using one account over public or neighbor's wifi, etc.

If the IPs are consistently the same then it proves it, but if they are different then it doesn't disprove it.

This certainly doesn't sound like someone who "respects you a lot":



If you were trying to maintain a degree of separation from him, then why do you keep sending him merits?



Is this the other account in question? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=156044

Windows 7 is old, obviously, but is actually still supported and will continue to receive security updates for another year - until January 14th 2020: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/end-of-windows-7-support

Having said that, I can see why people don't want to move from Windows 7 to 10. As we've seen in this thread, Windows 10 is an absolute privacy nightmare. Even if you are completely unfamiliar with linux, you have a year to learn before Windows 7 is no longer updated. That would be a better option than upgrading to Windows 10, in my opinion.

Not at all. Feedback and trust lists are two completely different things.

Leaving feedback for someone is a statement of whether or not you would trust them in a trade. Adding or excluding someone from your trust list is a statement about their judgement of others. There are users on this forum with whom I would trade, but I would not necessarily trust their judgements of others. Similarly, there are users on this forum who I would not trade with (without an escrow), but whose judgement of others I trust to be accurate.

Some merit sources have spent hours or even days of their time searching for good posts to merit over the last 11 months, and have received absolutely nothing in return other than a warm feeling inside. Actually, that's a lie - they do sometime receive abuse or accusations that they are "insider trading" or part of some "inner circle", or that they aren't doing their "jobs" properly and missing hundreds of great newbie posts.

I'm afraid I'm with suchmoon on this - complaining you feel undervalued after finding 2 posts (both by users with a fairly solid history of gaining merit) is cringeworthy at best and self entitled at worst. This thread shouldn't be seen as an exercise to gain merit for yourself, but rather as way to help build the community. If you consistently contribute, then you may gain some merits yourself.