I had a run in with user almost a year ago, you can see it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2983886.msg30681856#msg30681856.

I remember it well because he took a picture of the operating theater he was working in, with an anaesthetised patient on the table, to prove he was a doctor. The writing on the anaesthetic machine in those photos is Turkish - which is in keeping with his previous posting history of broken English. The combination of a 6 month gap, changed password and email, significantly improved English skills, and immediate enrollment in a signature campaign suggests this is a bought account.

I suppose we could bring him to the thread and I could quiz him on his anesthetic knowledge?

Edit:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3024557.msg49115762#msg49115762. Now just have to hope he sees it.

True. But just to be devil's advocate - suchmoon's thread has been open for several months, and is similarly barren in terms of links to good posts. You would have thought at some point in the last 4 months a handful of these users complaining about merit, of which there are many, might have remembered to post a link or two. Still, I'll continue to be on the hunt for good lower ranked members with my shiny new source allocation.

To address the other points regarding abuse, there are several ways to prevent this. Allowing it for junior members and up only seems a logical first step - if you are unable to gain a single merit yourself, then you probably aren't a good judge of what constitutes a meritable post. One report per week for juniors, with the time limit decreasing as you go up in rank. Blocked from using it if you continually suggest trash. Unable to report your own posts. Having said that, if this thread remains open for months and has minimal uptake, then I think spending time and effort on such a feature is probably a waste.

This seems to be a recurring theme that's just being played on repeat. A user complains loudly about all the "great newbie posts not getting merited". An offer is made to provide links to these posts so we can shower them with merit. We get no response. The user in question then either conveniently forgets about the whole thing or disappears altogether. Then nothing for a few weeks until the next user complains and the whole thing starts again.



I had forgotten about that, haha! Wait, isn't a sign of narcissism to be laughing at your own jokes? Oh dear. I wonder what ever happened to that guy. He's been inactive for a month or two. I wonder if he ever did send 127.0.0.1 to his "lawyers" for investigation.

To answer all your questions one by one:

If you can't even keep track of when a coin is launching its own blockchain, then you definitely can't keep track of the more nuanced and less advertised developments for said coin. You should definitely reduce the number of coins you are invested in.

No, Coinomi does not provide notifications for token swaps. As far as I know, no multi-coin wallet does, and why should they? You should be able to keep an eye on your own coins.

Yes, Ledger Nano S supports multiple ethereum addresses. No, it does not notify you of token swaps.

As many as you want. Each address can hold ERC20 tokens.

Coinomi is a widely used multi currency wallet. There is no such thing as the "best" wallet.

It's not up for debate. Posting multiple times in a row is against the forum rules: Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ. No one is ganging up on you for pointing out you broke the (widely known and well established) rules.

If you've made a post, and want to reply to another post, the edit your original post to contain the new information. Don't double post. Simple.

I'm pretty disappointed, to be perfectly honest.

The big selling points seem to be Bluetooth and 100 apps at once. No one needs 100 apps at once. Hardly anyone needs more than 10 apps at once. If you need more than 10, then I can guarantee you are holding some utter trash coins. I have never used Bluetooth in my life, and don't plan to start now. I also wouldn't take a hardware wallet out in public with me to use with a phone - why make yourself a target like that? Regardless, it seems the Nano S will work with the Android app via a USB cable.

The only plus side I can see is maybe I'll be able to get another Nano S at a cheaper price.

But you will then be learning from all reports, and not all good reports, so you may be erroneously led in to believing some things are against the rules when in fact they aren't. In addition, context matters massively. There are many sentences I could write, which in one thread may be on-topic and constructive, whilst in another thread might be off-topic and spam. Trying to rote learn which exact posts are good and which exact posts are bad is an inferior method to understanding the rules and the reasoning behind why those posts are good or bad.

I fully understand the reasons for not showing if a post has been reported. What would be useful, however, would be to see if a post has been reported by you. When reports are sometimes taking a couple of days to be handled, I often find myself back in the same spam megathreads and having to check my report log to see which posts I have already reported. A little indicator would be very useful, but I don't know how easy (or otherwise) that would be to program.

I've watched the video, thanks. At no point do they demonstrate anything running on the Ledger outside of Bootloader mode. They do not demonstrate they can extract PINs, seeds, private keys or coins, or that they can sign malicious transactions with or without a user keypress. They do state they have a method for this, but they do not demonstrate it. They also state, at 27:40, that another YouTube channel will walk through their method/process. That video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBktKw9Is4. Again, it is a good video and well worth the watch, but he also states at 09:15 that this is all theoretical and he does not have a working proof of concept.

I'm not trying to be obtuse or confrontational here, and please link me to sections in the video that I may be glossing over, but my point was that this is all theoretical. At no point to they demonstrate they can actually compromise the device.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong here, but my understanding was that they installed a custom bootloader only. When the Nano S is started in bootloader mode, the secure element does not allow access to it, and it doesn't even boot. To push a transaction to the secure element they would have to start the Nano S in standard mode, which would require the MCU check, which they did not demonstrate being able to bypass.

Again, Rashid did not follow Ledger's Bounty Program, which he himself admits, instead choosing to publicly publish his findings. You can't expect them to pay people who don't follow the requirements for payment.

True, and he is a fairly well known (albeit controversial) speaker. Perhaps this is where the next wave of adoption comes from - speakers and users abandoning platforms pushing their own agenda of censorship and moving towards decentralized platforms, and taking all their fans with them. Having said that, in that scenario I would fully expect the opponents of these controversial figures to start claiming that bitcoin is enabling hate-speech, or something equally stupid.

bob123, I assume. He is one of the guys I had in mind when when I was talking about users that do get some merit, but not enough for how good and helpful they are. He posts almost exclusively in the Technical Boards, which probably explains why you don't run in to him much.

Re: TalkStar, I think you are confusing with Talk merit.

Not quite. He is voluntary leaving Patreon as a protest against Patreon deplatforming other people based on their political views. Also, the man worked full time as a professor of psychology at the universities of Toronto and Harvard, as well as having a full clinical practice of 20 patients a week. He gave up both to instead give guest lectures, interviews, Q&As, panels, author books, etc, which all pay well. Any time he wanted to, he could go back in to private clinical practice, which also pays very well. Sure, he was probably making a lot of money through Patreon, but he's not exactly counting on donations to "help him keep going".

I did the same as marlboroza, and took her off ignore to read her new thread. What a mistake that was. Against my better judgement pointed out that complaining about censorship when she locks her own threads to prevent anyone from responding to her latest nonsense was just a tad hypocritical. I have no doubt she's completely ignored my point and simply insulted me and all the other "gang members", but I'm not interested enough to find out. Back on ignore.

A momentary lapse. It won't happen again.

Not only that, but there is zero chance you can keep track of what is happening with every coin. If, as OP says, he can't even keep track of which ones are launching their own blockchain and performing a token swap (arguably the biggest event possible for an ERC20 token), then how is he going to keep track of things like technical developments, issues, hacks, news, wallets, team members, etc, that may affect a coin's performance or use. Not to mention the fact that there aren't 25 altcoins with an actual real world use.



This is it in a nutshell. You are trading your security for convenience. It would be more convenient to just leave you front door unlocked and not have to worry about carrying your keys around all the time. It would be more convenient to just use the password "123456" for everything, and then you don't have to bother with remembering complicated passwords or using password managers or any of that stuff. It's more convenient to just leave your coins on the exchange after you've bought them, and not waste time setting up your own wallet or securing your own keys. However, these are all equally terrible ideas. There are far too many things that can happen to exchanges (as history has shown us) that will leave you unable to access your coins. If you aren't actively trading, transfer to your own wallet.

Glad my misery amuses you.

That'll teach me to try and do something nice. Off to report 100 shitposters in a fit of rage to let off steam.

Oh, god damn it. Just when I thought I had found a genuinely good newbie...

I did review his post history, and found another post by him on Technical Discussion that was quite good, and so thought he deserved a merit. He also didn't seem like a shitposter. I would have given him a pass on the post you linked, since the usernames are the same, but on closer inspection this post is a direct lift from here.

Reported for a ban. Sigh.

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Edit: Banned

Given as well that many people will be automatically signed in to their email addresses and use their smartphone as a 2FA, combining your phone with your actual wallet as well really seems like putting all your eggs in one basket. An easily lost or stolen basket, particularly if you are broadcasting to everyone that you own a hardware wallet every time you take your phone out of your pocket.



I suppose this would be easily overcome with wireless charging, which most new phones have.

I took you off ignore to read your first post, and boy, that was a mistake.

You seem to have a big issue with people not listening to facts. Well, here are some provable facts:

- You made a post filled with lies about me: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5086816.msg48784626#msg48784626
- You then locked that thread to prevent anyone from responding to your lies until you were called out on them in another thread
- You now start another thread crying about censorship

Pot, kettle, black, anyone? You don't care about the truth in any situation. You only care about your warped agenda. You complain about censorship, while actively censoring people you disagree with. You complain about who other people send their merits to, whilst also stating that you will merit whomever you please. It seems to be one rule for you, and a separate set of rules for everyone else.

I have no doubt you will delete this comment, but I won't start a thread crying about it because I understand what self-moderated threads are. I'm also expecting a full page of rambling insults as per usual, but I won't read them.

According to DdmrDdmr's data Development & Technical Discussion has fewer overall merits than many other boards (~7k in 10 months, compared to 12k for Bitcoin Discussion, 27k for Meta, and 22k for Economics). However, it has the highest merit-to-post ratio at 0.566, which is around 2x Meta, 10x Economics and 20x Bitcoin Discussion. So although posts there are generally the highest merited of anywhere on the forum, I still think there are some posts that are under-merited for how good they are.



Definitely agree here. I very rarely comment in Technical Discussion, but I read it a lot. Some of the content, particularly from users like gmaxwell and Coding Enthusiast, are way above my level of knowledge, but I figure if you never read things you don't understand/challenge you, then you'll never learn more, and learning more about the technical side of bitcoin is something that I think is good for everyone in this space.



I was thrilled to find one just yesterday (here if you are interested). It reminded me the initial reason I started trawling these threads was in search of good posts and not just to mass report spammers, which unfortunately seems to be what the majority of my time in that board is spent doing.

You need to be a Junior Member to post images, which has an activity requirement of 28 in addition to a Merit requirement of 1.