No. You did not understand what I said. Here is an ELI5...

Say, I am running a mixer. I have a clearnet version as well as a .onion one. I show this address on my homepage & bitcointalk thread and declare that I'll sign a message through it as letter of guarantee - 1HRnZx1ukJ338WfcqK6T59ZEWTuzehUcu1. The letter of guarantee will contain the deposit address signed by the mixer. An user can verify whether the deposit address he/she has received through Tor browser is signed by this address, i.e. 1HRnZx1ukJ338WfcqK6T59ZEWTuzehUcu1, which itself can be cross verified by visiting the home page or bitcointalk thread on clearnet.

Now, you are running a rogue Tor node and want to change the deposit address. Tell me, how can you provide a letter of guarantee containing that changed deposit address signed by the address visible on my homepage & bitcointalk thread through clearnet, i.e. 1HRnZx1ukJ338WfcqK6T59ZEWTuzehUcu1?

LMAO. But people still keep trying.

You could easily avoid this problem by providing a letter of guarantee. A rogue tor node won't be able to sign a message with an address, that is under your control.

Moreover, I believe, the use .onion address by mixing services is a farce, as long as they exist on clearnet. Users can access the clearnet domain from Tor browser. .onion primarily serves two purpose...

1. It mitigates MITM attack - If you provide letter of guarantee, MITM is not possible anymore. Because, except for the original server, no one else do have the ability to sign a message with an address, that is publicly declared on clearnet to be owned by the mixing service.

2. It hides the original server - If you already have a version running on clearnet, your server is just a few clicks away from 3 letter agencies. You can keep your data encrypted though. But having an .onion address does not give users any extra benefit.

True. But, how does Chainalysis know whether the coin is actually dirty or has a travel history from a service similar to the one in your signature?

I'll be surprised if they don't mix it before taking it to some exchange wallet.

Prove it first.

Many might get surprised, but the truth is, it is perfectly legal to edit a publicly available image and using it to a different purpose, other than it was originally intended.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariou_v._Prince

If anyone of you care to check origin of the puzzle image, you'll find that it is not the high definition one sold by the artist. It is a low definition representative image readily available on Google hosted by various web portals.

Moreover, in conversation with artist, CPD Project claimed that they purchased this final image from another artist, based on relevant keywords. If that is true, then they do not have any moral responsibility either, because, they paid for it themselves.

In any case, if the artist still believes that using this image for puzzle is illegal, she can always move to court. But, to the best of my understanding of this issue, she has a lost case here.

DM me the demo link please.

I have seen that a few are doing this as a signature within post body as well.

Say, X is merit source for Russian sub-forum. Will X be able to use his/her sMerit to merit Y on Service Announcements?

So, in short, you do price prediction for various coins. Is it?

If I participate in a poll on BitcoinTalk, will the poll creator be able to see who did I vote for?

A multi-millionaire, or probably a billionaire, with zero personal ambition!

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Hence, I'll suggest to replace it in OP with CoinSwitch.co.

How so I know the Bumping Power of an user?

What? Ever heard of the term Provably Fair?

Please read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provably_fair

I missed this question of yours. The more valuable things theymos can create in this forum, the more people will be attracted here. Why? Because they can trade those valuable things. Forum is acting like a market and theymos is the supreme authority of that market. Now, what are those valuable things created by theymos? Rank, trust and merit.

As I said ~4 years ago, "Theymos is more intelligent than most of the people here."

Recently? How long are you around? The very concept of DefaultTrust in an anonymous forum is fundamentally flawed. Human trust system does not work unless real world identity is at stake. Here, you really dont know whether Alice, Bob, Jeff etc. are all the same person. Most of the people in DT and the people trying to be in DT are doing it for one simple reason - To break trust and gain at some point directly or indirectly. Disagreed? Right?

Tell me how many of our today's great DT members left +ve trust for Friedcat? They were mostly at the top of FC's ponzi. They all gained. But, they are still there. Same for Tradefortress and Pirate@40. These real scumbags were never kicked out of DT.

Now, in the new trust system, this corrupted status quo is being challenged. This is creating a jitter among them. They are trying to circulate as much merit among the old group as possible and scathing to be a merit source to have as much as possible 250 merited alts. Some are even demanding DT to be Legendary only!

The show will go on...

Does anyone know what happened to the cypto launched by Venezuela?

This concept has been tried over years in the crypto space. Trust me, it is not going to take off.