While reporting some spammers today, I ran into some limits as to my activity. Specifically, I was unable to report posts more frequently than once every 4 seconds.

Is there anything I can do to have these limits increased?

*not tax advice*

I understand that the appraised fair market value would be the price of bitcoin times the number of bitcoin you are donating.

My advice would be to contract with a tax professional who is familiar with your individual tax situation to help you fill out this form.

There are many like this person. Report his posts, and he should get nuked.

This is often not possible for many new users wanting to conduct trades.

IMO, much better advice is to confirm off-forum contact details with the person you want to communicate with personally before trusting anything someone says in an off-forum communication channel. Make the person tell you their contact information. Don't accept someone on an off-forum channel telling you they are xx member without verification.

Nicehash is providing a service to their customers, and are earning income from providing said services (connecting buyers with sellers of mining equipment temporarily -- those who are wanting to rent mining equipment with those who want to rent their mining equipment). Their customers are paying for said services.

Noone is forcing anyone into continuing to do business with NH. No one will do business with NH unless they provide substantial value to their customers. If NH provides less value to their customers than other competitors, then few people will do business with them.

NH will forward a portion of their income to the people they owe coin to. This is similar to a loan that someone takes out. If you borrow money, you will generally use money that you earn to repay that loan.

Downloading something from the internet on a cold storage device is not the best of ideas. It is most ideal for a cold storage device to have never touched the internet.

I am also not a fan of using paper wallets as a means of cold storage. If you were to generate a wallet on your cold storage phone, there is a subset of possible vulnerabilities in which your phone could leak your private keys. If you use a paper wallet to store your private keys, you will be subject to the same vulnerabilities as if you were storing the private keys on your phone, and in addition will be subject to additional vulnerabilities when you print your paper wallet, and when you move the private keys from your paper wallet to your cold storage phone.

Email notifications alert users when certain actions are taken (such as a password change), and allow them to lock their account. This limits the damage that can be done when an account is hacked. It is not quite as good as 2FA, but is a step in the right direction.

I don't think there would be much benefit to this. Anyone who could gain access to a person's password, should also be able to learn their PIN...assuming the PIN is static.

Google does ~everything via automation, and while this may be obvious to a human, it may be less obvious to google's automation.

Google will only access a webpage every so often, and as long as google's crawlers see the page as of when the links are present on a thread, google will recognize the link as being on the thread.

The police are saying the human remains are those of the owner of the RV. They are also saying that he is a suspect in the bombing.

It is unclear if there is security tape of the RV itself where it was parked. It looks like this was made to look like a suicide, but who knows. If there is no video of the RV, it could be a fake suicide in order to cover up whatever the true purpose of the explosion was. I have read a report that the RV owner had recently transferred the deed of his house to someone else, which would be consistent with a suicide (giving away his possessions).

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It looks like there was a fake copycat with someone in an RV blasting a song that the RV was playing prior to the explosion.

I am not sure this is a valid assumption. In theory, malware could modify what your phone does when you initiate a factory reset. I would rather buy a new phone from a random store in person. There is still the possibility your phone will have malware, but it should remove the possibility you will be specifically targeted.
How are you getting electrum onto your phone? Are you downloading it?

If this is true, why actually make it explode? The explosion will result in security cameras being more scrutinized, and the penalty is much harsher if they get caught.

If this was part of a robbery plot, I think more time would have been given and the bomb wouldn’t have exploded (or even maybe wouldn’t have been a bomb).

Not quite.

If you are pardoned for a crime, you can no longer be convicted for said crime. This means you are no longer protected by the 5th amendment against being forced to testify against yourself. It is possible for someone to not recognize a pardon in order to not have to testify about their own involvement in illegal activity.

Accepting a pardon often implies the person is guilty. There are times in which this is not the case, for example, if additional evidence is made public that shows a person is innocent, but they cannot use this evidence because of a legal technicality.

This is possible. It could be an attempt to sow discord, or it could be a test run to see how effectively communication systems can be knocked offline.

The RV was parked in front of the AT&T building. As you noted, the RV warned people in the area well in advance of the pending explosion, and the explosion occurred at a time and place that would likely result in few casualties. If there are no casualties, there would not be as much public support for military action against whoever was responsible versus if there were many deaths.


This is possible, and is along the lines of what I thought when I heard about the explosion earlier today before I learned the RV was parked in front of the AT&T building. This particular attack caused fairly little disruption prior to the explosion, and plenty of time was given for people to evacuate to safety. The facts indicate care was taken to minimize the cost to citizens of the area.

You never know, but I guess this is possible. I think there are too many institutions that have spent 4 years "resisting" Trump for him to be able to realistically stay in office. The Trump administration has had way too many leaks for anyone to even consider trying this, IMO. I also don't see the benefit to Trump in staying in power illegitimately. Trump is already a multibillionaire, has considerable influence over the country, and is unlikely to be at risk of jail when he leaves office.

If this was the case, maybe there is a group within the 'deep state' that wants to go to war with Iran. A false flag attack to start a war with China or Russia sounds too crazy to me.


Today, it is very common (and sometimes even required) for people to be wearing facemasks in public. Whoever was driving the RV could have had a facemask on while driving, got out of the RV with a facemask on, and walked to a residential area without security cameras, where he was picked up by an Uber some number of hours later.

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I don't think this is an anti-5g group. 5g towers only reach about 1500 feet, so the impact to 5g specifically would have been low.

It may not be a single pool that is controlled by the same entity. It could be 5 pools that are controlled by a single entity (secretly), that always end up on the correct chain when a block gets orphaned. If the pools are paying out actual earnings, those that have a higher block orphan rate will end up paying out less.

This has been studied extensively.

The UK is not the only country that uses the dialect you describe. Australia is another country that uses a similar English dialect.

I would argue that this gives credence to CSW being satoshi. With that being said, there is also plenty of other evidence that suggests that CSW is not satoshi. Although it is difficult to prove a negative, I would say it is all but certain that CSW is in fact not satoshi, at least in my eyes (the evidence is overwhelming IMO).

As others have mentioned, it is possible this is all misdirection. IIRC, satoshi's posts were consistent with him living in the US, on the east coast, or having a similar sleep schedule as someone who lives there.

They make assumptions, and disprove null-hypothesis for certain sets of addresses. They may run their analysis multiple times before coming to a final conclusion.

These 'blockchain browsers' will not always be accurate.

I was referring to something along the lines of the attacker would occasionally orphan a block they don't like or refuse to confirm transactions that don't meet certain criteria.

I could see the miners revolting against a 51% attack that double spends transactions on any large scale, or orphans a chain of many blocks.

I would find it more likely that there is pent up demand for airline travel that will come once populations are vaccinated in larger numbers. Airlines have cut their schedules by over 50%, sometimes more.

It is not typical for businesses to save 'for a rainy day' as people should. Money that a business makes is generally either reinvested into the business, returned to shareholders, or in some cases stockpiled to be used for acquisitions. For the airlines, they did raise money via the debt markets at the start of the pandemic, but they could not keep their employees on their payroll and still meet their obligations to shareholders.

The airline bailout basically guarantees that their employees will stay employed by the airline, even if there is no available work. This means the airline can immediately call their employees back to work once there is sufficient demand. My guess is the airline employees are working enough such that they will not need to be retrained once airline demand goes back to where it was. If the employees were furloughed, some would not be willing to come back once demand picks returns to normal, and those that do come back would need to go through training again, which would delay their availability to perform actual work. The world is not experiencing a worker shortage currently, so one airline employee doing something productive would mean that one non-airline employee is not doing something productive.

I would note that the airline industry is getting a (second) bailout, but the hotel industry is not. The airline industry is very important to our national security. The airlines give us the ability to move both people and goods throughout the country. There is also a lot of economic activity that is possible because of airline travel. Without airlines, our economy suffers.



You make a fair point with regards to repurposing some of the airline employees to something that is in demand currently. I don't think the skills for airline employees are transferrable to the healthcare industry, and I believe the airlines have repurposed some of their planes to help with shipping medical supplies, PPE, and vaccines.

You are correct, without government support, businesses that are run poorly would go out of business, and this is good. Also, without government support, businesses also might take certain risks that is likely to spread the Coronavirus to both employees and the public, including the vulnerable, and this may result in hospitals being overwhelmed/overcapacity. I think the lockdowns were unnecessary and handled poorly, but I also don't think it would have been good public policy to encourage people to be congregating. People should have been able to make their own personal decisions regarding if they will stay home, but they should not have been forced to make the decision between risking spreading the virus, and making ends meet, especially in the spring when much about the virus was unknown.


My assumption is the changed conditions are temporary and will change back once the coronavirus is under control. If too many people go into industries that are temporarily in demand today due to the virus, there will be shortages once things get back to normal. I don't know when things will be back to normal, but I would anticipate that airline demand will be something closer to 2019 demand by this summer, depending on the speed of the vaccine rollout. Same with other businesses that are receiving PPP loans.

I believe we are in a 1 in 100-year pandemic/event, or possibly even rarer. I am willing to make exceptions to my normal beliefs in order to handle such an unusual event. My belief is that in 6 months or so, there will be economic demand similar to the economic demand in 2019. If too many workers are doing things that do not reflect 2019 demand, there will be shortages (and higher inflation) of goods and services.

The PPP loans, were given to businesses, but the ultimate beneficiary was the businesses' employees (if the loans were taken as the spirit of the program intended). The benefit to the businesses was that they would not need to have the expense of hiring and training new employees once economic demand gets back to normal.

An attacker could send coin to someone, receive something of value in return, wait n confirmations, and double-spend the transaction via an alternate blockchain. I would consider this to be stealing.

Depending on how severe the 51% attack is, an attacker could direct their own equipment towards a pool they control and get miners to mine on their pool via higher actual mining earnings. The pool would have higher mining earnings because it wouldn't have its blocks orphaned.

It is really best to not have your phone number be a method to verify your identity or authenticate your access. Last year, Jack Dorsey (the founder of Twitter), had tweets sent on his behalf because someone was able to impersonate his phone number. Changing your number would potentially allow an attacker to have legitimate access to your old phone number, and might be able to impersonate you. I am also not sure how easy it is to get a previously unused phone number.

I would rather use google authenticator or some other time based code as a means of authentication.