Doing this will reduce privacy for the OP because all of his incoming transactions will be associated with each other. It will also be more expensive in terms of total transaction fees he pays because he is paying transaction fees to send bitcoin to himself.

I believe you are referring to a Sybil attack. I don't think this is a problem unique to SPV clients solely because it is a SPV client. You might argue that SPV clients tend to have certain behaviors that are different than full node clients that might make them more vulnerable to a Sybil attack.

You generate a private key with randomness, and you use the private key to calculate the public key. In other words, your private key can be described as a random number, while your public key is a derivative of your private key.

You are correct, you should generate a new set of keys for each time you receive bitcoin.

It would probably be best in most cases to use a deterministic wallet to generate your keys. You would create a 'master' private key that is used to calculate an unlimited number of private keys, and those private keys can be used to calculate each public key. This makes backing up your keys much easier, and you will have effectively pre-generated all your keys at once.

These threads are black hat SEO to help the link's search engine results. I believe at least one of the patrollers (staff) uses a bot to stop at least some of these posts via automation.

IMO, the best way to fight off these types of spam attacks would be to prevent search engines (and maybe guests) from seeing posts made by low-level accounts unless the post has reached an age that it would be expected for the moderators to have been able to remove the post if it is spam. For example, if the mods have always been able to remove these posts within 6 hours, search engines would be unable to view a post by a newbie unless the post is 6 hours old.

Address reuse leads to a reduction in privacy for everyone, and incremental reduction in security (I am guilty of this sometimes, as are many other people).

Ideally, the OP should generate a new address each time he receives a transaction, but at a minimum, he should generate a new address each time he spends any coin he received.  

I would be surprised if this was the case.

Increasing the max block size was one solution to a technical problem that it was unclear was an actual problem in the present. Increasing transaction value precision will be the only solution (that I can think of) to a problem, and it will be very obvious if it is a problem, as it would be reflected in the price of bitcoin.

Trump can only pardon himself for federal crimes. The state of New York would not be subject to any pardons that are issued by the President.

On that note, I do think should and will pardon himself on the way out of office. There would be too much pressure from the left to engage in politically motivated investigations and prosecutions that would end up further dividing the country.

My opinion is that the medium article is promoting the altcoin. I might compare it to an altcoin whitepaper, although a whitepaper would be more technical.
I would not allow an advertisement based on the company being 'legitimate'. There are plenty of legitimate companies that go bankrupt for reasons not being an exit scam, such as poor market conditions, or bad strategic decisions by management. Also, a legitimate company today may turn into a scam tomorrow.

What are you talking about?

Someone making a single two-word post, 12 months after making their last post is not an indication their account is not hacked. (notice the double negative).

I don’t think you can conclude it is not hacked. The account has made a single post in the past year and the post was two words.

The account appears to have controversy regarding a photo it posted.

I would say the medium article is something closer to drumming up interest in an altcoin rather than an investment. I would compare the article linked in the ad to an article educating the reader about bcash or etherum.

Would an article discussing why (in the author's opinion) bcash is superior to bitcoin be allowed? If not, this ad should probably not be allowed. (I don't think bcash is superior to bitcoin, however, I do support the free-flow of ideas, and rigorous debate; people should believe bcash is inferior after reading an open discussion with a maximum amount of information available).

If someone is "wearing" their copper membership (or other paid membership), their 'position' will not display on their forum account. This means that someone such as a moderator will not show that they are a moderator if they are 'wearing' their copper membership.

IMO, it is probably best to force moderators (and other staff) to display their respective titles.

If voter fraud is uncovered after Biden takes office, I would agree that it will not be investigated.

There are issues in PA such as not allowing GOP poll watchers to watch the counting of the ballots, however, I am not aware of evidence of sufficiently substantial and widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the election.

There are real issues with mail-in voting, however, the Republican opposition to widespread mail-in voting likely disenfranchised their own voters. The amount of effort put into voting for Biden per vote was less than the effort each voter put into voting for Trump.

Republicans picked up about a dozen house seats, maybe more. The Biden administration will not be able to hire people serving in the house because the Democrat majority is so small.

This is probably better suited for its own thread, or even its own sub... I don't think Trump was well prepared to win the Presidency in 2016. His early administration was not well organized, which probably resulted in much of his first term being stymied

Ahh, gotcha.

I was under the impression that traffic out of the AWS network (for AWS) will count as egress traffic, and will be billed accordingly. Migrating your data from AWS to GCS will incur a charge from AWS for the amount of your data. There might be ways around this, I'm not sure.

I had used AWS as an example because I believed you used it for some of your other projects.

Yes, transferring data to the internet is very expensive. You can use a CDN (content delivery network) to reduce costs a little bit. 5 TB of data is a lot.

I think you are proving my point. The more input you have, the more time it takes to process one additional input.

To put it another way, it takes 1 unit of time to sort a list with a length of 2, it takes 1 + a units of time to sort a list with a length of 3, it takes 1 + a + b units of time to sort a list with a length of 4, and so on. The longer the list, the longer it will take to sort one additional line.

Your local ISP might not like it very much if you are uploading that much data.

As a FYI, you generally will not want to host files on a server. You will probably want to host files in a storage bucket that can be accessed by a server.

If you want to update a file that takes a lot of resources, you can create a VM, execute a script that updates the file, and uploads it to a S3 (on AWS) bucket. You would then be able to access that file using another VM that takes fewer resources.

Separately, sorting lists are not scalable, period. There are some things you can do to increase the speed, such as keep the list in RAM, or cutting the number of instances the entire list is reviewed, but you ultimately cannot sort an unordered very large list.

I don't think the administration would want users to have to make changes to their browser configuration to not be annoyed by random gifs in threads.

The US has the US martial service that protects the judiciary branch. I don't see judicial intimidation much of an issue in the US. IMO it would be more likely for political judges to be appointed.

This poll is not going to get anything close to accurate results as it is. Bitcointalk polls are already not accurate because of the ease of sockpuppet voting, and the options are really not serious. I also personally often vote for poll options that are ludicrous specifically for the above reasons.

Section 230 is separate and distinct from privacy related to social media.

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I am generally a private person, and I do value my own personal privacy. I also am willing to acknowledge the benefits related to giving up privacy.

On an interpersonal basis, giving up privacy is what allows people to have intimacy with other people. Intimacy with other humans is one of the most rewarding things. Refusing to give up some amounts of privacy will not allow you to reap these rewards.

Somewhat similarly, giving up some amounts of privacy to companies may allow those companies to provide a more customized experience that is more interesting to you. The benefits are not the same as the above but are still benefits.

Ultimately, individuals should be in control of how much privacy they desire.