This will not prevent a 51% attack. Someone with >50% of the network hashrate can successfully execute a reorg of a handful of blocks reliably.

I don't think there is evidence that anyone on the right was hoping RGB would die, and I am not aware of anyone on the right "spitting on her grave".
Trump will likely appoint Amy Cohen Barrett, either as a recess appointment, or who gets confirmed by the Senate. IMO handing the left a defeat right before an election will demoralize them.

Hearings on Barrett's appointment will bring back memories of Kavanaugh, and how the left tried to ruin a person's life for no reason other than to prevent a conservative from being on the Supreme Court.  Harris also sits on the judiciary committee, and SC hearings will take her off the campaign trail.


The election will almost certainly be contested and there will likely be multiple cases before the SC. I would anticipate all kinds of nonsense from Democrats in the aftermath of the election.

Roberts has turned into somewhat of a reliable liberal. I don't think he likes Trumps criticism of the courts, even if they are justified. (I would lay blame on Trump's criticism on the judges rather than on Trump).

Democrats are actually playing war games in which CA, OR and WA threaten to secede if Trump wins.

I would not be surprised to see riots after the election, although Trump has promised to stop election day violence.

There is some backlash to the violence we are seeing in cities controlled by Democrats, and any violence in reaction to a SC nomination/confirmation will reflect poorly on Democrats, probably including down ballot races.


The issue in 2016 is that the Senate was controlled by a different party than the President. In 2020, that is not the case.
Harris (who is the de-facto Presidential nominee) is open to packing the court. There are also calls from the left to pack the court if Democrats win the Senate, House and White House.

Once Republicans won the Senate, Obama was not going to be able to get anyone confirmed to the SC. He only had a short window to replace RGB. After the 2010 midterm elections, Democrats lost 9 seats, only held a small majority in the Senate, and there was still the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, so a partisan Democrat would likely be difficult to confirm. Even without the filibuster, a partisan would have been difficult to get confirmed. I would anticipate a quick process and would anticipate a 30 day process, give or take. I would say it will probably be done by the last debate. It wont be a week long process, there is too much risk that Democrat operatives will pull a Kavanaugh after the nominee is confirmed, which will complicate things if a vote is too quick.

Unfortunately, there is not anything that can be done on a technical level to prevent an entity with sufficient mining resources from executing a 51% attack. It is also not possible to be guaranteed to detect the same entity controlling 51% of mining resources because one entity could own multiple pools for example, or could publically identify themselves as two or more entities.

As others have mentioned, economic incentives will largely prevent anyone from executing this kind of attack. It would be possible that a government, or other entity that might profit from the failure of bitcoin may execute a 51% attack, but I would find this unlikely.

Some altcoins have been 51% attacked, and were vulnerable because they shared algorithms with other altcoins. This means someone could buy a miner, use it to attack a particular blockchain, and subsequently repurpose their miner to mine on another altcoin's blockchain honestly. An altcoin using the same mining algorithm as other altcoins will reduce its security. The reduction in security for i altcoin will be nominal if the resources going into mining on i's blockchain make up the overwhelming majority of resources being used for that algorithm.

The ban is not on Americans downloading the apps, the ban is on companies subject to US jurisdiction from offering the apps for download. This is an important difference because downloading these apps will not get you in any kind of trouble (with the US government, but you will probably be spied on by the Chinese Government).

It would be best if people and businesses worldwide were to stop doing business with Huawei. The technology they use is likely stolen, and their equipment is likely able to either spy on you, or can be "bricked" by the Chinese government, or both.

I looked at the posts in the OP and I noticed two things:
1 - You cited many posts from Review Master. If you do become a merit source, I would encourage you to spend your merit to a diverse group of people, while still spending near your maximum amount of merit.
2 - Many of those who you cited seem to make fairly good posts, but they all seem to have fairly low amounts of merit. This could be an indication that some of the local threads that are not large enough for detected subs are lacking source merit.

I would make the argument that handing Democrats a major loss right before the election would demoralize their base, which would hurt both their ability to fundraise (at least from Americans, I would expect foreign donations would continue) and will likely depress turnout.

I don’t think that applies in this situation. The President and the Senate are of the same party. In 2016, they were controlled by opposing parties.

This confirms with long-standing traditions.

This doesn’t matter if the Harris-Biden ticket wins, and Democrats take over the Senate. If this happens, it is all but certain that the SC will be packed regardless of who gets confirmed this year.
There will be three picks because of three vacancies. This is different from a president nominating three picks with no vacancies.

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Mitch McConnell has released a statement that a Trump nominee will receive a vote by the Senate.

Reports are that Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg has died.

I would anticipate Trump quickly nominating a solid conservative before the election and the Senate to confirm her.

With Roberts being anti-Trump to the extent that he is willing to ignore laws and the constitution as written, a Trump nominee replacing a solid liberal will likely result in the SC siding with the constitution in any election dispute, which will be inevitable due to Democrats long history of voter fraud, going back to the civil war along with the likelihood of massive voter fraud via vote by mail and the like associated disputes.

What are your thoughts?

I would point out that Democrats have been using AI tools to identify the most effective counter-points about coronavirus and used millions of paid “influencers” to amplify these messages.

One would have to assume this strategy is continuing to be used in the election season. In fact, there are many suspicious accounts that have recently become active in the politics sub, including some that I believe to be purchased.

Keep this in mind when reading these types of threads.

I would argue that the majority of the time, if you post an address in a quote, it won’t belong to you. I would suggest that any address posted inside a quote be excluded from being displayed if it does not also appear outside of a quote. To say this another way, the person must post the address outside of a quote for it to count to being in this list.

Bitcointalk Profile Link:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2561166
Current amount of Posts (Including this one):1546
SegWit BTC address for payouts:bc1qt6g5mzdj5fa5z5hzfakppyqc8r457sc0vw8ssz
EARNED merit in the last 120 days:100+

If you are looking for every post, you can do this:
total_posts = 5273824 #
for x in range(total_posts):
    page = 0
    #go to 'bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic={}.{}'.format(x, page)
    #if not available to you: pass
    #scrape board information
    #scrape each post via loop
    #I believe there are two classes of posts - scrape both classes, you will insert posts into your DB out of order, but this is okay
    page += 20
    #there is a middletext td class
    #there is a prevnext span class
    next_page = bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic={}.{}'.format(x, page)
    #sleep for 1 second
    #if you can find a link equal to next_page, goto that page, else pass

in parallel to the above, and starting at the same time the above starts:
scrape the recent posts page, and add each post to your DB. Here you can scrape the board each thread is on, via adding it if it doesn't exist in your DB, and updating it if it doesn't exist.

The above will capture every post that you have access to. The first loop will take quite some time, and a thread being moved to a different board while you are in the process of scraping all posts will not cause you to miss any posts.

The cost of training a model, and using it to generate text is close to zero. I would estimate that it could be done for <$0.01/month. There isn't any reason to have a bot running 24/7 to write messages on this forum.

I don't think any account farmers will try to use AI to create massive numbers of spam accounts. I would find it more likely that researchers would use a model to farm one or more accounts (or even massive numbers of accounts) to measure a model's performance "in the real world" which is difficult to measure programmatically for generative models, so they would use the merit system. There are ethical concerns with doing this, but that may not stop everyone (CCP).

No, don't do this.

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RBF transactions are, by design, easy to double spend up until it has been confirmed. As such, it would be illogical for any business to accept a zero conf RBF tx.

I believe bitrefill will accept zero conf transactions up to certain limits as long as certain conditions are met about the transaction, and the state of the mempool (and likely how many other unconfirmed transactions to them are pending).

That article is written with the same model as the one referenced in the OP. They will be of the same quality.

What do you care about the US healthcare system, or US politics.....from "Greece"?

I believe the CFW (Chinese Communist Party's internet censorship software) has blocked this forum. You will likely have to go where the CFW has allowed Chinese citizens to view.

1. Open up your favorite web browser
2. visit http://HTTP://bitcointalk.org on said browser
3.
4. Profit

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The forum does not have a mobile app

Your 'posts' table should be as follows:
postID (P) - int
time
UID - int
posttext - str
addressposted - bool (this is optional, but may make searching for addresses easier)
(any other information that does not appear in your DB elsewhere)

You will have an 'addresses' table as follows:
addressID (P) - int (this is an arbitrary number)
address - str
(any other information that does not already appear elsewhere in your DB that you want to keep track of, such as address type, or coin)

postedaddresses table:
ID (P) - int (arbitrary number)
postID - int
addressID - int