I "collect" copy/pasters in Mod, please check new additions: Reporting copy/pasting, please permban. Feel free to post there too, it keeps it centralized. If it gets overlooked, they'll be found the next time someone adds to the topic.

Nicely done!
One question though: it shows a lower total than my table on January 4. I took the values the moment I made the table, do you use an average for the day or the lowest of the day?

Type "listunspent" in the Console.

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This isn't what you need. You can either check all your addresses on an online block explorer, or just try to import all of them into Electrum.

Note that "sweep" means something else than "import": sweep means sending the funds to a new address within Electrum, while import means continuing to use the old address within Electrum.

Does it have the same problem when you boot Ubuntu from the installation CD, or just after installation?

Any baby car seat manufacturer or Spanish automobile manufacturer looking for a Bitcoin address?
1NewbornSeatQVC9vegVHnxVseNAhhxewb

How nice would it be if all shitposters would have their Merit and sMerit reset to 0? That would put all of them back to Jr. Member, and they'd have to post quality to level up, just like any other Newbie now.

This answers your question:

It will say so on your merit page:

I don't really see why clicking "+Merit" should behave differently than "Report to moderator". I indeed use my middle mouse button most of the time, but when I click it normally, I don't want to see a new Tab opened.

Yes, keep posting I was just curious, nothing more. I won't sue you!

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Is this a bug?
Deena (Activity: 84; Jr. Member) has 0 Merit.
HoundRogerson (Activity: 70; Member)) has 10 Merit.
I assume HoundRogerson's status is correct, and Deena's is wrong. Is this a bug or a leftover from the negative merit points earlier?

Forcing people to give points doesn't help improve post quality.

I'm curious to see which posts got points (Lutpin: care to share the list?). I'm mainly curious to see if it's (partially) used as a popularity contest so to speak.

I received 6 and gave out 5 today, mainly for posts I had bookmarked, which means I value the content enough to read/use it again. I don't need to give away all my sMerit today, it'll be part of my normal forum use. If a post is worth it, I'll leave a merit. I wouldn't mind becoming a "source" in the future, and hand out a few merits per day.

If it's his own account, he could have deleted the post to remove all (public) evidence. Isn't this similar to leaving trust for your own account?
It will eventually end when people run out of sMerits, and don't earn new ones. Short-term it can be heavily abused indeed.

Let me test that.

Update: you cannot send merit to yourself:

The number of users who are "Merit sources" is likely to grow in the future.

Users will have to compete for Merit points, and only the best posts get to earn them. That's not a bad thing, the majority of all users has a very low post quality, partially caused by account farmers who create many accounts.
It is a good think that not all of them can become Full Member anymore.

This is the only thing Tony ever wrote that I disagree with: a textcoin created in a hot wallet can by definition never become cold storage.

You could install the Byteball wallet on an offline PC, and use that address as cold storage. But you can't do this for Blackbytes.

If a post is worth negative Merit, you can simply click "Report to moderator" on the right-bottom of each post.

Your computer doesn't have enough disk space available to store the whole blockchain. It may still fit at the moment, but it will be full very soon.
I see three possible solutions:
1. Get a bigger hard drive.
2. Use Bitcoin Core in pruned mode (add -prune=550 to the command line so it fits in less than 10 GB; after this you can't use it to load old wallet.dat files or import keys).
3. Instead of Bitcoin Core, use a wallet that doesn't require you to download the full blockchain (for instance Electrum).

Very cool feature theymos, I have high hopes this could actually reduce spam in the long run.

One more suggestion: would it be possible to make posts with many Merit points stand out a bit more? Maybe change the color of the date/time above the post, so it's easier to spot quality posts (and skip the rest)?

My account allows Newbies to PM me, but Newbies can only send 2 PMs per day (this was limited because of massive spam on the forum).
But please, don't PM your private keys to me or anyone else, keep those details between you and ChipMixer's support only.

You're almost at 1000 already. I was just thinking I got lucky to be Legendary right before the Merit system was introduced!
Unless people go through your old posts to give points, it'll take quite some time to go from 500 to 1000.

This sounds about right.

While syncing, Bitcoin Core tells you how far it is behind. If you're sure your wallet was last used in 2011, it won't take that long to synchronize only a few years of blockchain (it was much smaller back then). So I suggest to just start it now.
You can also add "-prune=550" at a command line option when you start Bitcoin Core, this will reduce the harddrive requirements to less than 10 gig (but you still need to download 160 gig).

Good luck in your treasure hunt! Tip: ignore Newbies asking you to Skype them.