If there is no link to an actual source, then you just mention that the information originates from newsletter X and put the quoted part in quote tags. Or, if you incorporate the quoted text in a sentence, use quotes and italicized text with the source information at the bottom of your post. By not doing anything of what I just wrote, you are making it look like it's you who is saying those things. And since that's not the case, you are plagiarizing.   

Instead of just copy/pasting something from another source, why not add your personal opinion on it? Write your thoughts and whether or not you agree with what you read. Explain how you understood it and if something could be improved, removed altogether. Just copy/pasting the information without anything else looks like a low-effort post.

I guess I am not a high-quality cycler to be invited to a premium club like that. I'll have to cycle harder. I can always start identifying as a member of the merit cycling club and change my pronouns. That's popular in this time and age. Then, I will finally get the merit recognition I deserve.

Anyone who writes content that is supposed to get a high rank on Google knows there is on-page and off-page optimization. Your on-page content has to answer the questions that led visitors to your site. Off-page optimization is backlinks and guest posts. I have heard of companies spending tens of thousands of dollars per month on backlinks. I would say they are absolutely necessary if you are creating content in an industry where it's very difficult to get organic backlinks. They can also backfire horribly and make Google punish your site and restrict it from appearing in search results if their algorithms conclude you paid for those links.

I think that if you had a list of 100 early adopters who also wrote on Bitcointalk (actually the earlier versions of the forum), there would be 0-1 user per 100 who still drops by from time to time to write something. It was a different time back then. Most of them won't have many reasons to remain active.

Also, you shouldn't think that any OG is now a multi-millionaire just due to the fact they were early adopters. I don't doubt for a second that many sold when their portfolios made the first x10, let alone x50, x500, etc. The bags they were holding might not have been enough to put them into the millionaire's club.   

Are you sure they can do that? I have never heard or seen that merits can't be sent in certain threads or to a particular individual. I don't remember ever seeing a discussion about it either. Besides, OPs suggestion isn't about restricting merits for the whole thread and all the users posting in it. It's about preventing the thread starter to get merited because they don't want to/don't need the merits.

sMerits don't decay and become useless and non-spendable. There are no time limits to the merits in your account. It's only source merits that decay if the allocation isn't completely depleted in a 1-month cycle.

I am sure people have abused faucets in various ways to try and withdraw the money that comes from them, but what you just described isn't one in my opinion. To me, that sounds more like the casinos are trying to minimize that players can successfully win a high enough amount they could eventually withdraw. If I claimed some coins from a faucet, why shouldn't I be allowed to wager them any way I want, including betting the money on any odds I am comfortable with? Just get rid of it altogether if you are tying it to conditions that stop making sense.

I guess the detection algorithm is quite bad. Just to check, I tried it on my own post that I made in this thread. At least it provided a good result in my case. My post is 0.1% fake, meaning 99.9% isn't AI generated.
Lucius is probably a hybrid. Part human, part robot. His most recent post is about 6% AI-generated. The human part of him wrote most of it. Can't help but laugh at that.

@Lucius I think it's the long sentences that make the algorithm classify your post as AI-written. Try to shorten them in meaningful short sentences. You don't have to post them again. Just play around with it if you are interested to see the results.

Mene rijetko put navede u Games & Rounds podforum pa i ne čitam šta od nagradnih igara ima tamo. Jedino ako neko, kao što si ti sad, nešto objavi pa se onda uključim ako mi se čini zanimljivim. Ima jedna tema iz Njemačkog lokalnog foruma koja mi se često pojavi na mojoj listi praćenih tema pa i tu saznam šta se dešava.

Ovdje ti se potkrala jedna greška. Pošto je za BC.Game kasino, onda je potreban nalog na BC.Game kasinu.

Ovo čak više nije ni izvodljivo. Joe je uspio hakirati taj Trezor jer je na njemu bila instalirana starija verzija firmware-a koja je tokom paljenja uređaja učitavala PIN i seed u memoriju. To je primjetio čitajući Trezor-ov kod. Ali ta vrsta napada više nije moguća s novijim verzijama firmware-a gdje se te osjetljive informacije ne mogu na taj način izdvojiti. Ali imaju drugi napadi koji su mogući i koje Trezor nije mogao spriječiti dok nisu izbacili Trezor Safe 3 koji ima sigurnosni elemenat. Ali vjerovatnoća da će ti neko ukrasti novčanik koji to može izvesti je vrlo mala.

Moguće da je do dizajna. To što je self-custody nije sigurno razlog zašto ga se ne spominje na ovom forumu. Ovdje ćeš rijetko kad ćuti preporuku nečega što je custodial ili closed-source. I ako čuješ, doće uz napomenu da je možda najbolje izbjeći takav jedan softver.

Kad si već spomenuo P2P trgovanje, jel i taj dio upotpunosti non-custodial. Da li Mycelium može blokirati sredstva, tražiti KYC, pitati za porijeklo novca, itd.?

The time of crypto casino faucets is long gone I think. I haven't checked my own thread in a long time, but I don't think anything has changed for the better. Some of the casinos might have even dropped their faucets or decreased the possible rewards. What you can hope for is a few cents. One exception is those casinos who have lucky wheels that you can spin and perhaps win a significant amount if you are lucky.

It might be a new way the admins have implemented to battle all the spam that comes from the gambling boards, making it close to unreadable because 8/10 posts are completely useless. My first thought was that discussions about gambling addiction should be in Gambling Discussion, but not if it only creates a spam fest where we keep going around in circles without anyone saying anything of value. 

Creating such threads is a trick used by those who don't know what to write in the gambling boards, but are required to do so because their campaign manager wants 5-10 posts written there weekly. Now, they will have to apply themselves a bit more.

Another thing. Many staff members participate in signature campaigns just like regular users. Campaign managers have rules that require those who want to participate to earn an X amount of merits in the last X days. If the mods didn't get enough merits or received much less than other quality members, they won't be the manager's first choice despite their forum status.

The question is, does the current forum software support adding any automated checker for AI content? I don't think it does.
Using an AI bot to write posts instead of you is a modern type of plagiarism. You can't find a source from where the text was copied/stolen from, but it still fulfills the requirements of being considered plagiarized.

1. You used someone else's thoughts. It doesn't matter if it's a real person writing on a website or AI.
2. You didn't credit the original source.

If introduced, it's not going to be a feature that many members will want to use. Whether you need the merits or not, it's still nice to receive them. It's one of the ways to acknowledge someone's effort. I don't think you'll find many people who don't want that acknowledgement. Also, if you don't care about merits, than you shouldn't care if someone gives them to you or not. I don't think theymos will consider adding this feature. 

How about running a pruned node instead and determining how much storage space you want to give to the node yourself. I remember reading a long time ago that it was possible to do with the lightning network as well, but it required some extra configuration. People who know more about this than I do could certainly help you.

Tell her not to use the hair dryer so often or empty the water heater every time she takes a shower if you don't mind sleeping on the couch for a few night.

I don't think it's that easy to calculate. If you are serious about it, you might need something like a watt meter. There are also third-party software you can run to measure the consumption for you. Like with anything, use them at your own risk.

Here is just one article I found on the subject:
https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-pc-power-usage/

They are two different casinos. 1xBit is the more notorious one of them. If you go to the forum's scam accusation sub, there are numerous threads with users complaining about different issues with 1xBit. It's never 1xBet. 1xBet is a fiat casino and sportsbook. It's a pretty well-known brand that spends a lot of money on advertisement. If you watch football, you might have noticed it's the official gambling partner of the Italian Serie A. You first see an ad and pop up of 1xBet before you can access the official league website. But like you said, they are connected. It's just that one is worse than the other.

1xBet and 1xBit have been known scams for years now on this forum. There are hundreds of affected and innocent players that have lost their money there and have not received their withdrawals because of reasons they invented.

However, when it comes to gambling from restricted countries, it's also the player's job to make sure that's not happening. You knew that gambling in Iran is against the laws of your country, and you did it anyway. You knew that 1xBet doesn't allow Iranians on their site, but you played there anyway.

Both the casino and yourself are at fault here for different reasons. It might be hard for you to hear that or I might sound unfair, but that's the way it is.

There is no easy way to attack Bitcoin and take control of it - become the powerhouse that makes the most money from it. That investment wouldn't pay off in the end.

It's a bit different if your goal is try to destroy Bitcoin or inflict as much damage to it as possible. In that case, the most vulnerable category would be miners. You would need a global action on a massive scale against mining companies. Stop their operations, confiscate their hardware, and stop the production of new blocks and confirmation of transactions.

Bitcoin can recover from that with a very bloody nose. The mining difficulty would drop, making other machines suitable to take over the process from those previously confiscated. But than the global police would have more powerful hardware than the honest miners.

All this is sci-fi and will never happen. Our leaders can't even make up their mind if it's ok to kill 35.000 innocent people or not, let alone come to an agreement and organize something on a massive scale like an attempt to destroy Bitcoin.

That taxpayer money could be used much more wisely. For example, on fighter jets and massive bombs intended to be dropped on a small piece of land. You know, for democracy and preserving freedom.