He's at 174 now! I don't see him banned, so I guess it's only temporary. He'll have some time to cool down.

If OP deposits into his staked address, he'll find out if it's compromised....

As far as I know, that works when you're banned, but not when your account is locked.

The only safe assumption is that anything is compromised now. Which means you'll have to wipe your computer, reinstall everything from scratch, change all your passwords, and restore your user data from backup.
While you're at it:

I count 75, and I've reported the spammer too.

You should complain to theymos instead of creating guessing-topics in Meta. Don't take my word for it:

And here's this:
It looks like qwk is not very active and empties his sMerit source once a month now. I'd say it's a case of "not great, not terrible".

On a decent quality screen, this isn't possible. And it's terrible for yourself too.

Thanks ahead for your flawless timing. I'm going to hit the couch. I've been slightly ill since last week, with the longest lasting headache ever. Now it's upping it's game into not being able to breath through my nose. So instead of alcohol, I now have my spicy (for Dutch standards) 0.9% habanero chips now. Just one bite is enough to be able to breath again for about 15 minutes.

I know nothing about Python, but you shouldn't need an API for this. You should keep your seed and recovery offline.

Why don't you use The FinderOuter on an offline system?

Google stopped giving reliable results when searching for exact phrases a while ago. I'm pretty sure they've indexed my post in this topic already, but that one doesn't show up either.

While watching old episodes of Home Improvement, I got another (even crazier) idea: store bits in your garden fence:

You need 256 bits, so you'll need 257 planks. Starting from the left, going up is 1 and going down is 0. The above image would read 11110000 Unless you're Wilson, in that case it reads 00001111.

You can easily create a backup by taking some family pictures in the garden.
Who's going to notice? And who's going to look for patters that could be seed phrases everywhere now?

That makes no sense. If you type it by yourself, it's not plagiarism. Chances are someone wrote "If you type it by yourself, it's not plagiarism" before I did, but that doesn't make it plagiarism and there's no point looking for it.

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The only way to unintentionally commit plagiarism is by accidentally forgetting to add the source when you quote something. That can easily be avoided by starting with "[ quote]" even before you paste the data into your post.

I've reported it as "Shitpost/plagiarism/spambot." Either way, it won't be missed.

Of course this is a scam. There's no other reason to fake credibility by talking about taxation, declaring and invoices. None of this means anything coming from an untrusted Newbie.

Needless to say: don't send your seed phrase to anyone!

Let's base it on Ignore lists, much easier.

@Rikafip: if you want to hide the addresses, you should hide the ORDER number too. Or click "Remove data". And the exact amount makes it easy to find too.

Lol.

Greenhouses in the Netherlands used to use electricity from the grid for lights, and natural gas for heat and CO2. Natural gas was very cheap (for them). Later, they became power producers by running their own gas turbines. They still got the CO2 and most of the heat, but at lower price.
Nowadays, with much higher gas prices, they (also) use industrial waste heat, and industrial waste CO2.

Gas turbines can be combined with steam turbines to further improve the efficiency. That's possible because the exhaust gasses coming out of the gas turbines still have a very high temperature.
As far as using miner heat goes: it's futile. Low-temperate heat has a very low value (think about the Carnot cycle in physics). The heat isn't produced on locations where it's useful. I'm familiar with the edge case of using Bitcoin miners to heat greenhouses. The flaw is: it replaces electric heaters. You shouldn't use electric heaters in the first place, and I'm pretty sure you can get a better business case with a different heating system.

There's a reason Bitcoin miners are concentrated in areas with low electricity prices. Using the waste heat isn't enough to make up for high prices.

I guess many people have been waiting to consolidate their inputs. In just 2 hours, 30 vMB was added at 1 sat/vbyte. Or maybe 1.1 sat, I can't see that. Since then, fees go up once in a while, but drop back into the minimum all the time. I think 1.1 (or 1.9?) sat/vbyte is quite likely to get confirmed today.

"Taint" is like a religion: it only exists if people believe it exists. If you can't accept cash money without doing a background check, money loses it's value. The same will happen to Bitcoin, and that is the real danger.

Governments can't stop Bitcoin, but they can make people believe they shouldn't trust Bitcoin. That's the real danger, and that's what I indeed have a strong opinion against.

It's worse with the companies promoting the idea of taint: they made a business model out of telling people some Bitcoins are worth less than others. They're not sharing their list, just like governments don't just publish a list of "tainted" Bitcoins. And any Bitcoin you own already can be labeled at "tainted" later on by random people for arbitrary reasons. The whole concept shouldn't exist.

To add: If you'd ever have to restore your wallet from seed, you lose all address labels and information on locked inputs.

Thanks for reporting this. I can't find what went wrong. Something changed after I moved to a new server, it looks like part of the script wasn't executed but that doesn't make sense. I'll see again next week: maybe I accidentally messed something up myself while running. Weird stuff

I must say this is a very annoying "feature" of Bitcoin when you're waiting for a confirmation. It took many hours after this to find consecutive blocks fast enough to confirm my transaction.