I am curious to see what that person does with the merit from gizmoh. If the one post newbie doesn't spend the merit, I wouldn't worry about this, especially if he doesn't post again.

I have a better source for you.

Most, if not all, who did not vote would have voted against the resolution.

The current PM of Iraq has agreed to resign because he was widely seen as illegitimate because of actual meddling from Iran (I believe the effect of the meddling was significant, as opposed to the token meddling that Russia did in the US elections).

When I travel overseas, I usually will either remove any sensitive, private information from my electronic devices I will travel over an international border, or will bring a fresh device that, after a delay, can access a private network to access sensitive information, and a second device that can quickly remove the first devices' access to the private network in case any border agent decides he wants to look at my devices.

In light of this, if I was asked to show a border agent my electronic devices, I would gladly do so, knowing they don't contain any private information.

Three questions:
Are we allowed to nominate ourselves?

When selecting a "meritable" post the person made, what is the maximum rank they can have been at the time? If they ranked up during the year, can their post be from after they ranked up to a full, or senior member?

Is someone disqualified if they gained knowledge and experience with bitcoin prior to registering on the forum? Some people like to lurk on internet forums without signing up. For example, I have read stack overflow threads nearly every day for a very long time, but have never had the need to actually sign up.  

Bitfinex derivates uses the same trading engine as the "spot" markets on the bitfinex platform, and you can use the same account to access the derivates platform. You can have much higher leverage (100x) via the derivates platform, verses 3.3x on the spot platform, and I believe you can be forced to socialize trading losses if someone has losses in excess of their account equity in amounts greater than the 'insurance fund'.

Google is very liberal in being willing to give these away. I am not sure they would even be worth the 0.1 btc you are asking the starting bid to be.

If you want, you can send me your code for your scraper. Adding a counter and telling your script to check the next page is something that should be very simple (< 5 mins, including testing). If I am familiar with the programming language (or if I can read the documentation necessary to help in a short time), I can give you suggested lines of code to add.

You can direct your script to review multiple pages of recent if it detects that all the posts it most recently scrapes are new, it can continue doing this until it reaches the last maximum recent page the forum provides.

You can also try using a different library and/or browser your scraper uses. Ditto with OS and server location, but this is less likely to have an effect on anything.

I would think NK would be afraid of what happens in Iran. The US has largely avoided using military force against NK since the end of the war in Korea. The US attacking Iran and/or going to War with Iran shows NK the US is willing to engage in a military conflict and this may cause problems in NK with Kim’s people and more importantly his military.

If the US continues targeted military strikes against Iran, there may be defections within the military

If Mars is flat, the Earth is flat, and this photo was taken from Earth, how did we get a photo of the top of Mars? Does this mean Mars is not only flat, but also sideways? How do the martians keep from falling off Mars?

China backed NK in the Korean war, and would probably back NK if the US unilaterally used military force against NK. If NK were to get working nukes they can reliably launch several hundred miles, they could force the US (and allies) to remove their military presence from the region (they have allies to the North and West, and there is water to the East and South).

Iran has allies, but they are geographically separated from Iran, and Iran is surrounded by either water or its enemies. This makes it more difficult for Iran's allies to help it in a possible war that it's allies do not want to be directly involved in (these types of wars are generally fought via proxy).

Loosing the ability to have a military presence near the NK region in the Pacific could mean we cannot trade with countries in the region on favorable terms. If Iran were to force the US out of the region, the amount of trade affected would be much less.

I looked at a select number of threads in Alternate cryptocurrencies > Announcements (Altcoins) (board 159), and there is a clear pattern among the following UIDs:
1021758 (this is hacker, but the pattern is less strong)
1082347
980712
1234403
1171587
1527744

With regards to the select threads I reviewed, these accounts tend to post in the same threads, when posting small numbers of posts, they tend to post in groups of 3-5. When they post larger numbers of posts in a thread, they all tend to post in the thread, and they all have a higher number of posts in the thread. In other words, when one of them makes low double digits number of posts, they tend to make low-mid double digits numbers of posts in a thread, and when one of them makes high double digits of posts in a thread, they tend to make high double digits to low triple digits number of posts in a thread.

Some caveats -- these UIDs were not found in a larger data set, they were selected because they were mentioned in your post; the hacker account mostly makes less posts in each thread than the field; I didn't look at the content of the posts, and therefore am not accounting for things such as drama/controversy that may explain the pattern; no statistical tests were done on this data to see if this is different than a random group of accounts, part of the reason for this there is a lot of manipulation in this board and I am presently unsure how to account for the manipulation.

I have posted examples of this pattern below:
UID           Thread     Post Count
980712   2431660   35
1021758   2431660   18
1082347   2431660   60
1171587   2431660   132
1234403   2431660   129
1527744   2431660   66

980712   2612592   25
1021758   2612592   13
1082347   2612592   24
1171587   2612592   35
1234403   2612592   30
1527744   2612592   4

1021758   3289130   3
1171587   3289130   21
1234403   3289130   79
1527744   3289130   18

980712   2431660   35
1021758   2431660   18
1082347   2431660   60
1171587   2431660   132
1234403   2431660   129
1527744   2431660   66

980712   2605122   1
1082347   2605122   1
1171587   2605122   1
1234403   2605122   1

980712   2415359   4
1021758   2415359   1
1082347   2415359   8
1171587   2415359   12
1234403   2415359   4

I want to be clear that I do not wish to pass any kind of judgment on hacker.

The government does not need probable cause, nor a warrant to have the legal authority to search you if you are crossing the border, even if you are a US citizen. As a practical matter, you will probably not get searched unless the government has a reason to believe you are doing something you shouldn't be doing.


Most rights granted by the constitution apply to both citizens and non-citizens.

The chances of your electronic device being searched at the boarder is low. In 2018, only about 33k people had their devices searched out of hundreds of millions of people entering the country.

The answer to your question is fairly simple, and does not matter which type of disk you are trying to cross the border with (and you do not allow CBP to see unencrypted data). (if the CBP attempts to search the disk)If you are a US citizen, you will eventually be allowed to enter the country, although you may first be detained. If you are not a US citizen or permanent resident, you will probably not be allowed to enter the country. CBP may make an image of the disk to try to decrypt it off site or possibly at a later time (for example if weaknesses of a particular encryption algorithm is discovered in the future). There is no law against carrying encrypted data across the border, and no requirement that you disclose any decryption keys.

"thorecoin" is traded on one exchange (according to CMC), Crex24 (24 hour trading volume of around $2 mm), and over the last 24 hours only ~$149k worth of the coin has traded. This is on a market cap of around $120 mm.

My opinion is the marketcap of your coin sounds inflated to me. My opinion is this would be a very risky loan to make.

You would use a node's RPC function to programmatically get each confirmed transaction, along with what block each transaction was confirmed in, and you can then make queries as to the balance of each address as of whatever date (as of whatever block) you need the information for. You obviously would be unable to get any historical information about the mempool, but you could also periodically programmatically query mempool related RPC commands and store this information into a database.

Yes, your best bet is to have a node and a (managed) relational database that you store information about each block/transaction in.

You would first create a full node, download the entire blockchain, and then use RPC commands to get the inputs and outputs of each transaction contained in each block and put this information into a relational database. You can then query the balance of any address as of the current date, or any date you need the balance on.

You can do this yourself, hire someone to do this for you. If you want to do this yourself, but are not quite sure how to get started, there is a kaggle dataset of the bitcoin blockchain, and on the dataset page, there is a link to github repo that appears to claim to be able to get an ETL pipeline for the bitcoin blockchain setup (I have not looked at the code, and cannot vouch for anything in the repo).

You can add my Self-Moderator Bot.

The mining operation would lose money, however a potential attacker would not be trying to be making money via mining, but rather would be trying to profit by harming bitcoin, or maybe would be trying to avoid losses by harming bitcoin.

A potential attacker would be one with a lot of resources, and a lot to lose if bitcoin were to succeed. A potential attacker could either buy up mining equipment, or if it was a government entity, could seize miners physically located within the country.

A potential attacker would need to act economically irrationally to successfully launch a 51% attack, when only looking at the attack in terms of bitcoin.

This means that bitcoin, or crypto in general would need to be an immediate threat to whoever is launching the attack. I don't see bitcoin being this much of a threat to any entity with the resources to pull off a 51% attack.

You can google "crypto payment processor" and you will get many results for what you are looking for. Once you select one (or more) potential payment processors you consider doing business with, you can perform due diligence on each of them.

The only thing I would recommend is to not do business with BitPay due to their mandatory KYC after fairly low thresholds of payment values.