I would say that two weeks of no trading pretty much means he is a scammer IMO, considering the other facts. This is disappointing because I somewhat stuck my neck out for him, and it turns out I was wrong.

I don’t think it would be terribly difficult to design a bot as described by him, although I am not sure anyone with the technical skills to do so would be selling the bot for what he was selling access to it for.

This is something you would encounter if you were to ever receive your salary via LN payments, or if you were to receive payment for services on an ongoing basis.

Poor in what way? You should be able to get literally the same information from RPC commands, and can write a script to get the information by making a series of RPC calls to feed in whatever information you are looking for into a database.

There are a number of cloud providers that will give you enough credit to allow you to spin up a VPS with sufficient resources to obtain (and load into a database) this information for free.

You would do something along the lines of setting the results of RPC commands as variables that are fed into subsequent RPC commands, and from there set more results into more variables that are iterated through, and those results are inserted into your database.

I don't see any good reason to pay for a Block Explorer API if you have the skill set to programmatically obtain this information yourself. 

I would generally not consider a "token" a "cryptocurrency".

I would consider a "cryptocurrency" as something that has a blockchain (among other requirements). A token is something that uses a cryptocurrency's blockchain in order to allow the creator and holders of the token to transfer ownership of the token, which signifies transfer of ownership of (what may be an) underlying asset that token holders own.

A cryptocurrency will not derive its value from an underlying asset, but rather from its security, and its usefulness of conducting transactions to transfer ownership of tokens, or other financial transactions (or other non-financial transactions). 

You should post what information you are looking for and what resources you have. If you have sufficient resources to create a full node, you can do so and use RPC commands to obtain the same information you would be able to get from a block explorer API.

Wow, this is in fact much worse than a ponzi. It appears YoBit is engaging in a pump and dump scheme. What YoBit is doing is very distinct from what a ponzi is, and people wishing to warn others about YoBit should not describe their scheme as a ponzi.

YoBit sells the privilege to have random coins listed on their exchange, so it is possible it is not YoBit that is creating these shit coins, but they are still profiting from the listing fees and trading fees.

In either case, it appears that YoBit is enticing people to buy what amounts to vaporware with the promise of "risk free" profits. I am not aware of any potential long term value or benefit to owning these coins. These coins do not even attempt to provide any benefit to holders. In the case of the Pony Token, there is literally no one holding the token except YoBit on behalf of their customers.

There are some services that, for a fee, will open a LN channel that will allow you to receive a certain amount of coin, even if you have not spent anything on LN. This is known as having inbound capacity. You will typically need to pay the service the cost of the opening and closing transactions in advance, plus a percentage of the inbound capacity you are asking them to provide.

I want to let you know that the little information you are posting is enough to figure out the txid in question, and in turn the addresses in question. This is true even if everyone you gave a loan to never reused any addresses, but most people around here heavily reuse addresses, making even moderately advanced analysis unnecessary.

The txid's you used to fund the loan were 5dedd8a8ead892fdc72f1c1e1c70d58d808c92102a087266c97927dd0de6d1ee, 579dec9f47613f72a12cde098af3436c353ba8dfedf482c42cc056f73f9e6f56

Asking borrowers to not specify a specific amount they are requesting would help with privacy, as would requiring that borrowers receive the loan to an unused address. Instead, you could ask borrowers to publicly select a choice of a range of loan amounts they are asking for, with the specifics to be discussed via PM. You could also delay posting that you have repaid the loan by a range of hours, and asking your borrowers to do the same. To address issues with proving you funded a loan, and proving a borrower agreed to specific terms, you could ask for a signed message outlining the specific terms, including the exact amount, exact address to fund the loan to and the exact address they will repay the loan to.

This is true, but generally speaking, most users should not be directly interacting with their private keys (as opposed to their wallet software accessing them), as doing so is a good way for them to get compromised.

I want to point out that if your computer is "on" (and unencrypted) when an adversary gains access to your computer, your adversary may be able to obtain the decryption keys that are being stored in RAM (memory). If an adversary gains access to your decryption keys, they can later bypass any full disk encryption you are using fairly trivially.

This means if your computer is "on" (and your hard drive is unencrypted), you will need to be warned long enough in advance for a) you to react to the warning to understand what is happening and start (and) b) either cutoff power or shutdown your computer (which may involve physically removing the battery if using a laptop) before an adversary will be in a position to physically separate you from your computer.

It currently looks unlikely there will be any witnesses at the Senate trial, if one happens. As a side note, Senate rules currently state something along the lines of they will promptly hold a trial upon receiving impeachment 'papers' from the House, however this requirement is not in the constitution. Some are calling for the Senate to amend their rules by a majority vote, and hold a trial with or without house managers being voted on and approved by Democrats.

It is possible that either Biden testifying at Trump's trial will be a moot point considering that Biden is allegedly under criminal investigation, and if the younger Biden is charged, Joe will probably need to exit the race due to the potential liability that Hunter will be willing to give politically damaging details of his various arrangements.

Even if you were to generate a key that can spend coin in an address with unspent inputs, it would be difficult to know that you did. It is trivial to generate a lot of keys, but it is difficult to know if they can spend coin on an ongoing basis. If you generated a key today that in a week receives coin, you would have no way of knowing if you had been generating keys continuously for the past week at a maximum capacity. It isn’t difficult to check if an address has unspent inputs as of a previous block height but this is not feasible to monitor many addresses if you are generating private keys as quickly as your CPU allows.

In order to get past the first two (one to sign up and one to login the first time), you will need to access the forum via an IP address that is not TOR. If you want to remain anonymous, you will need to find one that will not remain associated with you. If you know what you are doing, this should not be difficult.

A lot of people in the forum like to refer to a wide range of financial frauds as a 'ponzi', even when the actual fraud involved is very different than a ponzi, and in many instances, the fraud is much worse than a ponzi because it is more complex.

In the case of YoBit, specifically of the x10 coin, or whatever it is called, I don't know if it is a ponzi, or some other type of financial fraud, such as a pump and dump scheme (as they have a history of), but in either case, YoBit is engaging in material deception (if not for the deception, a reasonable person who believes the lies would not have invested in what they are offering), and at or near the conclusion of the fraud, nearly all investors will lose nearly all of their investment.

You should ask yourself if the act or condition that made you decide to add red trust still applies.

You might argue that earning some merit (not bought on the black market) is a sign of changed behavior and is overall a decent forum member.

The statement is ‘buy [ x] and earn 10%’.

If they are giving 10% out of thin air, you are not actually receiving anything because everyone else is receiving the same ‘payment’ and the value of the coin falls by 10%.

This sounds like a scheme to entice people into buying their shit coin whose price will inevitably go to zero eventually.  

You are currently advertising something that promises “guaranteed” returns of 10%.

This is clearly fraudulent in one way or another. You don’t need anyone else to tell you this. If you disagree with this conclusion, your judgment is being clouded by the promise of the payment of a couple dollars per post you make.

I think this is a pretty weak argument in favor of someone getting paid to help promote a very shady company (some would go as far as to say that YoBit is an outright scam).

Furthermore, some participants may argue that they are participating because yahoo is managing the campaign.

I don’t think the possibility that shitposters might spam the forum is a reason to help a scam advertise. It seems to me that the payment for campaign management services is more about YoBit being allowed to advertise without significant pushback against their participants and less about actually managing their campaign.

I have to say I am disappointed that others are not being vocal about this.

I wanted to write about someone who I do not always see eye to eye with instead of someone who I often agree with:

suchmoon often posts information that is interesting to a lot of users.

An auditor may be trying to confirm that a business owed x bitcoins on y date as reflected in their business records. This verification may eventually be changed to '...as of block z..." but the auditor would need to know which blocks were found on y date.

A useful functionality might be for your program to allow a user to input a time zone and date, your program would output the starting and ending blocks found in that time, and the user can then make a query as of a specific block.