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1 5.75 S3052
3 5.70 CEX
1 5.65 betcointm
1 5.65 BITMAIN


You are too new. PM me in advance next time.

I previously said that I'd re-enable SMF themes, but now I'm thinking that this would be an awful pain. SMF themes work by duplicating a ton of code, which is difficult to maintain.

Has anyone tried writing a custom stylesheet for the forum? Is it possible to implement a dark theme that way? (How can I help?) If someone writes a good one, I'll figure out a way to let other people use it without installing any software.

The source image is broken.

"Invalid image" errors usually really are a problem with the image, not the proxy.

Maybe it can be tried out later once the main features are done. The server currently sends an average of about 20 mails per minute, which is not so bad. Though troubles might start occurring if this ever increased to a few mails per second (over a long period of time), as public-key crypto is extremely slow. No amount of software trickery is going to help if the hardware just can't keep up.

If standard public-key crypto isn't possible, the forum and the user could establish a long-term shared secret and then use symmetric crypto, which is very fast.

But IMO this is a pretty low priority. Emails usually don't contain sensitive info.

He asked me whether he could demonstrate that the Trust system is broken. I said that he could, though I didn't know exactly what he was planning, and I don't like what he's doing here. Trust isn't the right way to respond to people whose posts you dislike. If I'd have known that he was going to do this, I would have warned him that it would probably result in significant backlash...

I'm happy with the performance of the Trust system here so far. I have a few more default-untrusted negative ratings, but Inaba's default trust score went from ~5 to -261 overnight. (I did not change anything about how the Trust system works for this.)

Probably not, but I do want to figure out good ways of allowing more people to gain editing privileges without paying a fee.

In a few days, everyone whose wiki account has an email address matching a forum account will automatically gain free editing privileges if their forum account has at least 45 activity.

So if you meet this requirement or will very soon, make sure that you have a wiki account with an email address exactly equal to your forum email address. If your activity level is 28 or lower, then it will be impossible for you to get the required activity score in time.

Those IPs are not blocked currently. But your other abusive IPs were blocked. Just your quotefast requests (which are only part of what your crawler does) were occurring at an average frequency of 7.6 requests per second in the most recent access logging period. Your requests constituted 3.4% of all forum requests in this period. This is entirely unacceptable and of course resulted in those IPs being banned.

The maximum allowed bot request frequency is 1 request per second. Those IPs are now accessing pages at an average of 2.5 requests per second combined. If you continue exceeding the allowed request limit, we will continue banning your IPs.

What IP?

IPs are only banned for over-use if they request pages more frequently than once per second. Faster requests are not allowed.

I think that I figured it out. Chrome was creating so many connections that the server was temporarily thinking of you as an attacker and dropping your packets. Other browsers also do this sometimes, though not as much. I increased the limits for this. But really, browsers should not be creating 30+ connections to the same server...

Fixed it. Also, it will maybe be faster now.

I did slightly change the way that the proxy works recently, but I don't know how the change could cause this problem.

Ad revenue will be used to help the community. Hosting the Bitcoin Wiki is an example of this. I also want to promote development of Bitcoin Core and other core Bitcoin technology.

Donations were meant to be used for running this site, creating software, etc. In order to use donations for other things, donators would need to agree to it. I might pursue this later. There's plenty of ad revenue to use first.

The ad auction system is a required component of the new forum software. Implementing it also requires implementing other required components such as authentication, notifications, and BTC payment handling. I chose this mostly self-contained subsystem to be the first thing that Slickage works on because it can be used right away with the current forum software with only minor modifications, completing it will make progress toward the final goal, and it will give the community an opportunity to review a wide range of Slickage's code. To integrate with the existing software, some database access is needed. I have set things up so that Slickage has no access to password hashes or PMs.

The ad auction system is nearing completion. Most of it is on github already.


I have told you that I paid Slickage about $350,000. You can verify via the block chain that a substantial amount of BTC is still held in addresses under the control of myself and the other treasurers. But the block chain can't really show that the $350,000 was not sent to me instead of Slickage, or that I didn't send more than $350,000, or that the treasurers are not really me, etc. So I find it pointless to provide additional blockchain info and then have people complain about these unresolvable questions. (Especially when it is trivially easy to see that I actually did send at least the stated amounts at the stated times by looking at addresses I control.)

It requires some manual work, with more work required for older posts.

That works fine for me. Is it broken for anyone else?

Posts are (almost) never really deleted.


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There are ~250,000 deleted posts in the database, some going back to 2010.

If an image doesn't load consistently (or at least frequently), and it doesn't break any image rules that would cause it to be rejected by the proxy, send me a link to the image or proxied image.

Image rules are:
- Must be less than 2.5 MB
- The entire transfer must take less than 3 seconds.
- The proxied server must not keep the connection open for "a long time" without transferring data.

Thanks. Most of the technical work was done by others. I do control the domain (via a trustee service -- you need to be in the EU to be the registrant of a .it domain).

Markdown is OK for simple things, but it's too weird and verbose for more complex stuff. I especially don't like how you have to indent every line to make a code block, and how you have to put two spaces at the end of a line to make the next single line break "real".

I would like it if *italic*/**bold** or ''italic''/'''bold''' (wiki syntax) worked. Typing [i] and [b] takes too long. Lists could maybe also be improved.