Short version:

Longer version: see TorPlusVPN.

I looked at AWS' troubleshooting, and it may be I blocked some of CloudFront's own IP addresses. Can you try again if notifications are still inaccessible?
I blocked IP addresses to stop agressive scrapers. It may have caused some unwanted side effects.

It's trivially easy for a spammer to wait 12 hours, or to create multiple inputs in one transaction and then wait 12 hours for many cheaper transactions. It won't solve the problem.

The worst kind of spam is the kind that's profitable. They have no reason to stop.

Have you created a (backup) image of the drive yet? It's old, and you don't want it to fail during those runs.

That would mean someone can't use the Bitcoin he just received as his salary to buy something, it's like forcing people to HODL for a while.

Currently, miners can even include zero fee transactions. It's going to be a huge complication if consensus rules include checking how old an input was to see if the miner was allowed to include it.

The real solution is for people to stop paying for BS scam tokens made up by someone to get richer, but there's always a new fool who hasn't learned the hard way yet.

It's updated (reading millions of data files took hours. I'm looking forward to your graphs

Updated data file (up until last Saturday's Trust data dump):

I don't think Bitcoin developers can do anything about this, miners will go for maximum profit. I miss the days those scam tokens were all on shitcoin chains such as centrally controlled and premined Ethereum. Weirdly though, I think Ethereum profited big time from the "popularity" it gained from hyping the scam tokens. That really gave it it's name. Bitcoin on the other hand already made a name for itself, so I don't expect anything good to come from this.

You beat me to it. It's so obvious when a Newbie posts generic information without question on the tech boards.
Why do I not have my own Nuke button yet?

Update: He's nuked.

I'd shorten these 3 lines to:
My Bitcoin Core installation doesn't have a directory "indexes".

But: if you have to ask how to copy files on your local system, I can't really recommend using with SSH.

First: move (bottom-left) this topic to the altcoin boards.

Then: I assume you used a Bitcoin wallet to recover your funds. A Bitcoin wallet doesn't support Forkcoins, you're going to need to use the respective Forkcoin wallets. I wrote a topic about this years ago. The prices in that topic are outdated, but the warnings are still valid. Move your Bitcoins to a safe new wallet before doing anything Forkcoin related, and learn what the lack of replay protection means before doing anything else.

You mean this one? I can get you an update if needed.

I would extrapolate the transactions made in the past few hours, and use that as an estimate of transactions in the coming hours. It's not always accurate and there can be exceptions, but most of the time it's pretty accurate.
That's why I like Johoe's site: it quickly shows fees are currently slowly going up, which means if you pay the minimum and it doesn't get confirmed quickly, it's likely to take a lot longer. If it would have been the opposite and fees are slowly dropping, paying the minimum is likely to get your transaction confirmed quickly.
I can't get this information from mempool.space's estimate.

I never really looked at it before until now:

It looks like their estimate in confirmation time is based on the assumption that no new transactions are being made. So, if you pay 12 sat/vbyte now, your transaction will be in the fifth block. That sounds acceptable to me, except for the fact that there's about 1 block worth of new transactions every 10 minutes, so it can take days to clear just those 5 blocks.

@BenCodie: read this:
You can't use "Negative - You think that trading with this person is high-risk." because you don't like his posts about you.
Also, he has a point: your posts about WWM (claiming you knew they were going to scam, but not saying anything about it) didn't make much sense.

My advice: stay out of the forum drama.

That's what I would expect. But it doesn't matter if you're not reading your email.

It looks like it. There's also no .onion website, so they're just gone. Makes me wonder if they still hold user funds, they were trying to be custodial.

Z-tight is talking about importing the seed word phrase, not the encrypted wallet.

That's not how encryption works.

It will work, but will always be slow. Unless there's a reason you don't want Electrum, I wouldn't use Bitcoin Core on this hardware.

Do yourself a favor: get an SSD It's the best upgrade you can get. In case you already have an SSD and just use the HDD for block storage: move your chainstate directory to the SSD. It makes all the difference!

I don't know Umbrel, but usually you'd just copy your home directory to the new system. Create a backup and restore the data.

If you want to keep switching OS without reformatting, it's easiest to keep /home on a separate partition (but I guess it's too late for that now).
If you don't want to create a backup, and don't want to format, you can YOLO and manually remove all files other than your home directory after you boot the installation disk for your new OS, and then install without formatting.

I'm not convinced that's skill, more a coincidence. I've also seen a bad example of how escrow funds can be managed.

I'm a sucker for strict rules, but it's difficult to take all possible scenarios into account before they happen. This is one of the reasons I don't actively offer escrow services (although I've done it a few times when asked). Yahoo62278's suggestion is a good disclaimer to add if it happens again.

Eddie's post comes to mind again:
Remember the forum's mission:
If someone wants to risk not getting paid for having a certain signature for a week, who are we to stop them?

Agreed. But it will lead to topics like this one, where people question things they're not a part of. The next step would be handing out negative feedback demanding answers, and think that would have happened already if the 2 accounts involved would have had a lesser reputation.

I'm pretty sure it was Hhampuz' own call to ask another escrow. He ran the campaign and avoided a conflict of interest this way.

I can't believe I have to say this, but: You know the only way to see if you've been paid Bitcoin is by checking your own address, right? Not someone else's address?