What you are proposing is abandoning one of the pillars of Bitcoin - decentralization. Instead of it, you are proposing to centralize the mining process to a chosen entity, and introduce some type of virtual blocks which wouldn't require the usual PoW to be mined. The invested energy and hashpower is important to Bitcoin's value. Bitcoin is valuable because it's difficult to mine/produce. If you were to simplify that process, Bitcoin couldn't possibly get more expensive. And what about the mining rewards per block? Would they also be included in your virtual blocks? You would be doubling or tripling the block production.

You would have a less congested blockchain, but a more centralized network. No one will agree to it.   

I think we will first experience a downtrend for a while before the price starts shooting upwards. And after that, I am pretty sure we will have a new ATH.
I am not happy that the big-block spammers are introducing a new token in the form of RUNES on the Bitcoin blockchain. Just when it looked like the Ordinals spam was slowing down a bit, we will now see new activity by the same type of people that will bring congestion to our network.

It would have been better to make this suggestion in the appropriate thread created for discussions about the SuperNotifier bot. TryNinja would get the message sooner instead of having to find the information here. 

It only affects you if you are in a signature campaign, and you don't reach the minimum post quota for the week because some of your posts ended up in the off-topic section. As we know, campaign managers don't count such posts. This is what the discussion is actually about.

People shouldn't get into trouble for posting images or videos on Bitcontalk. I would only consider it problematic if you try and present the image/video as your own, by saying something like, look at this image I created to explain x subject. And then you post the image with text, tables, or lists that offer an explanation to the question asked. To me that is plagiarism because you are pretending that an image someone else created is yours.

So it depends on how you do it and your intent behind it. If we are discussing something like new Lightning nodes in 2024, and I find a picture showing a table with stats about the growth, I can post that to bring my point across. What I should not do is trying to trick the readers into believing that I carried out the research and created the table. 

It's supposed to stop those that don't have the quality and, thus, don't deserve to rank up. If 9/10 are all quality contributors, then they should all rank up with the help of the merit system. If only 1/10 has the needed knowledge and quality, then only that one person should be rewarded enough merits to climb the rank ladder. The system still works.

It's a scrapper for Bitcointalk only, yes. It's very well known if you are a regular forum user. I never use the forum's search function. Ninjastic.space is much better. You can search for terms in subjects or the body of the content. There are options to ignore topics and remove them from the final results, you can add a date range, and search in specific boards only. Even Google does a better job in my opinion than the forum search feature.

Bit će zanimljivo vidjeti hoće li poslje halvinga biti dobrih prilika da se uradi par konsolidacija jer naknade rastu. Sad opet spameri izbacuju neki novi inscription token na Bitcoin blockchainu pa su naknade rasle i do 150 sat/vByte. Mislio sam da će se ova situacije od jućer na relaciji Iran-Izrael negativno odraziti na situaciju sa naknadama za BTC ali bar za sad nije.

If there is no link to an actual source, then you just mention that the information originates from newsletter X and put the quoted part in quote tags. Or, if you incorporate the quoted text in a sentence, use quotes and italicized text with the source information at the bottom of your post. By not doing anything of what I just wrote, you are making it look like it's you who is saying those things. And since that's not the case, you are plagiarizing.   

Instead of just copy/pasting something from another source, why not add your personal opinion on it? Write your thoughts and whether or not you agree with what you read. Explain how you understood it and if something could be improved, removed altogether. Just copy/pasting the information without anything else looks like a low-effort post.

I guess I am not a high-quality cycler to be invited to a premium club like that. I'll have to cycle harder. I can always start identifying as a member of the merit cycling club and change my pronouns. That's popular in this time and age. Then, I will finally get the merit recognition I deserve.

Anyone who writes content that is supposed to get a high rank on Google knows there is on-page and off-page optimization. Your on-page content has to answer the questions that led visitors to your site. Off-page optimization is backlinks and guest posts. I have heard of companies spending tens of thousands of dollars per month on backlinks. I would say they are absolutely necessary if you are creating content in an industry where it's very difficult to get organic backlinks. They can also backfire horribly and make Google punish your site and restrict it from appearing in search results if their algorithms conclude you paid for those links.

I think that if you had a list of 100 early adopters who also wrote on Bitcointalk (actually the earlier versions of the forum), there would be 0-1 user per 100 who still drops by from time to time to write something. It was a different time back then. Most of them won't have many reasons to remain active.

Also, you shouldn't think that any OG is now a multi-millionaire just due to the fact they were early adopters. I don't doubt for a second that many sold when their portfolios made the first x10, let alone x50, x500, etc. The bags they were holding might not have been enough to put them into the millionaire's club.   

Are you sure they can do that? I have never heard or seen that merits can't be sent in certain threads or to a particular individual. I don't remember ever seeing a discussion about it either. Besides, OPs suggestion isn't about restricting merits for the whole thread and all the users posting in it. It's about preventing the thread starter to get merited because they don't want to/don't need the merits.

sMerits don't decay and become useless and non-spendable. There are no time limits to the merits in your account. It's only source merits that decay if the allocation isn't completely depleted in a 1-month cycle.

I am sure people have abused faucets in various ways to try and withdraw the money that comes from them, but what you just described isn't one in my opinion. To me, that sounds more like the casinos are trying to minimize that players can successfully win a high enough amount they could eventually withdraw. If I claimed some coins from a faucet, why shouldn't I be allowed to wager them any way I want, including betting the money on any odds I am comfortable with? Just get rid of it altogether if you are tying it to conditions that stop making sense.

I guess the detection algorithm is quite bad. Just to check, I tried it on my own post that I made in this thread. At least it provided a good result in my case. My post is 0.1% fake, meaning 99.9% isn't AI generated.
Lucius is probably a hybrid. Part human, part robot. His most recent post is about 6% AI-generated. The human part of him wrote most of it. Can't help but laugh at that.

@Lucius I think it's the long sentences that make the algorithm classify your post as AI-written. Try to shorten them in meaningful short sentences. You don't have to post them again. Just play around with it if you are interested to see the results.

Mene rijetko put navede u Games & Rounds podforum pa i ne čitam šta od nagradnih igara ima tamo. Jedino ako neko, kao što si ti sad, nešto objavi pa se onda uključim ako mi se čini zanimljivim. Ima jedna tema iz Njemačkog lokalnog foruma koja mi se često pojavi na mojoj listi praćenih tema pa i tu saznam šta se dešava.

Ovdje ti se potkrala jedna greška. Pošto je za BC.Game kasino, onda je potreban nalog na BC.Game kasinu.

Ovo čak više nije ni izvodljivo. Joe je uspio hakirati taj Trezor jer je na njemu bila instalirana starija verzija firmware-a koja je tokom paljenja uređaja učitavala PIN i seed u memoriju. To je primjetio čitajući Trezor-ov kod. Ali ta vrsta napada više nije moguća s novijim verzijama firmware-a gdje se te osjetljive informacije ne mogu na taj način izdvojiti. Ali imaju drugi napadi koji su mogući i koje Trezor nije mogao spriječiti dok nisu izbacili Trezor Safe 3 koji ima sigurnosni elemenat. Ali vjerovatnoća da će ti neko ukrasti novčanik koji to može izvesti je vrlo mala.

Moguće da je do dizajna. To što je self-custody nije sigurno razlog zašto ga se ne spominje na ovom forumu. Ovdje ćeš rijetko kad ćuti preporuku nečega što je custodial ili closed-source. I ako čuješ, doće uz napomenu da je možda najbolje izbjeći takav jedan softver.

Kad si već spomenuo P2P trgovanje, jel i taj dio upotpunosti non-custodial. Da li Mycelium može blokirati sredstva, tražiti KYC, pitati za porijeklo novca, itd.?

The time of crypto casino faucets is long gone I think. I haven't checked my own thread in a long time, but I don't think anything has changed for the better. Some of the casinos might have even dropped their faucets or decreased the possible rewards. What you can hope for is a few cents. One exception is those casinos who have lucky wheels that you can spin and perhaps win a significant amount if you are lucky.

It might be a new way the admins have implemented to battle all the spam that comes from the gambling boards, making it close to unreadable because 8/10 posts are completely useless. My first thought was that discussions about gambling addiction should be in Gambling Discussion, but not if it only creates a spam fest where we keep going around in circles without anyone saying anything of value. 

Creating such threads is a trick used by those who don't know what to write in the gambling boards, but are required to do so because their campaign manager wants 5-10 posts written there weekly. Now, they will have to apply themselves a bit more.

Another thing. Many staff members participate in signature campaigns just like regular users. Campaign managers have rules that require those who want to participate to earn an X amount of merits in the last X days. If the mods didn't get enough merits or received much less than other quality members, they won't be the manager's first choice despite their forum status.