My offer can extend both ways. If you want to have an explanation on why a post has been deleted as long as I'm the one that's handled it I can do that too. I think this is quite a common thing for staff to do if its a particularly complex report anyway. Obviously, for higher ranks I only moderate a few sections. You could also message me even if I wasn't the one that handled it, and I could give you my opinion on why it was deleted. Don't quote me on this, but I believe I saw that Epochtalk allows for leaving a message with a deleted post.

No worries, I'll keep a list of users, and be a little more vigilant of who's reported, and who's been reported from now on.

Yeah, I haven't kept track of translations, so I'm unsure if there's already a Filipino translation of this thread, but if there isn't then I have no problem with anyone translating the thread. If you do translate the thread, just send me a link, and I might put together a list of all translations when I come to update the original post, and make sure I message the translation creators for any future updates I make. I've said a few times, but I've got a revision of the thread on the back burner at the moment.

I've had quite a few users since I created this thread either thanking or saying how useful it is, so the more users that are aware of it the better I think,

Ideally? Any sport that can be performed abiding by social distancing guidelines. However, the realistic approach is that the majority of sporting events around the world will start to resume in the next month or so, if there isn't a second spike in some countries. There's already talks about Premier league football starting back up, and the UK is still having several hundred deaths a day. So, its quite clear that despite a death every few minutes, there's still demand of sporting events being opened up.

I'll admit, that several sports will be performed with no public presence, but this still brings up a few risks. Take the premier league as an example. There are multiple players in the league which have contracted the virus, and several more might not be showing any visual symptoms.

Any sports which has the high possibility of exchanging fluids, and busting peoples noses open should not be carried out. Unless, everyone inside that event has been tested. However, testing someone doesn't mean that they didn't contract the virus after the test. Therefore, unless you're testing someone mere hours before the event, and somehow get the result back before the event occurs then there's still risks of opening up.

Do you have any idea of the password that might have been used? It might be possible to brute force it if there's only a couple of characters missing, and you know the majority of the password. A common program used to recover Bitcoin wallets is BtcRecover

I haven't taken a look at the program in a while so you'd have to either vet the source yourself or consider running it in a isolated environment. You could potentially extract the "mkey" from the backup, and test against that to prevent any malicious attempt on the wallet itself it you don't completely trust the program to target the wallet.

Generally, users have some sort of idea of the password that they used even if it was somewhat random they will remember tadbits of information or at least possible combinations due to muscle memory from accessing the wallet years ago. If this is the case, then try to think back to when you first created the wallet, and try to visualize that scenario ago. Think about the things that could have influenced you in making a password. This all sounds a little crazy, but accessing memory by using certain triggers is quite an effective method.

Any information you can think of. If the password is relatively short then we might have a decent chance at getting access to the wallet by using various different techniques. If the password is relatively long, but you know the majority of the password or have a general idea of it, then that isn't a complete lost cause, because we might be able to look at the patterns that humans tend to follow when making passwords. 

My assumption would be that this was influenced by the news of the Bitcoin halving as well as the recent price increase. Although, I'll admit I tend to not read much news even if it is Bitcoin related I imagine there's been some decent news coverage of the recent halving. It will be interesting to see if there's any long term increase or if this is a one off increase.

Its slow because as far as I can tell it continuously loads the data on the page. However, I made it to November 2019 fairly quickly, and the slow loading is partly because of the way its designed to load data, your client, and connection speed. As LoyceV stated, Firefox handles it slightly better, and that's what I tested it on.

Is it worth considering implementing pagination with the option of displaying all data on one singular page if desired?

For anyone wondering what the Discord was like during the halving event here's some screenshots which captured some of the stand out moments:

Its worth noting that usernames on the Discord depsite their apperance may not be related to usernames on Bitcointalk. Therefore, don't assume a user with the same username on Discord is the same user on Bitcointalk.

Bitcoin party live streams of counters, and participating users



The "timestamp" contest


Which user "BitCryptex#5054" on Discord with the guess "1589225123"  which was only 100 seconds out from the actual time the halving occurred. Therefore, BitCryptex#5054 become the owner of a contest total of  0.019 BTC which was sent by all those who contributed to the amount shortly after the event.


We surpassed 100 users on Discord during the first two days of launch, and we are now quickly approaching 200 total users.

Unfortunately, due to my positioning of the live streams window, it hides the total amount of users online at one point. However, my observation was we reached at least 42 concurrent users online, and as of the time of writing this we currently have 32 users online.

The new forum software (epochtalk) does in fact have a function to report a user, as well as the capability of reporting posts like on SMF. Its probably unlikely that additional features such as implementing a report user feature would be added to the current forum software. However, for the time being it would be advised to report a post of those that are ban evading (ideally a post which is posting outside meta and is unrelated to their ban), and include any information that is relevant, as well as the essential evidence.

Although, that thread is a great resource, moderators probably aren't routinely checking it.

Because nothing says censored forum like allowing another "competitor" to advertise their "competing" forum in their signature of said censored forum. Does anyone actually go there for discussion or is it to just experience the Roger Ver experience?

If you'd like you can "opt in" to any reports that I handle of yours in the future which were considered bad reports, and I can shoot you a quick message explaining the reasoning after I've handled them. I'm not sure how many reports I've handled of yours in the past, but I'm not bothered about messaging users if they've made bad reports, and want to improve.

If anyone would like to receive a message after I've marked a report of yours bad, just send me a message stating so.

For the time being don't associate anyone with their Bitcointalk username without verifying yourself until there's an "official" verification process on the Discord server itself. A quick message on the forum could probably alleviate most issues for the time being. There are also certain users which have roles associated with them such as Bitcointalk staff. Those have all been verified.

No issues, there's no embarrassment when making a mistake. We all make mistakes, and the moderator handling the report isn't going to judge you for it. The worst that will happen is you'll receive a bad report, and that's generally not an issue for most users. I do understand that a lot of users like to have as little bad reports as they can, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't make too much of a difference. To put it into perspective I had 265 bad reports. You likely have a long way to catch up with the amount of bad reports I've made

Just be aware doing this would likely end up with both of the reports being marked as bad, assuming that the original report was a bad report. Its probably best to just leave it, we don't really care if you've made a mistake, and you letting us know you made a mistake won't have any effect on how we handle the report.

Don't sweat it if you report something wrongly. I've done it, and many others are doing it every day. What matters to the community, and those that handle the reports is that you are making reports in the first place

Pretty much. Most users selling email lists will be looking to sell them to users which are purchasing for advertisement of what ever their service is. For example, my email which was leaked a few years ago constantly gets bombarded by fake services, and new altcoin services. Of course I've largely abandoned the email as I'm not a big fan of that email provider anymore, but there's definitely a big business with buying emails that they can "cold call".

Seek an accountant. There's various tools online where you can calculate capital gains, and income tax together, but honestly just get an accountant to do the math for you as they are less likely to make mistakes.  Any advice on here would be greatly inaccurate because each jurisdiction has different tax laws. For example, some countries have tax brackets which allow you to earn a certain amount before having to declare income tax. So, its just better to seek professional advice from an accountant in your jurisdiction.

Tax can be extremely complicated, and that's just with fiat. When you add into the equation the different laws on cryptocurrencies then its becomes even more difficult. There's also a lot of misinformation on the internet regarding tax, and a lot of users probably think they don't need to file tax at all until they've converted it into fiat, and I do believe this was the case for a long time, but a lot of countries are now treating it as money, and therefore its subject to income/capital gain tax.

It can be certainly used via a VPN as many of us are using them. So that could be a compromise if you're willing to do so. Failing that, you could potentially create an account on a VPN connection, and then try using that account as normal on a Tor circuit although this probably defeats the point of using Tor. I'm not sure whether Discord will still ping you, but I'm assuming they just don't like "dirty" connections upon signing up, and once that process has been done it wont bother you much. That's my assumption anyway.

It is a shame that Discord seems to have an issue with Tor because generally its a great platform otherwise.

They'll appear unhandled on your side.

Ummm....situational. Some reports are purposely left unhandled as that's actually the best way of handling it rather than giving someone a good report or a bad one. So, your reports may have been handled (or unhandled ) in that way. Hence its usually considered for unhandled reports to be a "soft" bad. However, if you're absolutely convinced they need to be removed or the user needs to be handled with you can try reporting it again, or contact a moderator for clarification.

Yes, there's various ways of doing verification, and it shouldn't be too much of a problem to code a little verification script if this was to become more than a one time thing. Currently, I think we could just do a manual verification. At the moment though, its just for the Bitcoin halving event.

I'm personally treating the Discord server as a more relaxing, casual environment to talk about things somewhat related to the forum rather than an extension of Bitcointalk itself.

Those that wanted a Bitcointalk.org live chat system, your prays has been answered.

Also, I heard Cyrus is giving out Ninja roles


I see this going one of 2 ways;

1. We all have a good time, crack a few beers out (other non alcoholic drinks are available), and actually get together as a community

2. It gets trolled to oblivion, and destroys a chance of getting together for a nice event.

There used to be a feature where if a user was ignored by multiple users it would have a shading of yellow/orange depending on the amount of users ignoring them. It was removed.

I've seen public ridicule change the behaviour of certain people over the years. However, that takes a certain type of person to own up to what they're been doing, and have some emotional intelligence to change which unfortunately is quite rare.

Hence the reason I'd prefer to actually push for a optional feature of sorting posts by merit, instead of having a demerit option. A well thought out post refuting false claims, and incorrect facts will likely receive a bit of merit for calling out their bullshit. If we had the option to filter threads via merit earned within that thread I think that could be a solution we are looking for without adding in a demerit option. Abuse via this feature would be limited, and wouldn't have the consequences of a demerit feature.

By default, the thread should be displayed as chronological order, perhaps in certain sections such as the technical support section we could opt to sorting by merited posts as the default option, and think in these certain circumstances could be a more beneficial way of going about things. Its sort of like a solved button, but instead of relying on the OP to issue that, its a community wide effort to reward those that are combating misinformation on the forum, as well as providing worthy posts.

From a moderation perspective; we are not going to remove a post simply because its wrong, no matter how wrong a post is, removing it would be censorship, and just because the original thread is wrong, doesn't mean that there isn't going to be quality discussion in the thread. Of course, this will differ slightly from moderator to moderator, as some have more patience, and others simply think misinformation is does with intent, and therefore trolling.

However, moderators will generally remove anything which is complete garbage, but more from a low quality perspective than actually being factually incorrect. Therefore we aren't going to remove a post for spreading misinformation or being factually incorrect. The downside, and the beauty of freedom of speech is that a lot of people will have incomprehensible opinions about whatever subject that's being discussed. Sometimes this is so far gone, that its quite entertaining to think there's people as delusional as this. For example, someone makes a post talking about how Bitcoin is the same as Bitcoin cash, or even more bullshit that Satoshi is theymos' nan. We aren't necessarily going to remove it if they actually talk about why they think that is, I'll admit the theymos' nan scenario would likely be a little trollish, but if they gave some reasons why they think that it may not be removed for trolling.

Instead, what I would advise is to refute every single point of theirs that is incorrect, so your combating the large amount of misinformation being spread. I know most of this community does this, and there's only a small fraction of users that have these outlandish posts. If we were a WIKI dedicateed to Bitcoin, I'd probably expect it to adhere more alongside of being factually correct, but we are a forum, and a forum has varying degrees of factually correct discussions. I think some discussions which are factually incorrect can actually lead to good discussions. I've seen this a numerous amount of times within the technical support, and development sections of the forum.