I can assure you that all the major exchanges are subject to frequent DDOS attacks. The same is true for the forum, and probably most other bitcoin related websites that bring in a lot of people (profits).

You are right, exchanges tend to go down when trading volume spikes. This is not a DDOS attack but is a potential attack vector. In the past, Bitfinex was attacked by someone creating many accounts, and depositing small/dust amounts into their accounts, wrecking havoc on their hot wallet UTXO set to be used for customer withdrawals. Requiring KYC verification will stop this attack.

For arguments sake, let’s days that Wright is in fact satoshi (there is a lot of evidence suggesting this is not the case, and nothing except Wrights word suggesting that he is). Also, for arguments sake, we could say that the coin in question is rightfully owned by Wright.

If both of the above are true, forcing entities to change software to allow for Wright to spend his bitcoin whose private keys he has lost is akin to forcing speech on an innocent person. No one involved had anything to do with Wright loosing the private keys that he alleges belongs to him. It would be wrong for a court to grant what Wright is asking, even if the facts supported him telling the truth.   

This is unlikely. When the price of bitcoin falls, the prices of altcoins tend to fall more. Also, when major services go down, the instinct is generally to sell.

I don’t buy the theory of DDOS for market manipulation, however if this was the case, it would probably be someone who is short crypto hoping to profit.

I don’t see this being implemented on a forum basis. I could envision the forum publishing certain stats about various users, and someone could create a user script that will hide posts by people whose stats exceed certain thresholds.

Even the above may be difficult because FUD is typically allowed on this forum and there is a lot that will not get removed that might get removed on other forums that give less freedom. So even getting stats would be difficult. It might provide a good way to ignore a lot of the signature spammers who are able to avoid getting banned but post garbage nonsense.

The flu vaccine, at least as I understand it, is not a booster shot, but is rather something that protects against the mutated version of the flu going around that year. Or something close to the above description.

I understand a booster shot to be something along the lines of getting your body to continue making antibodies so that if the virus does enter into your system, your immune system can quickly defeat the virus.

On a slightly unrelated note, the response to covid has made the flu almost not a problem. For example, hospitalizations related to the flu are down 90% from the prior low point, which was during the 2011-12 flu season, on a per population basis. 

You can see a history of outages and downtime at coinbase at https://status.coinbase.com/

The issue was first noted at 6:12 AM PDT, a fix was implemented at 7:38 AM PDT, and was marked at resolved at 8:36 AM PDT. There were a number of issues at coinbase throughout that day, and it looks like they might have had some additional downtime later that evening, when trading volumes were anticipated to be lighter to perform some maintenance.

It seems like many bitcoin related services and websites do not scale very well when they encounter heavy traffic volume. I understand why an exchange might have more difficult scaling 'on demand' due to security issues, but I would think it would be almost trivial for a site like CMC to scale. I would think CMC is fairly profitable, so I don't think cost would be an issue as to why they would be unable to scale.

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I am not trying to extend my political debate. One person that I cited likely actually believes what he is posting and one is likely sponsored, directly or indirectly by terrorists, both are posting misinformation. Each can potentially be handed differently.
It is currently against the rules to post about bcash in the bitcoin forums. In 2014, this would not be against the rules because no one had thought to create such a rule. The purpose of this thread/bump is to generate debate that will hopefully lead to a new rule being created against posting terrorist propaganda.

Of course, I favor freedom.

With the kind of propaganda I am referring to, particularly the kind being published by Ljunior, I would say the publisher (I am intentionally not using the word 'person' as I have my doubts he is writing in his personal capacity, or even if it is a single person behind the account) does not necessarily believe what is being published, and he is taking steps to make it difficult to counter his statements. For example, he is making his posts full of images, so a casual reader will not be as likely to read the post immidiately after his post. This makes it difficult to counter what he is saying.

The authoritative sources should be chosen by someone who is responsible for the reputation of the forum. If authoritative sources are chosen that are not reliable, or are too biased, the forum's reputation will suffer. I don't think the forum should say that anyone is right or wrong, or that the linked authoritative sources are right or wrong, but I do think some of these posts should contain links to additional information so readers can decide for themselves.

There is a distinction between someone like Ljunior, and someone like jrrsparkles, who very well may believe what he is posting, and IMO is repeating what someone in his family, or friend group taught him. jrrsparkles is not doing anything to impede discussion, while Ljunior is via his very long posts.

We don't allow people to post about bcash in the bitcoin subs, claiming that bcash is bitcoin. We also don't allow inauthentic behavior that might artificially increase their threads or posts visibility.

The definition of propaganda is:
I am not necessarily advocating that posts be censored, but am rather highlighting a problem. I don't think the posts in question violate any current rules.

If the argument that Palestine is a "concentration camp" that would be the fault of Hamas, not Israel. Israel is giving away free electricity and water to Palestine. Hamas is occupying the territory.

There are authoritative sources that say Hamas is a terrorist organization (as cited in the post you quoted). The mods do not need to make independent judgements, but can rely on a set of reliable and authoritative sources. If, over time a particular source proves itself to be unreliable, it can no longer be relied upon.

I think it would probably not be best to remove the propaganda posts in question, but would probably be good to perhaps have warnings applied to posts linking readers to authoritative sources of information about the subject, so the readers can make their own unbiased judgments.

The best cure to misinformation is more speech. However some malicious actors are able to produce a lot of speech, either by generating content that many are sympathetic to, or via automated means. If authoritative, neutral sources of information are linked to certain posts/threads, the effectiveness of a lot of misleading speech would be reduced.  

That is ridiculous. The Israeli military calls the citizens being used as human shields ahead of time when they are about to bomb terror targets. Take a look at this video that is a phone call the IDF made to a civilian in Gaza.

Coinbase was also down earlier in the day. Prices were down heavily today, and this resulted in heavier traffic to exchanges and sites like CMC. I wonder how much Coinbase and Binance going down contributed to the acceleration of price declines.

It appears that terrorist propiganda is being posted in various P&S threads. Hamas is not only designated as a terrorist organization, but is also subject to OFAC sanctions.

The propaganda is not limited to one thread. There is another thread advocating for the mass murder of Jews whose replies contain pro-terrorism propaganda.

Of the vaccines for Covid that are available (except for the Chinese and Russian vaccines) the  AstraZeneca is the one that raises the most concerns. If I had the choice between getting the AstraZeneca vaccine and getting no vaccine, I would take the AstraZeneca vaccine. If I had a choice between AstraZeneca and another vaccine, I would get the other vaccine.

OP, feel free to shoot me a PM if you have the raw transaction. If the transaction is still valid, I should be able to help you. I would expect payment in advance.

I would think it would be very low.

One problem that no one has mentioned is the difficulty mitigating DDoS attacks that originate from Tor. CF can help with you have a clearnet site, but I don't think they would be of much use when using a .onion site. With a .onion site, an attacker could send as much traffic the tor network can handle, and you wouldn't really be able to tell between 'good' traffic and that from the attacker. A few years ago, the forum was the subject of a months-long DDoS attack that only stopped when theymos started using CF.

Yea, FH didn't moderate P&S like twitter, but there was a clear left wing bias in his moderation, IMO. I liked how he would split off topic divergences into new threads instead of deleting groups of off topic posts...it would probably be better to see more of that really throughout the forum.

Hamas is using women and children as human shields. The Israelis try to get the civilians out of harms way when launching attacks against military targets. When Hamas launches attacks, they do not target military targets, they target civilians.

Israel targets military targets that have things like weapons stashes, military infrastructure, solders, and terrorist leaders. Hamas intentionally has these targets near where civilians live so the humans can be used as human shields. Hamas also will launch rockets from areas inhabited by civilians, and it is not uncommon for the rockets to misfire and to hit Palestinian citizens.

There is no reason for Israel is not use the maximum available force at their disposal. The strength of Israel's military is no secret. Hamas is the aggressor, and launched rocket attacks against Israel unprovoked.

Hamas is trying to kill all the jewish people. This is exactly what the nazis were trying to do.

Most nodes will connect to far fewer than 125 other nodes, and you don’t know how well connected the nodes you are connected to are. Nodes by default try to connect to a diverse set of nodes, so your two nodes being geographically far from each other doesn’t necessarily mean anything.

The verification time may be less than the 4 seconds I quoted. This can be tested by running a node that connects to a single note, yours, and to track the time difference between found block times each node is reporting.  

Once a pool validates a block, it will need to update its UTXO set, and it’s database for valid transactions waiting for confirmation. There will be some time between when a block is validated and when a pool will start including transactions in its proposed block if it is SPV mining. 

The innocent civilians are not dying because of Israel's military action, they are dying because of Hamas using them as human shields.

Frankly, the US should intervene and remove Hamas from power, with force if necessary. Hamas can only be described as a terrorist organization whose purpose is to terrorize innocent civilians if their government does not do what they want. This is unacceptable.