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I determined previously that the password is escaped too much, not under-escaped. SMF does escaping in an absolutely insane way, though, so I haven't been able to figure out how to fix this. The password doesn't even need to be escaped because it is hashed, but SMF automatically escapes all GET/POST input, and then sometimes unescapes it or escapes it more later. It's very difficult to follow.

I've decided that gigavps will not get a scammer tag for this. Nefario has proven himself to be untrustworthy, so it would be unreasonable for gigavps to pay out large sums of money based entirely on Nefario's list. Requiring affidavits and proofs of identity are reasonable precautions. It's impossible to strictly follow the contract in a safe way.

Tagged.

I think that the password gets double-escaped somewhere, but I haven't been able to find where this happens.

I think that this is the ~original version of the OP.

Editing is often useful for news, etc. Contracts should be PGP-signed.

Fixed. I think this happened because I wrote that page a very long time ago when Bitcoin's getblockcount actually returned a count of the total number of blocks instead of the max block number.

16X2xjFaE4RA8kt85sb4ebVL12EggyxFw4 belongs to wm-center.com. He used it to purchase forum ads.

Those laws are ridiculous violations of free speech as well as being pretty much useless at solving any real problems. Reading about laws like those makes me glad that I'm in the US, where things aren't yet that bad.

I sympathize with the people who won't remove your data. Threatening me with violence (via laws) would make me much less likely to honor your request.

I don't think he's big enough to supplant Bitcoin in that way. Maybe Google could.

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Ads are allowed to contain any non-annoying HTML/CSS style. No images, JavaScript, or animation (no marquee or blinking). Ads must appear 3 or fewer lines tall in my browser. Ads will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Eight of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post, and only for people using the default theme.

The ad lasts 7 days starting from when I put it up.

Stats

Exact historical impression counts per slot:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Auction rules

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all eight slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 8 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 8 slots. If the two highest bids are 8 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 7 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

The notation "2 @ 5" means 2 slots for 5 BTC each. Not 2 slots for 5 BTC total.

- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however.
- All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 0.25.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- I will end the auction at an arbitrary time no more than 12 days from now. (I will probably end the auction 1-3 days before the ads are scheduled to go up.)
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done. I also post periodic status updates which should help make things clear.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else.

Auction ended.

Texas. It's the same IP he used in August, in fact.

This forum is nothing like that. That sounds like a terrible forum for both the moderators and the posters.

He didn't. I have his PMs backed up, anyway.

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Yes.