Anyone claiming to be able to help him would need to demonstrate their ability to clone the data on the device. Once the data has been cloned once, it becomes trivial to clone it an arbitrary number of times, and it becomes possible to brute force the passphrase. Obviously, the person would need to have some idea as to what their passphrase is.

If someone is at least somewhat reputable, and can demonstrate the above, I think it would likely make sense for them to agree to a 10% proposial.

It is impossible to entirely eradicate the potential for a collusion when using a hashing algorithm. Otherwise, you would just be dealing with raw data.

Given the limited number of blocks, and the algorithm currently being used, the chances of a collusion is effectively zero under the status quo.

There are 2²⁵⁶ possible outcomes when hashing a piece of data using SHA-256. There is an infinite number of data that can potentially be hashed, therefore, there is an infinite number of data points that will produce collisions when hashing each of the data points using SHA-256.

With that being said, actually finding any of those collisions is a different story, and it is unlikely that someone will ever encounter a SHA-256 collusion without breaking SHA-256.

There are transaction fees.

The miners have an incentive to maximize their immediate revenue because their equipment has a limited useful life.

Including an additional transaction into a block does have a cost because the miner needs to validate the transaction is valid, and for each additional transaction included in a block, it will take an incremental additional amount of time for the block to get propagated to the rest of the network.

Based on orphan rates of under 1%, and according to BlackHatCoiner above, a ~1.7% rate of total block rewards being made up of transaction fees, the theoretical maximum cost to include any transactions is below the revenue generated by including transactions. As such, including transactions is EV positive.

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It is difficult to know with certainty if the timestamps of the block in question and the prior block are accurate. Timestamps can be up to two hours off and blocks will still be accepted.

To answer the OP's question, for whatever reason, the miner that found the block in question, ViaBTC, was unable to construct a block that includes transactions after they received and validated the prior block, prior to them finding the block they found.

Not many people pay to use CMC, Facebook, nor Google. I am not sure how you think health insurance companies or Netflex are monetizing customer data.

Netflix makes suggestions based on your viewing history, in part in an effort to get you to use their platform more, but that is hardly "monetizing" data. I am sure that health insurance companies use analytics to try to improve health outcomes, detect fraud, and find efficiencies.

It is not possible to use algorithms to force the price of an asset to remain stable. Look at what is happening with TerraUSD/Luna right now.

It is best to acknowledge that bitcoin has no specific underlying value, nor is it backed by any specific assets, but rather that its value is set by the free market based on the market's perception of its value, and usefulness to its holders.

To be honest, this person is harmless. I don't think even a neutral tag is necessary. No one is going to confuse this person with achow101.

If this person continues participating in bounties for a year, I have serious doubts that he will even notice they have negative trust, and it is unlikely he will even try to converse with any other forum member. I think it is most likely that this account is some kind of bot, as I believe to be true for many of the accounts that participate in bounty campaigns.

So it appears the OP has found a way to hide the fact that there is a link within a post.

If all links were to look a certain way, someone could simply format their post to hide any links in their post. Although, forcing a link to look a certain way would make any hidden links stand out more.

I think the main reason why someone would want to hide the fact they are posting a link is for black-hat search result reasons (aka backlink spam). However much of the backlink spam is already more or less nonsense and these types of spammers do not need their posts to be up for very long.

All of the examples you cite allow for abortions in only limited circumstances. In the US, it is possible to have abortions for elective reasons. The two are not comparable.

You are referring to edge cases. Most late-term abortions do not meet this criteria. I also understand that there was language inserted into the bill that recently failed in the Senate that used "health complications" as a loophole that would effectively legalize abortions up to the moment of birth for elective reasons.

Any exception that allows for late-term abortions would need to meet a very high standard, such as the requirement that new information was discovered that was impossible to have been known prior to the threshold cutoff, and there being a substantial risk to the lift of the mother.

As a moral issue, performing a late-term abortion because there is a risk of health complication for the mother is doing something that is guaranteed to end a baby's life that merely reduces the risk to the mother's life, when it was not certain that the mother was going to die from the pregnancy.

The constitution has a means to be amended if there is the will of the people to amend it. If there is insufficient voter support to amend the consitutition, the only reasonable conclusion is that the people who are governed by the constitution have not consented to changing the consitutition.

It is much easier to transition off oil/gas from Russia than it is to transition off of imports from China. The energy that is imported from Russia is already produced elsewhere throughout the world, and these places just need to increase production. Much of what is imported from China is largely only produced in China, so manufacturing will need to be setup elsewhere.

I think it is probably safe to assume that China (and Russia) has compromising information on Biden, which is why he has been so soft on both countries. I can't see Biden significiently pushing back against China in response to an invasion of Tiawon.

I am not sure what you mean by "merites". It appears that word may be French, and the translation into English does not make sense in the context of what I wrote.

People use YoBit largely for one of two reasons. One, because they are not aware they are a likely scam exchange. Two, because YoBit does not scam all their customers, and their scam is one such that it is possible that some of their customers will make money while participating in their scams -- in other words, customers are gambling.

You mention that some customers do not care that companies are doing what you believe are negative actions. None of what you describe removes all value from the products the various companies offer. The free market will handle these negative behaviors.

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I think your bolded statement agrees with my statement. If a consumer is not going to buy what does not get them the best value for their money, the company is going to be unable to realize sales from a product with a bad value.

The US is one of only three countries that allow for abortions past 24 weeks. The other two countries are China and North Korea.

As a moral issue, I really don't see any valid argument as to why late-term abortions should be allowed (dito with post-birth abortions). I understand the argument for earlier term abortions, and in most places, the support for early-term abortions is likely strong enough such that early-term abortions will remain legal.

As a constitutional issue, there is no basis to guarantee the "right" to have an abortion. There is a litany of other issues that the states use their police powers to regulate regarding behaviors that people do in their own homes and what people do in their doctor's office.

Yes, I would generally say that most (every?) mobile devices have support for bitcoin/crypto.

You can currently buy Apple gift cards on bitrefill (and other crypto to gift card sites) using your crypto. I don't see Apple accepting bitcoin directly for their products because doing so would only add to their compliance and sales support costs, and probably would not bring in many additional sales they would otherwise have.

Are you sure they are giving a list of inputs to a blockchain analysis company, as opposed to getting a list of addresses/inputs that should be blacklisted that they can compare proposed inputs to?

Even if it is the former, it would be unusual for a company to use data from their paying customers for other commercial purposes.

Not necessarily. With the exception of CM, researchers have been able to trace inputs to outputs from all major mixers, and have published their results. CM uses countermeasures that would prevent inputs from being linked to outputs using methods described in public research, however, in theory, the inputs may be linked to outputs (assuming of course CM is not actively keeping track of inputs/outputs pairs and/or is some kind of honeypot).

There have been various supply chain issues since covid started over two years ago, although they have gotten worse as of recently. I agree that markets will eventually adjust and supply chains will originate from elsewhere, although China is also the source of certain materials that is not available elsewhere.

In any event, China likely is going to invade Tiawon during Biden's presidency because it knows that Biden is too weak to respond militarily. They may be waiting to see how the situation in Ukraine plays out.

If large swings in bitcoin are causing people to move coin to their exchange (and causing the mempool to get more congested), so they can sell, it would mean that people are holding their coin in their own wallets, only to entrust the exchange when they are ready to sell.

I don't think this is quite the same as holding their coin in their own wallet, and trading directly with whoever they want to trade with.

Again, I am not sure how one could argue that apple does not support bitcoin payments on the iPhone. It is already possible to use a wallet app on your iPhone to send/receive bitcoin (and most altcoins). How else could apple support bitcoin payments?

I know the selfmod flag is removed when you move a thread when the OP moves it into a section that disallows self-moderation.

You could potentially edit your post if you created a thread outside of auctions and subsequently moved it into auctions. There are also auctions in the collectibles section whose posts can be edited/deleted.

If you were to move a thread out of auctions, if the thread is appropriately located in the other sub, the OP should have the ability to edit their posts.

I honestly don't think it makes much of a difference. It is possible to trace CJ transactions and has been for quite some time. Researchers have been able to trace transactions through pretty much every mixer except CM, and that is just that have published their research.

I have always understood that the computer hardware sub was intended to be trading mostly mining related equipment. This might include ASIC’s and also things such as power supplies and other things that help ASIC’s running smoothly.