You absolutely deserved that scammer tag. Regardless of the circumstances, KeyserSoze performed work for you and then you refused to pay him as promised. You admitted to it.

I thought you'd always be an annoying troll, but I'm now glad that I didn't permaban you (your name appears awfully often in the ban requests thread...). Your recent posts/projects have been very interesting and constructive.

Is it working now?

No company could afford to bribe or defeat the hundreds/thousands of opposing protection agencies. Any protection agency that allowed its customers to get killed or accepted bribes would go out of business.

It'd be cool if someone would set up a proxy that added a "Stop using Imageshack" watermark to the image.

Is it fixed now? Imageshack links are now automatically translated so they take you through a proxy.

True. It wouldn't work.

The company pays because if it doesn't the victims' protection agencies will attack the company.

Only the generation transaction to that address can't be redeemed. Other transactions could be redeemed by Satoshi if he still has the private key.

I doubt it. Hashing one password takes only one-twentieth of a second, and it only happens when someone logs in.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

I don't know. sshing into the server always timed out, so I couldn't investigate. My guess is that it was caused by a lot of traffic.

That seems likely. I'm not sure that blocks are guaranteed to be ordered sequentially in blk0001.dat, though, or that extra data isn't added.

No. Orphan blocks (blocks not in the main chain) are also stored there, and each node is likely to have a different set of orphan blocks.

As Maged mentioned, I usually only confirm that a reported PM is accurate. Sometimes I read all of the PMs between the potential scammer and the victim, with the victim's permission. There have been only a few cases where I've read all of a potential scammer's PMs, and they all turned out to be guilty in the end. I don't do it lightly. I never read random PMs; I haven't even read any of Satoshi's PMs, which would undoubtedly be very interesting.


It is necessary to use SQL to read them. SMF doesn't have an interface for it.

INTP

Be aware that the other themes aren't supported. They're missing features and some things might be broken.

I just added last edit info to the Bitcoin theme. Hover your cursor over the post time.

Edits aren't recorded when they occur within 5 minutes of the post time. (This has always been the case.)

Have you used Bitdaytrade much, Meni? Is it stable?


What is the purpose of a discount like this?

It's used in hashcoin's payment channels protocol. Miners will need to do it in 100+ years when blocks have no subsidy (if there are no fees). You can use it for tracking an asset without tying up BTC: the asset is represented by the 0-BTC output, and sending this 0-value output to someone (also valid) transfers the asset. You can use it for storing data in the block chain without tying up BTC.

Never. Even if I knew the entire system was about to fail, I'd still keep 1 BTC.