Looks like I am, which I find kind of surprising, given the small number of signatures I have.

Diablo-D3 is a moderator because he is an expert in this area, I trust him, and I think that most people in the mining section appreciate his moderation style.

In this case I reversed his decision because it seems that the large majority of people don't want that thread stickied.

Ah, that's where I thought you would have seen the list of hidden services. They shouldn't be listed elsewhere, since they're useless without the instructions.

Are you using mapaddress?

When Bitcoin uses Tor, nolisten is automatically applied, and you can't override it.

I'm pretty sure connections from localhost are allowed.

Whoops, you need a semicolon before that comment.

It changed within the last month or two, I think.

You'd need to make these changes to fix it:

net.cpp

init.cpp

It's impossible to run a hidden service that accepts connections with recent versions. You'd need to change the code.

The forum doesn't do arbitration. The forum does only two things in this area:
- Mark proven scammers with the "scammer" label. This is a warning to other traders, not a punishment. It is not part of any arbitration mechanism.
- Release private info of persistent proven scammers. This only happens to people who already have the "scammer" label.

The best way to get someone labeled as a scammer is to compile all evidence into one "x is a scammer" thread, let it sit for a while, and then send me a link. If the case is not clear-cut, I probably won't bother reading the evidence unless trusted people have replied to that thread or related threads and are in agreement with the accusations. Then I will look at all evidence and make a decision about whether or not there is enough proof to give the accused person the scammer label.

Maged is misremembering this, I think:

Whether you're a hero member has nothing to do with it. I place very little stock in post counts.

It's still possible with IPv6. Users are always given at least a /64 allocation, so users can put their public nodes on an IP address in a well-known range within that /64. For example, an address might only be searched if it ends with at least 60 trailing zero bits. That leaves ~64 bits to search, but most of this area has not been allocated and doesn't need to be searched.

Done. Note that you will still login using your old name.

I removed GoDaddy as a certificate authority from my OS a long time ago, so I always see which sites use one of their certs. Always amuses me when I go to a site that's supposed to be super-secure and their cert is signed by GoDaddy, which is one of the most unreputable companies around.


I use Namecheap.

Miners will still "mine" transaction fees.

Satoshi wanted BTC to be like gold: initially easy to create but then increasingly more difficult. I don't think he put a ton of thought into it. This algorithm will work fine, though.

Yes, but the planned method is different than your method. Read the Bitcoin paper.

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.

Your visible ad text (ignoring link URLs, etc.) must be less than 150 characters in length, and it can only contain links: no other style. It will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. 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. (One of the remaining slots has random factoids, and one links to the current ad auction.)

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

Stats: On the 20^th of November, 2011, there were about 120,000 views of topics. So one slot would have appeared around 12,000 times per day. The ad doesn't appear on topic pages with only one post, though, and it only appears for people using the default theme. Total views per day on more recent days (in December):
- 13^th: 111941
- 14^th: 95266
- 15^th: 94672
- 16^th: 91486
- 17^th: 94174
- 18^th: 96714
- 19^th: 95178
- 20^th: 115599

Efficacy stats:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54182.0

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.

- When you bid, all of your previous bids are automatically canceled.
- All bid prices must be divisible by 0.5.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- The auction end time is 05:00:00 on December 29, UTC. Countdown. (The end time may be extended -- see below.)
- 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 any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the auction end time, then the auction will be extended by 30 minutes. If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the new end time, then the auction will be extended again, etc. The time will not extend beyond 6 hours total.

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

Use http://99.188.19.113/testnet for now. I'll fix the other version in a few days.

I see absolutely no fault on the part of old_engineer. Probably I would have done exactly the same thing if it was my contest and I had forgotten to specify a timezone.

It could be more easily argued that you were in violation of the contest rules because you did not specify a single exact date. A date given without a timezone could apply to multiple real dates.