You don't need to post once a day to "claim" activity. You just need to post a minimum of once during every two week activity period. If you're interested in seeing what those two week periods are, somebody put together a useful spreadsheet with that information here.

After you've posted at least once during an activity period, you build up potential activity, which can be claimed at any time by making additional posts. For example, if you post once during activity period number one, and 20 times during activity period two, your activity would be increased by 21, and you'd still have a potential activity of seven.

Thanks for the clarification, I think that completely clears things up for me. I wouldn't have needed to back up that new account then because by backing up my seed I would be able to re-generate that account. I guess initially I wasn't sure if generating a new account meant generating a new seed as well, but it turns out that isn't the case.

Digital Ocean is grossly overpriced for what you get. Digital Ocean charges $5 a month for a plan, when you can get a similar plan on other sites for $10 a year.

My suggestion to the OP would be to stay away from Digital Ocean if he's looking for a cheap VPS. Even with those free vouchers you mentioned, their prices are extremely high.

That makes more sense, thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize that my seed would cover all generated accounts, but that does make sense - I believe the Trezor uses a similar system where a single master seed can be used to generate multiple accounts.

I agree with the perma-ban suggestion, considering that this individual is now ban evading. They're posting outside of this meta thread with the account used to appeal their ban:

 

I realize that, but I was just setting up a PIN for the first time. Here's the process I went through:

• Created a new Mycelium account
• I want to back up this new account right after creation, so I try to do so.
• I get a message stating that before I can backup this account, a PIN needs to be set on it
• I set a PIN for the account
• I now try to backup my account. However, I receive a message saying that my PIN was recently changed and I need to wait 288 blocks (48 hours) before I can backup the account

It seems to me that after creating a new Mycelium account, you're forced to wait 48 hours before you can initially back it up. I brought this up, as I figured it was a bug when trying to initially backup a brand new account. This may be the desired behavior for existing accounts where the PIN was actually changed, but it seems like it's a sort of bug when you're trying to backup an account where a PIN was just created.

I'm sure I have a backup of the seed, but I'm not sure if I have a backup of the account made through Mycelium. Before last weekend I hadn't used that wallet in about a year or so. Anyway, I thought it was a little odd that I wasn't able to backup the account after setting an initial PIN.

I think I might have found a small bug in the latest version of Mycellium, but I figured I'd run it by the forums first to see if others have had similar experiences.

Last weekend, I created a new Mycellium HD account and decided I wanted to create a backup of it right after creation. When I tried to do so, I was told that I needed a PIN on the account before I could back it up. Fair enough, I set a PIN and continued to try and back it up. However, when I tried to back it up after setting a PIN, I received a message stating that the PIN was recently changed and I'd need to wait two days (288 blocks) before I could back up the account.

Has anybody run into this before? It was a little frustrating to not be able to make a backup of my new account, and it might be worth looking into for future releases.

How? If they're all watermarked as replicas that would defeat most, if not all scam attempts with them. Good luck trying to get verified on a bitcoin exchange or similar with a verification document that is a watermarked replica. 

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If the account that was hacked was well-known (high trust rating, staff member - those sorts of scenarios) they're recovered fairly quickly to prevent scamming with them.

On the topic of using the same IP, I don't think that changes anything either when the staff look into recovering your account. They have other methods than just matching IP's up to accounts to verify that 'person x is under control of account y'.

That would be a reasonable compromise, but if something like that was to be implemented I think I'd also like a setting in my profile to turn the setting off, and only go with the green link highlighting on hover.

This auction ended about 45 minutes ago, correct? Wish I saw it earlier - I might've bid on it for participation in the Rollin.io campaign.

I would disagree with twister's idea. Have you guys ever used a website that does that? It is extremely frustrating to try and open external links on websites like that if there's always a notice popping up in your face letting you know that you're leaving the website. I think the green link highlighting in place right now is a good warning method for people, plus it makes it much easier to open multiple links at a time compared to having a warning page. You'd have to manually click on each new link page to acknowledge you're leaving the site.

I haven't really been following this conversation, but are you able to test out your PSU voltages at all? I was having issues with my S7 having a sporadic hashrate, and eventually I was able to determine that a faulty 12V rail on my PSU was the source of the problem.

I don't think it'll ever work on mobile devices, since you can't really "hover over" a link on a mobile device as you can a normal computer. I guess theymos could always create a mobile stylesheet for the website, and make all Bitcointalk.org links appear green even if they haven't been highlighted, but considering that there isn't even a mobile version of the site I wouldn't expect that to happen.

Payment received, thank you alexrossi. I'll continue this campaign again for the second round (although I don't think I need to mention this as you said that all current participants are automatically enrolled for the second round as well).

I'm not sure you understand how encryption works. Even if you took platters out of a HDD and read them with special tools, that wouldn't crack the encryption. The data on the drive itself is encrypted, so you'd just be reading the encrypted data off the drive. You'd need decryption tools to try  decrypting the drive (and if a modern encryption technique was used in combination with a strong encryption key, chances are you wouldn't be decrypting that drive).

I wouldn't even use Blockchain.info over Tor. Blockchain.info is an extremely poor site to trust with any amount of money, if you search on here as well as the /r/Bitcoin subreddit on Reddit, you'll find countless threads where people have lost their bitcoins due to Blockchain.info's incompetence. Along with that, there are a bunch of other threads where people have complained that their login details have been stolen while using Blockchain.info over Tor due to rogue Tor nodes.

An alternate option I'd recommend doing would be to use Electrum + Tor in combination. You can accomplish that either by using a live boot of Tails OS, or by configuring Electrum to direct all traffic through Tor. It would be a much more secure method of creating an "anonymous" wallet.

This is the first I've ever heard of a VPS provider needing proof of real life identity before setting up your services... Seems like it would be a lot easier to just browse LowEndBox.com for a few days until you find a similar cheap VPS for sale.. It's not very tough to find a small VPS for < $15 USD per year that doesn't require any verification of your person.