The last mod payment resulted in the mods getting a total of 0.1844BTC, and was sent in the middle of March. I looked at the previous ad auctions going back a month (based on the end date) prior to the mod payment being sent, and the forum received a total of 0.325BTC from selling ads. So it looks like last month, the forum spent about 56% of their revenue on mods. At current prices, that leaves about $8100 to pay for hosting, and any other expenses the forum may incur.

I am not sure how much hosting costs the forum per month, but it is probably a decent amount based on the amount of traffic it gets.

Are you located in North Korea, and are trying to open an account at a website that does not allow people from NK to use their services?

I think the 1st case is a good example as to when the admins should remove a rating someone else left. This is based on the following:
*Zepher clearly stated the rating was intended to be temporary
*Zepher clearly stated he would remove the rating once the account was restored to its prior owner
*It appears the prior owner is now back in control of his account
*Zepher is no longer with us unfortunately

This may be a bit of a moot point in this case because the person in question has not posted since he recovered access to his account.

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For examples 2 and 3, it is probably a fair argument that TMAN and zepher should reconsider their ratings if they were using their forum accounts and still with us, but this would be ultimately up to TMAN and zepher respectively. If the admins were to remove these ratings, they would be substituting TMANs and zepher's judgement for their own.

I don't think blockchain.info/.com actually has access to your keys. My understanding is that your keys are encrypted locally, and your password (and 2nd password, if applicable) is needed to decrypt your keys locally. Your keys will never be decrypted on their servers, and are generated locally. The above assumes you are accessing an unmodified version of their online wallet. It would be trivial for them to serve you a modified version of their wallet, although if you looked at the code, you could detect this.

You can disable, and subsequently re-enable 2FA in order to get a new setup key.

First, you use a 2FA code generated by the authenticator app to disable 2FA. Next you enable 2FA on your account, the service will provide a new QR code and new alpha-numeric code that you need to load onto the authenticator app. This will be different than your previous code, and your previous 2FA codes will not work, so be sure to add this to your authenticator app. Before navigating away from the page with the QR code and alpha-numeric code, make multiple backups of this code in case you lose access to your phone.

Forcing people to get vaccinated is not without precedent, there was even a Supreme Court case, Jacobson v MA (1905), in which the SC ruled that states have the authority to enforce vaccination laws. This was on the state level, not the Federal level, and I am not sure a national vaccination law would be constitutional.

While I plan on getting vaccinated, and recommend that others do the same when it is their turn, I don't think it is wise to force people to get vaccinated. There are risks to getting the vaccine, I believe the benefits outweigh the risks by a large margin, but this is something people should evaluate individually. I believe trying to force people to get vaccinated will only delay getting enough people to get vaccinated in order to eradicate the virus. Right now, demand for the vaccine outweighs the supply, so trying to force people into getting the vaccine will not do anything currently. 

I bet you could probably get actual BTC out of that NFT. You could list it at x000 BTC on the forum marketplace at a time your buyer knows it will be listed, and your buyer would send you actual BTC in exchange for you telling him when you will list the NFT

Who was able to get the satoshi NFT?

Whoever gets this should get an actual prize.

I am fine with submitting KYC docs based on the amount.

You were trading with your alt? 😱

You can trade PayPal bitcoin to real dollars. I would be okay with dollar equivalent in tethers or to my PayPal.

I am glad to see the forum return some of it's bitcoin to forum members as part of the annual April Fool's prank.

I am having trouble finding a way to request a withdrawal of the BTC I received while selling some of my NFTs.

While I am still having trouble with my BTC balance, I would like to request a withdrawal of my displayed balance in my wallet to the address in my profile.

I would also like to inquire if I can withdraw my NFTs to my personal wallet on some blockchain?

Thank you (increasing my politeness score).

Of course the lockdowns are an infringement of people's rights. The purpose of the lockdowns were/are to give more control to government.

The concept of using lockdowns to slow the spread of covid came out of China/the CCP, and their history with human rights should be all that you need to know about the matter.

Congratulations on buying a piece of history from one of the best forum members the forum has ever seen (it is on the internet, so it has to be true).

There is no such thing as an illegal sale with regards to NFTs. Who is to say that I didn't just want to list a NFT at a good price for a lucky person to get cheaply, for the low cost of ~$57,000?

When you first setup authenticator, you were shows a QR code, and a string below. The QR code was that string plus some additional meta data. The string is what the authenticator app needs to calculate the code to display when considering the current time. It would have been best for you to have saved that string outside of your phone, so you can load the code onto a new phone if your phone were to get damaged or stolen.

Well hopefully the forum will not become tribalized so much that anyone who excludes Sam will get excluded themselves by Sam's friends/allies. No one should be "untouchable" in the trust system.

Sorry. In the future, I will use names that start with different letters.

I sold one of my NFTs, but didn't get any BTC in my wallet.

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The prices on these NFTs, and the amount of BTC each person received are ridiculous, even by NFT bubble standards. There is a feature that allows someone to buy a "random" NFT for ~$28.5 million. 

I don’t think it is appropriate to try to regulate how people should use bitcoin. That really goes against the ethos of why bitcoin was created, at least in my opinion.

If you don’t want people to be able to add arbitrary data in OP_RETURN transactions, you should create a BIP that makes these transactions invalid.
That is obviously not true, people have been including random data in the blockchain for years. I am saying a cryptocurrency whose sole purpose is to store arbitrary messages is not going to have value.

I would also point out that if OP RETURN transactions could not include data, people would start sending minimum output amounts to vanity addresses that send some kind of message. This would both increase the blockchain size and the UTXO set.

I agree with you regarding the ethics of trying to crack these wallets, but there are a lot of researchers who are willing to brush ethics aside for their own personal profit. Just look at all the university professors who are willing to accept money from the Chinese government in secret.

Ignoring the ethics factor, I disagree this would be a bad experiment. It would measure the ability to crack a password intended to secure xx dollars.

The reason OP_RETURN transactions are valid is to allow people to store data in the blockchain.
I think we both know such an altcoin would not give the same authority that the message is unchanged as bitcoin would.

It could be to see if anyone has researched ways to weaken or break the cryptography of the encryption algorithms that would make cracking the wallets easier than brute forcing each wallet. Or, maybe the OP wants to know if someone has developed technology that can more efficiently brute force these wallet files.

As far as I can tell, the percentage is now higher than 25%. The ad auctions are not bringing in much bitcoin right now and the forum has grown enough to need a lot of mods. My guess is that the mods get nearly all of the forum ad revenue and hosting is paid for out of the forum’s reserves.