Afaik, it's sirius who owns bitcoin.org, not theymos.
Satoshi owns the domain. Sirius owns the server. Gavin and I have access to the server. Clearly I am not any kind of "ultimate authority" of bitcoin.org. I am using the tools I have been given in ways that I think are good. I'm not going to do anything I consider I bad idea... |
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extraNonce is variable-length, so the number of unique blocks is almost endless.
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How do we get out of the newbie zone?
By reading topics before you reply to them... |
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Good idea, but now I have to think of 5 things to post about before I can ask a question in the "real" forum, I guess its only 4 now.
You can always post it in a topic here and then PM one of the newbie section moderators or me to move it elsewhere if it's good. |
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Maybe you can solicit comments about it in a topic in the mining section. I don't visit the mining section, so I'm not sure what's appropriate.
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I also like portable releases.
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I don't see a problem with stickying the major ones.
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The "online time" is time actively browsing the forum. Use the time to read old topics. Maybe you can read all of Satoshi's old posts: they're very interesting.
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The remaining part of my bounty is canceled. The value is way too high now.
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extraNonce is a number stored in the generation transaction. Whenever it's updated, you get a new Merkle root in the header. It's incremented every time the regular nonce overflows.
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So it is reasonable for you to feel it's a non-issue- you are anonymous, as is theymos. Anonymous people are comfortable saying all sorts of goofy things because they risk nothing. Rules are different for those of us who do business in the real world and might be held accountable for our association with Bitcoin.
I'm not anonymous. My real name and city of residence are public. It would be pretty easy to find me if you cared to do so. |
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They're not really numbered. Gavin was saying that they could be numbered by an external system, though the numbering system would be arbitrary. You'd have to come up with arbitrary rules for certain ambiguous circumstances. There is no one true number for a certain coin.
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It was removed. Eliminating all bad PR and legal risks is a good idea - drug people can always go elsewhere. I'll remove the Silk Road thread if that's the consensus. |
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SMF doesn't support adding exceptions, unfortunately.
I only blocked one exit node (the largest one, blutmagie). It's funny how many people use that one exit node. People complain about Bitcoin being too centralized...
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Are we going to have a Satoshi-quote battle?  The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible. (My emphasis.) Satoshi even explicitly approved of at least one political discussion on this forum: grondilu deleted the whole "What will governments do against Bitcoin?" thread, which had diverged more into a philosophical debate about politics.
I removed the "Remove own topics" permission for regular users. I didn't know they could do that. It would be OK if it only deleted if it only has your own posts in it, like if you accidentally posted in the wrong place.
At the same time, I enabled "Move own topic".
(This is from the staff forum.) |
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What's a "PMs"?
Personal messages. |
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The version messages exchanged between peers right after connecting contains the current block height. You could take the median of your peers' heights as a low-reliability number.
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Here's something relevant I posted in another topic: This is certainly not the best solution, and I never intended it to be permanent. I have a long-term solution in mind: A new jr. moderator position is added with no moderation ability over established posters. Newbies can post freely, but their posts are subject to more strict moderation by the many jr. moderators. All newbie posts are additionally available on a single page for review by all members for moderation/reporting.
The reporting system also needs to be enhanced, and moderation needs to be made easier.
This requires extensive modifications to SMF, so we'll have to make do with the "newbies" section until I get time to code it or someone contributes the code. I think the section has been pretty successful in containing trolling, spamming, and repeat questions: the only downside is that it is annoying and drives away potential contributors.
This is essentially a manual review like you suggest, but it takes place after the posting to reduce annoyance. |
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Let's pick on Forp. I'm picking on him as he's actually OK and therefore will (probably) not suffer from my drawing attention to him If we list his posts, at the time of this message he has six but his profile says he's posted 10 which allows him to escape the newbie-zone. This is because you are ignoring some of the boards he has posted on. |
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The difficulty (and therefore cost) of solving the problem is automatically reduced by the system if people stop mining.
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