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Could you solve this problem by using a different external SSD for each coin?
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Doesn't the Bitcoin.com wallet support both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. Is there any danger in importing an address from a dual coin wallet into a core wallet? I'd be tempted to try a zero fee transaction into a new address in the core wallet. I gather that now is a good time to try that.
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This is a question that is constantly asked by domainers. It really comes down to the purpose of the site, or if you are flipping the name ( but I won't discuss that). If you are offering a service that creates crypto banners for people, then crypto banners would be best. If you are thinking of building a crypto news site, then I think CryptoBanner would be best.
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In this very first week with the new rules I've noticed that people are usually expressing themselves either in favor or against the new system. A dualism which is creating a lot of friction inside the community. I am now here trying a more balanced approach, inviting whoever would like to take part to this discussion to do his or her best to see all sides of this issue, for a dialectical approach is the classic way to achieve the best possible synthesis.
THE GOOD
As everybody already knows, the merit system has been introduced to fight shitposting, especially the one produced by account farmers. To this regard, one important fact we have to realize is that shitposting has been growing at alarming rates in the past year, and without the introduction of a slowing down factor, like a merit system, this would have led to the complete destruction of this forum within a few years. Just imagine, in a few years from now, an army of 20,0000+ Legendaries posting just stuff like "Bitcoin soon moon luckily, if not dump" and "why do you bitcoin?". This would have meant the complete loss of any residual meaning of the ranking system on top of a complete loss of any residual meaning of the whole forum, since the background noise of a 99% rate of shitposting by 200,000 Hero Members + possibly millions of Full Members would have made it impossible for anyone to find the very few interesting posts lost in the garbage. We still don't know how efficiently the new system will be able to fight the shitposting spam, but at least it will confine most of it to the lowest ranks, making it economically less remunerative. The merit system is likely to slow down ranking up for everyone, which is obviously frustrating, but this is a very reasonable price to pay to avoid the guaranteed destruction of the forum by the locust swarm.
THE BAD
The new merit system is not yet functioning as it should. It will take time before it will. Whenever people receive a number of merits, they also receive half of the same number of sMerits, which are the merits that they can give to others. This system is strongly deflationary, which means that the initial distribution of sMerits will very soon extinguish itself. If the sMerits don't flow, the rank system overall freezes, which is bad. To replenish the system with sMerits there are merit sources, people who have been chosen to distribute a monthly quota of merits to posts which deserve it. Currently, as far as I know, there are a bit more than 50 sources or so. My sensation is that for a forum with tens of thousands of members, this could end up being largely insufficient, unless each of them had so many sMerits to distribute, that they would be enough to ensure that the overall circulation would keep going. This actual lack of supply of new sMerits is leading many people not to spend the few they have been given initially, which is also bad. Theymos has mentioned that the numbers of sources could grow to up to 200 within a year, we will discover if that will be enough. Merits are now a sort of lifeblood of the ranking system, if they won't move, neither will ranks.
As for the initial distribution is concerned, there is a lot of frustration in the community for the merits not having been distributed proportionally to the activity, which would have been fair for all, but instead each member has received the minimum merit that their rank could get. This has strongly penalized members of high ranks who were about to climb to the next rank, and has been perceived as an injustice, which obviously is. But there is a reason for that. This is a quote of theymos on the subject:
Quote from: theymos on January 26, 2018, 06:06:49 PM
(...) I considered giving merit proportional to activity, but I decided not to because doing so would probably give far more undeserved merit than deserved merit in total. But undoubtedly some people got screwed by this, and if they have decent posts, by all means, give them the 250 or 500 merit that they need to rank-up.
Theymos has clearly a point. Of course the other way a lot of people would have got undeserved merit. While by lowering merit for everybody (but Legendaries), in some way the system has been rendered effective retroactively, which for the sake of the forum would be a good thing, even though it would still be bad for those who actually would have deserved that neglected merit. A good compromise would be to effectively manually review the people who "undoubtedly got screwed by this" and to give them the missing merits if they have decent posts. But I still didn't see any trace of this happening in the forum.
THE UGLY
No matter how good the merit system is meant to be for the forum, there will always be hordes of people trying to turn something good into something bad. The stupidest of them have already been caught sending the sMerits to their own alts and getting red trusted for that. But others will find ways to stealthy make trade of sMerits. Cliques could form for sharing merits in close circles for mutual benefit. Human imagination is limitless when it comes to find ways to bypass a rule.
And then there will be the beggars. Merit Begging has started in the very fist moment the new system has been enforced. And there are many ways to beg. You can do it openly, you can do it in a more discrete, almost implicit way, and you can do it just by trying to please the big holders of sMerit, by telling them what they want to hear and just hoping for their mercy - in other words indulging in that ancient human habit commonly known as "buttlicking". I am afraid, one of the prices to pay to try eradicate one annoying form of ugliness - that is shitposting - is that new form of ugliness would make their appearance in our space. The outcome of a merit system turning bad would be a kind of "feudalistic" Bitcointalk, were the rich sources of sMerit would live surrounded by courtiers doing their best to curry favour with them. Let's hope we don't turn to the dark side...
I thought I would copy the original text, as its formatting makes it slow and difficult to read.  I'm glad I did that. The post is well worth reading, but I didn't have the patience to struggle through the original format, sorry. |
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On peut faire des erreurs. Removed now.
I gave you a merit for correcting an admitted error. I guess this will be construed as another unpopular merit award by that loose canon Jet Cash. |
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richer are growing richer and poorer getting poor
Didn't like the idea tho because why the poorer are getting poor? I think what he means is that the poor posters ( ie. bad posters) are staying poor and not getting any rewards. This is the reason for the introduction of the merit system. |
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I'm interested in virtual asset exchange and sales systems. Although this is mainly for domain names, I have been looking at various other virtual asset exchanges. I'm not a gamer, but I gather a service called Opskins set up an exchange system for virtual assets acquired during gaming sessions. Recently they introduced a blockchain based currency called WAX ( Worldwide Asset Exchange). It seems to me that there is scope for some sort of symbiosis between wax and Bitcoin. Do you think this is likely to happen?
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I like your idea there. Any chance of an https, no-Javascript version with links to the posts? (Not that I’d be begging for that.)Sorry - I've put them on ignore so that I can't give them any merit by accident. I did include the original post in the full sized image, but I seem to have stopped doing that for some reason. I'll go back to including that if it helps. The "site" is based on a free template to allow me to build it with minimal effort, so it isn't very easy to remove the script, sorry. |
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Does this assume that there will be no devaluation of the dollar?
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Lloyds bank in the UK is blocking people from purchasing Bitcoin with their credit cards. This is as a result of problems some card holders are having as a result of these losses.
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I haven't read all of this thread, but here is what I do to create a website fairly quickly. As has been mentioned, you need a domain and hosting, but the creation of the site can be quick and easy, and may only take a few minutes. If your hosting plan includes Softaculous, then you can use that to set up a site with a few clicks. Here is a photo gallery site of mine tat use pwigo https://jazzpics.com/Of course taking the photos took a bit longer. This gallery page only took a few minutes using a free template. https://cryptobounty.com/bitcointalk-beggars/You can set up your own blogging site using a blogging CMS, and this is one that I need to bring up to date and complete. https://namestag.com/index.phpIt uses B2evolution which is a fork of the old B2 blogging script. The other fork is the more popular Wordpress,but I prefer B2evolution. That was set up pretty instantly using Softaculous as well. Take care that you don't fall into my bad habits. That is to keep registering domain names, and ending up with a load of half completed projects. |
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Let us first understand what is liquidity. In the traditional sense of a bank, a liquidity crisis occurs when most of its funds are locked up in long term assets and a lot of depositors ask for their money. Asset classes like real estate and private equity may also be considered illiquid, due to time and effort taken to find buyers.
As far as crypto exchanges are concerned , they are just supposed to hold your coins. In case there is a shortage of buyers at an exchange, you always have the option of withdrawing your coins and selling them at another exchange. So if an exchange has problems, it is not going to be about liquidity.
The price goes down because more people are selling than are buying. This means that more coins are available for purchase. I suspect that the OP is postulating that because of the drop, then exchanges are less likely to want to increase their inventory, and thus the coins will be harder to sell through exchanges. However, there is always the ability to use your coins to purchase assets, and therefore avoid the extra costs involved in using the exchanges. In fact this can be a good chance to profit from arbitrage. |
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Maybe it is related to my problem then. I'm starting to wonder if there is some sort of node selection system in operation. I disconnect manually if a peer has a ping in the nn,nnn ms range if I see it, but that is probably a function of network congestion rather than wallet options. Are there any wallet options that I should enable to make my wallet more acceptable to other nodes?
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sMerits limit for given day and limits for each user can be good way to balance merit rating. If the idea behind merit system to promote community and quality post then limits will be the ideal way.
I believe that merits should be awearded singly with the limit of one per user per post. Members should be able to award any sMerit they have, even if it is all of it in one day, and posts should be able to receive multiple merits provided they are from different members. This is the best way to gain peer ranking of posts in my opinion. |
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Merits are pretty much worthless once you get to Hero level. Of course, if you have a number of alts, or you are a campaign manager, then they can be used to increase rank for other accounts. But for a single Hero ( or above) account they don't really add very much.
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And what happens if someone buys a Bitcoin to gain access, and then sells to to recover the cost?
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I've seen hundreds of posts about the anonymous ( or otherwise ) nature of Bitcoin, but I don't see much mention of one major advantage of Bitcoin. It offers a permanent record of payment, and this can be invaluable in some situations.
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