Pretty much. Mirror ran on the Terra blockchain, and took Terra's algorithmic stablecoin UST to be worth 1 USD. Last week, UST broke and depegged, taking down Terra with it. Mirror's pricing oracles seem to be taking 1 USD = 1 UST as fact, but 1 UST is now trading at $0.101 so stock pricing is broken (example: oracles are reporting $TWTR to be worth 38.23 UST (~= $3.84), while stock market pricing is $38.24 USD). Even if pricing was accurate taking the depeg into account, a lot of trust has been lost in Terra so most people are probably looking to get out. When pegging a stock to crypto, I would assume that when someone buys a "crypto stock" the organisation behind it buys the real stock and keeps it. If that happened, the stock must still be there! Who's taking the profit now? If it didn't happen, it was a ponzi from the start.
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Even when you consider the constant stream of newly created shitcoins with ridiculous marketcaps (which in no way reflect their true value or the amount of money actually spent) diluting the numbers, bitcoin's dominance has increased by 4% over the last month, while pretty much everything else is down. People gamble on shitcoins during a bull market, but as soon as the bear market comes along, everyone knows the safest place that their money should have been all along. That leads back to my conclusion that altcoins and all the other "disrupting creations" are only created to earn the creator more money. Add the fact that exchanges earn billions of dollars from it, it's not even a zero-sum game: it's a game with more losses than profit.
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but does not mean that it is the lowest transaction that can be broadcast in the network?! ![Huh](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/huh.gif) It could happen, but it's not very likely. Even if you connect to a node that accepts a lower dust limit, that node will also have the same problem so it can't propagate it to other nodes.
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And you accidentally misquote 1miau instead of Apocollapse ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif) Thanks for the sharp eye! When I quote someone else (in this case myself) while responding to a quote, I go back to copy the original header instead of continuing with only [ quote]. In this case I scrolled up too far.
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Once again, I am willing to accept a sig ban for a year or more. Will appreciated if they reduce the punishment. You're missing the point: read theymos' quote again. What good have you offered the forum, and what good can you offer in the future?
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'Ten years ago dust, now a fortune' And half the fortune will be spend on fees. But I support the 'half a day VPN' idea. It's now a week: do you want it?I tested if 17 segwit dusts can be sent together, it worked. Do the same to your legacy dust ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Think of it as the 18 dusts from the legacy addresses, sent as segwit dusts. That is what I expected, but it hasn't moved yet. I thought c7298be8c111422fd0bc3915d67451ea24fba9b3529126e4bf39ca5db94370ba was from you, but now I'm not sure anymore.
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Anyone interested? I'd like to continue this discussion, but you should create another topic for it. If you do, feel free to mention me (@LoyceV)
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a reasonably sophistocated attacker would simply get the diary into a text file then search for strings of keywords in the bip 39 wordlist. "blanket air setup scrap feature actress prison bitter cash torch vacant valley" would stick out like a sore thumb. so keeping the 12 words together would be like handing over your seed phrase to an attacker on a silver platter. It indeed won't help against a targeted attack, but how likely are those? I'm talking about the millions of burglaries where the thief looks for valuables and wants to get out as quickly as possible again. 12 words under your pillow will be noticed, 12 words in a long written text will be ignored.
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He's whitelisted now. I don't know how all those accounts convince you to whitelist them, but I wonder what's those brand new accounts purpose to get whitelisted? Does their purpose is to send a personal message only? I don't know, but this is the reason I added statistics: Statistics- Users who never posted: 77
- Total Merit earned: 2407
- Total users banned: 2
Most of accounts you whitelisted are correct since they're not a shitposter, but this account is like a bounty hunter since his first post ask how to earn coin and apply in bounty thread. Are you really whitelist a bounty hunter or he's lied to you? I checked his emails again: I initially rejected his request, then changed my mind. It's a learning experience for me too, I'm trying to find a balance between rejecting some users who shouldn't be whitelisted, and accidentally accepting some others who don't deserve it. I can't be absolutely sure based on an email, but with only 2 banned users (until now) and 2400 Merit earned by whitelisted users, I'd say my Whitelisting efforts are a contribution to the forum.
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LoyceV asked me to edit my posts and add the sources. I have edited a few posts, but I could not edit all of them because I forgot if they were copied or not. That was dumb. You should have searched for the source of each post (that's how we catch plagiarism), or you could have deleted every old post just to be sure. You've had several chances to correct all your plagiarism, and you didn't take them. If you want any chance to turn your ban into a signature ban, you should focus on this: If you think that a ban should be ended, make your case in a new topic from a "good for the forum as a whole" perspective.
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I cannot suggest a solution. I can: Trust listYou should add users who left accurate feedback and have good Trust lists to your Trust list, and you should exclude users who leave inaccurate feedback. This means your Trust list should be based on how you value the users' judgement on others, and it should not be based on whether or not you Trust those users (with money) or traded with them. I encourage anyone to create their own custom Trust list! But before you do, please continue reading so you understand the implications.
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Do you believe scam busters and some specific DT members helping the forum by leaving negative feedback on bounty cheaters' accounts? I think it's a waste of time to tag Newbies without any earned Merit for something they can just continue from many new accounts. I have seen bounty hunters do cheats on the bounty campaigns and some users hunting them as well. After they catch any bounty cheater with multiple alt accounts, they do report and DT members tag those newbie accounts. I've seen that too. If they believe someone deserves negative feedback, they should do it by themselves. That's how the Trust system becomes less centralized. after leaving them negative feedback, those newbies create another account and come back again. It's futile. And worse, if too many accounts get tags for something as dumb as spamming Twitter and Facebook, it could make people believe negative feedback is normal instead of a big warning.
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yeah but in that case, the person the diary belongs to might forget how to decode it too. so back to square 1. That's easy: just read through your own handwriting, until you stumble onto 12 words that form an incoherent sentence. It might take you a few hours, but you'll find it. whenever you try and obfuscate information inside other information, you run the risk that you forget the encoding process and how to recover the information. That's true. And that's why I wouldn't suggest adding your own encoding, just keep the 12 words together. I'll give you a hint: search for "Blanket" on this page ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) a diary composed of list of meaningless sentences, sounds like a bitcoin private key hiding somewhere. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) That's because I couldn't find a meaningful diary to download as an example ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) In real life, if you have a diary already, you can just add the seed words today in the middle of your story. The coming months it will be hidden "deeper".
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I had just removed naim027 from my trust list ~ According to this, I see that it would not have been necessary because it would have been removed anyway? No, it does matter. The user wasn't Nuked, he was Autobanned. Only Newbies can get Nuked, which means all their posts are wiped, which means their Trust relations will no longer show up in theymos' Trust data dumps. But: they still exist! Users without any posts can even reach DT2, which means they'll pop up on my DT-users overview like this: In these cases, you'll have to check the Hierarchival Trust view (from an account that only includes DefaultTrust) to see which DT1-member included the user on DT2. In naim027's case: the user was "only" Autobanned. That doesn't change anything for his Trust relations, and as far as I know Autobanned users can even still change their Trust list. Any banned user who can test this for me? Update: this is confirmed by email by (someone who claims to be) naim027.
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EDIT (2): To complete the test, you should do the same to a Bech32 address... Tested it with a TX to the address bc1qwpc320c70sz7mf7v6vyu5v7lzjv3hlsa23d8ew (from a nice bitcointalk user ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) ) Lol, I thought the dust transaction would have been related to this topic. If I get another dust inputs, I can use them to buy half a day VPN ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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However I have found his another plagiarism post and already report to moderator (I don't want to make another report on the "report plagiarism" thread since it can easily noticed by him and he will add the sources again) Yep, that's how you get users with notification bots banned for plagiarism ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) he failed to follow LoyceV suggestion It's not the first time he failed to fix his plagiarism.
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They should definitely create a new clearnet website since the old one no longer works, but there shouldn't be a link to the onion website. Instead they should link to this ANN thread and instruct users to check the OP where the correct onion link is posted. Or at least ask customers to verify that the posted onion link on the clearnet site is the same as the one that appears in the Bitcoin ANN. Just in case the clearnet version gets hacked and someone posts a link to a fake mixer. Someone could of course post a link to the wrong Bitcointalk thread or a completely different source, but I think the potential damages are smaller by linking to the ANN thread as well. I don't think relying on a third-party website (Bitcointalk) as a primary source for the real URL is a good idea, and I'm not sure how many people are going to verify it. But I've seen confused users who weren't sure what the real URL is. Wtf?! I don't understand how google can do this, unless they are already operated only by robots! Probably for the same reason as keeping multiple phishing sites on top of the first search page: they don't care.
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why would a diary be any safer than a piece of paper? ~ if anyone ever finds your diary, there will be no doubt that it's something to read through. I'd have to be really bored to read diaries, and for sure wouldn't expect to find money in there. I can imagine it works to "hide in plain sight". Let's say you have 100 pages like this: But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. Blanket air setup scrap feature actress prison bitter cash torch vacant valley. But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated If you don't know what you're looking for, you're going to have to read through 100 pages of (potentially) terrible handwriting. If you don't even know there's a seed phrase in it, I'd say it could be safer than a piece of paper with 12 words.
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A paper wallet can be traded as bitcoin, and hold its value as bitcoin until redeemed. I've done that, but it only works with people you trust. It's the classic: "not your keys, not your coins" problem where you can't ever be sure you're the only owner. The objective is tradable BitCheques with the private key accessible only to the holder. My point is: the holder can't possibly be sure he's the only one with access. Requiring 2 of 3 signatures to redeem them (the holder, the issuer, the arbitrator selected by both) is another possibility. Nope, it doesn't solve it. You want the paper wallet to be tradable, but now know for sure the issuer and the arbitrator (selected by someone else!) can take your funds. Or the issuer could escrow the BitCheques up to the maximum amount on the BitCheque for a limited time - governed by an escrowed smart contract - at which point another BitCheque could be issued if any doubt remains. "Smart contracts" usually mean nobody understands the details.
On the Collectibles board, Casascius physical Bitcoins are often sold. The creator was (and is) highly trusted, but fake coins are used to scam people. Once it's something physical, counterfeiting becomes a problem again.
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