So, 1637 promotions in less than a week, huh? Aren't we, as a community, becoming too generous, too soon?
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For sure some are being too generous and/or naive. Looks like some of these merited newbie got their merits from red trusted people, so as a result of some "private arrangement". |
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announcement from slack: @everyone Please update your wallet to the latest version at your earliest convenience for a critical bug fix: https://github.com/siriuscore/sirius/releases -- A more in-depth look at the bug will follow later. (edited) Excellent, the confirmation that the team is working. All this requires constant work, solving small and large organizational issues, negotiating and painstaking auditing. All of the above is a merge from upstream Qtum: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/releasesAgain to me people behind Sirius look like giving an impression that they are hard at work where in fact they are just copying commits straight out from Qtum git hub repo...  Fair point. However now they are starting to talk through articles about their new algorithm, it shouldn't take very long before somthing about it get in github. If it doesn't it may be as you say. |
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Not quite like that but, that sound usefull too in giving some more insight on the merited post.
I meant to run different kind of automated check on merited comments wrote from low rank members since as we can see, may have higher chances to have been faked.
So running few different kind of automated techniques, (even if they take several seconds per post) on few thousand messages is going to be easier than do the same on every single unmerited post.
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Another thought i had about plagiarism.
As far as i can see the main goal of faking content is just obtaining merits, wouldn't save a lot of time and resources to just check directly messages which receive merits, like every friday.
If from those you even remove messages from higher ranks, which are unlikely to risk the account, this reduces the total number to be checked to a very small fraction.
More manageable and the possibility to run deeper and lengthy methods to verify the content is authentic.
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The solution to this is simple, and it is that the blockchain (whose tip contains the most cumulative work) that follows all of the consensus rules is the Bitcoin blockchain, and any fork of this is not (in many cases, it would be an altcoin intentionally created).
The complexity comes in ensuring that the network is no longer partitioned and that everyone has received the blockchain with the most cumulative work. The incentive to attack an implementation that is used by 10%-20% of the Bitcoin network is much smaller than the incentive to attack an implementation that affects 90% of the network. The further would be a minor hiccup, while the later has the potential to actually steal large amounts of money, and cause serious disruptions.
I disagree. Suppose there is an exchange that happens to be connected to some nodes that are vulnerable to some kind of attack. Or perhaps they aren't connected directly to those nodes, but connected to node which are connected to those nodes. Suppose this attack causes those nodes to go offline or otherwise become disconnected from the network. Even if there are a very small number of these vulnerable nodes, if they happen to form a ring around the exchange, an attacker can attack those nodes and cause the network to partition. It would break into at least two pieces: the chunk containing the exchange, and the rest of the network. The attacker, if he has some hashrate, can now be mining a fork of the blockchain specifically created so that he can attack this exchange. Since this is a fork for a part of the network that is no longer receiving the rest of the blockchain, this attacker has 100% of the hashrate for that fork and can do everything with it that anyone with >51% of the hashrate can do. This kind of attack does not need a large number of nodes to be vulnerable, it just needs enough so that an attacker can partition the network. Non vorrei dire fesserie ma, in questo caso non sarebbe invece piu semplice per gli exchange evitare queati tipi di attacchi visto che potrebbero avere magari 2 o 3 versioni diverse controllando che coincidano e bloccando tutto nel caso comincino ad esserci delle discrepanze? Se ci fossero piu versioni ed un exchange o chiunque altro si affidasse ad una sola versione allora tanto vale continuare con una versione unica come si fa ora. |
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Overcoming scalability is not an easy task, it consists of at least two subtasks: increase the number of transactions per second (TPS) and save hard disks in hundreds of gigabytes and terabytes, used for Blockchain.
Waiting for news.
good luck SIRX.
Right, at least i can say they are not trying to build hype around it and the other planned features like many other project are doing it nowadays. I said before let's see where this will go. |
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Well, i'm following Sirius because it may actually add something new to the altcoin panorama. They got the right ideas, it's just matter to see if they can actually make it.
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This could easily be done with a chrome or firefox extension,
This is already addressed in the OP. This would cause security risks as you must trust the developer of the extension. I would think this would be fairly trivial for theymos to implement. True they are a security risk and would be better to be implemented directly in the forum as a malicious extension could potentially drain your merit, write some post automatically or even worse. However these extensions come with the source code, at least chrome extensions. So anybody can actually check what happen under the hood. |
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This could easily be done with a chrome or firefox extension, if somebody got the time to do it and wants to make something specific for bitcointalk.
But as bitmover is saying there are probably ready solutions which will work well already.
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if this means 10 merits received despite the rank you can flip the graph and will be good to show the suicide rate.  |
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This user is now a merit source I believe. I think he was stating not so long ago (a week or two) he was not, or at least he never applied to be one as far as i know. However nobody could complain if he was added to the recent 36 new merit sources silently. |
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the title of the thread caught my attention and i was actually stupid enough to read the whole post waiting for you to come to a point or some personal consideration.
Just stating or repeating things that are widely known is not going to help anybody or yourself.
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Found maybe a bug in the bot. I was quoted in a thread but the notification shows that the quote is in another thread. This is the thread where I was quoted > For Legendary we know already > Amph = 28889 posts but guess what, he got only 1 merit  Interesting that for 28889 posts he only earned 1 merit. I was going through his posts and he is definitely no shit-poster. His posts are generally reasonably good but just really short so don't attract merit. This is the notification from the bot : iasenko, you have been quoted in the following messages: I was thinking that, maybe xtraelv quoted me on a wrong thread and then deleted his comment but it this case I should receieve a notification for both. but... Here is the topic and message IDs original quote. link=topic=5033383.msg45973771 the missing quote. link=topic=5034051.msg45973772# yes looks like a bug, thank you for reporting. I think i have already an idea where it could go wrong and cause something like this to happen, i'll run some test and prepare a fix for it in the next days. |
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@PolyPanto please try to send a pm with options in the subject instead of subscribe, you are already subscribed so it was ignoring your previous request. This way i can also see if everything works. Thanks
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interesting to see the top 4 merit givers are already red trusted and merited about 200 newbie, i haven't check yet the merited post, so i can be wrong, but i guess this is not going to end up well
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- fixed few issues with the registration using telegram, now babo and Initscri should be able to get their notifications in telegram I'll be keeping it on today as well to check if anything else comes up. If you haven't tried it yet feel free to register, instructions are in the first post. piggy |
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Multiple threads with same topic is one of the major reasons of spamming on this forum, majority of the members don't use "search" before creating a new thread.
I am wondering that if admins can add an automatic "search" function in the creation process of new thread, it can help to minimize the amount of similar threads.
Like if i have to post a new thread with subject " Honesty is the best policy" i have to go through an additional step when i click "post", the forum automatically search my subject in that section and display topics with almost same subject, so i can check if my topic already exists or not.
That would be a cool and usefull feature, https://stackoverflow.com uses it and even though sometimes is not catching exactly what you want, at least make you think if it's worth openening a new thread or question. |
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Good job, you marked already the known or safe givers as well i see, so it will make it easier to run some check on these. Edit: there are also other "safe people" you can mark in that list |
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E questi sono i costi di mantenimento e incassi, non adatta la visione ai deboli di cuore I'm behind on the accounting. 2015 is basically done, but I need to double-check it and apply the results of taxes (even when there's a net loss, there may be capital gain taxes). 2016 is still very incomplete: I've had to do half of the work in order to pay taxes, but I basically need to go through everything again to figure out forum balances. Sloppy, I know, but I've been disincentivized to spend many hours figuring it out exactly because the reserves so obviously exceed the expenses. There's currently about 1250 BTC(+BCH) in reserve. Keep in mind that if I make an accounting mistake, almost certainly the result of this will be that I pay forum expenses out of my own pocket accidentally. The income is almost all very obvious/public, and I have to list all of the expenses that I temporarily paid out of pocket in order to be repaid from the forum income or reserves. So it's very unlikely that I would take too much money. Here are approximate numbers. 2015:
Income: About $144,000
Expenses - Forum software project: $849,400
Expenses - Mods and others: About $104,000
2016:
Income: About $178,000
Expenses - Forum software project: $36,260
Expenses - Mods and others: About $85,000
Expenses - Hosting etc: About $27,000
2017 !!!VERY TENTATIVE!!!
Income: About $1,065,000
Expenses - Forum software project: About $159,000
Expenses - Mods and others: About $120,000
Expenses - Hosting etc: About $40,000 |
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Ho aggiunto il supporto per telegram (senza il bisogno di crearsi un thread se uno preferesce): Telegram notification added(need some testing to make sure everything works)For who is already registered just send a pm with options in the subject of the bot and add in the body: telegram:yourTelegramUsername Before or after you have done this you need to contact @Maggiordomo_Service_bot on telegram with the same telegram username used for registering and just write something to him so he can bind your telegram and forum account togheter. If you are not subscribed yet send a pm with subscribe in the subject to the bot and add in the body: telegram:yourTelegramUsername or telegram:yourTelegramUsername
linkToYourThread if you want to receive the notifications on both. I still need to add an option to enable/disable notification on forum and telegram as preferred. |
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