Just by looking at how many of our local members are participants in the two top paying signature campaigns (ChipMixer and Best Change), you can get a good insight of the quality of the members posting there. That shouldn't of course be a determining factor, but it's not something to neglect either. No one gets into those campaigns by chance as the screening process is pretty strict.

But our merit per post rate is too low. We practically have to "steal" merits in the general parts of the forum to get some sMerits for the Croatian local as there isn't enough to go around. 

I was looking for a transaction with multiple legacy inputs combined with overpaying on the network fees, but transactions with dust inputs is also a good answer. More and more people are using Segwit nowadays, so it's not as common to see as many legacy inputs as it was years ago. Dust on the other hand is present no matter the type of the inputs/outputs. 

Compared to yesterday, all 3 games of today's schedule are hard to predict.

Sweden played great defensively against Spain and could have even won the match with a bit more luck. However, they struggled to organize proper attacks and had bad ball movement. I am not sure it will be much better against the Slovaks. With Kulusevski out with COVID, and Olsson being a doubt with a light injury, I see Slovakia as slight favorites. A draw looks like the best choice.

Croatia must win to keep its hopes of reaching the knockout stages alive. They have no injury concerns or suspensions and I expect them to beat the Czechs.

Everyone expects an easy match for England tonight, but don't forget this is a derby. The better teams on paper don't always win. I expect a tough and aggressive match with England eventually coming out on the top.

Because on many crypto casinos they can stay anonymous and they don't have to share their personal details with anyone else. If you know how to play, it helps you increase your stash for the coins you play with.

You should read about this before you deposit money on a site. Check the TOS, talk with the support, and if you aren't happy, don't play there. It's that simple. You have to pay a mining fee every time you move coins from one place to another. That's the case when you deposit to Coinpoker.com or whatever you use as well. Coinpoker doesn't have anything to do with that. When you withdraw, the casino might ask you to pay a withdrawal fee. Part of that goes to them and another part to the miners. Or, all of it goes to the miners. It depends on the platform. Check it beforehand.

Is someone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to gamble with crypto. Use whatever you like better. 

Very mature.

Dear Mr Sir theymos 

If you aren't willing to promote dkbit98 as a merit source (for whatever reason you might have), at least increase the monthly merit supply for Daniel91. A local board with so many quality posters as the Croatian (and no, I am not being subjective, it really is) deserves a bigger supply of merits if you take into account that other boards have 2, 3, or 4 times more than our guys.

It's good that you pointed it out. You got the member banned and nuked. All his posts and sale threads are now gone and that will give him something to think about. He now has a choice to either keep coming back creating new accounts and breaking the rules, which will get him banned again, or he can start respecting the game and doing things properly.   

Adding just 'bitcointalk' could be dangerous. Yes, it will show you results from our bitcointalk.org forum, but you could also see links to phishing sites. I am not sure if bitcointalk.com is a phishing site or not, but it appears on the first page when searching for 'bitcoin bitcointalk'. If that site is not a phishing site, another one can pop up.



Adding bitcointalk.org or site:bitcointalk.org is safer.

In this particular case, there is a problem with that. Most of the LN discussions are centralized in just a few threads that are starting to look like spam mega-threads although they aren't. We can't know how many users would create new discussions in a brand-new LN sub because most users post in the handful of LN threads already available. The users who take part in the Development & Technical Discussions aren't really the type who will create threads in the wrong places. And newbies don't go there that often unless they are asking for help. I think those are also reasons why we don't see new threads about LN issues being created all over the place.

Actually, the Croatian local forum was re-organized last year. We only had a ANN and Marketplace sub before. But proposals were made and the admins were contacted to make changes. We voted and made our forum better. We now have a main bitcoin section, an off-topic sub, a marketplace, and an altcoins board with its child board ANN announcements.    

For absolute clarity, when you say passphrase, do you mean the 12 seed words (the recovery phrase) or was the seed extended with an additional word aka the passphrase?
Brute-forcing 5 missing words is already difficult enough, brute-forcing a passphrase on top of that adds another difficulty layer. 

A 100% open source hardware wallet is preferable, but for the purpose of this kind of attack where you are sent a fake device, it doesn't matter at all. It would be even easier to introduce a vulnerability and backdoor in a code that is public to anyone if the malicious parties know what they are doing.

The oldest rules still apply: No one is going to give you free money or in this case free hardware wallets. If Ledger intended to do something like that, there would certainly be a marketing campaign beforehand. You don't just ship something to a customer hoping he is still there. You check to see if he still lives at that address, is he even still alive, available, and interested in receiving a free gift. 

A lot of thought was put into this scam campaign, and I am afraid it will have great results for the dark side.     

Monthly bump

Short-term, yes they might suffer. If you bought at $60k, your portfolio doesn't look that good right now. But why are you thinking short-term? It's been proven time and time again that its value increases over several years.

And don't forget that when bitcoin falls by 10%, alts fall by 20%. When bitcoin falls by 50%, alts fall by 80% or 90% and some never recover. Bitcoin has recovered every time and reached new highs. 

I actually didn't know that you can connect Ledger with Bitcoin Core the same way you can do with Electrum I can't remember ever reading a thread about it. I know that Ledger introduced an experimental feature a few months ago that allowed users to connect their full node to Ledger Live, but that's it. That's why I failed to see the connection between his Bitcoin Core wallet.dat and a Ledger seed missing some words. 

So you used Bitcoin Core in the past and you have the correct wallet.dat? Is the file corrupted or password-protected that prevents you to load the wallet in Bitcoin Core? Why don't you download Bitcoin Core, open your wallet, and let the software sync? You can try exporting all your private keys by entering 'dumpwallet' (unless the command changed). After that, import those keys in Electrum if you don't feel like downloading the whole blockchain from scratch. Would that not work?

It's very rare to find a licensed crypto casino without certain country restrictions. Almost all of them restrict players from certain territories from gambling at their site. I haven't considered that when creating this list. It's up to each individual player to get acquainted with the terms and conditions of the site they play at. Since these faucets don't require depositing your own money, the greatest danger is wasting your time on a casino you are not allowed to gamble at in the first place.

OK, so the amount of coins we send and the location of the receiver doesn't have any affect on the required transaction fees. The mining fees are determined based on the size of the transaction. In that case, what would be the ideal type of bitcoin transaction (size-wise) that Ivan can send to his brother, and what would a bad one look like or be made up of?

Let's break it down step by step:

No. Newbie restrictions and a newbie jail is not welcome. Everyone should be allowed to post anywhere they want if this forum is to keep its importance in the future.

The forum allows you to read its content even without being logged in, so the rank doesn't matter.

This is a discussion board. People are not applying for a visa or studying for their master's degree. Who would be interested in going through all that to become a member here? The moderators have enough to do without giving them the task to check the post quality of each and every newbie. All members (no matter their ranks) should get merits in the same way: Based on the quality of their posts. 

In other parts of the forum, yes, but it will increase in the B&H board.

Limiting newbies to the B&H board wont reduce the number of plagiarized posts, but it will make them easier to find. 

Such posts can be moved to the appropriate sub-boards. What if the newbie posts in a foreign language, starts a discussion about an altcoin/ICO, starts a scam thread, etc. All those would go in B&H as well?

Highly unlikely. 

It will increase off-topic posts because all threads by newbies will be posted in the same sub.

it will result in newbies no longer being interested in joining Bitcointalk and spending their time elsewhere. 

Newbies aren't the only ones that need to be moderated, all members do, including legendaries.

A higher rank does not equal greater competence and technical knowledge. Many high ranked members got their merits airdropped and didn't earned them by being merited by other forum members.

The admins don't care about the bounties and signature campaigns members participate in.

Just do a search for site:bitcointalk.org merit giveaway to see all relevant results. Click on tools/settings in your browser and adjust the date range. Change it to past year/month/week/day to see different results. The site:bitcointalk.org searches have always given the best results in my opinion.

You can also try to search through Ninjastic.space and customize the post title and post content according to your liking.

I don't know anything about brute forcing (and hopefully will never have to find out), but how plausible is some sort of dictionary attack made up from the BIP39 words list for finding 12 English words compared to bruteforcing an extended seed with random characters that represent 12 word-like structures (Jbf-1, 5nY9?, Unf^%8, etc.)? I hope you understand my question.   

Interesting! I used Ledger Live last night and didn't notice and new notifications that could hint that there is a new update available. Usually, the notifications area shows an unread message that would trigger you to click on it. Will try it again later today. This update doesn't seem to solve any recently discovered vulnerabilities, otherwise Ledger would have bombarded us with messages to upgrade asap.

They seem to have introduced a daily chart for your portfolio, and a new decentralized crypto exchange the other day. I will wait for a couple of days/weeks before installing the new update just to make sure it's stable and doesn't introduce some unwanted issues.