thats right please only discuss the dictatorship of the proletariat or else you will be liberated to one of our special farms in the far west  Is this poster about Canada or somewhere in Europe? No, just some new far left wing liberal in the House of Representatives. With the Democrates now firmly in control of the House of Representatives, we can go back to the government doing even less. That's a good thing IMHO. |
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Are gifs still allowed or did they get banned at some point along the way?
AFIAK, gifs are still allowed. However, if all someone posts is a gif/meme and not anything substantial, many moderators will delete the post as unsubstantial. Also, the linked gif should not be more than 2 MB, or you will get the invalid image tag. There is further limits on what one can choose as an avatar. That limit is like 100 KB. I've seen some people are able to have an animated gif as an avatar. However, the 100 KB maximum makes this difficult to pull off. |
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Well, I can see your concern. However, we are getting a bit off topic for this thread. However, anyone is welcome to apply to become a merit source. However, theymos does also just recruit people. That's how I got to be a merit source.  I only cared very little about the forum politics until I was drawn into meta, since many of the threads are about the merit system and I want to see what other people consider to be a good way to distribute merits. Of course, I am not perfect at the task and only venture in the boards that I am interested in. However, I have expanded my horizons quite a bit since being made a merit source and continue to expand. Unfortunately, there is only so much that I can read in a day. |
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Yes it is an okay post. Let's call this a nice presentation of the quite obvious with some questionable reasoning behind some subheadings. Net positive on the whole I guess. Imagine though that post has more earned merit that gjhiggins smooth, david zimbeck and 100's of other great legends that have earned in total. Please get serious. Go read some of their posts they are not simply the presentation of the mostly obvious mixed in with some questionable reasoning. The most valuable poster to examine real ico value is banned. Who can you ask now for a detailed analysis of some complex white papers conceptual design entirely for free? Well, perhaps the next time Theymos determines who should be new merit sources, he should pick some distinguished regulars that post on the altcoin boards. The problem with this though is most people are only interested in a limited set of altcoins. If at all. So the selected merit source would probably only distribute their merits in the threads talking about the coins they are either interested in or have serious concerns with. |
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Your BTC won't show up in your wallet until the sync has reached block 560762. If you don't want to wait, you may try downloading a lite wallet such as Electrum and attempt to import/sweep the private key in that wallet.
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Wait what? Buying/selling accounts ain't forbidden by forum rules lol
It's "discouraged" though. That it was the trust system is all about. "Scamming" isn't moderated either. How do you think we should deal with account selling that is discouraged? A slap on the wrist meme?   |
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I think we should replace the ignore button with pie instead.  |
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hello! u think now the job market is very easy?
And that's not a good valid reason,
this forum is flooded by newbies like me who cant even take part in signature campaigns,
because merit system is unfair also.
some are real and some are fake,
i can guarantee if it keeps on like this, this forum alexa ranking will drop below 50k soon!
The thing that is keeping this forum is really the founder!
I think the trust system really needs to be moderated!
It should be real genuine buyers that are eligible to give feedback.
You can buy a copper membership to be able to wear a signature. Also, to earn merit, you can start making interesting, helpful, or entertaining posts. I am a merit source and I have done my best to distribute my merits around. There are 123 merit sources and many people who have earned merit and thus have some merit to distribute themselves. However, it appears that you want to go out and buy an account and take a shortcut. That's like faking a resume with someone else's credentials. It's not trustworthy behavior at all. |
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And by the way, this is what I said in the first message ...   *Apparently I do not have permission to publish pictures. I will reach those who are related to the forum rules. I have no idea what you mean by that. I sent merits to someone? I guess that we are part of the mean merit gang giving merit to Veleor for busting copy pasta. |
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I like pie. Let's use pie instead! |
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Well, I believe the person that made the argument is mistaken that you can't implement mimblewimble with cold wallets. From my understanding, the sender and receiver can both have their private keys on air gapped computers and just need to relay the needed files to each other via other means, including carrier pigeon if they want. Then the sender just needs to send the tx via a hot node.
I believe you are correct. My main concern with the coin at the moment is the inflation. 1 coin per second seems a bit much. Unfortunately, I am only mining this with 1 single 1070, so I don't even have a coin, yet.  |
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From the Monero Speculation Thread: I posted a brief Grin (MimbleWimble) versus Monero comparison on Reddit yesterday:
There are a few aspects on which one can compare Monero and Grin, I'll discuss several of them.
Privacy:
MimbleWimble is essentially Monero minus ring signatures. As a result, an active observer is able to draw a transaction graph and easily trace outputs.
Scaling:
MimbleWimble's scaling is often praised significantly. However, in comparison to a pruned Monero chain it is not significant in my opinion. In Monero, a pruned node has to basically retain the transaction output set plus the key images, whereas in Grin the node essentially prunes automatically and merely retains the unspent transaction output set. Note that, in Monero, an unspent transaction output set does not exist, because an observer cannot reasonably determine which outputs are spent.
Usability:
Grin is interactive, which, in a nutshell, means that both the sender and the recipient have to be online to properly send transaction. As a result, cold storage is, as far as I know, not viable currently.
Lastly, note that Tari, a MimbleWimble implementation, is planned to be added to Monero as side-chain.
I have my doubts about the long term prospects of Grin. LOL, if Mimblewimble is so shitty, why is Fluffy Poni planning on using it on a sidechain? I don't think anyone is saying its shitty, there are just trade offs to different approaches. I'm sure grin will address the issues where it currently lacks as XMR is apparently adding it as a sidechain for  I'm not sure why actually. Well, I believe the person that made the argument is mistaken that you can't implement mimblewimble with cold wallets. From my understanding, the sender and receiver can both have their private keys on air gapped computers and just need to relay the needed files to each other via other means, including carrier pigeon if they want. Then the sender just needs to send the tx via a hot node. |
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From the Monero Speculation Thread: I posted a brief Grin (MimbleWimble) versus Monero comparison on Reddit yesterday:
There are a few aspects on which one can compare Monero and Grin, I'll discuss several of them.
Privacy:
MimbleWimble is essentially Monero minus ring signatures. As a result, an active observer is able to draw a transaction graph and easily trace outputs.
Scaling:
MimbleWimble's scaling is often praised significantly. However, in comparison to a pruned Monero chain it is not significant in my opinion. In Monero, a pruned node has to basically retain the transaction output set plus the key images, whereas in Grin the node essentially prunes automatically and merely retains the unspent transaction output set. Note that, in Monero, an unspent transaction output set does not exist, because an observer cannot reasonably determine which outputs are spent.
Usability:
Grin is interactive, which, in a nutshell, means that both the sender and the recipient have to be online to properly send transaction. As a result, cold storage is, as far as I know, not viable currently.
Lastly, note that Tari, a MimbleWimble implementation, is planned to be added to Monero as side-chain.
I have my doubts about the long term prospects of Grin. LOL, if Mimblewimble is so shitty, why is Fluffy Poni planning on using it on a sidechain? |
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Yea, I don't really understand how claims by the Lightning Network have fooled so many people thus far. It's not possible for it to function in the real world as anything except the hub and spoke model abomination that I described above identical to the current banking system. Anyone who's been around bitcoin for a while and actually talks to all the players in the scene would remember back in LN's formative stage, people were actually using phrases like "yea, we're going to attempt to scale bitcoin in a manner similar to the way current banks scale". Well, congratulations, you have created....an exact replica of existing banks.
I'm not even joking. The people working on it were using that exact terminology. So why would it be surprising the end result is awful with all the same negatives? Each LN hub/node would be required by law to do AML/KYC on transactions too, and each one would have giant blacklists of people they refuse to process transactions for which cannot be overcome with non-fungible tokens. The whole thing is a nightmare. The same people that ban your Twitter account for making a pro-Trump post will just literally turn off your money with blacklists so it can't be spent. All money will flow through the same small amount of mega-hubs run by the banks too.
A lot of people are anti-Mike Hearn. I don't know anything about him personally to make a call one way or another, but he was probably the first noteworthy person anyone knows about to make a case that if bitcoin relies on LN to scale, it will be a failure due to only being able to function in a hub and spoke configuration. Regardless of whether you like him or not, I would say he's correct. So where do people go from here? If on-chain scaling is useless, and LN is useless, how is bitcoin useful for anything if all it is and has the capacity for is a centralized, intrabank settlement system inferior to gold as Hal Finney predicted would be it's only use case or fate.
Actually, my main criticism of the LN has to do with the fact that in order for the channels to work properly, it requires that funds be stored in hot wallets. No big institutions in their right minds are going to open up a hub and expose large amounts of funds in hot wallets. That is just a big hack waiting to happen. I think LN is a non-starter for big time scaling and adoption. It's only use case is for a bunch of us cryptonerds to push around dust among ourselves. |
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Do not engage in Microsoft wallet
Doomed to useless
a few people playing
A windows wallet is inevitable, hopefully it will be a basic gui wallet that the majority is used to and we can see a lot people eating up the incoming supply. Meh, windoze is so old fashioned. What they need are Android & IOS apps that will allow people to construct a transaction by swapping qr codes on their cell phones. (I'm not certain swapping via wifi, 5G or bluetooth is really that secure though.) |
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Again, who or what is Merit Cycle?
Merit cycle is an important sacrament in the cult of Lauda.  |
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I think bones broke roach. This sounds completely wrong: I wouldn't want to sound like a Nazi or anything
R0ach kind of reminds me of my grandmother. (RIP) However, she ended up being a war bride, so I don't think what the Nazi party indoctrinated in her quite took. Although she really didn't care much for the Jews. I remember she got into some kind of verbal altercation with her neighbor who was a war bride from Australia. The neighbor called my grandmother "a Nazi." My grandmother came back by giving the Nazi salute and saying, "Heil Hitler, you kangaroo." |
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If you notice, there are certain kinds of users who do not give out merits, and roach is one of them.
The merit system serves absolutely no purpose so I do not participate in it. All it is is people having a contest to see who can say the most outrageously buffoonish bullish statements that have no basis in reality and then people merit you for lying or making up bullshit. If I typed "bitcoin will be $1 trillion each by tomorrow" in every post I would get merited half the time and become the highest merit holder on the forum. This is why people like TrollJuanGee and Trollgoossens are the merit leaders of the board. Sounds like you are rationalizing not to give out smerits to other forum members. As you may recall, you started out with about 100 airdropped merits on January 24, 2018. Therefore, you received a bit more than 180 merits during the past year, which would have generated you about 90 smerits that you could send to others. Probably, you had some smerits in your bank already, so currently you have well over 100 smerits in your bank. The real reason that you do not give out any of your smerits in the past year is that you are selfish and you do not appreciate the forum contributions of anyone except for yourself... which is not healthy. I am not going to attempt to change you or convince you because you are the one who needs to consider yourself and your ongoing non-appreciation for the contributions to the platform that you have been participating in for at least as long as me (under your current name and then previously under your Roach user name). LOL. No longer applies.... |
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