There may be some instances in which it is appropriate to have two consecutive posts.

I don't think that is right. Civil and criminal liability are two separate things.

That article is referring to collecting back taxes, a civil matter. I was referring to the criminal prosecution for tax fraud.

It appears the statute of limitations for tax fraud is 6 years. I haven't read the indictment, but it is strange they are charging him this long after the alleged crimes.
 
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I just read the indictment, and it seems like the statute of limitations has expired for many of the crimes alleged in the indictment. I am not sure how the government got around this, (maybe a covid exception?). According to the indictment, Ver needed to file various tax forms (and use the mail to do so) years after he renounced his citizenship.

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I think that portion of the indictment raises an interesting question of "how exactly can you legally transfer ownership of coin to another person?"

From a technical standpoint, this is easy, you simply publish a transaction that gets confirmed.

From a legal standpoint, this is more complicated. Most centralized exchanges will update a database/create a business record that reflects the updated ownership.

Attorney-client privilege only covers legal advice. A discussion with your lawyer about a baseball game is not protected by attorney-client privilege.

Hi o_e_l_e_o / leo,

I haven't been able to spend much time on the forum over the past few years, but by chance, I happened to log in today.

Over the years, we have chatted in several threads about many topics. More often than not, we would disagree, and when we did disagree, you would always make a well-reasoned argument to support your position and would be respectful. I have to say that I have always enjoyed chatting with you, and tried to make a point to reply to your posts when you post in an interesting thread because you make for interesting conversation.

I am sorry to hear that you are sick and don't have much time left. I hope you are able to enjoy the last of your time with your family and loved ones.

You will be missed by many here and have been a major asset to the community over the years.

Godspeed.

If you don't like "the genocide currently being perpetrated on the Palestinian people" I would suggest you ask Hamas to stop using the Palestinian people as human shields.

A "GOAT" is short for Greatest of all time.

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Other than using URL shorteners, presumably, established forum members attempting to bypass the wordfiler with the purpose of reporting the problem to get the wordfilter improve is acceptable? yes?

Merry Christmas everyone!

In the past, I have agreed with this, but I think there are some exceptions to this rule. If a borrower is asking for a loan against something that has a well-established value, and the loan amount is far below the value of the item for sale, it may make sense for a lender to make a loan against said item. Obviously, the lender would be taking the risk of having to take possession of the item and resell it, but this is the case for any collateral loan.

For example, someone might be selling a physical coin, but needs money immediately. The seller/borrower may have already sent the coin to MJ, or some other reputable escrow (and they have received the physical coin), but will take some time to sell/auction.

There tends to be a good amount of coin that flows through the various mixers originating from criminal activity. This is why governments have employed resources into shutting down mixers and finding their operators.

Governments are going after centralized mixers. I would question the legality of the government running a mixer as a 'honeypot' for more than a short period of time, although they can seize any logs the mixer was keeping, regardless of any public claims to the contrary.

I am a strong believer in the right to privacy (even if some people take it what I believe to be too far), and a centralized mixer has the potential to enhance privacy. Also, however, mixers have the potential to give nothing more than the illusion of privacy and highlight your transactions to governments and other nosy people. ChipMixer being the exception (which was shut down by the government), I understand that all mixers have leaked the connections between all inputs and all outputs through their service via the blockchain -- all that is needed to make these connections is a small transaction through their service, or a series of transactions through their service.

The underlying root cause of the policy change appears to be the fact that mixers are getting seized/shut down by governments with increasing frequency, along with the risk that users (and participants of signature advertising campaigns) will be subjected to government sanctions if they attempt to cash out any coin received from mixers.

As bitcon becomes more mainstream, using it will become incrementally less private. There will be a balancing act between privacy, and the benefits of seeing an increased number of people using bitcoin (and layer 2 solutions, such as LN).

For the above reasons, although disappointing, I tend to agree with the decision by theymos.

Yes, one of the prior hacks of the forum leaked the members table, which includes the email address associated with each forum account at the time

There are quarks in the trust system. They are explained in the above posts.

I would suggest that anyone reading this to oppose the relevant flags.

It looks like all the relevant trust ratings have been removed from the casino’s forum account trust page, so I think the issue is closed.

From what I can tell, hhampuz left a trust rating that reflected an actual transaction (actually a series of transactions), that had a real economic benefit to both parties outside of leaving the trust rating. There isn’t any reason why he shouldn’t be able to leave a rating under these circumstances.

I think the situation highlights a problem with the trust system. Too many people are focused on raw trust scores and are ignoring the references and the words behind the ratings. Hhampuz left a rating for an advertising campaign. Anyone considering entrusting the casino with their money should give more weight to ratings regarding the casino honoring withdrawals and paying out appropriately. If, in the future, someone else is considering to run an advertising campaign for the casino, the feedback by hhampuz would be valuable to them.

Old posts are generally not going to bother anyone if they remain up. If an old post was causing a big enough problem, it would have been reported and handled around the time of the post.

I suspect that is the underlying root cause of the imgur problems. If there is an image in a particular thread, the image proxy server may be asking for imgur to serve the same image multiple times over a short time if there is a conversation among several people. Replying to a post with an image may result in the same person causing the image proxy server to call the image three times, and this would not count the times the person reads a thread, but does not reply.

Imgur (in the past) uses AWS, so they are paying the quoted prices for serving images to the forum image proxy. Serving only the image means imgur doesn't get any ad revenue from the forum.

Someone is going to have to pay to get images from wherever they are stored to forum users. It doesn't look like imgur is wanting to pay for this anymore.

If the image proxy keeps served images cached for a period of time, bandwidth probably won’t be an issue. But if the image proxy queries the storage bucket every time someone accesses the image, egress charges will quickly add up. For example, an attacker/troll could potentially add the same image to a single post 1000 times, and subsequently access the post 1000 times — this would result in the same image being accessed a million times.

I disagree. Imgur is providing a service (hosting images), and deserves to earn a fair profit. It would cost money for the forum to host images on its own infrastructure, and as long as the cost to use imgur (and all other image hosting sites) is less than the cost of self-hosting, it will make sense to pay.

I presume that imgur usually makes its money from ads when people access images on its imgur site (not the raw image that is accessed via the forum image proxy). I presume that the image proxy complicates various metrics that imgur uses.

I assume this is only an option for hidden services (so only .onion sites).

Although facebook is not very privacy friendly to most (all?) of their users (based on the amount of data they collect on them), they do have a tor version of their site, and I can see them implementing this as a means to help others to implement this to prevent DoS attacks on hidden services.

The most appropriate first step is to reach out to imgur to see if they can provide some kind of solution.

It looks like imgur has an api, but it doesn't look like the API can retrieve images currently. Perhaps they may be willing to add such functionality.