"Bitcoin Forum" told me to create this topic if I'm unsatisfied. TBH I'm not sure... I just poured myself a very pleasantly fragrant drink so I'm quite satisfied really but at the same time kinda curious what the fuck was the purpose of creating a thread mentioning me and then deleting my post from it LOL. I guess I'll never know.

No self-mod and no rules here other than your post must be about nullius being a cunt.

A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by the starter of a self-moderated topic. There are no rules of self-moderation, so this deletion cannot be appealed. Do not continue posting in this topic if the topic-starter has requested that you leave.

You can create a new topic if you are unsatisfied with this one. If the topic-starter is scamming, post about it in Scam Accusations.

What the fuck is this shit. I get my name pinged and end up in a self-mod thread with three ignored posts LOL.

Pro tip nullius: mentioning my nick over and over again is not gonna trick me into reading your rants so you might as well give it up. Gotta implement ignore in my notification thingy now, thanks for wasting my time.

Edit - I just realized that "Bitcoin Forum" doesn't say which thread the deleted post was in... it's this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5293022.0

I for one welcome our new monolith-planting overlords.



Seriously, what do you think this is? To me it seems like a harebrained idea of some hippie "artist".

From a helicopter, officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety spotted a large metal monolith — a single block of metal — last week. It was sitting in Utah's Red Rock Country in the southeast. Officials have no idea how or when it got there — or who might have placed it.

[from a locked thread]

What if I told you that there is a magic browser extension that does all this:

• Allows quoting posts from locked threads - full proper BBCode quotes, no gimmicks.
• Allows quoting trust ratings into BBCode as well.
• Provides shortcut buttons to include/exclude someone in your trust list.
• Sums up sent/received merits on your (or anyone's) merit page for the current day, last 24 hours, and last 7/30/120 days.
• Gives you a choice of alternative styling for Bitcointalk, including a dark theme.
• Adds links under the MORE menu that you wish were always there - forum rules, merit info, trust system info, BBCode tips, etc.

You would probably think that I'm shilling BPIP browser extension and you'd be right. The reason I'm posting this subset of the extension's new features here in Meta is that all of the above does not depend on BPIP or any other external services and every feature is individually configurable so you can install the extension and turn on only the stuff that you're interested in. You can even download the extension and pick it apart to steal borrow the code if you're so inclined.

More details and installation links here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224821

Some screenshots:



This does exactly what it says... copies BBCode into clipboard from a locked thread.




Another BBCode-to-clipboard feature - for trust ratings (see the button on the right side). The result looks like this:

smartcontracts100

2020-09-15

Reference

scammer part of Lauda gang

Options to include or exclude the user in your trust list. This screenshot also shows one of new themes created by ibminer.




When you click the person+ or person- button on user profile it opens your trust list, adds the new entry to it, shows a message explaining what's going on, but doesn't automatically save it - you would need to review and save the change yourself. If a conflicting entry is found (for example you're trying to exclude a person whom you're currently including) the extension will not add the new entry and will show a message explaining the issue.




Merit totals on each user's merit page.


And some extra links under the MORE menu that I wish were available to everyone. I realize that an extension used by a few dozen people doesn't really solve this problem but maybe someone will find this useful and it's not like you're paying extra for it

I started reporting some threads to be moved from altcoin announcements to token announcements because they sounded like all the other useless tokens to me but there are so many of them that it gives me pause. Is there some exception for this new defi scam wave that I'm not aware of?

I'm talking about shit like this - it even has "[off]shi[f]t" in its name so don't give me any shit about it not being shit: [ANN] Offshift (XFT & zkUSD) Private offshore storage & DeFi protocol on ETH

I realize nobody can be bothered to care about altcoins but it hurts my OCD that we have two separate boards but no clear line between them.

Just leaving this here for the next merit sorcery realignment.

IXCoin - a horrible shitcoin by any measure, dead website, no volume, etc - has the most merited (in 2020) ANN thread on Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5284439.msg55453820#msg55453820

The reason is Vlad2Vlad who claims to be "Lead dev and CTO and CEO of IXcoin" and happens to be a merit source sending large amounts of merit in that thread. He's also doing the same thing in own thread shilling IXC: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=317658

I know the post quality is quite subjective but this looks like a massive conflict of interest and not the best use of source merits. Perhaps a different merit source can be selected for the altcoin boards who would prop up more than one shitcoin thread.

[post count in 2020]

I was trying to figure out which altcoins are most popular here on Bitcointalk but I think I ended up collecting a list of altcoins that are shilled in the weirdest ways. Even though thread bumping rules have been changed about a year ago to discourage low-value posts, there still seems to be some of that bumping going on.

Here is what I did:

• Counted posts made in 2020 on altcoin and token announcement boards.
• Counted users who made those posts.
• Counted merits sent to those posts (again, only to posts made in 2020).
• Calculated top 100 of threads by post count (see below) and another top 100 by merit count (see the second post of this thread).

Top 100 altcoin and token announcement threads by post count in 2020

  # Posts Users Merits Thread 
--- ----- ----- ------ -----------------------------
  1  1809   173     99 [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org)   First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency   
  2  1562   229    105 Idena is the first Proof-of-Person Blockchain 
  3  1413    32        [ANN] Emirex Official - The Infrastructure for the New Digital Economy    
  4  1337   364        ⚽ [ANN] ⚽ MyTVchain - Live sports, powered by blockchain ⚽  
  5  1108    19        Virtacoin Goes Live july 1 2014  
  6  1089   128     32 ✅[ANN] DeepOnion ONION  ✅ DeepOnion DeepSend Released ✅ Show me the DeepOnion! ✅ 
  7  1069   295      6 [ANN] Minereum - First Self Mining Smart Contract - FREE GENESIS ADDRESSES NOW   
  8  1058   347        [ANN]SwapZilla-Unique infrastructure solution that revolutionizes crypto trading 
  9   873    31      2 [ANN][NYC] NEW YORK COIN at 2017 MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE IN NYC!   
 10   853    52        BiblePay   10% to Orphan-Charity   POBH CPU   Sanctuaries (Masternodes)   
 11   800   177        [PHR] PHORE BLOCKCHAIN - Private Decentralized Marketplace & Ecosystem. POS/MN.  
 12   797   135     12 WAVES - Complete Blockchain ecosystem for a token economy   
 13   797   144        [ANN] DSF - The SoFi Blockchain - Redefine Social Network with Blockchain 
 14   795    38        [ANN] EDC Blockchain - global platform with its own cryptocurrency 
 15   793    83        [ANN] Largo Coin  PoS Limited Supply B2C C2C  
 16   778   293        💎🍀👫 [ANN] MTCore - WELCOME TO THE DEMOCRATIC CRYPTOCURRENCY 💎🍀👫     
 17   776   256     30 [ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning       
 18   773   221        [ANN] JOLTEE - THE FIRST BLOCKCHAIN MOBILITY PLATFORM       
 19   733   182        [ANN] Karvuon – More Power for the Blockchain Industry      
 20   732   277        ✅🚀🚀 [ANN]The AMZ Coin ICO goal is to support several projects ✅🚀🚀     
 21   718    42      9 An <COINSBIT.IO> Innovative Trading Cryptosystem     
 22   682    37     16 🔥[ANN][BTCU] Bitcoin Ultimatum - a new-generation Bitcoin fork 🚀🚀🚀    
 23   675   153      1 [ANN] Relictum Pro   Blockchain 5.0 of the latest generation       
 24   656    81        [ANN] ZYX NETWORK - A GROUND-BREAKING POS-BASED PRODUCT FOR A WIDE AUDIENCE      
 25   643    94     91 [ANN] GOLD - First 100% Liquid Stablecoin Backed by Gold    
 26   618    48        [ANN][ICO] ⭐️⭐️⭐️ROMAD - NEXT GENERATION ANTI-VIRUS! WORKING PRODUCT!⭐️⭐️⭐️      
 27   613    79     84 [ANN] [BSV] [Bitcoin SV] Original Satoshi Vision     
 28   605   105     14 [ANN] [IndexChain-IDX] Safe+Private+Hybrid POW/ POS/ MN ♔♕  
 29   602    80        [ANN] Weemat.io - The weeEcosystem goes blockchain   
 30   599    68        🌟 [ANN][REAP] ReapChain - Secure and Transparent Blockchain-Based IoT Ecosystem 
 31   590   253        [ANN] Garnex   Return to the gold standard    
 32   578   128      9 [MASS] Decentralized HARD DRIVE mining cryptocurrency   PoC   Low Energy cost    
 33   560    39        [ANN]     ❆ ❆ ❆ BuySell (BULL) on CREX 24 ❆ ❆ ❆      
 34   546   138      4 [ANN] CARTESI   A Linux Infrastructure for Scalable DApps   
 35   495    90    100 [ANN] [BSV] [Bitcoin SV] Original Satoshi Vision     
 36   472    50        [ANN][FT1] Fortune1Coin is not just another cryptocurrency. 
 37   472    49        [ANN][PRIVATE-SALE][IEO] BITWINGS: OFFICIAL CRYPTOCURRENCY OF WINGS MOBILE       
 38   471    41     19 BitBay OFFICIAL BITBAY Thread Smart Contracts Decentralized Markets Rolling Peg   
 39   470    38      1 [ANN] [CryptoNight] BminerCoin - Heavy mining and remote control   
 40   454    80     11 Cardano (ADA): A New Cryptocurrency and More  
 41   452    73      1 [ANN] [EON] EXSCUDO - ICO successfully finished!     
 42   442    32        [ANN] INFINITECOIN - UPDATE TO 1.8.8 visit INFINITECOIN.COM  
 43   419   186        [ANN] Karuschain - 💍⛰👷‍♂️ Responsible precious metal mining 💍⛰👷‍♂️    
 44   407   202      2 📢[ANN]🌟 Arc Iris Hydrogen - Green Coin for Profitable Bitcoin Mining Globally  
 45   398   291      3  [IEO] coming soon on Cryptoknowmics   
 46   394    79      5 [ANN] BURSTEX.io - Crowd Owned Exchange - Profits Shared Among Token Holders     
 47   388   109        █▀▄  [ANN] DIA   Data infrastructure for DeFi   Binance/Kucoin/Bitmax/Okex  ▄▀█  
 48   386   124     79 [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency 
 49   383    41        [ANN] Bancor   Protocol for Smart-tokens, solving the liquidity problem   
 50   383    49        🔥[ANN] BreezeCoin combining Real Estate with Crypto🔥      
 51   382    54      1 📢 [ANN] SINOVATE(SIN)  X25X ∞InfinityNodes🔥  I.D.S   Decentralized Cloud 3.0   
 52   375   119        [ANN] OPP Open Wifi      
 53   368    32        Monolith - the first decentralized ruble stablecoin  
 54   366   178        [ANN][STO] KABN - Financial Services that start with Blockchain Identity  
 55   357    46        AMEPAY is a fast and secure cryptocurrency-based payments alternative     
 56   351    50      8 [ANN][2POW] Luck - A new consensus algorithm to eliminate large mining pools     
 57   350    95        🔵🔵🔵[ANN]🔵 PAYACCEPT- WORLDWIDE PAYMENTS ACCEPTED IN SECONDS! 🔵🔵🔵   
 58   349    14        AllSafe SAFE      
 59   347    42      5 ARK - DPoS with Dynamic Fees 🔹 New CORE v2.6🔹 ARK Deployer 🔹    
 60   341    39        [NEW XBY ANN] XTRABYTES - A NEW ERA BEGINS    
 61   340    76     51 [ANN][Main] Bitcore- BTX - Partnership with JAXX and Magnum Wallet!       
 62   337    46      3 Crybet - Casino / Sports Betting / IGaming    
 63   336   129        [ANN][POLIS] PolisPay (Non-custodial, Debit cards, Gift Cards, Shift)     
 64   334    26    333 [ANN] IXCoin [IXC] The Original Bitcoin Sidechain    
 65   334    75     43 NEM (XEM) Official Thread - 100% New Code - Easy To Use APIs 
 66   326    36        [ANN][ICO]🇨 Crypterium - Digital Cryptobank with Credit Token & Open Platform🇨 
 67   321   133        [ANN] 🚀 SKYBIT - Myanmar's leading blockchain services platform 🚀       
 68   314    77      2 [ANN] Pundi X - Any store can buy, sell and accept Cryptocurrency  
 69   312    50        [ANN][SHR] ShareRing - The world's first trusted token for sharing services      
 70   310    29    180 [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated     
 71   310    47     37 [ANN] [BSV] [Bitcoin SV] Satoshi Vision - Unmoderated Thread       
 72   308    46      1 📢[ANN]🌟 Goldario - Your Share in the World's Digital Economy 🚀  
 73   304   122        DEXIVE - advanced and social decentralized digital exchange 
 74   296    83        [ANN][ICO] HEIDI - Swiss crypto-token which tokenises the sustained delivery     
 75   296   146      1 [ANN][PYRK][POW-MULTI][SHA][SCRYPT][X11][MASTERNODES][COMMUNITYFUND][EXCHANGE]   
 76   294    54        🌟 ⚡🚀[ ANN ] DOGDATA : Dog Owners Blockchain IEO on BitForex      
 77   294    96      2 [ANN][GMD]The Geoma DAO - Steady and sustainable wealth creation.  
 78   294   113        [ANN] V SYSTEMS - Blockchain Database and App Platform by Sunny King [SPoS/Mint] 
 79   294    55        [ANN][IEO] PointPay.io CRYPTO BANKING ECOSYSTEM (Round 1)   
 80   292    51     10 📢[ANN] MARTKIST-(MARTK) NO ICO NO PREMINE POW SHA256   🚀DAILY COMMUNITY!       
 81   287    92        [ANN] [IEO] BLOCKBURN - Where Cryptocurrency And Online Gaming Meet       
 82   284    68      4 Energi [NRG] Cryptocurrency for World Adoption   PoS   MN   No-ICO or Premine    
 83   283    21        [ANN][TELOS] MASTERNODE Transcendence blockchain POS POStorage POfComputing      
 84   277    42     46 [ANN][GAP] Gapcoin - Prime Gap Search - New Math Algo - CPU / GPU - Zero Premine  
 85   276    64     11 Tezos discussion  
 86   275    78        🌟[ANN][COMM] 🌟 Crypto Commonwealth: A Crypto Asset Manager and Publisher 🌟    
 87   267    81        [ANN] Aussie Digital – An E-Commerce Platform Based on Blockchain Technology     
 88   265    50        [ANNOUNCEMENT]✅ P2P Cash   The new way of send money worldwide✅    
 89   264   114      1 [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin - very currency many coin - v1.10.0     
 90   263    18        🔥🔥[ANN][ICO]AMANPURI – Ultimate exchange – PRIVATE SALE🔥🔥      
 91   262    27        [ANN][POS] UCACOIN - Community Coin ICO Upcoming     
 92   261    34        [ANN]- TITAN COIN (TTN): POWERFUL & RESOURCEFUL COIN 
 93   260    39         [ANN] tap - Access to crypto trading and banking   Mastercard Approved   
 94   258    62     52 Qortal Genesis - The Infrastructure for the Internet of the Future 
 95   252   112        [ANN] 🔶🔶🔶 PZM Cash - SAME SAME, BUT DIFFERENT 🔶🔶🔶     
 96   249    40      1 [NLG] The even greater Gulden thread!  
 97   249    33        🔥[ANN] MobiusCrypto- Redefining #DeFi 
 98   245    32        TimeCoinProtocol - decentralized sharing economy protocol   
 99   243    86        [ANN] Gaimin.io - CHANGING THE GAME    
100   242    75        [ANN][ITO] WPP ENERGY TOKEN - TOKEN TO BE TIED TO THE VALUE OF H2  

Not sure if we're supposed to have one mega-thread for bug reports but I'll post this a separate thread as this bug seems horrible enough.

I was testing epochtalk moderator functions related to this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5282883.msg55430312#msg55430312

So I logged in as a regular user (let's call the user "suchmoon", complete coincidence of course), opened two browser tabs (using Firefox; as I've reported previously it's impossible to open multiple tabs with the same user in Tor Browser), created a few posts. Then in tab 1 I logged out and logged in as an admin. A few minor things here: can't report my own post and seemingly can't just delete a post without it being reported, but that's not the issue here.

So I'm doing admin things in tab 1. Then switch to tab 2. Still shows me logged in as suchmoon. I click on a thread. I post in the thread. It still shows me logged in as suchmoon but the post's author is admin. I can report the post though so I do. I switch back to tab 1 and in the report queue it shows that the post was created by admin and reported by suchmoon. Keep in mind that both posting and reporting took place in one tab where the logged in user was shown as suchmoon. I have a feeling that there might be some API calls where the backend just trusts whatever user ID is coming through... or maybe not quite as bad, maybe just expired but otherwise valid authentication is being accepted. A bug in either case.

Edit - upon further digging it looks that the frontend sends the correct JWT bearer token in both tabs but the backend uses reporter_user_id from the payload. I don't know why that reporter_user_id is even there.

Let's try to have an election thread without the usual P&S garbage. So a few local rules:

BADecker, franky1, anyone else who can't stay on topic - I'm sure you can find many other threads to derail.

On topic: facts and discussion on early voting, turnout, exit polls, results, etc.

Borderline on topic: election issues as long as it's factual and about 2020 November federal elections.

Off topic: merits (or lack thereof) of candidates, political parties, political views, etc. Anything not directly related to elections. Personal attacks. Complaining about this thread (start a REEEE if you need to).

I will likely delete posts that are only partially off topic - don't take this personally, just edit out the off topic part and repost. There is definitely no lack of threads around here to discuss all that other stuff.


Nov 2 Update

Record-breaking early voting (from targetsmart):



Last minute 538 average:



Last minute RCP average:




Original Oct 18

I'll start off with early voting numbers: https://targetearly.targetsmart.com/

Unsurprisingly the numbers are way way up. It's almost as if there is some off topic event or circumstance (I'm just kidding, it's the friggin' pandemic) influencing the turnout.

I'm assuming users who have "Never" as their last active date, like this here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2237312

... are mostly those who got hit with the "evil IP" fee and didn't want to pay it.

Edit 2020-10-17: Probably not quite as simple. "Evil" (proxybanned) users can have a valid active date so some of them might be in the "No Login" and some in the "No Posts" column below.

• No Login - Users who never logged in, i.e. literally have "Never" as their last active date.
• No Posts - Users who never made any posts (includes the "No Login" users).
• Banned - how many users of those who registered during that month have been banned so far (not the number of bans during the month). May or may not have posted - probably did though, why else would they be banned.
• Active - users who made at least one post in the last 30 days, i.e. mid September to mid October 2020.

Here are month-by-month numbers of total new registrations vs evil the stuff mentioned above:

Month          Total  No Login    %  No Posts    %  Banned    %  Active    %    
-------------- ------ -------- ----- -------- ----- ------ ----- ------ ----- 
2017 January    13354       39  0.29     8913 66.74    160  1.20     72  0.54 
2017 February   12677       46  0.36     8163 64.39    172  1.36     67  0.53 
2017 March      14760       58  0.39     9403 63.71    183  1.24     91  0.62 
2017 April      15807       65  0.41     9745 61.65    268  1.70    111  0.70 
2017 May        23978     4745 19.79    14986 62.50    436  1.82    150  0.63 
2017 June       32734     7175 21.92    19847 60.63    495  1.51    164  0.50 
2017 July       41011     8716 21.25    27360 66.71    746  1.82    232  0.57 
2017 August     42254     8169 19.33    25251 59.76    807  1.91    264  0.62 
2017 September  46186     6626 14.35    26585 57.56   1265  2.74    269  0.58 
2017 October    89443    10872 12.16    58890 65.84   2317  2.59    361  0.40 
2017 November   97286    14398 14.80    67891 69.78   2350  2.42    282  0.29 
2017 December  191455    19925 10.41   154978 80.95   2224  1.16    289  0.15 
2018 January   224546    18907  8.42   177141 78.89   3653  1.63    518  0.23 
2018 February  112211    16595 14.79    82134 73.20   2431  2.17    312  0.28 
2018 March      97644    10922 11.19    69256 70.93   3319  3.40    306  0.31 
2018 April      86898     8418  9.69    63182 72.71   3135  3.61    248  0.29 
2018 May        91994     9827 10.68    65575 71.28   2797  3.04    245  0.27 
2018 June       77681     7340  9.45    55926 71.99   3022  3.89    260  0.33 
2018 July       69840     7510 10.75    52658 75.40   2157  3.09    221  0.32 
2018 August     54384     8293 15.25    41898 77.04   1471  2.70    206  0.38 
2018 September  45362    11212 24.72    34907 76.95   1852  4.08    165  0.36 
2018 October    39354     6487 16.48    30526 77.57   1787  4.54    165  0.42 
2018 November   35127     8598 24.48    26569 75.64   2094  5.96    129  0.37 
2018 December   23504     3445 14.66    17687 75.25   1229  5.23    114  0.49 
2019 January    22232     3039 13.67    15977 71.86   1017  4.57    142  0.64 
2019 February   16202     2155 13.30    11850 73.14    880  5.43    140  0.86 
2019 March      18931     4680 24.72    14402 76.08    992  5.24     87  0.46 
2019 April      17910     2709 15.13    11909 66.49   1249  6.97    185  1.03 
2019 May        24473     3576 14.61    16363 66.86   1988  8.12    211  0.86 
2019 June       22356     2550 11.41    15723 70.33   1529  6.84    158  0.71 
2019 July       18913     2953 15.61    13307 70.36   1181  6.24    177  0.94 
2019 August     16451     2407 14.63    12256 74.50    754  4.58    163  0.99 
2019 September  14561     2798 19.22    11106 76.27    669  4.59    124  0.85 
2019 October    17891     2778 15.53    12767 71.36    688  3.85    164  0.92 
2019 November   16356     2441 14.92    12256 74.93    846  5.17    166  1.01 
2019 December   17600     2518 14.31    12626 71.74   2052 11.66    175  0.99 
2020 January    13620     2807 20.61    10570 77.61    488  3.58    205  1.51 
2020 February   18974     3069 16.17    15752 83.02    474  2.50    225  1.19 
2020 March      15152     2386 15.75    12536 82.73    491  3.24    194  1.28 
2020 April      12871     2348 18.24    10031 77.93    539  4.19    177  1.38 
2020 May        13004     2216 17.04    10271 78.98    422  3.25    277  2.13 
2020 June       10326     1753 16.98     7975 77.23    400  3.87    309  2.99 
2020 July       11795     2322 19.69     9302 78.86    361  3.06    330  2.80 
2020 August     12309     2160 17.55     9819 79.77    308  2.50    471  3.83 
2020 September  11737     2066 17.60     9259 78.89    277  2.36   1528 13.02

Charts because who doesn't love charts... Y axis is percentage in all charts:





TBH I'm not really certain what this means. Trending up? ATH soon? Should we invest in evil futures?

[Background sob story, you can safely skip to the next part]

Background sob story, you can safely skip to the next part

For the last few weeks I've been having a horrible time browsing Bitcointalk. It seemed like every other click would result in a random secure connection error, or a time out. I'm using a Tor Browser, which is otherwise excellent. Requesting a new a new Tor circuit usually helps for a few seconds. It got so bad that I would have to request a new circuit on e.g. the watchlist page, then open 10-20 threads in new tabs as quickly as I can so that I could read them. There was very little chance to get to the next page in a thread without getting a new circuit.

tl;dr:

I'd like to know if anyone has experienced any Tor issues lately. For me the problem went away when I disabled Alt-Svc in Tor Browser. I wouldn't recommend messing around with Alt-Svc unless you know exactly what you're doing. I'm just curious if this was some unique-to-me clusterfuck or a more widespread issue.

What is Alt-Svc?

The Alt-Svc HTTP response header is used to advertise alternative services through which the same resource can be reached. An alternative service is defined by a protocol/host/port combination.

That doesn't tell us anything interesting. The best I can figure out is that this can be useful in some load-balancing scenarios. One nasty thing that needs to be noted about this is that the URL in the browser doesn't change so you would never know that your browser is connecting to a different site than the one shown in the address field.

Enter Cloudflare

I know we all love Cloudflare like we love our families, i.e. we don't have a choice. It's essentially Internet 3.0 and it sits between us and many of the sites we use, including Bitcointalk. It also tends to fiddle with things that it shouldn't, such as DNS and yes, the Alt-Svc header. Basically: if Cloudflare thinks that you're coming from Tor it will send Alt-Svc header to your browser telling it to connect to a Cloudflare onion (<somerandomstring>.onion) site instead.

Onion sites are great in theory as they exist "inside" the Tor network so you can connect to them without using Tor exit nodes, thus avoiding some surveillance and attack vectors. However there seems to be something broken with the Cloudflare onion implementation or the way Tor Browser handles it or both, at least in my case. I can't think of anything wrong on my side though. It's a vanilla install of Tor Browser on an otherwise empty VM.

Solution

Unfortunately I don't know how to debug this issue or what the proper solution would be. Since I'm not concerned about exit nodes I simply disabled the Alt-Svc option in Tor Browser. It's a relatively new feature (I believe Cloudflare started doing it a couple of years ago but stable versions of Tor Browser had it initially disabled; not sure when the option was enabled) and I don't see any benefit for it when connecting to a known HTTPS site.

Anyone experiencing similar issues? With Tor Browser or without? Is it really onion-related or just some bizarre coincidence?

Some of those shitheads may end up here so keep an eye out and don't feed the new trolls lest you get your arm chewed off at shoulder.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54443878

Facebook has banned all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory movement from its platforms.

OTOH, it's quite possible that the whole QAnon is just BADecker with a bunch of sockpuppets, in which case we're fine.

Now seriously, if someone can explain what the fuck is making those people believe such nonsense I'd appreciate that. Don't tell me they all live in Flint and drink tap water.

QAnon is a conspiracy theory that says President Trump is waging a war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles.

[doesn't]

... it likely means that:

• You made a post and someone thought it's a good post, or perhaps someone clicked the wrong button.

It doesn't mean that:

• Anyone else thinks it's a good post.
• Anyone likes your post or you.
• Anyone agrees with your post or with you.
• Your post is right or righteous.
• You're not a shitposter.
• You're trustworthy.
• You're not dumb.
• Your post doesn't break the forum rules.
• You'll get any more merits for that post or any post.
• You should try making more such posts.
• You should pester other users for merit.

Just some inspirational-motivational thoughts for your Monday. May or may not be based on a true story.

Old list from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5279037

  # count post                                                                                                                                                          
--- ----- --------
  1 10789 Automated posting                                                           
  2  2702 Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns [Last update: 07-April-2019]                         
  3  2100 Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ                                
  4  2055 Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?)                        
  5  1843 Is it better to save money or invest it?                                   
  6  1799 Bitcointalk Escrows - Trade Safely!                                                                 
  7  1671 Monitoring Bittrex Tokens: Events, Project Social Activity and Price Changes                       
  8  1671 Recovering hacked accounts or accounts with lost passwords                                          
  9  1612 Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ          
 10  1269 Merit & new rank requirements                                                                      
 11  1241 How to sign a message?!                                                                             
 12  1079 Bitcoin reduces unemployment                                               
 13  1051 [EDU] The Rule of "No Collateral, No Loan" - IGNORE AT YOUR OWN RISK!                               
 14   992 Bitcoin or gold?                                                              
 15   961 is it risky to turn all my money to bitcoins?                              
 16   954 Giveaway threads are not allowed                                                                    
 17   929 [Future of Privacy] Ethereum Meta - Foundation of Anonymous e-Marketplace                          
 18   916 The dream of getting rich with bitcoins                                    
 19   915 BTC or ETH in 2018                                                         
 20   895 Re: Why do Atheists hate Religion ?                                        
 21   882 What to do with the people who don't like Bitcoin?                         
 22   880 What are your plans with your Bitcoin?                                     
 23   870 Scam Report Format (Use it to make scam reports properly)                                           
 24   868 bitcoin benefit of saving for a long time?                                 
 25   843 Re: [EDU] The Rule of "No Collateral, No Loan"  -----Updated Jan 26 2018----- 
 26   837 What is BTC for you?                                                       
 27   767 NEWBIE README                                                                                       
 28   767 Direct Dice - 10 BTC Jackpot ! Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin & Darkcoin !                             
 29   760 Do you think billionaires invest in BTC?                                   
 30   749 Newbies - Read before posting                                                                      
 31   730 How did you first hear about bitcoin?                                      
 32   727 Stake your Bitcoin address here                                                                     
 33   726 Will Bitcoin be replaced by another cryptocurrency?                        
 34   717 Is bitcoin a good way to invest your money ?                               
 35   698 Will bitcoin end?                                                          
 36   686 Merit & new rank requirements                                              
 37   679 Recommended bitcointalk escrow services                                                            
 38   670 Why should people use Bitcoin?                                             
 39   666 تروبلاى منصة تكنولوجيا السلاسل للمراهنات                                   
 40   656 Is It advisable to quit my present job for bitcoin?                        
 41   656 If Bitcoin had a stable price, would it still be as popular?               
 42   637 Why are so many people against bitcoin?                                    
 43   632 Do you think Bitcoin will survive after 100 year ?                         
 44   618 How can we make more money?                                                
 45   612  ▁ ▂ ▄ ▅ ▆  Cloudmining 101 (ponzi risk assessment)  ▆ ▅ ▄ ▂ ▁                                      
 46   606 did you place all your funds into bitcoin?                                 
 47   604 Do You Think Bitcoin Will Replace Dollar Soon?                             
 48   601 Long-term investment.                                                      
 49   599 Cиcтeмa paнгoв нa bitcointalk.org                                                                  
 50   593 Best way for steady income                                                 
 51   588 Why is gambling so addicting?                                              
 52   587 Escrow list                                                                                         
 53   584 Bitcoin is not gambling                                                    
 54   570 What if, we advertise bitcoin on T.V.?                                     
 55   566 Why people are holding Bitcoin?                                            
 56   556 Are you surprise by bitcoin price now?                                     
 57   553 LEAGUE OF LEGENDS PREDICTION THREAD!  LCS North America                                            
 58   544 Which one is good, trading or investing?                                   
 59   539 Best tip on saving money                                                   
 60   536 Is bitcoin is the new era of currency?                                     
 61   535 What is your reason to gamble? Fun or profit?                              
 62   534  Do you save bitcoin for fun or for future purpose?                        
 63   532 Bitcoin is  instant way to get rich ?                                      
 64   528 Where do you spend your money from Bitcoin?                                
 65   524 WILL BITCOIN BE USED BY ALMOST EVERYONE IN 2022?                           
 66   521 Are you thinking about the future?                                         
 67   516 Gambling. Is It Wrong?                                                     
 68   515 ★█ ANN █★WWW.CRYPTOCOINRANK.COM <--- FOR SALE! FOR SALE! FOR SALE!                                  
 69   512 🔑CHEAP MICROSOFT WINDOWS OFFICE ADOBE KEYS [3YEARS+][70+ FEEDBACK][AUTOBUY]  
 70   512 regret by not believing in BITCOIN?                                        
 71   506 why do people agree to pay taxes?                                             
 72   506 Invest in Ethereum                                                         
 73   504 If you were in desperate need for money....                                
 74   503 Can Bitcoin End World Poverty?                                             
 75   501 How to explain bitcoin to teenagers or children                            
 76   501 Is it too late to buy bitcoin?                                             
 77   501 I'm gonna sell my house                                                    
 78   499  Why invest in altcoin?                                                    
 79   498 Altcoin To Buy Now?                                                        
 80   497 Can bitcoin improve the economy of a country?                              
 81   495 Alt coins worth buying                                                     
 82   494 panic selling                                                              
 83   494 Do you think this year will be Red?                                        
 84   492 Patience is the key                                                        
 85   491 Is it possible for the bitcoin to lose it's value ?                        
 86   490 What impresses you the most about Bitcoin?                                 
 87   489 you need to overcome your fear of losing money                             
 88   488 Why people says gold is better?                                            
 89   487 Do you even read whitepaper bro?                                           
 90   486 YoBit.Net - CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE & MultiCoin DICE - Free Coins every 1-24 hrs                    
 91   484 Airdrop & Bounty                                                                                   
 92   483 1Bitcoin as a gift from someone                                            
 93   482 【BOT】 🌟 C.A.T. Cryptocurrency Automatic Trader 5.2 🌟                                              
 94   480 With how much should i start                                               
 95   479 In what situation would Bitcoin die?                                       
 96   475 DirectBet Soccer Prediction Game *** Win Free Bets ! *** Free to Enter !      
 97   474 Job Vs Bitcoin                                                             
 98   474 Do I need to sell all alts?                                                
 99   473 how to start trading with a very small amount                              
100   467 Holding is bullshit?                                                       

You know what happens when an AI says "too much work"? Yep, humans have to do it.

So here is a list of the most referenced posts within Bitcointalk. A reference is a quote or a link inside a post (not e.g. in a signature). There is at least one known issue - because human - the first post of a thread is counted separately from a link to the thread without the "msg" part. That's how the rules topic appears at positions #2 and #4. (fixed)

Update 2020-10-02: Excluded references within the same thread, and references between the posts of the same user. This removed a lot of spammy threads. The original list is here.

Update 2020-10-04: Fixed a bug in finding the first post of the thread, which was causing the "posts of the same user" condition to not work in some cases.

Update 2020-10-12: Added "users" column to show the number of users who posted the link.

#   count users post  
--- ----- ----- ----------------------------
  1  5375  1910 Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ
  2  3224  1695 Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns [Last update: 29-Sep-2020] 
  3  2848  1746 Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?)    
  4  2673  1361 Merit & new rank requirements  
  5  2137   986 Recovering hacked accounts or accounts with lost passwords
  6  2069  1067 Bitcointalk Escrows - Trade Safely!   
  7  1759   848 How to sign a message?!   
  8  1410   471 Giveaway threads are not allowed
  9  1397   485 [EDU] The Rule of "No Collateral, No Loan" - IGNORE AT YOUR OWN RISK!     
 10  1201   502 Scam Report Format (Use it to make scam reports properly)     
 11  1142   703 Newbies - Read before posting  
 12  1136   725 Stake your Bitcoin address here 
 13   954   666 Activity & new membergroup limits     
 14   924    74 [Future of Privacy] Ethereum Meta - Foundation of Anonymous e-Marketplace
 15   892   510 NEWBIE README 
 16   875   370 Re: [EDU] The Rule of "No Collateral, No Loan"  -----Updated Jan 26 2018-----     
 17   864   522 Newbies can now pay a small fee to enable images 
 18   819   347 Неофициальный список официальных правил     
 19   817   438 Recommended bitcointalk escrow services    
 20   791   515 Система рангов на bitcointalk.org    
 21   753   360  ▁ ▂ ▄ ▅ ▆  Cloudmining 101 (ponzi risk assessment)  ▆ ▅ ▄ ▂ ▁
 22   729    88 Direct Dice - 10 BTC Jackpot ! Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin & Darkcoin !   
 23   719   421 Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements
 24   692   415 Escrow list   
 25   653   392 FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit
 26   648   364 [RULES] Peraturan Sub-Forum Indonesia dan FAQ   BACA SEBELUM POSTING!     
 27   641   337 [Ann]Vote New coins on Bter.com - Which new coin should Bter add in next week?  
 28   635   482 Pizza for bitcoins?    
 29   590   320 Airdrop & Bounty   
 30   572   297 ⛓LIST⛓ BitcoinTalk's Escrow Providers: Ranking & Blacklist ☠ Avoid Scammers ☠   
 31   569   352 Marketplace trust   
 32   551   381 【BOT】 🌟 C.A.T. Cryptocurrency Automatic Trader 5.2 🌟  
 33   518   248 Beware of PayPal and other reversible transfer services  
 34   516   289 [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why?    
 35   509   339 Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v14.7 (Windows/Linux)
 36   505   349 Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22]
 37   499   322 [ANN] sph-sgminer: multi-coin multi-algorithm GPU miner   added MaruCoin  
 38   493    54 Re: COINSBIT.IO SCAM EXCHANGE + PONZI SCHEME !!! 
 39   490   247 Recovering hacked/lost accounts
 40   489   331 OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.1   
 41   488    56 كومبوسيت كوين : منصة المشروعات المبتكرة    
 42   487   318 Signature Campaign Guidelines (read this before starting or joining a campaign)
 43   485    55 انضم للعملة الرقمية الألمانية الأفضل 
 44   476   256 [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org)   First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency 
 45   476   292 Merit - что это и как этим пользоваться    
 46   475   287 [poll locked]i'll start a new post soon     
 47   465    74 BEWARE OF SUPER SCAM: P2PB2B claim to be worlds biggest exchange ! 
 48   463    61 Re: Proof that God exists
 49   457   263 [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency  
 50   456   299 Bagi NEWBIE / PEMULA : Level - Post - Activity - Signature - Waktu Naik Level   
 51   451   427 BTC or ETH in 2018 
 52   447   277 [GUIDE] Sistem Rank, Activity, dan Merit   
 53   437   148 [ANN] [XMG] MAGI   CPU mining   mPoW   mPoS   [MagiPay] 
 54   432    56 Re: Why do Atheists hate Religion ?  
 55   432   336 I AM HODLING  
 56   425   278 Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!   
 57   419   247 TIL Activity does not work on precisely 2 week intervals + interval timings     
 58   416   252 Claymore's CryptoNote AMD GPU Miner v11.3   
 59   409   311 [ANN] cudaMiner & ccMiner CUDA based mining applications [Windows/Linux/MacOSX] 
 60   408   254 Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
 61   397    14 coinsbit.io has taken all my funds without any explanation, looks like SCAM    
 62   390   151 DefaultTrust changes     
 63   387    21 COINSBIT.IO EXCHANGE THREAD BOTS POSTING!!!
 64   381   233 [General] How to earn Bitcoins - Part 1    
 65   380    43 P2PB2B Scam!! Selling coins they don't have, wash trading, fraud and theft!    
 66   378   295 YoBit.Net - CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE & MultiCoin DICE - Free Coins every 1-24 hrs
 67   377    13 Re: [p2pb2b.io] The next generation cryptocurrency exchange [IEO (STO) for Startups] 
 68   375     9 Re: An <COINSBIT.IO> Innovative Trading Cryptosystem   
 69   373     6 Re: COINSBIT.IO SCAM EXCHANGE + PONZI SCHEME !!! 
 70   371    48 Game-Protect.com did not refund my money and stopped replying to my emails     
 71   369   114 NEM (XEM) Official Thread - 100% New Code - Easy To Use APIs  
 72   369   253 YoBit.Net - Signature Campaign - Realtime Payouts (daily)    
 73   368    28 p2pb2b.io has blocked my account without any explanation, looks like SCAM
 74   365    54 DirectBet Soccer Prediction Game *** Win Free Bets ! *** Free to Enter !  
 75   364     7 BEWARE: Coinsbit Scammers Create Their Own Investbox (Yobit style) 
 76   359   161 [FULL] ChipMixer Signature Campaign   Sr Member+   Up to 0.0375 BTC/w    
 77   355    31 [FRAUD ALERT] P2PB2B - yet another russian scam exchange     
 78   350   245 ⚡ [ANN] ⚡ DeepOnion TOR ⚡ DeepVault ⚡ Cryptopia 🚀 Airdrop 24/40 🚀 WE DOMINATE!     
 79   349   212 [Q&A] Tanya Jawab Seputar Forum Disini/Ask about this forum here!   
 80   347    22 [SCAM ALERT!] b2bp2p exchange is stealing your money   
 81   345   269 List of bitcoin debit cards    
 82   340   261 [ANN] SebastianJu - Legendary Escrow Service - Escrowed over 8150 BTC    
 83   340   197 [HELP]Bantuan untuk menaikkan Rank (Jr. Member s.d Hero)[UPDATE]   
 84   337   231 ★☆★ 777Coin Signature Campaign ★☆★ Earn up to .0007/Post (Newb-Hero Welcome)    
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The aforementioned twit is too chickenshit to create a thread to bitch about me, choosing instead to follow me around and feed into various doxings as he goes, so being the generous and helpful person that I am I decided to help him out one last time.

@Timelord2067, feel free to bitch here as much as you want. And given that you now have a dedicated place for that, I will no longer feel bad reporting your off topic bullshit in other threads as off topic bullshit.

Let me start it off: in grotesque expressions of hostility that still baffle me, Timelord2067 appears to be trying to tell me that he holds a grudge because I offered him some help last year and it didn't meet his expectations (I bet you're shocked how that could have happened given my tremendous help with this thread). For which I would apologize if he had communicated those expectations, such as his inexplicable fantasy that it was a "project" we were working on. Fuck it, I'll still apologize: Timelord2067 - I'm sorry. Could you please forgive me and forget that I exist and stop derailing unrelated threads with that. Post as many trust ratings as you want in any color that you want, I honestly no longer care.

Feel free to air any other grievances below (or above if you're one of those weirdos using the "show most recent posts at the top" option).

The topic is Timelord2067's grievances so if anyone has anything else to moan about - create your own fucking thread or piss me off sufficiently so that I create one for you.

Bob Woodward published his first book about Trump, titled "Fear", in 2018: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fear/Bob-Woodward/9781501175527

Next week he's releasing his second book "Rage": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rage/Bob-Woodward/9781982131739

To me the most astonishing thing about this second book isn't really the salacious but unsurprising stuff about Trump blatantly lying about coronavirus etc, but the fact that he allowed to be interviewed and even taped. Woodward has recordings of Trump actually saying stupid things that will no doubt play non-stop on cable news from now until the election day, or at least until Trump says something even more stupid.

Why did the very stable genius agree to be interviewed by the author of "Fear", which was already very unflattering? I'm sure there is a great 4D chess strategy here, please enlighten me.

If we're not banning korner's alts can we at least prevent them from creating self-modded threads? They create accusations, even trust flags, then routinely delete posts in the subsequent discussions. It's quite clear that they just abuse the self-mod feature as another way to troll people (and spam via indirect notification PMs LOL).

Taking self-mod privilege away would probably remove a large part of the incentive for korner (and other proven hypertrolls like cryptohunter) to keep creating those threads. And yes, I know we shouldn't feed the trolls to begin with, etc, but honestly can we expect every user to be aware of all these disruptive sockpuppets. There should be a more direct punishment for abusing a forum feature in this way. Right now since ban evasion can't be proven to moderators' satisfaction there are basically no consequences for this. You can't even report it.

For example:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215552 now has 13 posts, used to be 90+: https://loyce.club/archive/topics/521/5215552.html

User in question for those not familiar with the backstory:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5155000
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5211434

Stumbled upon one shitposter churning out posts two minutes apart, reported their posts:
TheDonBuja (temp-banned?)

Now there is a bunch of others:
Kamilaz (temp-banned?)
benkhalil3
iwnlfr (temp-banned?)
aiguy (temp-banned)
etc

Edit - a few more found by LoyceV:
KimberlyCon (temp-banned?)
0nline (banned)

Found by GazetaBitcoin:
Lightz1337 (banned) [hf]
YikesAu (temp-banned?)
seocrush (banned)
nathanaelung (banned)
g2ingoin (banned)
daviebcoys (banned)
MarkoAlonso (banned)
fernquaker (banned)
arecoba20 (banned)

Found by TheBeardedBaby:
proscratcher (banned)

These are kind of spammy but perhaps not as egregious as the spammers above:
FYeah [hf]
Sakhill [hf]
FaceTehWind [hf]
aldanstep1 (banned)
LeDonna (banned)
PhoNam (banned)
Detrix

Not sure what's going on, perhaps actmyname is testing our vigilance (Edit: apologies to Timelord2067 for an inappropriate joke), or the mythical AI is finally here (one of the users is called "aiguy" LOL), or maybe just a bored shitposter trying to earn a merit through sheer volume. At any rate, reporting those posts individually seems like a massive waste of time for everyone involved so perhaps a mod or an admin could check patrol and nuke them, TYVM.


Edit
It turned out to be a (likely scammy) money-making "method" initiated on hackforums. Users marked with [hf] above are suspected to have posted in the hackforums thread but most of the listed users are likely participants of the scheme.

If you see them in your country beat the shit out of them ,spit them in their face and send them back to communist China ...

What if the Chinese person was born in your country?

User: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=341733

Service: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5271565 (Archive)

Do to fact i have nothing to do right now i decided to start a betting service, my fee is only 10% of winnings.

I will create bets and people will bet against each other and i will hold the funds in escrow .

Nope i don't trust anyone to escrow, so i will do escrow ... i am putting my reputation on this small betting biz ...

This is a user account created in 2015, recently woke up, has one DT green trust rating from 2015. Not quite escrow material.

Edit - clarification: I'm not claiming the account changed hands, just pointing out the lack of trading history (or any forum presence) between 2016 and 2020.

Edit2:

May - June ... Lost all my savings at the casinos after lockdown do to fact i entered a depression

Not really the guy you would trust with your money, right?  

Flag: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2264