Signature Campaign for Old, Inactive Accounts



Win Up to $3.2 Million for ZERO Posts!

If you have an account that is 1+ year old* and no longer using**, then change your signature to the following and shoot me a PM with your BTC address or post a reply in this thread:

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Dear GOD/GODS and/or MEMBERS OF SUPER-INTELLIGENT ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS: Please let CHAUL JHIN KIM win the NEW ZEALAND POWERBALL JACKPOT. He will use the money to set up his own RESEARCH LAB and find the CURES for CANCER and AGING! He will release the CURES into the PUBLIC DOMAIN! (a la Jonas Salk) EVERYONE regardless of wealth will no longer need to SUFFER! CHILDHOOD CANCER will also be HISTORY! Thank you! - A Faithful Believer. P.S. If anyone is reading this then please pray with me!

Every Wednesday and Saturday, I will purchase a ticket in the Powerball draw. If I win the top prize in the Powerball draw, 10% of the winnings will be allocated to accounts displaying the signature. The Powerball prize begins at $2.6 million and can jackpot all the way up to $32 million, so if you are the only person with the signature then you could make up to $3.2 million for doing absolutely nothing! If there are two accounts with the signature and one of them is yours, then you could make up to $1.6 million, and so on.

The latest winning numbers can be found here:

https://mylotto.co.nz/results

*Since I don't want to incentivize people making dozens of new accounts, I decided to implement an account age requirement. However there is no posting requirement, so there is no point spamming.

**Active accounts are fine too, but there are much better signature campaigns for those out there. As far as I know, this one is the only one that rewards inactive accounts.

The price of a single bitcoin skyrocketed in the last decade. You would think that this would provide a huge incentive for scientists to do research on time travel. Even if you were to argue that scientists, generally speaking, tend to be motivated by reasons other than money, often times their research is funded by those who do expect to see a return on their investment.

I remember there was a guy called Ronald Mallett who did some experiments with ring lasers about 10 years ago (and whose own motivations for pursuing said research are also equally fascinating) but he hasn't found much success and his theories drew criticism from the scientific community. Other than that, there hasn't been much going on in this field.

If you want to get into the more fringe side of things then a few years ago, someone set up a website selling a time machine called the Hyperdimensional Resonator. But it hasn't found much success either and reviews suggest that it might only work for astral time travel rather than physical time travel, or that it might even be a scam.

The first person who manages to build a working time machine could go back in time to 2009, put a few dollars in Bitcoin (or alternatively, mine it using a standard desktop PC) and emerge a multi-millionaire in just a few short years. Solving a Millennium Prize problem or being the sole winner of a Nobel Prize only gets you a million bucks. And even with time travel, things like lotteries and sports bets are vulnerable to the butterfly effect. Compared to these, investing in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies seems like an almost foolproof plan in retrospect.

A while back, I decided to check to see if the domain names for defunct services (either ones that went out of business or turned out to be scams) are available or not and each time, without failure, they are still registered. What's even more interesting is that they are constantly being renewed year after year.

Cryptsy.com? Still registered. Gox.com? Registered. Inputs.io? Registered. Bitconnect.com? Registered.

Heck, even the more obscure ones like Altcoinherald.com and Cryptory.com that most people have forgotten about are still registered.

If you typed these addresses in your browser, you'll just see a blank page. At first glance, it seems like they are gone for good. But checking their registration status by doing a WHOIS lookup reveals a different story.

What's the reason for this? Personally, I was interested in registering Altcoinherald.com and using it to set up a Reddit-style website where people could post news articles and press releases on altcoin-related subjects but it looks like I'll have to settle for another domain name instead.

[Scientific Linux:]

Hi. I'll be studying computational biochemistry in the fall.

I'm mostly a Windows guy but have dabbled with Ubuntu, Mint, and live distros in the past. I have two laptops: an 8th gen i7 with 16 GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD and a Celeron with 4 GB RAM and a 128 GB SSD. So far, I've looked into the following distros:

Scientific Linux: Apparently this comes with very few actual science-related software since its main purpose is to provide a consistent environment for HPC clusters/compute servers in big organizations like CERN, Fermilab, etc. who write their own software. Recently discontinued.

Bio-Linux: Leans more towards bioinformatics than computational chemistry. Includes 500 bioinformatics tools on a Ubuntu base. Last version is from 2014.

Poseidon Linux: Used to be a more general science distro but many of the included programs were removed in recent versions. Now primarily aimed at oceanographers.

Debian: Not a scientific distro per se but has optional "pure blend" metapackages containing chemistry and other science tools.

VigyaanCD: Live CD based on Knoppix intended for bioinformatics, computational chemistry, and computational biology. Sounds absolutely perfect but hasn't been updated since 2004.

Fedora Scientific: Seems to be more for data science/numerical computing.

So far, I managed to get Debian up and running and installed the pure blend packages. It seems to be working well so this is what I am leaning towards. Vigyaan doesn't seem to work with my hardware and is too old anyway. Bio-Linux works but with some minor driver issues which are probably fixable. Are there any others I might have missed?

I posted this question on Reddit but got no answers so I thought I'd ask here instead since you guys seem like a knowledgeable bunch. Thanks in advance.

[$5]

Hi everyone.

I used to play Agar.io a lot during the game's peak of popularity but lost interest as things like college and stuff got in the way. Recently, I went back and found my old accounts and started playing again but since I made so many accounts, I decided to sell some. Now, you might be wondering, why would I buy an account for a "free" game? Well, in Agar.io, you can use coins to purchase things like skins and power ups. However, these coins are not free. If you are a skilled player, you can spend days to weeks earning them manually or buy them from Miniclip (the owners of the game).

Here are the "official" prices for coins on Agar.io:



As you can see, the best deal is the first one, which puts the value of each coin at $99.99/125,000 = $0.00079992. Or roughly 0.08 cents each. These are the accounts I have for sale (more coming soon):

Level 28. 9,406 coins. 50 skins. $5 ($7.50 value not including skins)
Level 28. 34,386 coins. 53 skins. $20 ($27.50 value not including skins)

Edit: Sorry for the lack of information. I accidentally posted this thread prematurely when I pressed the post button rather than the preview button. I will update this thread with more details regarding skins, power boosts, etc. in the coming days.

According to this article, PwC hired 400 blockchain experts in 2018:

Rival PwC said it had taken on a similar array of clients and currently employed about 400 "blockchain experts" globally, across multiple divisions, including its consultancy business.

And that's just one company. That number doesn't count those working for other companies like EY, KPMG, Microsoft, etc.

My question is, where do these companies find them? What qualifies someone to be a "expert" in this field? Given that the cryptocurrency community is still a fairly small and nascent one where everyone knows everyone else, the actual experts tend to be well-known figures, and Bitcoin degrees aren't really a thing yet (other than the one or two rare exceptions), how was PwC able to find 400 of them?

In fact, the number of people who have contributed code to the Bitcoin codebase over the past decade since Bitcoin has been around is only about 500. For Ethereum, it's only about 300.

Or do these companies just treat anyone with a computer science degree to be an expert? (Heck, I'm a computer science student. Can I be a Bitcoin expert too?)

Several months ago, I made two accounts on Reddit. Throughout the course of normal posting, commenting, and replying to other people's posts, one of the accounts has managed to amass nearly 1k karma while the other has a little over 100 karma.

Does anyone know if these accounts are worth anything? Is there an equation out there that lets you know how much a Reddit account is worth based on its karma score? Does account age also factor? The accounts are only a couple of months old.

Thanks in advance.

In 2009, much of the cryptocurrency community was composed of libertarians, cypherpunks, and crypto-anarchists. They tended to be anti-authoritarian and distrustful of existing financial, economic, and political institutions. It's very likely that Satoshi Nakamoto himself had such beliefs.

It's been 10 years since and a lot has changed in the meantime. Now we live in a world where everyone recognizes the word "Bitcoin". In fact, the phrase "buy bitcoin" was one of the most searched terms of 2017.

In light of such developments, do you think this is still the case today? Are we still a group of anti-establishment hacker types like Hal Finney and Nick Szabo who can trace their roots to the original cypherpunk communities of the 80s and 90s? Or has the inclusion of other groups such as social democrats, neoliberals, conservatives, and the alt-right diluted the original intentions behind Bitcoin?

In other words, did we lose our ideology by going mainstream?

Not sure if this belongs in this forum or in the economics forum but anyway...

Why don't we just set up capitalist and socialist communes to test which economic system is better once and for all?

Both supporters of capitalism and socialism have different ideas on what is best for the people. They both want to live in a happy, safe, and prosperous society but they disagree on which economic system is better for achieving these goals. There are good arguments coming from both sides of the political spectrum but to the best of my knowledge, there has never been a controlled study that compares capitalism and socialism directly.

Now you may be thinking, "The whole 20th century was that, no?"

Well, sort of. But there were still too many confounding variables. For example, many authoritarian and totalitarian governments used socialism to justify their existence. US foreign policy was also another confounding variable that tended to affect certain economies either more positively or negatively than others.

Thoughts? Opinions?

I remember in the early days of altcoins when NXT did their IPO. It was a simple old-fashioned IPO. Yup, that's what we called it back then. An OP would write up a thread and we'd send little bits of a bitcoin to an address with a message attached. Then launch day would come, we'd start up our wallets, and receive our coins. Easy. Simple. No problem.

Nowadays it's all about Ethereum or one of its clones, ERC-20 tokens, DAOs, and exchanges. The word IPO itself is now gone - replaced by ICOs, ITOs, IEOs, STOs, IFOs, and IAOs. There is no longer a single OP. It ALWAYS has to be a team of people instead. Instead of simply sending BTC to an address, you have to make an account at an exchange or a service or a website or download a piece of software.

Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned IPOs of yesteryear?

Is there a list of altcoin exchanges that provide free coins? (preferably whole coins rather than dust amounts)

I understand that Yobit has a free coins section but are there any other altcoin exchanges out there which have the same?

I have a number of electronic gift cards for Domino's Pizza for use in their New Zealand stores. I am willing to sell these for 20% off the usual price in BTC.

$5 Domino's Pizza card = $4 (not 100% sure if I still have these)
$10 Domino's Pizza card = $8
$20 Domino's Pizza card = $16

I will send you a link via PM or email containing the card. To use it, you will need to show it on your smartphone to the person behind the counter. I think they are valid for about 3 months or so but I'm not 100% sure about this.

I have a number of electronic gift cards for JB Hi-Fi for use in their New Zealand stores. I am willing to sell these for 20% off the usual price in BTC.

$5 JB Hi-Fi card = $4
$10 JB Hi-Fi card = $8
$20 JB Hi-Fi card = $16

I will send you a link via PM or email containing the card. To use it, you will need to show it on your smartphone to the person behind the counter. I think they are valid for about 3 months or so but I'm not 100% sure about this.

My old smartphone came with a copy of Norton Mobile Security which I never used. The packaging indicates that the key is valid for 1 year.

Review for Norton Mobile Security:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/norton-mobile-security,review-2101.html

"Like many Android security products, Norton Mobile Security is a freemium app, offering basic features at no cost and more advanced protection for a yearly fee. Premium features are activated for a user's initial 30 days.

The premium license is $30 a year, discounted to $20 for a user's first year."

I am selling my unused key for $15 in BTC. That's 25% off the regular already-discounted price.

You can either choose to receive just the key via PM or email, receive a scanned copy of the physical card via email, or receive a the actual physical card containing the key inside via the post (as long as you pay shipping).

MyBackup Pro by Rerware

"MyBackup Pro allows users of Android mobile devices to backup their phone data onto the MicroSD Card. In the case of a lost, damaged, reset phone, or upgraded phone, users can restore the phones data and applications easily on the existing or new phone."

I have one key for this program which came bundled with my Strontium SD card. Never been used. Not sure if it only works with Strontium cards or other brands as well. Normally retails for $6.99 on the Android app store. Am selling for $5.25 (25% off the normal price) in BTC.

Download page:

http://www.strontium.biz/en/support/downloads/

Install guide:

http://www.strontium.biz/installation-guide-resources/MyBackup_Pro.pdf

Did anybody else get this error message for a few minutes while trying to load Bitcointalk.org?



What is Cash-generation.com? (The site doesn't load for me) And what does it have got to do with Bitcointalk? Did we just get hacked?

How does the archival board work? The description says "Old stuff" but I see threads and posts that were made quite recently and most of the threads there aren't locked and can be replied to. Are we supposed to move our topics to the archival board ourselves once we no longer need them or is this done by moderators/administrators?

In what situations should we lock our own thread vs. sending it to archival?

Currently there is some discussion about hard forking Bitcoin so that the maximum block size is increased. That would require a mandatory update for Bitcoin Core. But what about alternative clients like Electrum and Multibit? Do these also need to be updated or not? Since they rely on external servers, is it just these servers that need to be updated or everyone who uses the program?

Does anyone know what happened to them? They were selling cloud mining contracts called "hashlets" a few months ago but now I see that their domain resolves to a generic GoDaddy parking page:



I also remember they launched an altcoin called Paycoin which GAW promised would be worth at least $20 per coin but failed to keep its value.

I see that Hashtalk.org is still working which I understand is connected to GAW but I'm not sure what their exact relationship is. I see that Paycoin.com and their official forums are still up as well.

Is GAW still in the cloud mining business? Did they end up being a scam? Or did they close up shop for other reasons? Even if their altcoin project failed (and it seems to have according to the latest CMC figures), why couldn't they just continue their existing cloud mining business which was already quite popular?

EDIT: I see Paybase.com is working too...

According to this thread which was created to explain the downtime and data loss that Bitcointalk experienced earlier this year, Bitcointalk is hosted on solid-state drives (SSDs):

Technical details:

The bitcointalk.org and bitcoin.it databases were stored on a RAID 1+0 array: two RAID 1 arrays of 2 SSDs each, joined via RAID 0 (so 4 SSDs total, all the same model). We noticed yesterday that there were some minor file system errors on the bitcoin.it VM, but we took it for a fluke because there were no ongoing problems and the RAID controller reported no disk issues. A few hours later, the bitcointalk.org file system also started experiencing errors. When this was noticed, the bitcointalk.org database files were immediately moved elsewhere, but the RAID array deteriorated rapidly, and most of the database files ended up being too badly corrupted to be used. So a separate OS was set up on a different RAID array, and the database was restored using a daily backup.

My guess is that both of the SSDs in one of the RAID-1 sub-arrays started running out of spare sectors at around the same time. bitcoin.it runs on the same array, and it's been running low on memory for a few weeks, so its use of swap may have been what accelerated the deterioration of these SSDs. The RAID controller still reports no issues with the disks, but I don't see what else could cause this to happen to two distinct VMs. I guess the RAID controller doesn't know how to get the SMART data from these drives. (The drives are fairly old SSDs, so maybe they don't even support SMART.)

I'm curious as to why this is so. Don't SSDs have finite read-write cycles? I would think that it's not really a good idea to use SSDs to host a PHP application and a database that is constantly being written to. Even more so if the memory is low (and it was) since this forces the server to constantly write to the swap space.

I have an Asus Eee PC which uses an SSD for storage. Unlike the rest of their laptop range, the virtual memory was disabled on these netbooks to spare the SSD. Not sure if it's related but I've also heard that using a Raspberry Pi to run a full node is a bad idea since the write cycles would wear out the SD card very quickly.