While we're on it, I would appreciate it if theymos could do us all a favor and spend some time to post an updated list of the top reporters in this forum. I know I had been part of such posts long ago having a large number of reports but these stats are available only to theymos and hence hard to compare. The fact that there was an endless stream of report-worthy content here actually used to drive me crazy but thankfully as of lately the spambots have somehow been curbed. Reports are now not any more lost in an endless sea of spam.

A list for the most 'helpful' people of the forum could be compiled on several criteria. I think reports is a useful one but due to it being private it's impossible to track any progress.

Seems like an interesting product. I'd love to try it but it seems like there isn't much information on the website.
I'm mostly wondering, when using this VCC to pay online, what's the Name and Surname information that could be filled?
And are prices the same for all payment methods?

There's a bookmaker for everything that there'd be demand to bet on! Some years ago I had seen a website exclusively accepting bets on the weather. Almost any sport that involves opponents can also be bet on but this doesn't stop there. Betting on contests is also popular. In Europe the Eurovision song contest attracts big pools for example. Put politics markets are especially popular. Because people are putting their money on them, prediction markets are something that is considered a valid predictor of outcomes.

Btctalk name: alani123
Btctalk URL: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=121796;sa=summary
Rank: Legendary
Current post count: 5997
BTC address: 32kULadbZSQVudWhgs3wwu7z2dVxa4NnkK

It's harder to pay interest in BTC under a bull market because their income source is dependent on visitors and ads, while they pay interest in crypto. But that site is administrated by a very creative owner and the business keeps expanding. They now have a sportsbook also along with their dice and gambling business.

There have always been varying political factions. At times of war maybe it could have been the only time nationalist sentiments were so strong that paying taxes might have been considered patriotic and therefore honored. But for any other time, I think that anyone would rather NOT pay taxes and would turn a blind eye for their neighbor finding ways to do so.

If the official bitcoin forum is all of a sudden gone for good, I think the lack of a main forum for crypto would make things harder to focus on. This forum's administration has focused a lot of their efforts to increase quality and encourage community participation. Any other competing forum I'm sure would be too commercial and leaning towards corporate interests, ready to sell-out to any altcoin that would pay best other than staying loyal to bitcoin.

In bitcoin, is there a distiction between full nodes? I thought it was only in Ethereum where Vitalik had redefined the term.
I think it'd be better to keep terminology for what a full node is simple. Either you store all of the blockchain or you are not a full node.

Similar situation with the Athens stock exchange market. People were expecting great losses and there was a lot of divestment. After all, Athens is a center for investment for the Chinese. Chinese corporation have leased the country's main port for 100 years! But today the market recovered with gains at 6.38% in a single session! Just a small market but it shows how fragile markets can be under a sentiment.

This brings up another question: What's the best way to explain what provably fair gambling is? Astonishingly, there's no video as intuitive like the ones created by weusecoins . It's surprising to me that nobody has worked on making an easy to understand explanation, not even casinos. Perhaps crypto gambling businesses would rather remain underground with their existing userbase?! Who knows. I think the possibility of somebody to understand the advantages of provable fairness are also based on their propensity to understand trust-based structures. If somebody can't comprehend that gambling can be done in a trustless way, or what even "trustless" means, then they have a lot more to understand other to be able to comprehend provable fairness in gambling.

This is a good way to create transactions without exposing a private key, but if the "Offline" machine connects to the internet at any point (even let's say after uninstalling the wallet and deleting private keys from memory) then the address no longer cold storage.

All you need to do is  store the public key. This key is good for giving to anyone. It can only be used to query the balance in the address and/or send BTC to you. Basically you'll only need to connect the wallet to the a machine with an internet connection once you need to move the coins. But remember that once your private key hits the net then your storage is no longer "Cold" and you should forget about any benefits associated with offline storage.

If you use the private key in a wallet connected online, you should move the rest of the coins to a new address generated offline if you'd like to maintain the benefits of offline storage.

I think porn sites are already aware of bitcoin but as a matter of fact would rather not accept it due to the amount of support associated with it. They have to dedicate too many man hours for what turns out to be too small of a source for revenue for them. It's proven to be the case with big social media website Reddit also. Who stopped accepting bitcoin citing that it wasn't used enough to justify integration. Seems like the general public isn't that interested in paying with bitcoin, regardless of the benefits. And in the U.S. it's also pretty easy to buy anonymous prepaid visa and mastercard from grocery stores which just drived demand further down.

Any bookmaker or at least p2p site where we could bet on super Tuesday outcomes with crypto? I'm specifically interested to see if there's any trusted site that provides good coverage for political events in the United States. Anyone know any good ones?

This very mindset to me is causing harm indirectly. Team owners in some leagues have proven that they an get away with anything, from match fixing to narco-traficking. Pumping money into betting that we know they can fix, is just earning them a bigger cut from their winnings based on their ability to fix results. The money is not maybe affecting the team's outlook, but ends up in the team owner's pocket to fund more criminal acts or launder some of their criminal earnings.

I hadn't thought of that... Indeed, more processing power would be needed if you have to go two pages deep and it's done frequently.
Profile "Last active" field is for log in time, which is not connected to having posted anything recently. Because of this, I'm saying that the the last post time metric would be more relevant in the top activity page. With latest post time you can see the metric that matters for a profile ranking up in activity.

I think that if latest post time is getting implemented, it'd be good to force a scrape for the top 1000 activity accounts and fill this field for them first. Other BPIP profiles could start displaying a last post time field once/if a profile refresh is requested. And after an post date field has been filled for a user, I guess updates could be happening by monitoring the recent page.

For what it's worth, I wanted to see how fast users' latest post times could be scraped. Bitcointalk doesn't take long to load but the rate limit is what makes the process harder. Here's the table I compiled. It might not be useful but I was just experimenting.

I wouldn't do that to be honest. Betting with crypto is hard to trace back to a real person's ID and I would guess that a government would never bother unless there's some really serious indications towards money laundering. I'd only track some gross earning if I'd wanted to cash out a big sum in FIAT but otherwise, if it's below tax limits then it'd keep it... No reason for government to know.

Such coins are not much more than a joke. 42 coin started as a joke and I am very suprised that it's still having ANY volumes at all. I'm wondering why any exchange would list it. With no incentive to mine it I could only guess that its network is probably very vulnerable to 51% attacks. Perhaps the volumes it even has on coinmarketcap aren't representative of reality. I now see there's also another altcoin above BTC but being a direct bitcoin fork I would guess it also doesn't have a great future. It only bets on having a big per coin value based on low maximum supply...

Today crypto also experienced some gains with most coins being Green. What's worrying to me  is that other major coins experience greater gains, but BTC is also in the green nevertheless. It's worth noting that there really wasn't any valid indication of support for levels above 10k USD so anyone claiming otherwise probably wasn't looking at buy/sell walls. Now the real test is lower level support and I think so fat BTC is showing good signs of support. If resistance subsides this time a rally would have better foundations to start on.

Thanks for this tool. It's very useful to have it as PM and I appreciate your work. I'm currently subscribed to a service that allows receiving notifications for merits and quotes but the issue with it is that these notifications simply go away once you click them. Maybe the OP bot could be upgraded to also have the option of notifying for thread responses and merits? Then it'd be a catch all service.

Also, regarding concerns users have had here, I think we should be appreciative of OP's efforts to create something useful. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. There's no direct harm that can come from being in the receiving end of a PM. As of having your IP grabbed from a website, I'd agree that it's a possibility but there isn't much that can be done with that alone. I wouldn't associate malice to that simply because of the username.