I'm free to use my merits in any damn way I feel like... yougottaproblemwiththat?

I generally don't give out merits to anyone who has a lot of bounty and airdrop reports in their history, but the OP seems to be making an effort to improve his post quality and people have been especially generous to me the last few days as I reached and crossed 100 merits so I'm spreading the love around.

However, if the OP goes back to his shameful, bounty-loving ways then you can bet I won't make the same mistake twice.

Holy smokes! My bubble-sense was already bursting* but if I had seen that article I would have definitely cashed out of everything! 




* - see what I did there?

Crap... This was my first scam report and I didn't think to archive it, but it looks like the OP must have deleted the topic because the modlog shows several of the replies were deleted much earlier today, but not the topic itself.

Search for 5018388 in the modlog to see: https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php

Sorry, iasenko - you've done some excellent work here and I appreciate your motivation to, "be the change you wish to see in the world," to use a tired old cliche, but I have to agree with pugman on this. Any change that requires more time from theymos is likely not going to fly. Any change that reduces forum traffic also seems unlikely to pass muster, even though I mostly agree with hilariousandco/etc's suggestion to do away with signatures for newbies and Jr members (I'd merely get rid of sigs for newbies and allow Jr.'s to have what is currently allowed for newbies - something like 50 characters of unformatted text or whatever it is).

That said, I like reporting shitposts, spam and plagiarism, even though my 220+ reports and counting are metaphorically equivalent to trying to put out a raging inferno with a garden hose. I think many of us who report posts do it for the therapeutic value, and not just for the good of the forum (and that, btw, is the key to making effective incentive structures...).

Oh, I wasn't saying you were intentionally doing something shady, just that pools like yours suck in general because the whole idea behind them is fatally flawed. If the only coins you offered were large and liquid - as fr4nkthetank pointed out - then this type of pool would make more sense, but if each algo you support has one or more shitcoins that are ridiculously prone to pump-n-dump (or the so-called "chainsaw difficulty attack") then profitability gets thrown out the window.

This is likely why there are so many complaints about steep drops in payout amount happening many hours to days after the fact. Consequently, my advice to those that don't have any particularly coin they are interested in but whose electricity cost is low enough that their rigs should be mining something is to point their rigs at Nicehash.

Perfectly valid observation and questions. The "device" is described as sticker made of "conductive paper*" which when adhered to the back of *any* cell phone (or cryptocurrency mining rig!?) will capture energy from the air and somehow magically convey it into the battery/charging system of the phone. Without any wires or other power conversion circuitry. THAT is what is impossible.

Also, while there are myriad signals zipping through the air from satellites, power lines, cell phone towers, radio station transmitters, etc., you can't capture them without an LC** tank circuit tuned to resonate at a particular frequency. Of course, by tuning an LC tank to one frequency you necessarily exclude its ability to respond to others - this is precisely how wireless energy transfer systems work, btw.

Furthermore, there does exist a voltage differential in the atmosphere of around 100V/m on average, so a non-conductive 10m tall tower with an electrode at the top should have 1000V between the top electrode and ground... except that the available current is in the picoampere range (ie - billionths of an ampere), which puts the available power of even a 100m tower in the nanowatt range. Given that phones require 3-5W to operate on average, a few nW aren't going to amount to the proverbial hill of beans.

The average person is not going to understand enough electronics to spot the issues with REBGLO's claims, but since I do I felt it my duty to point them out.



* - there are silver and copper bearing inks that can be applied to paper to make it conductive, but since they cost way more per unit area and than a piece of aluminum foil, there's not much point using them.

** - an LC tank is formed whenever a loop is formed between an inductor and a capacitor, and exhibits resonance (or maximum energy storage capability) at a frequency of 1/(2*pi*(LC^0.5)).

Strive hard to achieve some rank on a forum? Nah, I just participated as I normally do and lo-n-behold, I went from 0 to 100 marits [sic] in under 8 months. Now, what can I do with all those muhritz [sic]? Well, I can now wear an avatar!

Oh, and good job admitting to ban evasion, you numbnutz.

Fantastic work, OP! There are some big names in your list of text-spinning plagiarizers, too: in particular, CNBC and ZDnet (oh, how the mighty have fallen).

There's 55 pages of replies - it has to be a legit project!

No swap required.

Not even close. In fact, I think this video - like pretty much all live streams - is unwatchable.

So I need to either be (a) god or Tesla to be able to call an electronic device impossible/a scam? Whereas you - who aren't even an EE, much less a god or Tesla - are perfectly capable of dismissing my assessment?

Sounds legit...

I started up the v2.0.2.1.1 CLI wallet yesterday and it got all caught up from being ~2 weeks behind within an hour or so and without any special sync nodes specified.

From the "Why the rank does not grow" [sic] thread:


I like to put on my kotoroy pants and go dances at the discos.

See complete ANN thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5018388.0

Relevant excerpt from said ANN:


I'm an EE - specializing in power conversion, no less - and this is flat out impossible/bogus/a scam.

Just an FYI:


So xhomerx10 is right and I am going to start reporting pool adverts more often, rather than just the ones I find particularly annoying because they show up on every page of an ANN thread.

It seems there is always a Communist in the comment section. Tell me, young Commie-radical, did you ever donate money to Vosk's channel to help cover his expenses? If not, then you are part of the reason he had to resort to more "commercially relevant" topics; those YT videos don't get made for free, you know.

I totally forgot about John Titor, but that is a classic piece of internet lore there!

Lol, so true!

I don't mind the occasional advert from a pool operator, but some of them try to get their posts on every single page of an ANN thread which has the exact opposite effect they are intending; I won't support/use any product/service advertised with spam.