In the "You can't make shit like this up," department, I just reported yet another post for plagiarism, this time in the merit and new rank requirements thread. This post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg37580113#msg37580113

had the distinct odor of shitpost and is totally off-topic, so I ran it through the google machine and sure enough some other shitposter already posted it here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672881.msg34795524#msg34795524

This time I included the link to the original post in my mod report so hopefully it doesn't get tossed out because my results couldn't be duplicated using google site search.

Thanks for looking into this, even if nothing comes of it. At least I feel like I might have given others another tool to find plagiarism which has got to be the most insidious form of shitposting around.

Either order works fine. Sometimes site search doesn't return all the results for some reason, but it doesn't depend on the order of the arguments.

Yes, very bot-like, especially since the number of identical posts is increasing.

@hilariousandco - I offset the exact search term used in google with dashes to make it clear that you have to include the double quotation marks. The actual command I typed into google's search bar was:


This is the general scheme I use to ferret out plagiarism - I find a phrase with unique or a "statistically improbable" sequence of words to plug into a google site search and if more than one hit is returned I report the post.

Hmm... I'm getting loads of hits:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22mining+and+swimming+pool%22+site%3Abitcointalk.org&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab

Point them at DERO; a few weeks ago I never would have recommended this, but network hashrate has eclipsed 300MH/s (ie - within spitting distance of XMR) so it's kind of pointless to warn people off now.

At least you'll be mining a coin that is likely to be worth more in the future (BCN and ETN don't exactly have the best prospects, you have to admit).

It's plagiarism, and should be reported to the mods. I did so and even found the original post you made here from which this bot/idiot copied.

Yesterday I reported a post in the altcoins announcement subform for plagiarism because of a curious phrase that seemed familiar - "mining and swimming pool" - and a google site search did, indeed, turn up a whole bunch of posts that were identical... 110, to be exact. I explained in the comment to use google site search of the key phrase to find the other offenders and it looked like the post I reported was deleted (though today there are now 118 posts with that same phrase, so clearly that bot has not been deterred).

This morning I spotted another blatant bit of plagiarism in the same thread and when I went to report that post I saw my accuracy had declined from 95% to 92%!? So my accuracy went DOWN after reporting PLAGIARISM... WTF, mods? I gave you 110 identical posts for free and my thanks is a ding to my reporting accuracy? I would be much less upset if this was from reporting spam or shitposting, but plagiarism is a clear cut, unambiguous violation of the rules which is supposed to result in a permaban. Plagiarism also takes more work to hunt down and verify for those making the report, so it's even more demotivating when such a report is ignored, much less tossed out.

Frankly, with the amount of shitposting and plagiarism that persists despite 3+ months of the merit system the mods could use all the help they can get from those members who care enough to report posts in the first place. Don't demotivate us into giving up, as I have seen @Jet Cash lament most recently.

When I come across a post that seems familiar or otherwise likely to be plagiarism I pick a distinctive phrase out of the post and do a google search like this:

"<distinctive phrase>" site:bitcointalk.org

And if there is more than one result then I report the post and in the comment field I mention the number of hits returned by a google site search of the key phrase. This is less cumbersome than trying to put a link in the comment field to an identical post, especially when there might be *hundreds* of identical posts to choose from.

For example, the last post I reported had a peculiar phrase in it that I had seen before - "mining and swimming pool" - so I did a google site search of that phrase and it turned up 110 posts that were all identical (make that 113 posts as of now... busy little spammers!).

You seem to be taking a moral high ground of your own invention, because there is nothing noble about continuing to mine with a GPU/CPU when ASICs have been developed for that algo; you are merely contributing to global warming with almost nothing to show in return (in my case, around 0.11 DERO per day). In case you are tempted to persist in this line of argument, consider how many people still mine BTC with a GPU/CPU, for one very notable example. Arguing that I am a fairweather miner because I chose to put my GPUs to work on something far more profitable is analogous to calling a vegan a hypocrite for killing a mosquito... It might technically be true, but it's kind of a dick move to press such an argument.

Finally, I said I'm showing my support for DERO - in lieu of mining - by not dumping my coins, so saying that dumping my coins would only hurt me is a classic case of preaching to the choir.

So cryptocurrencies are worthy of our charity, now? I ask this (rhetorical) question because it costs me $0.86/day to run my 1.9kH/s cryptonight rig which would only bring in $0.30 in DERO...

Also, my rinky-dink 1.9kH/s would hardly be noticed on a >300MH/s network, so I think it's safe to say the DERO network isn't missing me too much.

Finally, keep in mind that EVERY crypto relies on small time CPU and GPU miners to get started; sine qua non. In my opinion, it is more a case of the coin having a responsibility to support us, rather than the other way around.

I long since gave up mining DERO, but I am somewhat hopeful that the Atlantis release will justify the choice to not fork off the CN ASICs. Consequently, DERO still has my support in the form of me not dumping my coins.

Might just be you. I have 3 different rigs running dstm 0.6 and all the cards are registering + marks on a regular basis. Try rebooting the rig(s) as this sounds like the GPU driver might have crashed.

Another Ethash coin that the 3GB 1060s can mine is MUSIC; I feel it has better prospects that UBQ, too. Mind you, the very first coin I mined was UBQ - using a single 1050Ti (!!!) - so I am somewhat familiar with it, I just think that the whole smart contract shtick will be done better by DERO (CryptoNight - currently overrun by ASICs so don't even bother trying to mine it with a GPU).

Here's some more hostility for you: why don't you run a whois on those domains yourself and see where they point? Looks like 2.21.242.237, for example, goes to Akamai in the EU.

You almost did some serious detective work... except you didn't.

The ASIC manufacturer could sell only a small fraction of its miners and keep the rest mining for itself. That makes a coin/algo that has been ASIC'ed just as vulnerable to "secret mining" as one that is still only mineable with a GPU or CPU.

So, no, the successful development of ASICs for an algo does not make it any less vulnerable to shady behavior by ASIC manufacturers.

I scrolled through your entire post history to see if any of them deserved merit and, unsurprisingly, all but 6 posts were bounty submissions, and 3 of those posts were exact duplicates asking if you would get more credit if you posted more.

So, you're basically the exact kind of person the forum is trying to weed out with merit.

Interesting work, but I'd filter out some of the common words which are ambiguous or meaningless without more context like: more, again, never, just, world, take, only, now, etc...

Honestly, upon further consideration I don't know that much can be inferred even from seemingly unambiguous words like, "recommend," as someone could either be recommending for or against a course of action.

To be somewhat more constructive rather than just point out crap I don't like - because who likes a Debbie Downer, right? - I would filter on just coin names for the altcoin sections as that would show relative interest levels and actually be quite useful as a gauge of sentiment/popularity for various coins.

So you want to go from mining the 2nd worst algo for Nvidia cards (Ethash) to the absolute worst algo (CryptoNight variants)?

A far better option would be an Equihash coin - I have a 6x GTX 1060 rig that has been mining ZenCash for most of the last 6 months and each card does around 300 Sols/s with power limit at 70%, +100 on core and +200 on mem. This is by no means an optimal setup, but I also occasionally mine Neoscrypt, Phi and Lyra2v2 - all of which Nvidia does well at - and this configuration does fairly well at all of them without having to stress out the poor Untel Celery CPU on the Onda D1800 mining mobo (which, no kidding, has a hard time just booting Windows 10, much less running MSI AB).

EDIT - well, I actually just checked WhatToMine for the first time in about 4 months and I was surprised to see that Ethereum is, indeed, the most profitable coin to mine with 6x 1060... unfortunately, mine are 3GB models so they can't do ETH anymore. CryptoNight still sucks on Nvidia, however.

It's hard to believe you are asking this when you actually received a merit for this post:


So either you've forgotten what you wrote in the 6 weeks since that post, or you plagiarized it and don't actually know/understand what you wrote.

Just a head's up on this "3d = thread" thing: note that most native English speakers will read "3d" as "three-dee" - as in, three-dimensional. When that fails to parse correctly the next interpretation the brain will make is, "threed," which also makes no sense, of course. Finally, some precious fractions of a second later, a 3rd interpretation will be tried, "thread," but while the context was eventually conveyed, the time spent arriving at it will likely have exceeded the time it would have taken you to type the additional 4 letters.

While I don't mind acronyms, shorthand and even the occasional bit of jargon that is assumed to be understood, rather than defined contextually, I think "txt-speak" should be limited to when you are actually on a phone and sending a text message with a virtual keyboard.