I'm a little confused, didn't you say like 2 weeks ago your done here?
Now your back with a custodial service?
Your a member I rub shoulders with a lot and your recent activity is very out of character.

first of all..
CEX at the most basic level do a thing called hot/cold wallet. where they dont keep full stash on the public access server that do order/payment/withdrawal requests.
second of all they FAIL when they get hacked and lose their hotwallet stash because they should keep even the hot wallet stash separate from the public access server

again if you have 2 servers.. one is the public access that takes the user requests and a second one that remotely sniffs the public server to read such requests and perform them separate. you add an extra layer of security.

like i said, the cheap affordable low maintenance approach would be to use the forums PM inbox to take requests and then your home PC does the payments. where you keep your funds separate. and keep your home pc unidentifiable from the forum/extension, thus avoid hacker finding your home pc

if you however want to hotwallet any/all funds on the same server that takes the user requests(public access) then you are not even doing basic security of a CEX..  it shows you are not ready to manage funds
because you prefer not to care about security and are expecting to one day shout "i been hacked"

..
so like i said if users sigup to you a with public address (much like sigcampaign applicants use bitcoin addresses to sign up)
YOU no longer need to create, manage, store, give out private keys/codes.... because doing so is a security risk

and instead you can verify a user is making a genuine request by them sending you a signed message that proves the request is unique, independent and genuine. which stops hackers from just spamming everyones "code" to raid you dry.. and stops hackers getting everyones codes because there is no central store to get codes

much like you proved you didnt sell your account by signing your 'black' vanity address..
without anyone needing to manage your private key centrally

I wanted to discuss a thing that I noticed for a long time but didn't ask.
Sometimes I notice that some people replace their transactions with fees like 1000 sat/vB even though the recommended fee was around 100 sat/vB. Their previous fee was already enough to include their transaction on a block but it was waiting to be included in a block. But the person keep bumping it from 500 to 600 sat/vB and then 600 to 1000 sat/vB. Should I call them dumb people?
For example, look at the image below 

Except they threw away more than 1BTC in fees - so they are clearly NOT making more than other pools ...

Generally, decentralized applications are lighter in weight

I believe that a decentralized forum wouldn't necessarily be determined by bandwidth or internet speed. A good solution should be more lightweight, if anything.

The main characteristic of a successful malicious attack on bitcoin is to get the bitcoin users to do it not yourself. Remember the nonsense called "stress test" years ago? It wasn't just one silly company spamming the network. They got bitcoiners to spam too by funding loads of addresses with small amounts then publishing their private keys. The result was nodes that were flooded by double spends and the mempool that was flooded with spam transactions that didn't come from a single attacker.
In that scenario CoinWallet was the origin of the attack but wasn't the lone attacker.

That is the main principle that the Ordinals Attack is using too. It is not one entity that performs the attack but they have fooled loads of people to participate in it by creating the parallel scam market and the tools to perform the attack.
In this scenario Casey Rodarmor, Unisat, etc. is the origin of the attack but aren't the lone attackers.

The principle is commonly used in color revolutions, which I dare say is what's been happening to Bitcoin. One of the signs is seeing old bitcoiners defending this exploit of the protocol in the name of Bitcoin principles such as censorship resistance!

I mean this, open source MIT license:
https://github.com/getAlby/lightning-browser-extension

I don't think it's hard to explain (to most people) what that means 
Go ahead and make your own non-custodial alternative, can't wait to see it.

Unfortunately, there are already much worse things on the Bitcoin blockchain:
Child abuse imagery found within bitcoin's blockchain (The Guardian)

I don't even want to imagine what a lot of Ordinals that have been moving/registered have...

I can't say I don't enjoy the extra reward  , that would be straight-out lying  , although I would prefer steady medium fees than these crazy spikes of 300-500 sats Vbyte, i'd rather see fees stay steady at 10-20 sats/Vbyte, this would boost the mining rewards as well as make the network usable, I mean even 30-40 sats being the baseline is certainly better than 500 sats/Vbyte yesterday, 20 sats/ Vbyte today and then 100 sats/ Vbyte sats tomorrow, too high a fee is bad, and when it's coupled with "unpredicted" fee it gets worse.

I think adding Tipping service in bitcointalk forum would be very good, but I am no sure all members are ready for LN yet.
A while ago one of our local board members posted interesting open source LN project called getalby.com, maybe you should check it out.
This is already made browser extension and project is active with updates and development.
I think getlaby would work perfectly integrated with bitcointalk forum.

2014 called and has questions about this statement.  Where were all your complaints then?  Are wedding vows in the blockchain an "attack", too?  

When I first read about people doing that, my reaction was "huh, that's kinda cool, I guess it's not just for money, it can do other stuff as well".  But now, almost a decade later, people seem to have suddenly decided against that outlook.  I'd argue, it's a bit late to be calling for it to stop now.  That ship has long since sailed.



Why do people keep saying this?  Embedding pictures and assorted crap was possible long before that.  Various crappy forkcoins which didn't implement that change are also full of images and junk.  There are numerous ways to embed arbitrary data into the chain.  And that's been the case since you first registered your account here.  You're at risk of beginning to sound like fruitloopfranky1 if you keep spreading misinformation like that.  Don't go off the deep-end like him, please.  

You could argue the softfork made it more cost-effective to fill the chain with crap, but it's a complete myth to say the softfork made it possible.

And the primary idea behind that fork is to improve throughput.  What's your alternative?  Would you rather developers didn't work on scaling Bitcoin at all anymore?  'Cause I hear a lot of bitching about this, but not much in the way of an alternative path to explore.  Tell you what, when you create a functional time machine, or crystal ball, and you can accurately predict in advance when someone is going to use new functionality in a way that was never intended, maybe then your critiques can serve an actual purpose.  

1. It was harder, and more expensive in the past. Now, there is a ready-to-use tool, called Ordinals client, which will make that easier, than it was before.

2. It was done in the past. There were at least links, but in some cases, there were some encrypted images.

3. Rule 34, and Rule 35 applies here as well:


And of course, a fully-decentralized cloud storage, will also have it. But with sufficient moderation, and a good blacklist, and whitelist, it is something we can deal with. Take mailing list for example: it is moderated, so such things are not posted there, even if someone could send it.

Guys, in decentralization if you mean that no post will get removed and no topic or subject will get banned, then keep in mind that many people might also post some illegal and unwanted things. That will bring more problems.

What answer do you want me to answer?
How am I going to talk about a technology that doesn't exist today, or rather that isn't viable for a forum of this size, mainly because I don't have the resources to invent something like that?

What I can say is that creating a decentralized forum today is impossible and completely unfeasible.

The example I gave was torrent, not BitTorrent. BitTorrent is a torrent client, which is clearly not decentralized.
Do you know how torrent works? So imagine the same for the website. How can an ordinary person access a website, without having to install specific software, download the entire database that can be larger than a 4K Blu-ray movie, and then browse?

But wait, it only takes 1 byte to depend on one person, so it won't be decentralized.

Is Bitcoin decentralized? Yes, yours because anyone can set up a node and run it. But, Bitcoin is linear and not dynamic. It is mathematical work, always the same, that always produces the same type of data. A forum is highly dynamic, where all users produce different content, where features change over time, and many other things happen in a matter of seconds.

It cannot be compared when the type of data transmitted is always the same, with other services that are very varied in terms of data. The greater the data variation, the more complex and longer the processing process.

I'm not saying that in the future there won't be something really functional that makes this type of site decentralized. But at the moment it doesn't exist. Therefore, I cannot demand the forum to become decentralized.

I reckon we can have a decent decentralized forum protocol if FTTH (100 Mbps upload) becomes the baseline.

With ADSL (1 Mbps upload) it's not really possible... ADSL is fine for BTC, that's why Satoshi released it in 2009 (when ADSL was already becoming the norm).

Torrents with Magnet links are as decentralized as it gets: one link, that can be shared on different websites and any other way you want, contains all the information you need to connect to multiple different trackers. The trackers will connect you to other people sharing and downloading the files you want. I don't think there's a limit to the number of trackers, seeders and leechers, so it's pretty decentralized.

The problems become evident when older, less popular torrents no longer have seeders. I've seen torrents with many incomplete leechers and no full seeders. If that happens to your decentralized forum, it basically ends.

They are also banned by many home ISPs so even though this is already an impractical solution to host a forum or perhaps even a BBS (if you want to go retro), there are also legal implications to this as well.

But, you have no idea what a site like this forum is, with such "decentralization", do you?

In fact, for you, what is decentralized?
It's just that not even torrents - perhaps the most decentralized products that exist on the internet - are really decentralized.  

Any decentralized solution that needs more than 1 Mbps continuously sounds terrible! And the main problem I have with anything decentralized is that it won't work in a browser, you'll need to install software and download everything. Those drawbacks are probably the reason why it isn't used on a large scale. I mind downloading 100+ GB on my desktop, but for mobile users, decentralization is almost impossible.
And even if you get that working: how are you going to download it to get started? Centralized on Github?
Most of the things that claim to be decentralized, aren't decentralized.

And now Ocean is helping the spam by mining empty blocks, this is just gold! But..
Neah, it's not censorship, it's too much luck  
The block as mined at 00:32 and the previous at 00:31 probably again the same thing, found the block the second they started, didn't wait for the the tx template and broadcasted the empty block to make sure they get at least the block reward. Others do it too but for Ocean with their 1/1000 chance of finding a block this really blows.

Alani123, how are those profits coming?


LE, yeah, as I thought, Luke is against going nuts on x!
He says his empty block is actually a good thing since it adds security to the blockchain! LMAO!

I'm just gonna leave this here...

https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000358db21e5c9343f96c0733e2343d0c8c7137fd80dd47c?showDetails=true&view=actual#details