I want to preface this post by saying that I think it's wrong to send merit to your own alt account.  We can't merit our own posts (I think, I've never tried) so we shouldn't be meriting our own posts regardless of how many accounts we use to make posts.

But, is this really merit abuse?  I haven't spent any time digging into the post that was sent 2 merits (it's been deleted and I don't have the time right now,) but I found something interesting about this post that was sent one merit:

Two days after philipma1957 made that post using his alt account, someone made a post questioning whether that was really philipma1957 or a scammer:


In the matter of 1 minute and 50 seconds philipma1957 sent 4 merits in that thread, one each to 4 posts, as you can see here:




And this post in the same thread confirms what I originally suspected:


Again, I'm not condoning this as a way to confirm your alts, but it seems rather obvious that is what philipma1957 meant to do.  It also seems rather obvious that philipma1957 is not trying to game the system.  Abuse of the merit system doesn't seem to be happing here.  Misuse maybe, but that can easily be solved by educating philipma1957 that this use of the merit system is frowned upon.

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Maybe he's legitimately curious if it's safe to use his previous account to merit his newbie account...  

Kind of a mute point now, but that's an interesting error you were getting.  You mentioned the version of Electrum you are using, are you using the latest release of Armory?  I haven't used Armory wallet in quite some time, and don't plan to but I would be interested to know if you are able to figure this out.

Kudos to our resident fixer, o_e_l_e_o for figuring it out.

I can take a video of two GPUs in my main PC, and 6 more in my mining server.  Videos and photos of expensive items are really really nice, but unfortunately they don't make good collateral because photos of expensive items are worthless.  Even a really pretty video of a really pretty GPU won't mean anything to a lender when (not if) you scam him.



You're entitled to your feelings.  And since we're sharing our feelings; I feel like your a scammer and a troll.  The higher the value of the collateral, the less likely a scammer is willing to part with it.  Starting to find a little bit of logic in these words?  Or are you such a narcissist that you can't possibly see how that would benefit you?



More none-collateral is still a not-a-loan.

I don't know Magneto, but I've had a fair number of run-ins with BitcoinGirl.Club.  She's a cool person and I doubt that she would be cheating the system, even if she thought she could get away with it.  It's also worth noting that she's a mother, and if you search her post history you can see that she took a break from the forum around this time last year.  A quick search of Magneto's post history would show that he did not.  There's nothing to see here.

Lol.  Yes, you're right, 13 weeks.  Damn, I had myself all syched up for the season...



South Park did do a great job, hopefully he's willing to serve as manager again.  I know it's early, but it would be cool to get an early start so we can all chime in on league configurations and what-not.  So, I'm tagging all the participants from last year, and ChiBitCTy who I know was interested. 

01. Hueristic
02. suchmoon
03. wheelz1200
04. nutildah
05. bbc.reporter
06. South Park
07. morvillz7z
08. ChiBitCTy
09. DireWolfM14
10. <this can be you>
11. <this can be you>
12. <this can be you>

This probably doesn't need to be said, but if we're going to invite others from around the forum let's not invite anyone with legitimate red-tags (or their suspected alts,) and I would just as soon impose that limitation on anyone who volunteers.

Fuck off, you piece of shit!


Don't fall for this bullshit.  Be careful of vile rats who may contact you via PM also claiming they can help.  They can't do anything, and will expect you to share your money with them in case your funds are recovered.  That's all these greedy rats want.

The fantasy draft happens right before the regular season, right?  I guess we have a little time, regular season kickoff is on September 8th, which is a little more 9 weeks away.  If we want to schedule the draft for the last weekend before the regular season, that'll be Friday September 2, and Saturday September 3rd.
 

I'm good with all of that, 12 teams would be pretty cool.  We already have 9 (assuming all members from last year are interested.)  I can reach out to Nutildah, hopefully he'll join us again.  Are you volunteering to manage the league this year? 

A hierarchical deterministic has generated the seed to create your address tree, so any "new" address it generates for you is already part of your wallet.  There's no way those addresses can be part of another wallet, they either get used by you or they'll never be used.  The only "waste" would be to not use them.  It's not as if your use of them makes them unavailable to others, by having created that wallet those addresses are now and always will be available only to you.

Just a few days ago you urgently needed $1, now it's $500?  If you're so broke that you need to scrounge for a single dollar, who in their right minds would lend your $500?  How on earth do you plan on paying that back?  And, all so you can participate in a contest to win $20?  Instead of placing all your hopes on winning 20 measly dollars or wasting your time begging for handouts on the internet, why don't you try getting a job?

No interest up until now, so I'm locking this thread.

USPS Priority Mail shipping to anywhere in the United States is included.  For international shipping please contact MinerJones.
All accessories and documentation are included unless otherwise noted.

Auction format and rules:

• Auction will run for ~5 days; until Wednesday June 9, 2022, 19:00 GMT.
• Please do not bid unless you can make payment within 24 hours of the auction end time.
• Each lot is to be bid on separately.
• Bids are to be made in 0.05mBTC (0.00005 BTCitcoin) increments, for example:
  
  • Lot 2 - 0.05mBTC
  • Lot 3 - 0.15mBTC
• No sniping; 15 minutes will be added to the time of any bid made within the last 15 minutes of the auction.
• Have fun.

The M14 receiver heal is not for sale.
Payments here: bc1q2nwf4njwkpeuyycx5a95nj6mf8m45djdk863xs
Escrow welcome.

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Lot 1: Ledger Nano X
Starting bid: 0.00mBTC

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Lot 2: Ledger Nano S
Starting bid: 0.00mBTC

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Lot 3: KeepKey.  New, unopened.
Starting bid: 0.00mBTC

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Lot 4: KeepKey.  No cable or documentation included.
Starting bid: 0.00mBTC

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Like o_e_l_e_o said, you're only complicating things for yourself trying to get so many things to work at the same time.  Lets take it one step at a time.

Please keep in mind, my only experience with an Electrum server is running ElectrumX on an ubuntu server.  My main computer is a Windows PC, but I find it easier to have bitcoin core and Electrumx running on a remote (in the closet under my stair well) machine.  EPS may be slightly different, but the basics should be the same.

Bitcoin Core configuration;
Your bitcoind.conf file can be found here: C:\Users\<your-user-name>\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\.  Or, open Bitcoin Core QT (the gui,) click on Settings, then on "Main" tab, click on "Open Configuration File."

Make sure bitcoin core is listening for incoming connections, and configured for Electrum's requirements by adding these lines:

You may also need to enable RPC server, which by default will allow RPC commands from the localhost:

Try those settings in your bitcoin.conf file and see if that helps.  Also keep in mind that it may take EPS some time to synchronize with bitcoin core.  The last time I installed ElectrumX without a backup it needed 36 hours to synch.  

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ETA:

I just found this on the EPS instructions page for Windows:

Set both rpcallowip and rpcbind to localhost or 127.0.0.1.

For the rpcauth hash you'll need to run the rpcauth.py with your preferred username.  You'll need Python3 installed on your windows machine, and you can run it from Powershell.  It can be found in the bitcoin master, here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/share/rpcauth

Attempting to humiliate me for not being rich is really making you look like not-a-scammer.  Carry on.

Did I tell you STFU?  No, I didn't.  Did I claim to be a whale?  No, I didn't.  I asked you to prove that you're legit or stop trying to scam people here.  I can't force you to do either, but I guarantee you that you'll get nowhere with this thread as it is.  It seems rather obvious that none of us are taking your request seriously, only you can change that.  Getting butthurt over it isn't going to help.

Still rocking the punk, but since it's Friday here's some of the light stuff:

I don't doubt that large transfers happen, exchanges move large amounts of bitcoin regularly.  Regardless, If that's true I seriously doubt you had anything to do with it and even if you did share that address that wouldn't prove that it's yours.


No wagers are needed to know "who the real scammer" is.  If you want some whale (and the peanut gallery) to take you seriously, sign a message from an address that's been party to a large transaction and watch all of us eat crow.  Otherwise, go try your scam somewhere else, this isn't our first rodeo.

I've never heard of CriptoDebit so I don't know the whole back-story, but this looks like an obvious scam.  There's no such thing as an anonymous debit card to begin with, any debit card transaction can be traced, and most purchases can easily be linked to a specific individual.  Online purchases of physical goods require a shipping address, and meat-space purchases can be subject to surveillance cameras.  Any service claiming anonymity with a debit card is flat-out lying.

Why do you need to deal with an individual?  If you are willing to furnish KYC there's no reason not to use a legitimate exchange.  In fact, it seems like it would be much safer for you to use a legitimate exchange since you will be transferring the money to a licensed business that will be held accountable if something goes wrong.  Not to mention; finding someone who actually has 5000BTC that he wants to sell is going to be nearly impossible.  Even if I had all of Satoshi's bitcoin I wouldn't be selling more than 50 at time because fiat sucks!



I see, so you expect someone with that much BTC to just fork it over without any fees or additional percentage points?  You must be really special.

Yes, of course.  As you noticed when creating the multi-sig wallet by yourself; while creating one you need the master public keys from the other two.  The most convenient way would be for all three individuals to be in a remote meeting with each other, all create a multi-sig wallet, then share their master public key with the other two participants.  It doesn't all have to happen at the same time, but it does make things easier.

For additional privacy I would want to use GPG to encrypt my master public key before sending it to the other participants.



Again, that's not a problem.  One person can create and sign a transaction, save it to disk, and then share it with the other participants via email.  One of the other two participants will import the transaction, and add the next signature.  Once the required number of signatures has been reached, any of the participants can broadcast the transaction.

Welsh just beat me to the punch by mentioning the technical difficulties that most people are likely to experience if they want to use bitcoin.  I would like to see more user-friendly applications and devices make safety, security, privacy easier to attain for the less technically skilled (like my mom.)

The other issue that I think some newbies have a hard time accepting is that bitcoin transactions are not reversible.  Obviously it's a safety feature on one side of the transaction, but since most consumers have become used to being coddled by big banks, they just assume that they can change their minds about a purchase after the fact.  That mentality needs to be reversed.


It's been so long since that pile of coins has been touched, I think it's safe to assume that those coins may never move.  If I'm wrong about that, those coins account for less than 5% of the total supply.  Still a significant amount, and they could cause panic if they were all to be dumped at once, but again I have my doubts about that ever happening.


This is probably the most concerning of issues that faces bitcoin.  A wealthy, rouge, government could decide to attack the network for a variety of reasons.  It's impractical to expect everyone who owns bitcoin to contribute to mining, but that would be a practical preventive measure.