Makes it wonder if the service went through some kind of hack...

That's not only a fun fact, it is also a true fact... Otherwise he probably wouldn't be a forum trustee

Although I don't support any kind of censorship, or deleting of posts related to XT (or whatever BIP, or any other future client implementing a BIP), theymos is right, he knows all to well the power of moderation, as he moderates many things. Nothing wrong with what he said in the logs I saw, taking in account what the other user wrote him.

Altough this is not the main goal of this thread, is there something other than their word that guarantees that they don't track us in any way whatsoever?

Already saw it and thought immediately "too bad they don't accept Bitcoin"

There's already an organization accepting Bitcoin for this cause.

Although it seems like a pretty good deal (and deal is a keyword, if I remember BurtW's words correctly), it was probably best if he didn't plead guilty. Although this also probably depends on the lawyer that one has, of course.

Seeing this through a more positive view, I hope this serves to raise awareness about Bitcoin inside justice departments and that further cases of Bitcoin trading are seen differently (and I also hope FinCEN distinguishes business from Bitcoin trading, or distinguishes a minimum value to be a business)

Good rates

It seems that this kind of email has been ongoing. Fortunately I did not recieve it. It's also related to BTCjam as far as I've seen.

I used to visit that blog daily in my early Bitcoin and mining days. It's an amazing and trustworthy source of information as far as I'm concerned. They used to review mining equipment pretty early and they were given the chance to test pretty much all scrypt related hardware that came out in the last two years, sometimes even before it was publicly available. They also tested, reviewed and compiled mining software and they give a pretty good and impartial overview about pretty much all the things they write about.

If you follow the blog there is indeed a history of testing cloud mining services and in every new service they present they warn people to invest cautiously and they show their profits or their losses according to what they're getting and show estimates for ROI. Starting from that a reader can tell if it's worth risking their coins or not (we all know what's the cloud mining industry like...).

If they're paid to speak about these services? I don't know. It might be possible they are. But they're pretty legit with what they write and obviously we can't follow whatever we're told on the internet Another good thing is that they aren't constantly painting the picture in a bright way, just like someone marketing these services would.

Although simple, this poll is effective, as it contemplates the three biggest options right now and isn't a "partidary" poll (doesn't make you choose between Core or XT). You are voting on an idea, not on a client. No battles is what we need

Voted.

It takes the time you need to do it. Go here for more.

Eliminating block limits entirely would require for the block size to be throttled by the block and would need something (which I don't know what it is) to prevent that spam would simply raise block size in a crazy way (this considering that pools wouldn't be limiting block size)

XT may be dead now and may die more tomorrow or have a fresh breath... But ideas live on and that's what really matters. If XT fails miserably, they at least achieved something important: people are now talking more seriously about changes in Bitcoin and future disputes will be more softer than this.

XT ideas might end up in Core and others ideas might end up in Core too. We never know tomorrow

As for Gavin and Mike, yes, they can still be taken seriously, as they might have really good ideas in future.

Just use the seed on a new wallet.

Although it might have predictive power, that question disregards people who don't support any of those options.

Didn't know Android wallet already allows that

For Core, you can in fact point it to certain peers, but I was referring to SPV clients only.

And thanks for clarifying the privacy explanation

Almost passed on because of that too... Ended up filling that randomly

Possible. Your VPN might block an Electrum connection I think. Have you tried without the VPN?

No server works for you? have you tried simply turning auto connect off and on again? That usually works when I have issues

Who actually reads trollboxes in a serious way?

I rarely look at trollboxes and when I do it's usually to laugh of odd things people say One or two truths might be said there, but that's pretty much it. it's a trollbox for a reason.

I think bitcointalk has some interesting discussions going on from time to time, and even the Marketplace is interesting, many nice items go through there and there are trustworthy members selling. It's also the oldest place to discuss everything Bitcoin, has many knowledgable users and interesting discussions and ideas every once in a while. More connections aren't made because users simply try to stay anonymous and don't really talk about themselves.

The website you linked looks pretty interesting. Although I don't know how will it incentivate deeper connections than the ones on bitcointalk. We have space to be "less serious" here too

Click on the green circle on the bottom right and change your server and try again.