No, that is unlikely. N0nce has less than 2k merit, and o_e_l_e_o and theymos both need less than 500 merit to reach 10k. I think it is most likely that one of them will reach 10k within a month.

My guess is that your older posts received more merit when the merit system was initially introduced, and over time the ratio of merit received for recent posts to merit received for older posts increased.

If you have been deleting posts over time, given your high post count, if the merit system had been introduced a month before you created your account, you would likely have substantially more merit than you have today, well above your 7800 estimate.

I like receiving merit as it shows that others appreciate my posts. Having additional merit gives you potentially more weight in the trust system because you are able to "vote" for more users to be eligible for DT1.

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I would add that plagiarism often results in posts that make little sense in the context of the subject conversation.

The above is important because copying the above ASICII art into a bitcointalk post would be illogical as this is not ebay. This is a subtle, but important detail. If you were to post this ASICII art in a sales thread (for example), it would raise more questions than the post would answer.

Disregarding the plagiarism question, I think saying that you traded on eBay when a seller says they will only sell via the forum, without additional context/information, may rise to being off-topic.

I would also point out that the person who sent these eBay feedbacks likely did so in order to attract attention to his own eBay store. Almost as a means of free advertising. Given your already high profile status as a trader, and your existing reputation, I think using something similar to what is referenced in the OP is not a good use of your time from a business perspective.

It appears in the case of Ukraine that the Russian troops were mostly lied to about the reasons they are fighting. Before the invasion, Putin had publicly said the reason for the military buildup was a training exercise, and it appears the Russian troops were fed the same lie. There are also reports that Russian troops had their phones confiscated so they cannot speak to their families to get a more accurate understanding of the war.

There are some signs that Russia is planning on using similar tactics as Putin did in the second battle of Grozny, as there has been some indiscriminate shelling of buildings, and the bombings of the childrens hospital.

 

I really don't see how apple could provide any more support for bitcoin payments than they already do. There are already multiple both custodial and non-custodial apps available on the iTunes app store, and people can already download and use those to make bitcoin payments and to receive bitcoin (and altcoins). The only thing apple really could do is integrate bitcoin payments in iMessage, but this would almost certainly be a non-custodial implementation.

I don't think apple would implement any bitcoin app that is custodial because people losing their coin when they inevitably lose their private keys (such as looisng their phone and not having backups) would damage apple's brand.

There becomes a point in which the amount of merit you receive is solely a function of how much you post. There are several forum members that will generally receive merit for a good percentage of their posts, and their merit is based on how many they write. I occasionally will receive merit for posts that are older, but the majority of merit I receive is received within a week or so of when I write the post.

I would say the above probably applies to most of those in the top 200 of earned merit.

In WW2, imperial Japan has no way of retailing against a nuke. Japan really did not even have the ability to send conventional bombs to the US homeland. Today, the US is very capable of retaliating against any nuclear attack.

If you can keep your coin in the LN, using LN is going to be cheaper than using on-chain transactions because the transaction fees are so much lower. So if BitPay has enough merchants that are willing to accept their coin via LN, it makes sense for BitPay to accept LN transactions from customers. This would not be the case if few merchants were willing to accept their payout via LN as BitPay would need to consistently be closing channels when it runs out of inbound capacity, and opening new channels with inbound capacity (and paying the related transactions fees).

I think this is a sign that LN adoption is growing.

When considering to deposit your coin in one of these types of services, you should consider if the risks associated with entrusting your coin with this service is risk the potential interest payout. Part of this would include your judgment as to the risk the company is an outright scam, and the risk that the company will get hacked and will be unable to payout your deposit plus interest (or will be otherwise unable to payout your deposit plus interest).

I searched my email, and I was able to find some emails from trezor that at the bottom say that I am receiving the message because I opted into the newsletter for trezor product updates. When I first started writing this post, I started to say that I did not subscribe, however it appears that in fact, I did.

I suspect more people subscribed to this newsletter than they realize. I tried clicking on the link to manage my subscription preferences and got an error message, so I am not sure what other newsletter types trezor has. I am sure that MailChimp has their own retention policy, and is likely to follow that policy.

It is expensive to use additional phone numbers for each service, but I agree with using additional email addresses. Apple's iCloud service allows users to automatically provide a "masked" email address to companies so they will not have my actual email address. Emails sent to that masked email will be delivered to my iCloud email inbox, but I can easily disable any of the masked email addresses.
There are a lot of scammers that will spoof phone numbers when sending mass calls. For years, I have received spam/scam phone calls from numbers with the same area code and same first three digits of the phone number as mine, probably as an effort to get me to pick up. On occasion I try calling these numbers back, and most frequently, the number cannot receive calls.

Blockchair, and other blockchain explorers who offer API services are going to want to recoup their investments in setting up their database and offering their services. There is also fairly little competition but a decent amount of demand for blockchain related APIs.

There would obviously still be a cost if you were to set up a system yourself that can query if an address has a balance (or any other information about the blockchain). You would need the technical expertise and the cost of (usually) renting the computer infrastructure. If you are creating your own system, you can limit the costs by limiting the amount of information that can be queried to the amount of information you need.

I was just using flawed RNG as an example. In bitcoin's early days, flawed RNG was implemented on android phones, which caused private keys to be generated in a small range of numbers -- too large for there to reasonably be collisions, but small enough for malicious actors to generate large numbers of private keys in the hopes of finding one with unspent coin. Android phones are not air-gapped computers, but this goes to your point about flawed software.

Using an API endpoint is going to be expensive if you are doing this at any kind of scale. It will also likely be less efficient than a self-hosted setup due to network latency + authentication.

The collisions you are referring to have basically a zero percent chance that two seeds will be generated as you describe. The chances are less than that of generating two private keys associated with the same address because flawed RNG will not cause these types of collisions.

Sure, if someone "accidentally" discovers one seed, they may not discover the other, although this would certainly be a sign that you are being careless in protecting your seeds.

If someone is actively looking for your seeds, if they are able to breach your countermeasures for one seed, they should be able to breach your countermeasure on the other seed. Similarly, if someone is able to cause you to use flawed RNG to generate one seed, they can do the same for the other seed, although in this case, they may not know you are using two seeds this way.

Even though theymos is in second place, the race is theymos' to lose. Theymos does not post very much, but when he does, he often gets a lot of merit. If theymos were to add a new feature, or make an announcement of some sort, he would likely quickly hit 10k while making just one post.

o_e_l_e_o posts much more, and even though nearly all of his posts are insightful, a lower percentage of them receive merit, and when he does receive merit, he often receives less merit for each post that receives merit.

I don't follow fillippone's nor El duderino_'s posts very closely, however I think they will likely hit 10k, but will probably not be first. If o_e_l_e_o were to suddenly become inactive (and theymos does not hit 10k first), one of them may be the first. I cant see any of the others hitting 10k first.

The threat of overwhelming force can be enough to get an opposing army to lay down their arms. Wars have been won this way, as have battles. In WW2 for example, the axis were able to capture much of the pacific front by showing an overwhelming force.

Putins problem is that his military is apparently not very strong. Putin is committing nearly all his military resources towards Ukraine, and there is a stalemate at best.

The most efficient way would be to create a set of addresses that have unspent outputs and compare the addressing you are querying to the items in your set.

I don't think importing an address as "watch only" is very efficient because I understand doing this will require a rescan to check for transactions associated with this address.

I think the logo in the OP is pretty cool if you are going to be selling merchandise with the logo on it. Although if you are releasing the image to the public without copyright, there is not anything to stop anyone from selling similar merchandise at a lower price.

Most of Robinhood's customers have their money in cash, stocks, and options. These securities are insured by the SPIC (and FDIC for cash) up to certain limits. I don't think this is the case for any crypto holdings, and it is difficult for most companies to properly insure crypto they hold on behalf of their customers.

Robinhood offering customers the ability to withdraw their crypto is likely part of a strategy for them to increase their userbase.

It has been several years since I purchased my trezor HW wallet, however IIRC, there is clear instructions on the packaging and on the paper backup card to not ever allow the seed to touch a computer. It is unfortunate that this person lost his money, but he also needs to use better judgment.

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I received an email from someone claiming to be trezor informing me that my email was part of the breach. It is annoying that my information was leaked, however, I will add it to the list of companies that have leaked my personal information. I have learned that it is best to use a unique, disposable email for each company that I deal with.

It is not a question of if your personal information will be leaked by any company you deal with, it is a question of when.