I've just got a different one:

70 NeuroticFish

Thank you!

Imho this is a non-problem. An image-website owner would notice in less than a month he can optimize his space by checking the images (maybe their checksums at first) and not store the duplicates while providing same or different (by his choice) links to them. And before the question arises, where deletion is possible, the actual file will be removed only when reference count goes to 0.

I guess that option 2 is okay. Not optimal, still okay.
The users active on Bitcointalk can act if they want to, there's a script doing a great job.
The rest of the posts will at least have the links to the images.

It depends on how you plan to use it.
If you start it up and forget about it, Fulcrum would be better since it can deliver better performance after it's synced.
If you plan to start it up every now and then when you need it and don't mind if a wallet with many transactions is not lightning fast to receive, Electrs is better choice.

In both cases Bitcoin core sync is not taken into account.

Am folosit scriptul lui TryNinja, doar că o dată am prins o eroare, așa că l-am rulat de 2 ori.
Și am aflat că are o limitare legat de subforumul ignorat, așa că oricum o să îl mai rulez când mai pot.
Nu știu cum a reușit un script să rateze acele poze, dar nu mă plâng, tot mi-a ușurat munca foarte mult. Pozele respective erau prea mari pentru hosting pe Talkimg, așa că pur și simplu le-am scos. Mersi pentru ancore!

You're right.
Putting at least chainstate and the indexes onto a small SSD at least until IBD is over helps a lot.
A good dbcache may also help.
Using UTP instead of old generation wireless makes a difference too.
But these are mentioned in Bitcoin Core topics, better than I could write them.

I've done my IBD on my main computer, with SSD and the data disk as external. Then I've moved everything to the final position.
PS. Initial sync of Fulcrum is also rather lengthy on HDD iirc.

The background of that idea is that if anyone is forgetting "what was that website's name", he can look quickly for it in the "More" area.
...It should help for the new posts.

I will come back to the error I've noticed.
I've seen in the script a part that writes "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=557798", which is TryNinja's profile.
The next line is fetching data from there. So yeah, I guess that everybody is trying to copy TryNinja's images  

PS. After changing in the script his user id with mine I stopped getting that error.

I didn't read all the pages whether this was asked already, I surely hope it was, but no effect yet, hence I'll try myself:
Any chance @theymos adds a link to TalkImg.com or at least to this very topic in the More (Various links) page?

I didn't look into the script, I just tried to run it by the instructions.
Well... I've got errors like the one from the linked image and... the posts to be edited seem to be TryNinja's

I guess that it still needs a little work, however, I do like the idea and I appreciate the effort (hence the merit).

PS. Does this also cover the parts of the forum I've posted in the past and now I have them ignored?

Internet is the foundation for a lot of services and it's well known that bitcoin doesn't work without internet, although certain attempts/workaround exist, from radio waves and SMS to use of "physical bitcoin" things (like OpenDime, Satodime and others) or what what already said (Starlink & others)

However, it's not something new that certain countries can and do prevent people from using bitcoin whether they do it intentionally (China) or maybe not necessarily intentionally (your case, I don't know the legal status there) and not necessarily unexpected. That doesn't make Bitcoin worse overall. It does make your government though 

But people tend to find their ways around. At least fixed internet may be necessary for modern banking system (and I mean here the actual banks). And if the government start filtering this and that, Tor, VPN are still ways to go around. They usually cannot stop all the possible ways.

Prediction 2: $24,177.25
bech32 address: bc1qeuvhugrlu8g34e8wl3s8dtm2k8mjf0khvqxmaf

I find this risky for various reasons:
* that company can be hacked (it will become a target an bugs can exist)
* AWS can get hacked
* some Amazon employee may try to look in there (dirrect access, correlations, sniffing)
* that company employees may take a look
* that company may get bankrupt
* mail accounts tend to be more hacked than many other online services
* and .. is this a custodian wallet? what if their hot wallet is hacked directly or they run with the coins?

Plus, yeah I don't believe in magic 

I think that what an exchange cares about is their own costs and maybe an edge against the competition.
So LN makes sense for them as long as it saves their costs (not yours) or if too many other exchanges are adding it.

Now, since LN withdrawals would save them costs, they seem to add LN there. Then they have to do their math very good and see how it's cheaper for them to rebalance/replenish their LN node to keep processing withdrawals. And one solution for that could be allowing the LN deposits (now I don't know how unbalanced is their deposits vs withdrawals ratio and that matters a lot in this).


So you have a "good" history of overpaying for your transactions. This doesn't mean you should underpay exactly now, but it may worth taking a look at mempool.space now and then and also learn more about how the fees work. Maybe also make sure you use a good wallet.


Keep in mind that any reason to pause withdrawals can be in exchanges' favor (the money is in their pocket and they can use it if they want to).
And keep in mind that since the exchanges don't like to see their transactions stuck for long, such a pause may only allow them change the fixed fee they use or improve their code for a dynamic fee that works for them.


It's not that easy. People will have to open a channel (i.e. on-chain transaction) or send coins to a custodian that has also LN capabilities (i.e. again on-chain tx, unless they first receive a withdrawal). Plus learn about a new wallet.
I do still expect quite some inertia in this.


Of course that they (still) prefer people withdraw wrapped bitcoin (especially on their chain) instead of the real deal.

From my knowledge of LN (please correct me if I'm wrong) the proper way to keep a channel up "forever" is to allow both deposits and withdrawals to it.
So it would not be a surprise if they will allow deposits too, sooner or later, since they may need to re-balance their node less often if they work like that.

Yep. Big fees, low price (because the reward has just doubled, right?), plus the prospect of artificially high difficulty when this money turns into more gears.
So... what's next? Disable Taproot with the message "sorry folks, this was a bad idea"?

...And I seem to need top post this once again. The coins are not in the wallet, they're "on the network".
So if you restore 100 wallets from the same seed, all will have access to the coins. That's why, if you plan to sell the old computer/HDD, even if at first you restore your wallet on the new device, it should be safer if you send your coins to a newly created wallet on new device (but not at the fees we have nowadays).

And if the amount of coins is significant and you are not a technical person, it may be safer to buy a hardware wallet and send your coins to that. Wallets with big money, on computers accessing the internet, especially Windows computers, are not a great idea nowadays.

Mersi, am participat. Am avut activitati de aer liber la sfarsitul saptamanii, asa ca a ramas pe locul doi forumul.
Si am facut si curatenie astazi. Ca, da, era necesara.

Edit: la concursul Utopia am ratat intrarea; poate ca o sa puna concursul urmator inainte sa se termine week-end-ul

Prediction 1: $36,828.34
bech32 address: bc1qeuvhugrlu8g34e8wl3s8dtm2k8mjf0khvqxmaf