I merged an updated version of this patch which PowerGlove sent me. It looks to me like it fixed the problem, and I haven't been able to find anything that this change broke.
Thanks for finally finding a way to cleanly fix this long-standing annoyance!
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This month 131 users were eligible. Old: theymos HostFat qwk Vod vapourminer PsychoticBoy Foxpup philipma1957 babo Cyrus ibminer joker_josue Mitchell albon Timelord2067 jeremypwr gbianchi hilariousandco buckrogers Buchi-88 Lesbian Cow willi9974 cryptodevil JayJuanGee NeuroticFish achow101 DaveF nutildah minerjones irfan_pak10 yahoo62278 bitbollo zazarb pooya87 LFC_Bitcoin o_solo_miner Real-Duke klarki LoyceV SFR10 TwitchySeal TryNinja BitcoinGirl.Club Jet Cash condoras Lafu polymerbit tweetious Yatsan buwaytress crwth comit bobita Vispilio Baofeng imhoneer krogothmanhattan JollyGood RaltcoinsB roycilik El duderino_ KTChampions Trofo Coin-1 icopress sheenshane 3meek logfiles Bitcoin_Arena MinoRaiola GazetaBitcoin Maus0728 tvplus006 mole0815 witcher_sense DdmrDdmr shahzadafzal anonymousminer morvillz7z Husna QA Bthd fillippone abhiseshakana madnessteat Harkorede Little Mouse efialtis geophphreigh zasad@ Rikafip seek3r FatFork NotATether Stalker22 bullrun2024bro BlackHatCoiner Lillominato89 Poker Player MrCryptHodl paid2
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I read the full indictment, and it looks pretty bad. The thing where he allegedly decided in 2016 to file a 2011 gift tax return saying that he had gifted bitcoins to his partner stood out as especially bad to me. (I wonder: why are they allowed to use quotes from emails between Ver and his lawyer?) The indictment is just one side of the story, though. It seems to me that the best argument from Ver will be that it was an unintentional mistake. Ver apparently had a bunch of bitcoins floating around between himself-personally and mostly-disregarded-entity S-corps. Pre-expatriation, it may not have been important whether the bitcoins belonged to him or the corporations, so it may have been reasonable for him to not put much thought into the matter. But then it does very much matter during the appraisal of the corporations, and it all gets even more complicated when the S-corps automatically become C-corps after expatriation. That's all very confusing. If I was in that situation, I could see making some sort of honest mistake regarding all of that mess. Though the indictment does try to provide a lot of evidence for intent, and it would've been an awfully big mistake, apparently. An important detail to note is that this was a grand jury empaneled in June 2023, with the indictment filed in February, and then it was just recently unsealed after he was arrested. There clearly is a DoJ-wide mandate to target crypto, but I don't think that this was intentionally planned to coincide with the Samourai case, or with Ver's book, or anything like that. I'm not a big fan of the guy overall, but since he's having a very bad day, I'd like to say some nice things about him for a second. He put a lot of effort into building the very-early Bitcoin ecosystem. He's a anarcho-capitalist like me, which is cool. I saw that he once made a large donation to antiwar.com. He's a free-thinker and a freedom-lover, somebody who recognizes that something is terribly wrong with the world, and wants to do something about it. If I had to rank all people on Earth from my favorite to least-favorite, I'd put Ver above where I'd put "every person I don't know anything about", since there are way more experiences/ideas/values I share with Ver than I share with eg. some random farmer in China. So I hope this legal situation turns out well for him, especially since this seems to be part of a larger "war on crypto".
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If Samourai in particular (the entity, not its protocol/code) pops up again via a Tor hidden service or something, that would be banned. There's no need to ban links to already-seized sites. Other trustless CoinJoin services are still allowed. This case seems largely to rely on an idiosyncratic issue with Samourai, namely that there were allegedly instances of Samourai devs very directly marketing to people committing crimes. Theymos probably opened a Pandora's box when he banned mixers I feel that this sort of thing justifies my decision, which was based in part on seeing a pattern of increasing "squeezing" of privacy services. This Samourai action is in-line with my predicted trend, which I think will only get worse. Since I am not surprised by this sort of action, it does not make me want to expand the mixer definition.
There's a giant institution with guns out there which wants to destroy every centralized, destroyable component they can find related to privacy. Every centralized privacy service is at risk of being nuked from orbit at any moment, and you want to be nowhere near the strike zone. I think that the legal argument against Samourai is fairly weak, but the law is only ink on a piece of paper: it has no magical powers to protect you. I wouldn't be surprised if the Samourai devs win their case in the end, but their lives are still going to be ruined for at least the next few years, and they'll probably be bankrupted. The fact is that the powers-that-be desperately want these things destroyed, and they're eventually going to find ways of destroying them, if there's any way to do so. I'm certainly not saying that privacy is a lost cause, but this environment requires a much higher standard of robustness and decentralization. This isn't as free a world as it was when Bitcoin was first created.
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Sorry about those few minutes of errors. I was trying to update something which I thought wouldn't cause any issues, but it did cause major issues, which I wasn't entirely prepared for.
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Happy halving! Once again, Satoshi's hand reaches out from the past and chops another bit off of the subsidy.
IIRC, in last halvings there was lull in the price for some time after the halving before the effect of the reduced supply really started to be felt. I wonder if that'll happen this time.
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Previously, I was under the impression that Jambler was merely a software or platform provider, like Wordpress or AWS. But after reviewing it more closely, it meets the definition of a mixer as written. My mind was especially changed when I saw this diagram from their website: The diagram clearly shows that Jambler is the actual mixer. They issue the "letters of guarantee", they send the BTC directly to the final customer, etc. The partners are just lightweight proxies in front of the true mixer, which is Jambler. Jambler "has a feature advertised for taking property, improving its privacy somehow, and then returning roughly the same type of property", and it meets the other two criteria, so it's a mixer. (Maybe you could make the case that Jambler's actual customers are its partners instead of the final end-users, but even in that case Jambler is acting as a mixer for its partners. Jambler is the one doing the mixing. So it's still a mixer in either case.) Since I had previously ruled that Jambler did not meet the definition of a mixer, and I've now changed my mind, there will be a short grace period: Jambler will be wordfiltered (and otherwise treated as a mixer) starting on April 22. As with other banned mixers, please do not interpret this as a moral judgement. I'm not saying that Jambler is or is not bad.
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I like the idea. All proposed styles seem OK to me, though some alternative styling ideas which come to mind are: - Change the color of the entire post <tr>, using a different color than the usual alternating blue and grey (but not too different). - Add a little red(?) asterisk or something in the lower-right corner of the post icon (ie. td.td_headerandpost table tbody tr td a img). When you open the HTML source of this page for example, there are a bunch of "shadow" posts under the OP. These are invisible posts that have the same HTML structure as real posts, but they don't have anything inside them. There is usually a random amount of these displayed, anywhere from one to three. So what is the deal with that, and where do they come from?
Those are decoy posts meant to confuse adblockers. This is also why a lot of the CSS classes randomize on each pageload. Now that there are no ads, I could remove both of these things. Would doing so break anyone's parsers?
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1) Is it required to have a persistent custom HTTP header in all requests, e.g. "X-Bug-Bounty: {bitcointalk username}"?
No. 2) Is it acceptable to use newly created / generic sock puppet accounts for testing?
Yes. 3) Is the "The Glider" forum badge assigned in all cases where a vulnerability is disclosed and patched, or only when a payment bug bounty is provided? (I am curious if this badge will be given out for low to medium risk findings that are not eligible for a payment bounty, but could still be useful)
Probably only for the listed security bounties. 4) If my genuine IP or testing accounts are banned for suspicious use whilst performing bug bounty testing, will my normal BitcoinTalk account remain unaffected?
IPs are only banned for making too many requests, not for suspicious behavior. So just don't make more than one request per second.
A lot of people try to run "website security scanners", and then report the "bugs" that these software packages find. Please don't do that. These scanners only ever report little configuration things which some people consider less than ideal, like allowing certain TLS ciphers, or sending/not-sending certain HTTP headers, and stuff like that. It's not useful.
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April fools! I feel like more people were legitimately fooled by this one than normal. In hindsight, I made the new titles too difficult to get. But it's shocking that so many veteran members were finally revealed as Certified Shitposters. (They were Cyrus, fillippone, LoyceV, xhomerx10, goldkingcoiner, and DdmrDdmr.) Thanks to PowerGlove for suggesting the idea!
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This month 140 users were eligible. Old: OgNasty qwk Vod vapourminer mprep Foxpup philipma1957 Cyrus Welsh ibminer d5000 TookDk albon wwzsocki Timelord2067 gbianchi EFS dbshck stompix hilariousandco Lesbian Cow willi9974 JayJuanGee achow101 DaveF teeGUMES examplens nutildah irfan_pak10 yahoo62278 bitbollo LFC_Bitcoin o_solo_miner Real-Duke LoyceV The Sceptical Chymist SFR10 TwitchySeal BitcoinGirl.Club holydarkness Lafu finaleshot2016 buwaytress crwth Ale88 duesoldi Vispilio Baofeng krogothmanhattan wolwoo RaltcoinsB roycilik CryptopreneurBrainboss hugeblack KTChampions Trofo Coin-1 icopress GreatArkansas dragonvslinux JeromeTash Bitcoin_Arena joniboini MinoRaiola Agrawas GazetaBitcoin tvplus006 coinlocket$ witcher_sense bitmover DdmrDdmr anonymousminer Lakai01 stoos morvillz7z Husna QA fillippone cryptofrka madnessteat The Cryptovator lovesmayfamilis DireWolfM14 Harkorede The0ldl_lser Little Mouse YOSHIE jokers10 efialtis geophphreigh zasad@ Rikafip FatFork NotATether Stalker22 bullrun2024bro BlackHatCoiner Charles-Tim Lillominato89 Poker Player paid2
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Edit: April fools!
In recent years, it seems that a lot of people have been making low-value posts just to get paid. To address this, I've added a merit "cost" to posting: from this point forward, for every 15 characters you post, you will lose one Merit point. This should eliminate any incentive to make low-value posts.
Any halfway-decent poster should be able to earn much more merit than they lose due to the penalty. But I recognize that some good posts are occasionally overlooked. So to counterbalance the penalty, I also added a system whereby you will earn a bit of merit just by reading posts. If you want to write a lot, you'd better do some reading as well!
For both the penalty and the bonus, this applies only to your merit score, and does not affect sendable merit (sMerit).
Let me know what you think of these adjustments.
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Bitcointalk Account: theymos My vote goes to: Mame89, acroman08, Despairo, Bd officer
Mame89's was the best IMO due to the large amount of variety and detail. Acroman08's is also good-looking and thematic. Despairo's dragonfruit pie is vibrant and interesting; I wonder how it'd taste. A lot of people used pomegranate "drawings" to good effect, and I think that Bd officer's was the best of these.
Thanks for running the contest, RickDeckard!
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But I think that the search function still doesn't work as it should
That's unrelated to the issue DdmrDdmr brought up. Search has a number of quirks, and I'm not going to fix them all right now. In this case, your search didn't work as expected because words appearing in a large percentage of posts are not indexed within posts at all. Currently, there are 181 unindexed words, and "bitcoin" is one of them. So if you search for "bitcoin", it will not even look for posts containing "bitcoin" in their bodies, though it will search topic subjects, and it will highlight "bitcoin" in any posts found via subject-search. As another example, if you search for "bitcoin candy", it will search for messages with [both bitcoin AND candy in their subject] OR [candy in their body], even though it will highlight both "bitcoin" and "candy" in message-bodies in the results. (Furthermore, this will exceed the result limit, so you will actually only get an arbitrary subset of the possible results.) Next time I reindex posts, probably it would be a good idea to not have any nouns in the list of unindexed words.
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Thanks for reporting it, I think I fixed it now.
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This month 134 users were eligible. Old: theymos HostFat gmaxwell qwk Vod vapourminer fronti Foxpup philipma1957 Cyrus Welsh ibminer d5000 TookDk Mitchell albon wwzsocki gbianchi EFS stompix hilariousandco buckrogers Buchi-88 Lesbian Cow willi9974 cryptodevil NeuroticFish DaveF examplens minerjones irfan_pak10 yahoo62278 bitbollo zazarb pooya87 Real-Duke LoyceV The Sceptical Chymist LeGaulois SFR10 TryNinja BitcoinGirl.Club holydarkness Lafu tweetious Yatsan buwaytress Ale88 Kryptowerk Vispilio Baofeng be.open krogothmanhattan JollyGood RaltcoinsB Igebotz roycilik CryptopreneurBrainboss hugeblack El duderino_ KTChampions Trofo Coin-1 icopress dragonvslinux JeromeTash 3meek MinoRaiola GazetaBitcoin Maus0728 tvplus006 coinlocket$ mole0815 witcher_sense Heisenberg_Hunter DdmrDdmr shahzadafzal anonymousminer Lakai01 stoos Husna QA Bthd fillippone cryptofrka madnessteat The Cryptovator lovesmayfamilis DireWolfM14 The0ldl_lser YOSHIE efialtis geophphreigh zasad@ Rikafip FatFork NotATether decodx Lillominato89 Poker Player MrCryptHodl
New: OgNasty qwk Vod vapourminer mprep Foxpup philipma1957 Cyrus Welsh ibminer d5000 TookDk albon wwzsocki Timelord2067 gbianchi EFS dbshck stompix hilariousandco Lesbian Cow willi9974 JayJuanGee achow101 DaveF teeGUMES examplens nutildah irfan_pak10 yahoo62278 bitbollo LFC_Bitcoin o_solo_miner Real-Duke LoyceV The Sceptical Chymist SFR10 TwitchySeal BitcoinGirl.Club holydarkness Lafu finaleshot2016 buwaytress crwth Ale88 duesoldi Vispilio Baofeng krogothmanhattan wolwoo RaltcoinsB roycilik CryptopreneurBrainboss hugeblack KTChampions Trofo Coin-1 icopress GreatArkansas dragonvslinux JeromeTash Bitcoin_Arena joniboini MinoRaiola Agrawas GazetaBitcoin tvplus006 coinlocket$ witcher_sense bitmover DdmrDdmr anonymousminer Lakai01 stoos morvillz7z Husna QA fillippone cryptofrka madnessteat The Cryptovator lovesmayfamilis DireWolfM14 Harkorede The0ldl_lser Little Mouse YOSHIE jokers10 efialtis geophphreigh zasad@ Rikafip FatFork NotATether Stalker22 bullrun2024bro BlackHatCoiner Charles-Tim Lillominato89 Poker Player paid2
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Skimming through those makes me so nostalgic... Next time somebody complains about the version of SMF on bitcointalk.org, I have a great excuse! Hopefully the 1.1.x line is mature and updates are infrequent. We shouldn't upgrade to 2.0. I made a ton of customisations that wouldn't be compatible, and I kind of prefer the look of 1.1 over 2.0 anyway.
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I thought people would quickly figure out on their own from the new email address what happened, but maybe it's not as clear as I thought. Maybe later I'll put a big red notice about it on the Account Settings page if you've been affected, especially if more people keep coming to Meta and asking about it. So what happens if an existing email address suppose " testmail123@gmail.com" gets disable or ban for some unknown reason? The address won't exist then. Google recently made a new policy where inactive gmail are deleted. You weren't receiving email before because your email got banned/disabled, and now you'll still not be receiving email. Nothing is lost. The forum account isn't banned or anything. Another possible issue is if email can't be received temporary, because of maintenance or outage.
If it's temporarily down, then it won't give a bounce message of "No such mailbox" (or similar), so the email won't be affected. Gmail for example responds via SMTP, "550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try 550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or 550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at 550 5.1.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser". We're detecting several variations on that "no such user" SMTP response. Longer-term, I would also like to do something about emails where the domain times-out or returns a "temporary" error in like 3 of the last 12 months or something like that. If you register with an email like asdfwerwe@werwetwerwer.com, then somebody could register werwetwerwer.com and steal the account that way. But this issue isn't on my short-term to-do list at all.
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This is something we recently started doing. If email sent to your email address bounces with an error message like, "This email address doesn't exist", then your email may eventually be changed to u...@bounces.invalid. (It's not possible for users to change their email address to something ending in .invalid, so this can only be an administrative change.) Because your old email didn't exist, somebody could've registered your non-existent email address and used that to steal your account.
I didn't particularly intend for the trust warning to appear for these automatic changes, but it's a niche situation and a bit difficult to fix, so I probably won't fix this unless several other people complain. It only lasts 30 days, after all.
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This month 140 users were eligible. Old: theymos gmaxwell CanaryInTheMine Vod vapourminer fronti mprep Foxpup philipma1957 Cyrus ibminer Mitchell albon wwzsocki Timelord2067 jeremypwr EFS arulbero Avirunes buckrogers Buchi-88 willi9974 JayJuanGee NeuroticFish DaveF examplens minerjones irfan_pak10 bitbollo pooya87 o_solo_miner sandy-is-fine Real-Duke klarki LoyceV The Sceptical Chymist SFR10 TwitchySeal phishead TryNinja BitcoinGirl.Club ekiller holydarkness Lafu polymerbit tweetious buwaytress crwth Ale88 duesoldi bobita Vispilio Baofeng krogothmanhattan wolwoo roycilik El duderino_ KTChampions icopress GreatArkansas sheenshane 3meek logfiles Bitcoin_Arena joniboini MinoRaiola GazetaBitcoin Maus0728 coinlocket$ mole0815 witcher_sense bitmover DdmrDdmr shahzadafzal morvillz7z Bthd fillippone madnessteat The Cryptovator lovesmayfamilis DireWolfM14 1miau Harkorede The0ldl_lser Little Mouse YOSHIE efialtis geophphreigh zasad@ Lachrymose seek3r FatFork NotATether CryptoYar BlackHatCoiner Charles-Tim Lillominato89 MrCryptHodl paid2 n0nce
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