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Since that DDoS a while ago, the imageproxy is now going through Cloudflare, which will do server-side caching if allowed by the final origin's headers, and client Cache-Control headers are (I think) always ignored now. (I haven't decided yet whether having the imageproxy behind Cloudflare is permanent.)
That pricing image doesn't send any cache-related headers at all, aside from Last-Modified. If that .htaccess file is intended for that image, then it's not working. One major issue in this case is that:
1. The image doesn't send an Expires header.
2. If an image doesn't have an Expires header, then the imageproxy sets an Expires 1 day into the future. *
3. Cloudflare then server-side-caches this for 1 day based on the Expires header, and there's no way for the client to bypass Cloudflare's cache.
* I just now changed the default Expires timeout to 10 minutes instead of 1 day, at least as long as the imageproxy is behind Cloudflare. But for live content like this, it'd be better if the origin sent headers disabling caching entirely.
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For the mixer policy to be reversed, the legal environment would have to improve a lot. I think that one of these would have to happen:
- Some mixers win their court cases.
- Congress passes laws which explicitly protect mixers.
- The administration ends up being extremely pro-privacy, better than 99% of politicians in office.
It'll take at least a year before we have a good idea of what the new administration will really be like, but my expectation is that they will only be ~10% better than the Biden administration in this area. I would be surprised if they dropped the case against the Tornado Cash devs, for example.
The Trump administration could be a lot better than I expect, but they could also be a lot worse. I think for example that the Trump administration might be even more aggressive on sanctions (especially against Iran), and they might therefore see financial privacy as a threat to their sanction power. There are also several reasons why the Trump administration may want to restrict cross-border payments generally: to allow for financial repression in response to a debt crisis, to improve the US's hugely-negative net international investment position (which is often a major issue in the minds of Trump-aligned economists), to tariff services in addition to goods, or to control the value of the dollar. Severe restrictions on cross-border payments could also put them in opposition to financial privacy.
The Biden administration clearly wanted to move as close to banning crypto as they could get away with, so it's definitely good that they're gone, but it's not as if Satoshi has just been elected president. The Trump administration has some interest in pleasing their crypto donors, but that can be achieved mainly just by getting prices to go up. They don't much care, and don't have to care, about privacy, disintermediation, decentralization, etc.
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The demo is up again now. Wow, what do I see? Is this real? This is a real Christmas / New Year gift from you. I swear you really made me happy. I'll use this opportunity and ask you, have you checked my thread Bitcointalk - Responsive design challenge? If yes, then I'd love to hear your feedback. I think that one of the most important challenge of Bitcointalk is that it's not attractive place for many young people and it's not responsive, you can't get a good experience by browsing Bitcointalk from your smartphone, tablet or any other device. It's supposed to be very good on mobile devices. We would appreciate it if a lot of people test it on various devices. |
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Note that the demo is temporarily down. This will probably happen from time to time.
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There's now a read-only demo of Epochtalk operating on live bitcointalk.org data which you can check out: https://demo.epochtalk.comRight now only boards, topics and user-pages are supported, and it's read-only, but over time I'd like this to become an increasingly-useful alternate interface to bitcointalk.org. (Only when it's feature-complete and bug-free would bitcointalk.org switch to Epochtalk.) Already, some people might like to use the demo on mobile devices, where it often works better than the current site. Also, if you look at the requests that the site makes, you can see that it has a JSON API; people who run bots might like to check that out, though we don't officially support/recommend relying on this API yet. If you see any bugs, use the "Report a bug" link in the top right of the demo. |
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This month 140 users were eligible. Old: theymos
gmaxwell
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qwk
Vod
vapourminer
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Cyrus
d5000
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albon
wwzsocki
Timelord2067
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dbshck
hybridsole
hilariousandco
arulbero
buckrogers
Buchi-88
Lesbian Cow
JayJuanGee
achow101
DaveF
teeGUMES
examplens
minerjones
irfan_pak10
yahoo62278
bitbollo
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LFC_Bitcoin
ezeminer
sandy-is-fine
mocacinno
Real-Duke
The Sceptical Chymist
BitcoinGirl.Club
holydarkness
Lafu
Russlenat
tweetious
finaleshot2016
giammangiato
buwaytress
crwth
Ale88
Baofeng
imhoneer
Koal-84
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JollyGood
Igebotz
roycilik
CryptopreneurBrainboss
hugeblack
El duderino_
Best_Change
KTChampions
Coin-1
icopress
bavicrypto
sheenshane
JeromeTash
logfiles
joniboini
MinoRaiola
Maus0728
tvplus006
coinlocket$
mole0815
witcher_sense
bitmover
shahzadafzal
Lakai01
stoos
morvillz7z
fillippone
cryptofrka
abhiseshakana
The Cryptovator
lovesmayfamilis
1miau
Harkorede
YOSHIE
jokers10
mandown
geophphreigh
zasad@
Rikafip
Lachrymose
FatFork
Stalker22
bullrun2024bro
BlackHatCoiner
Charles-Tim
Poker Player
paid2
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Cyrus
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d5000
joker_josue
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wwzsocki
gbianchi
EFS
dbshck
stompix
arulbero
buckrogers
willi9974
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achow101
examplens
minerjones
sapta
yahoo62278
bitbollo
pooya87
o_solo_miner
sandy-is-fine
mocacinno
Real-Duke
klarki
The Sceptical Chymist
SFR10
BitcoinGirl.Club
ekiller
Jet Cash
holydarkness
polymerbit
Russlenat
tweetious
giammangiato
crwth
comit
Ale88
Baofeng
be.open
imhoneer
Koal-84
krogothmanhattan
Igebotz
CryptopreneurBrainboss
hugeblack
KTChampions
Coin-1
icopress
bavicrypto
GreatArkansas
sheenshane
JeromeTash
logfiles
MinoRaiola
GazetaBitcoin
tvplus006
mole0815
bitmover
shahzadafzal
Lakai01
morvillz7z
Husna QA
Bthd
fillippone
cryptofrka
abhiseshakana
The Cryptovator
DireWolfM14
notblox1
1miau
Little Mouse
YOSHIE
jokers10
rxalts
Awaklara
mandown
geophphreigh
zasad@
Rikafip
Lachrymose
FatFork
NotATether
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BlackHatCoiner
Poker Player
paid2
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Happy new year! 2024 was definitely an exciting year for Bitcoin, probably the best single year for Bitcoin since the earliest years.
I am worried that in the process of Bitcoin becoming a lot more mainstream, a lot of the Bitcoin economy has become more centralized via things like ETFs. (Some in the Trump administration are even talking about FDIC-insured banks being able to accept BTC and pay interest on it.) This centralization may work against the open-source ethos we care about. For example, if one ETF has all of its BTC stolen, I could see all of the ETFs getting together to fork Bitcoin and undo this theft (like ETH/ETC), and maybe they could get away with this, at least in terms of the popular perception. I suppose the only way to address this is to educate people, and also to improve trustless wallets to make them better competitors to centralized solutions.
Looking forward, it's definitely a very good thing that the Biden administration will be gone, since they were unbelievably anti-crypto. That said, I feel that the price has probably gone up too much. Here's the scenario I see as most likely at this point, though it'll probably be hilariously wrong: Since there's no particular catalyst that I can see, the price will slowly stair-step down to the $60ks; then in the last quarter of the year, there will be some recovery, and we'll end the year in the $80ks.
I hope everyone has a great 2025!
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What we're talking about here is taking the same announcement and translating it into 16 different languages/topics. Local moderators need to decide on a case-by-case basis whether this kind of pure translation is actually worthwhile in their own local sections. It'd be totally reasonable for a local moderator to delete any of these topics due to being a poor translation, or even just because this sort of translation activity is simply more noise than signal in that local section.
The 4 topics deleted in this case were in low-volume language sections that don't have their own moderators, so Global Moderators who can't actually speak the language have jurisdiction. Given that, it's reasonable to assume that they're poor translations and/or non-additive. I'm not inclined to restore them.
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This month 140 users were eligible. Old: theymos
HostFat
gmaxwell
Vod
vapourminer
Foxpup
babo
Cyrus
ibminer
d5000
joker_josue
wwzsocki
jeremypwr
EFS
hilariousandco
arulbero
buckrogers
Buchi-88
willi9974
JayJuanGee
NeuroticFish
DaveF
examplens
nutildah
minerjones
irfan_pak10
yahoo62278
bitbollo
zazarb
pooya87
ezeminer
mocacinno
Real-Duke
LoyceV
SFR10
TryNinja
ekiller
Jet Cash
condoras
Lafu
tweetious
finaleshot2016
giammangiato
buwaytress
crwth
Ale88
bobita
be.open
RaltcoinsB
Igebotz
CryptopreneurBrainboss
Best_Change
KTChampions
Trofo
Coin-1
icopress
bavicrypto
GreatArkansas
logfiles
joniboini
MinoRaiola
GazetaBitcoin
Maus0728
tvplus006
coinlocket$
mole0815
DdmrDdmr
shahzadafzal
stoos
morvillz7z
Husna QA
Bthd
fillippone
cryptofrka
abhiseshakana
madnessteat
The Cryptovator
mendace
notblox1
1miau
Harkorede
Little Mouse
YOSHIE
jokers10
Awaklara
mandown
efialtis
geophphreigh
zasad@
Rikafip
Lachrymose
FatFork
NotATether
bullrun2024bro
BlackHatCoiner
Charles-Tim
YodasRedRocket
bastisisca
PowerGlove
Learn Bitcoin
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gmaxwell
OgNasty
qwk
Vod
vapourminer
philipma1957
babo
Cyrus
d5000
joker_josue
albon
wwzsocki
Timelord2067
gbianchi
dbshck
hybridsole
hilariousandco
arulbero
buckrogers
Buchi-88
Lesbian Cow
JayJuanGee
achow101
DaveF
teeGUMES
examplens
minerjones
irfan_pak10
yahoo62278
bitbollo
pooya87
LFC_Bitcoin
ezeminer
sandy-is-fine
mocacinno
Real-Duke
The Sceptical Chymist
BitcoinGirl.Club
holydarkness
Lafu
Russlenat
tweetious
finaleshot2016
giammangiato
buwaytress
crwth
Ale88
Baofeng
imhoneer
Koal-84
krogothmanhattan
JollyGood
Igebotz
roycilik
CryptopreneurBrainboss
hugeblack
El duderino_
Best_Change
KTChampions
Coin-1
icopress
bavicrypto
sheenshane
JeromeTash
logfiles
joniboini
MinoRaiola
Maus0728
tvplus006
coinlocket$
mole0815
witcher_sense
bitmover
shahzadafzal
Lakai01
stoos
morvillz7z
fillippone
cryptofrka
abhiseshakana
The Cryptovator
lovesmayfamilis
1miau
Harkorede
YOSHIE
jokers10
mandown
geophphreigh
zasad@
Rikafip
Lachrymose
FatFork
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BlackHatCoiner
Charles-Tim
Poker Player
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Happy 15th anniversary!
Having such an old forum like this is really rare and special. It's a historical artifact, but one that's still living and evolving thanks to all of you who contribute. Thank you to all users and staff, both past and present, who have made the forum what it is today!
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Great job, everyone! I vote for: #86, #51, #55, #91, #77 |
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I was thinking about this more, and I had another idea:
Most Democrats don't realize this, but it's very clear to me that the core of today's Democratic Party emerged out of mainline Christianity*. Mainline Christians established many Ivy League universities, now considered very leftist. The term "social justice", which now has very leftist connotations, was originally used in the context of mainline churches talking about the good work they'd like to do in society. If you've been to a few mainline American churches, you may have noticed that in many cases they basically preach the Democratic Party platform; this is usually viewed as these churches bowing to cultural pressure, but in fact I think that it's the other way around. Members of mainline churches have long believed in things like an interventionist government, civicism, communitarianism, trust in authority, etc., and in more recent times they've embraced ideas of social justice, equity, inclusion, environmental justice, etc. There's a lot of overlap between Democrats and mainline Christians, so they've both moved on these issues at around the same time, and probably it was actually led by the churches.
People who classify themselves as "not religious" are often the children of people who belonged to mainline churches, and are therefore also often part of the same culture, with similar sorts of values. And people who call themselves atheist or agnostic tend to have an even closer cultural affinity to mainline Christians than the "not religious", since "strong" atheism/agnosticism in the West is historically/culturally sort of an extension of the Protestant intellectual project.
So after all of that preface: I think that the Democrats could profitably lean into their Christian roots. Instead of being the party of atheists and people kind of embarrassed to still be Christian in today's age, imagine if you got a pastor from one of the more centrist mainline denominations (ie. not the type who talk absolutely-nonstop about LGBT issues) to run for President. Have him talk about God, love, and peace a lot, quoting a ton from the bible. This would resonate a lot with people still active in mainline churches, of course, but even many atheists and non-religious people who come from that culture will agree very much with the message if not the exact phrasing, and perhaps it could swing some Evangelicals. It addresses one of the big problems I see with many Democrats, which is that they seem fake and nihilistic. When they talk about creating a bright future, it feels like an empty political slogan. But if you put it in religious terms, then it can feel more honest and inspiring. And to the extent that this kind of messaging actually promotes participation in mainline churches, this could create a virtuous cycle similar to how Evangelical churches create more Republican voters and Republican politicians create more Evangelicals. I think that there's also demand for politicians who you can believe are actually good people, not psychopaths like Kamala Harris who will keep innocent people in prison one minute and then talk about human rights the next.
As with my last idea in this thread, this is just an idea for something that might work, and it's not my dream scenario or anything.
* "Mainline Christianity" is a term of art, with "mainline" not intending to imply size or correctness. It more-or-less refers to old protestant denominations that are willing to read the bible non-literally, to varying degrees. Evangelicals, who read the bible very literally, are not mainline Christians.
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There's hardly any leadership or plan for either party, really. Unlike most countries, the US has very weak political parties. Each senator, governor, House member, etc. in a party can have very different policies from each other, and they can do almost whatever they want without fear of sanction from the party, unlike backbenchers in most parliaments. So when change happens in a party's platform, it's because some individual politician hits on something that is especially effective, in an entrepreneurial way, and then everyone else starts copying him; it's not because a committee decides on a new strategy for the party. For the same reason, it's unlikely that either party would ever dissolve, since the members can already just do whatever they want or need to do differently.
Quite possibly, Trump's second term will be a disaster, and the next Democratic candidate won't have to be that great to win, like Biden in 2020. But undoubtedly there will be an actually-popular Democratic president at some point in the future, like Bill Clinton or Obama. It's hard to predict what message they'll use, though.
For a very long time, Democrats have relied on their "rainbow coalition", where they promise tons of ultra-targeted handouts meant to appeal to many different minority groups. But now many ethnic/religious minorities are leaning more and more Republican because these groups tend to be more socially conservative.
Maybe Democrats should try really leaning into their popularity among the college-educated, who make up about half of the electorate. Currently ~60% of college-educated voters lean Democrat, and increasing that to 90% might be possible, since spending 4+ years in a university tends to push you toward a very particular mindset. So forget about any policies that are too divisive on either side or too harmful to any particular group, be as inoffensive as possible to everyone, and focus 100% on being smart, stable, competent technocrats who appeal to college-educated people and many businessmen. Similar to the UK's Conservatives under David Cameron, maybe. (This strategy isn't what I'd like to see, BTW, just an idea for something that might be effective.)
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- Maybe bitcointalk.org could pay TalkImg a monthly fee for a contractual guarantee that they won't keep logs. TalkImg could then be exempted from the proxy, and furthermore they would have more resources to function well.
I decided that this plan is unnecessarily complicated, at least for now. So: - I already donated ~0.1 BTC to TalkImg, unconditionally and without discussing any of this with joker_josue. - If joker_josue merely promises that no logs are kept, then I think that that is sufficient for now, and I will exempt TalkImg from the proxy, once TalkImg is working again. So if anyone is ultra-paranoid, be aware that your browser may start making connections to talkimg.com sometime soon. If you're really opposed to that, block it via a hosts file or something. |
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Am I the only one who is worried on how the bar for the presidency of the United States has been severely lowered because of this guy? Suddenly, it has become politically correct for a convicted felon and person under both federal and state investigation to be the president of the same nation which is prosecuting him.
I'm not Trump's biggest fan by any means, and he's done plenty of stuff that is both criminal and incredibly unethical. But what I take from the fact that a convicted felon was elected as president is that the criminal justice system is a joke, and the American people know it. There are so many very-broad criminal laws that anyone can be convicted of anything, and it all comes down to whether the government considers it convenient to prosecute you or not. Now that Trump is in charge of the DoJ, you'll be seeing quite a few top Democrats become convicted felons, I think, and these convictions will have about the same amount of "justice" in them as Trump's convictions. (Neil Gorsuch, my favorite Supreme Court justice, recently published a book about this sort of thing: Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.) |
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I had always wondered why this was not available, especially after some of the issues we have run into with image hosting websites in the past. Is there any reason why it is the last option on the list (chronogically)? I assumed it was a difficult feature to implement and an expensive one too, but I do not have enough technical skills to confirm that.
The storage/data-transfer wouldn't be especially expensive, but it's a large feature to add, and then it's a whole new thing that has to be moderated. I wouldn't make something as open as TalkImg, since otherwise after a few years I'd be getting like 10 DMCA takedowns per day which I'd have to figure out some way of processing. It'd have to be somehow a lot more restricted so that the long-term moderation burden wouldn't be too high. I'd rather avoid having to do it at all. |
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So indeed, the forum's image proxy is affected.
Yeah, now the imageproxy is under a DDoS. (You may still see some images due to caching in your browser.) I'm not going to try to fix this. It's really difficult to put a proxy behind DDoS protection, because the attacker can always find and take down the outbound IP. Even if the outbound IP is different from the inbound IP, and even if the outbound IP drops all incoming connections from the general Internet, the outbound IP's networking can be entirely taken down through a sufficiently-large IP flood, which makes the proxy stop working. Maybe it could theoretically be fixed by having dozens of outbound IPs, or downloading images via Tor, but the former would be difficult to set up and maintain, and the latter would degrade performance. So my intention has always been that the imageproxy would just be expendable in the event of a DDoS. My plan is as follows: First, I'm just going to wait a few days. Often DDoS attacks are temporary. I'm not really sure what motivates them, but it costs money to keep them up, so they rarely last all that long. (I have a bit of a conspiracy theory that these random DDoS attacks are done by DDoS protection companies to make the Internet impossible to use without being behind DDoS protection...) If the attack is still going on in a few days, I'll consider measures like these: - If there are any image hosts run by trustworthy companies where the privacy policy says that they don't keep logs, these could be exempted from the proxy. If you know of any, let me know. - Maybe bitcointalk.org could pay TalkImg a monthly fee for a contractual guarantee that they won't keep logs. TalkImg could then be exempted from the proxy, and furthermore they would have more resources to function well. - Bitcointalk.org could add support for uploading images directly. |
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I'm not shocked by this outcome, but Republicans definitely did better than I expected. Congrats Poker Player on the bet.
Trump's first term was really pretty good, so hopefully his second term is like that or better, and the many risks I'm worried about with him don't come to pass. With Sherrod Brown losing in Ohio, it was a great night for crypto overall.
Probably the best thing about Trump winning is that Democrats might regain some of the skepticism of government that they've occasionally had throughout their history, instead of viewing government as the solution to every problem. How about we make the federal government smaller and less important so that people like Trump can't take it over and do things you hate?
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On election day, here are what the forecasts are saying: | Source | President EV | Senate seats | House seats | | FiveThirtyEight | D 270-268 | R 52-48 | D 218-217 | | The Economist | D 270-268 | R 51-49 | D 218-217 | | The Hill | R 276-262 | R 53-47 | R 218-217 | | RealClearPolling | R 287-251 | R 52-48 | - | | Polymarket | R 287-251 | R 52-48 | - | | Kalshi | R 287-251 | R 52-48 | - | | Metaculus | D 274-269 | - | - | | My gut | D 276-262 | R 51-49 | D 218-217 |
We'll see which one ends up being the most accurate. (Though we probably won't know the full House results for weeks.) |
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In addition to both DKIM and SPF, make sure that your SMTP server has an IPv4 address with reverse-IP properly set. Also, check your SMTP rejection messages; if you're blocked, sometimes they'll have information that'll help you get unblocked.
At first, your mail will usually be spam-filtered. But if you're actually sending useful messages that people dive into their spam folders to find, the email services will eventually learn that you're not spam. Even for small sites, deliverability will improve a lot over time. Don't ever change your SMTP server's IP, though, since I think that that largely resets your reputation.
If you need 100% delivery, then you have to use one of the big centralized services like SES. You have to be willing to accept some undelivered mail if you want to do it yourself.
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