Interestingly, I believe my views are opposite Theymos' relative to how the odds change with an economic downturn.
I believe that if there is no downturn (or esp with an upswing) then the only candidates that have a chance are ones like Biden who offend few and seem non-threatening to most interests but will pick up the ANYONE BUT TRUMP voting block. If you're happy with how things are, you can trust that someone like Biden is not going to upset the apple cart too much-- maybe even less than trump, as many people still do worry that trump will accidentally escalate a twitter fight into a shooting war (since the media hasn't been tirelessly over-hyping that risk for the past two years I think people are less wary of it than random trump scandal dejure).
Many communities will be thinking in those terms, but perhaps not the most influential states in the election. Having grown up in the rust belt, I think that the swing demographic there is thinking this way: The economy was for this community in shambles before Trump, and they were completely ignored in the national conversation. Trump noticed them, and furthermore a case can be made that he's moving things in the right direction: unemployment is very low and the news keeps talking about how the economy is great. However, this community is actually suffering quite a bit from tariffs, and much of the economic development is surface-level or the same coastal-concentrated wealth expansion as was seen under Obama. The rust belt Trump supporters are driven by a little real progress and a lot of hope/faith. If that hope is shattered by a noticeable downturn before the election, then they will still be very angry and looking for change, but they will have lost faith in Trump. Instead, they will go to a radical on the other side. This rust belt demographic is not all that strongly tied to economic conservatism (or any ideology, really), and things like medicare for all or an increased minimum wage will speak to them. Kamala Harris is a slightly more brown, slightly less homicidal version of Hillary Clinton.
I actually think that I'd prefer Hillary over Kamala. When I watch some really old videos of Hillary, I get the sense that she had some actual beliefs and passions. I think that she might've started out as a true believer (in some ideology), but being in the swamp for so many decades corrupted her substantially. But maybe she's only 99% evil instead of 100%. Kamala on the other hand I think is and always has been rotten to the core. |
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reCAPTCHA is the only effective one. I just looked at FunCAPTCHA, and the rotating-pictures thing would be pretty easy to train a neural network to solve. Also, the language on the front page makes it look like it's targeted toward enterprises who'd have no problem blocking Tor. I bet they'll start blanket-banning Tor once they start losing the arms race against attackers. I use Tor a lot, and while reCAPTCHA is annoying when used via Tor, it only takes a few minutes. On the forum, you can do it twice and then get a bypass code. Is there no way to make people mine monero for 5 minutes when they log in instead? I'd pick that over everythiing else, even just as an option (funds can be added to donations for the forum). Assume people have a 5GHz clock speed...
I've looked into that sort of thing, but there is no good solution as far as I've seen. Most solutions are focused entirely on maximizing profit, so they do eg. SHA256 mining which isn't good as an anti-spam PoW, and they use some central pool which has serious privacy implications. (For bitcointalk.org, the revenue from a mining-captcha could be discarded for all I care.) A good solution would: - Use a memory-hard PoW, or even better, one designed specifically for JavaScript. - Have an excellent API. - At least allow the site to proxy mining traffic to protect user privacy. Also, web-miners are always detected as malware by antivirus software. Anti-spam PoWs are always asymmetrical vs an attacker, which might make the whole idea unworkable. If it takes an ordinary user 1 minute to solve the PoW, then an attacker is always going to be able to improve on that using specialized hardware and software. If they can bring it down from 1 minute to 0.6 second, then the service is going to have to increase the difficulty so that ordinary users are spending 15+ minutes solving the PoW. For an anti-spam PoW to be a good idea, you need to be able to reduce this asymmetry to at worst something like 10:1, and this has to last, not just be a result of obscurity. I'm not sure that it's possible. |
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Auction ended, final result:
Slots BTC/Slot Person
2 0.10 lightlord
2 0.10 sschiessl
5 0.09 sportsbet.io
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A while ago the way bumping works was changed on several boards. I don't actually use most of those boards much, though, so it's difficult for me to get an intuitive sense of how well the change worked. What do you think? If you think that tweaks are needed, what tweaks would be good? Keep in mind that minor tweaks are more likely to be done than major changes. Regardless of the poll result (which I will analyze in several ways besides raw vote count...), probably things will not go back to how they were in those sections, since they were an absolute mess. But if a lot of people think that it should be undone, that'd be good to know for future changes. |
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Both sschiessl and TheRocketman are approved to bid. Therefore, the current status of the auction is:
Slots BTC/Slot Person
2 0.10 lightlord
7 0.09 sportsbet.io
The auction continues.
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I was impressed by Trump's speech today on Syria. He sounded very anti-war: about as anti-war as someone like Tulsi Gabbard or Rand Paul, even. Of course, in reality he's sending troops from Syria to Saudi Arabia -- not anything close to "ending the endless wars" as he claims --, but at least the rhetoric is refreshing. |
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I doubled the bandwidth allowance. (Maybe just temporarily.)
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I added some handling for duplicates. Can I add posts to local boards and local languages? Or will the vote be for English?
You can submit local stuff, but the whole voting and display system is global. |
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I did a little voting, but man there have been so many good posts/threads just in my relatively short time on the forum that the list there seems so incomplete. What about all the drama? Are those threads not worthy of being in the collection? I could try to recall all the great threads I've seen, but I'd be thinking all day. Yeah, the pizza and HODL threads are epic but there's so many other great ones.
Submit captions... This is community-generated and automated. |
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It only bans you for up to 4 hours.
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Yes. It won't show for you to vote on it, though, since you were the one who submitted it. Currently highly-rated captions are shown in the last ad slot. In a few weeks, all ad slots will be dedicated to these captions. |
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Your browsers are caching old 50x errors returned by site assets. You can fix it with a hard refresh, or by using a different browser temporarily, or by clearing your cache, or by waiting up to 4 hours. At this point there's nothing I can do on my end to fix it for you, since it's in your browser. (Errors shouldn't be marked cachable, though: something for me to look into.)
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A hardware issue was degrading performance. The downtime ~6 hours ago may have been due to this alone, or a DDoS attack may have pushed it over the edge; I'm not sure. (I see some unusual traffic in the logs, but it doesn't look that extreme, and it may have been a side-effect of the slowness.) I think that I fixed the performance issue now, at least.
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Great video! It really makes me feel that I haven't done enough to make the newbie experience welcoming enough...
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Is a black-bar censored preview acceptable for embedding? I have a slightly funny forum-censorship related joke planned (consider it part of the art).
Yes. |
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There is a possibility that theymos is using the art contest to get more ideas as to what the coin should look like and who ever wins the contest can get
No, I don't have any secret plans related to this. The art contest is just for fun. If you want a coin made, you have to work on it yourself. If you ask me for specific help, I may be able to, but don't expect me to be working on it in the background: I'm absolutely not. I have exactly 3 plans for the 10th anniversary: - The art contest. - Another thing which I will make public on Tuesday, probably. It's a temporary forum feature similar to past april fools things in some ways, though not a prank. - I'll write some thoughts/reflections. |
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Small suggestion @theymos, it would be good to create a poll picking the top ten or twenty art works by 22 November 2019 and post it for voting. Through this even the community users can help in choosing the right winner. One who gets the increased number of votes can be rewarded as the winner of the contest.
Maybe I'll do something like that nearer to the end, though designing a voting system to prevent manipulation is difficult. Any art you post must be created by you. Can I bend this rule a bit and submit art made by my (toddler) daughter? I asked her just yesterday if it's okay if I sell her artwork on the internet for Bitcoin, and she said yes. If I can get her to make anything Bitcoin related, this would be a great start of her art career. Yes. I know it's not really "art"
That is art. NSFW images can be accepted as contest entries, but per forum rules, don't embed it in the page, and mark it as NSFW. |
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I suggest you create a pool for prize where every Bitcointalk whale can pitch in for the prize money. 1 btc may seem a lot but given the number of people that are on Bitcointalk, it might be too little. Say if some old time donors or vip members decided to get generous, they can pitch in to this pool.
There's no need for a pool: If you like someone's art, send them BTC. Everyone is going to be posting an address publicly. |
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No "reserved" posts, please -- it only clutters the thread. Any criteria for the art or rules?
Like it should be only done in any way like in digital or canvas using some paints or any drawing materials? If it should be done on canvas, does size matter on the canvas?..
Is any form of art allowed?
Handsfree, Hand Paint, Photoshop, Digital, etc.
No, it's just for fun, not for any particular purpose, so there's no strict criteria. Anything artistic and image-based is OK. Even things like photos of a 3D print you made would be OK. Since the judging is not totally in merit based, I think it is much better to know what are the judging criterias for the art, like what should we consider or to be included in our art to get more points from the judges.(suggestion only)
For consensus, I am going to try to neutrally judge how much the community likes the submission based on comments and merit. Similar to the Wikipedia idea of consensus-judging. Can we make unli submission?
Yes, but probably there will be diminishing returns. |
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The contest is over, thank you very much to everyone who participated! I was blown away at the number and quality of submissions. I distributed a total of 9991 merit. These people won badges: dannybrownYatsanCorrosiveKalemdertaufik123BTC winners are as follows: Award tier 1dannybrown: 0.07562500 1Dq: 0.07366071 summonerrk [1][2]: 0.07169643 Karmakid [1][2]: 0.06973214 nc50lc: 0.06776786 Meddzs: 0.06580357 RiseX: 0.06383929 horagames: 0.06187500 Award tier 2mikhael: 0.01148529 sirazimuth: 0.01142201 crossabdd: 0.01135873 likehiro: 0.01129545 aoluain: 0.01123217 meliodas: 0.01116889 one21gals: 0.01110561 sujonali1819 [1][2][3]: 0.01104234 goaldigger [1][2]: 0.01097906 kaicrypzen: 0.01091578 creep_o: 0.01085250 Icygreen: 0.01078922 cryptobaboon: 0.01072594 carlfebz2: 0.01066266 akhjob: 0.01059938 Mamaecrypto [1][2][3]: 0.01053610 Lucasgabd: 0.01047282 tweetious: 0.01040954 Oasisman [1][2]: 0.01034626 bharal07: 0.01028298 Quidat: 0.01021970 fiulpro: 0.01015642 axicron: 0.01009314 Kalemder: 0.01002986 Aleksey77: 0.00996658 GazetaBitcoin [1][2]: 0.00990330 ecnalubma: 0.00984002 rhomelmabini: 0.00977674 Debonaire217: 0.00971346 makrospex: 0.00965018 KTChampions: 0.00958690 rare_designer: 0.00952362 spike420211 [1][2][3]: 0.00946034 geophphreigh: 0.00939706 Award tier 3Foxpup: 0.00312931 hugeblack: 0.00311933 taufik123: 0.00310935 ZipReg: 0.00309936 Twentyonepaylots [1][2]: 0.00308938 DireWolfM14: 0.00307940 start the art [1][2]: 0.00306942 1btcdream: 0.00305944 Valjdek: 0.00304946 ice098: 0.00303947 cabalism13 [1][2]: 0.00302949 DomingoX6: 0.00301951 cuo [1][2][3]: 0.00300953 rat03gopoh: 0.00299955 Bloodie44: 0.00298956 ibminer [1][2]: 0.00297958 Raja_MBZ: 0.00296960 yazher: 0.00295962 Darker45 [1][2]: 0.00294964 C.R.Y.P.T.O: 0.00293966 sompitonov: 0.00292967 MissGrey: 0.00291969 yarelydiaz: 0.00290971 quest_777: 0.00289973 nomteck1: 0.00288975 sheenshane: 0.00287976 terizla [1][2]: 0.00286978 sashapan: 0.00285980 Corrosive: 0.00284982 TheShock: 0.00283984 alegotardo: 0.00282985 sedactoo+04: 0.00281987 ESG: 0.00280989 Kupid002: 0.00279991 manusiakarton [1][2]: 0.00278993 Pepelangelo: 0.00277995 Asterxylon: 0.00276996 DragonDance [1][2]: 0.00275998 dwyane36: 0.00275000 tyKiwanuka: 0.00274002 iwantapony: 0.00273004 yehestielsiburian: 0.00272005 ritaconscience [1][2]: 0.00271007 Ryker1: 0.00270009 akirasendo17: 0.00269011 Russlenat: 0.00268013 samcrypto: 0.00267015 Yatsan: 0.00266016 noorman0 [1][2][3]: 0.00265018 zxs: 0.00264020 mosdesign: 0.00263022 lucky80: 0.00262024 madnessteat: 0.00261025 cryptoaddictchie [1][2]: 0.00260027 AicecreaME: 0.00259029 shodik007: 0.00258031 maxreish: 0.00257033 Husna QA: 0.00256034 Congrats to the winners, and thanks again to all participants!
Being primarily a text-based forum, it's not surprising that there hasn't been much original bitcointalk.org art, but I've always thought that this has been a bit of a shame. Therefore, for bitcointalk.org's 10 th anniversary, let's have an art contest! Prizes: - I will distribute at total of at least 1 BTC to the art submissions which I personally like the best, completely subjectively. I might give out more if there are a lot of good submissions. - I will give out a ton of merit, probably at least 500 in total, based mainly on effort. - Between 1 and 20 (depending on number of submissions) people will receive art contest recognition badges:  , based mainly on community consensus of who had the best art. In judging consensus, I will be substantially but not entirely influenced by the total amount of merit your art received. Post original bitcointalk.org art in this thread along with a Bitcoin address. Any art you post must be created by you. It should be related to bitcointalk.org, but need not be related specifically to its 10 th anniversary. The contest ends Nov 22 18:04:28 UTC; submissions after that are not guaranteed consideration. BTC will be sent all at once, probably a few hours after the end time. Keep this thread clean: only post art and discuss the art posted, staying very on-topic. No "reserved" posts, please -- it only clutters the thread. See this thread for more commentary, questions/answers, and comments. |
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