Finally I have decided to ask for it :-P
I spend good amount of time in the forum especially in the Gambling discussion, Bitcoin Technical Support, Development & Technical Discussion, Electrum, Hardware wallets and not the last, Reputation section. I may not post in other boards frequently but I do have activities on other boards too. I stumble upon good posts every day but I can not reward them because most of the time, I am out of sMerits.
I like to inspire users with merit when I see good posts. When I see them active and are trying hard to give something to the community, I go extra miles and try sending more merits so that they can rank up. I believe forum needs active users who love the community and unconditionally (sig pays a bit whoever is wearing) is giving their time. Not everyone is good poster but that does not mean a bad poster (who try to improve their posting skills) do not deserve recognition? So, sometimes I even give merits to those bad posters too when I see them giving their best to give something to the community. I think it's just me. Different people have different point of view when they send out sMerits.
Back to the beginning,
@theymos - Can I be a merit source?Here are 10 posts I think worth giving merit as the requirements (I may change them time to time):
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Scripts are being evaluated/run so that we can verify the validity of the given transaction. Depending on the script itself and the implementation, this evaluation could take a much longer time than normally expected.
As a challenge, try to come up with such scripts that could take longer than normal (could be 10 second, minute or hour!). There are also some rare examples out there on the internet from old days that you can find and post here.
- The script doesn't have to be standard but it has to be valid (eg. no disabled OPs).
- It doesn't have to be in a full transaction. It could be as scriptPub, scriptSig and if available redeemScript or witnesses. Or simply 1 script from start to end.
- It should also include the expected time that it takes to evaluate.
This topic is self-moderated to prevent it from going off-topic.2. Replaced #3
I definitely love the idea of a forum coin. Back when Satori was still making chips/coins, Hhampuz who had done several group buys for the collectibles board/community had been in touch with them about producing a custom chip/coin for the community. Unfortunately right as we started to get serious about making it happen, Satori closed shop. However we came up with some ideas for it that I think could be applied here..such as having a design competition.
I would absolutely love it if Casascius, Smoothie (Lealana), or Kialara would be interested in taking on this project, however I can tell you the likelihood of that happening is slim to none. I think having either an active maker or someone who’s willing to take on the project (with a strong background in crypto coins or coins in general) as well as winning a design competition would be a cool and fair way to chose whom is to make the coin.
As for whether the coin is loaded or not..I would highly recommend we try and make it a loaded piece. There are ways around producing and selling a loaded coin in which you’re not breaking any laws or acting as a money transaction service without a license (breaking FinCEN regulation like what Casascius ran in to).
I voted for 300 coins. I know there’s likely 100 of us in the collectibles sub who’d want a coin, and it would sure be a shame if the hardcore collectors like us would not get a chance at grabbing one. If the forum paid for it that would obviously be amazing. I wouldn’t mind paying for a coin however ( plus this might be more feasible
).
If we do end up running a competition I’d like to throw my hat in the ring..however I’d much prefer if Casacius, Lealana or Kialara took the reigns, but again, HIGHLY unlikely imo.
Thanks for brining this to life!
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Couple of news from Women ODIWorld record!Austraila Women team sets a new World Record of 18 consecutive wins in ODI, previous record was 17 ODI wins, Which also belonged to Australia. In Men's ODI longest winning streak is 21, Again its belongs to Australia.
Mithali Raj First Woman to Complete 20 Years in ODI CricketShe started playing for India when she was 16 yo and scored a ton on a very first game, she's also the only Women Cricketer who played the 200 ODI. When talking about Men cricket. there are only 3 players who played the game for 20 years.
S. Tendulkar : 22 years and 91 days
S. Jayasuriya: 21 years and 184 days
J. Miandad : 20 years and 272 days
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Rust is a new-er programming language, and has a reasonably good reputation:
- liked for being more difficult to make mistakes with than C/C++ (although not impossible, of course)
- for being sufficiently powerful in expressiveness, yet relative simplicity compared to C/C++
- disliked because compiling the actual Rust compiler was until recently not possible (we have gnu's guix system to thank for that)
So, there's been a Rust implementation of Bitcoin around for a while, and some good programmers actually preferred to spend their time re-implementing the existing Bitcoin client in Rust than to work on the reference C++ implementation. Which is a good plan in and of itself, as a proof of concept if nothing else.
There are now plans to implement Rust code into the main Bitcoin implementation:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/17090speaking as a non-expert on either language, but as a Bitcoin user who does understand something about coding and computer science, I'm unenthusiastic about this.
I understand the rationale:
- Rust code has lower review burden
- The plan is to duplicate non-consensus C++ code, to add redundancy to network consistency/reliability
- Rust is proven these days, compiler can be bootstrapped
that's all ok.
however, one plan is
not to use a Rust compiler that is bootstrapped from a trustworthy source (Canonical's Rust compiler). Call me nuts if you so choose, but that seems like a very cavalier decision to make with software that should be putting security first.
You can say "trusting Canonical is subjective", in which case,
it should be ruled out altogether in such a critical piece of software as Bitcoinmy other concern would be the "thin end of the wedge" argument.
The rationale for putting the specific Rust code into the Bitcoin codebase is sound; if headers fetching code fails in some unknown circumstance,
maybe only the C++ implementation of the headers fetching code will fail, and the Rust headers fetching will continue to function without incident. Hell of a supposition to make, but it's somewhat reasonable, as there is some acceptance that Rust can be written in such a way that certain types of bug are less likely (but not impossible)
But this would make it too easy to say "let's just re-write the main implementation in Rust, piece by piece! After all, failover Rust code is working great so far!"
In the end, such a radical change (I'm sure that statement will be a point of contention, but it's essentially self-proving by the virtue of the fact that this is a contorversial change of direction) was always bound to be divisive.
The developers who are keen to send Bitcoin in this direction should realise that there's no real practical difference between doing something divisive for good reasons, or doing something divisive to cause problems in the project.
usual thread rules, + 1 extra:
- no trolling
- no trolls
- discussing personalities or intentions or politics of those debating is not allowed, and will be removed, e.g. "Bjarne Sostroup says x about Rust" is disallowed, everything must be provable in it's own right, here in the thread, written by you
the technical merits and the consequences to how the Bitcoin project is managed are the focus of this thread
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We can use automatically connect to a server or we can manually connect to a server from the given list.
I am a little bit confused-
Who own the servers? There are a lot of servers. Is all these from Electrum?
Difference between automatic connection and manual connection?
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I don't think they can trace IP address.
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I just wanted to confirm your toughts... Ip's are not stored in the blockchain... If you create a transaction and initially broadcast it to one or more nodes, these nodes could theoretically store your ip. However, these nodes simply do not know if you broadcasted a new transaction, or just rebroadcast a transaction you yourself received from somebody else.
It's a little different for SPV wallets, for example electrum. Theoretically, an SPV wallet does not rebroadcast transactions. So if an electrum wallet user is connected to an electrum node and sends a new tx to this node, the node operator could potentially store the ip together with the tx, so he'll be able to identify you (that's where tor might come in handy)
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However if you ask a person to send BTC in an empty address nobody could theoretically know that is your address.
That's true, untill you decide to spend those unspent outputs. If you spend multiple unspent outputs funding several addresses, everybody will be able to link those addresses together. And with some clever analysis of the receiving address, the amount of outputs (change),... one could potentially start to trace you (like you said before, as soon as you filled in KYC info for a service and somebody is able to link you to this service, you are no longer anonymous).
A big exception to all this is the people that were ignorant enough to use a web wallet, exchange wallet, casino wallet. Next to making their clients vulnerable to loads of other attack vectors, the online wallet operator could link every address to a user.
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If you are a newbie here or even 1 more 2 years old but newbie in trading in this forum, it's very important for you to
justify the feedback before you go upfront.
I will share some forms of positive feedback which doesn't mean that you can go upfront.
- The person is very helpful.
- The person is very knowledgeable.
- Purchased something, he went upfront. Good communication.
etc.
Now, going straight to an user's positive feedback-
User-
Zerbis3 positive feedback-
- Paid upfront for items won at auction. Great communication throughout. Thank you!
- This member won a couple physical coins from me and paid right away, smooth transaction and great communication. Thanks
- won my auction, paid directly. Smooth transaction. ThanksThis positive feedback doesn't mean Zerbis is trusted and you can go upfront, from this feedback, it's understandable that feedback provider risked much, in fact, nothing at all.
Depending on this feedback,
BitSat19 had sent 0.03 BTC upfront for a deal and Zerbis didn't pay yet. In fact, no communication after that.
Here is the scam accusation-
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5200663.0So, if you are going to do any trade here-
- Don't rely on the feedback.
- Always check users post history and if they have any outstanding loan.
- Use Escrow.I have created this topic here to create awareness among the newbie because newbie are the persons who don't understand the trading system here.
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I hope theymos considers the request and thank you everyone in advance for your support.
Cheers :-)
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Good luck with your application.
England need minimum 2 big innings from their batsmen. If England manages to chase this target down, then cricket fans are going to remember this match for ages. How many times do we see a team getting out under 70 runs in the first inning and chase down the 350+ score, that too in 4th inning? Nothing can beat that combo.
arguably English fans already lost their hope, but deep down they might be hoping for some miracle.
