Thanks, I didn't find it at archive.org.
This means they had more than 50% in their hot wallet. Needless to say: that's incredibly dumb.

We're going to need a new rule next year:
Then again, someone would be very disappointed

Does anyone have a recent snapshot of their "Reserves" on BestChange? I can only find a snapshot from almost 4 years ago, when their reserves were only $38,489.
How did they go from that to 26 million in a hot wallet?

It could be. But if you have the skills to steal 26 million, you probably don't need someone to hire you (for much less money) to do this.

Cloudflare sometimes goes into "DDOS protection mode", and it happened to me too yesterday. It's the same thing that normally happens when I click "All" (pages). But my scraper wasn't blocked at all, so the whitelisting works fine now

Whenever I want to change LoyceMobile's signature, I use my PC to login to that account

On other sites, I like this copy feature a lot when copying code (which, after all, is exactly what the code tag is for). On Bitcointalk I rarely copy code, but it can be useful. So kuddos again on improving the forum (assuming it gets implemented).

Unlikely. That's like robbing a bank when your debit card gets blocked.
Having that much in their hot wallet must be very encouraging for other hackers to try the same though. One way to make it not worth their while would be by keeping significantly less money in hot wallets.

Why? You think there are more than 3 women on the entire internet? Let alone on Bitcointalk?

If you're referring to the "airdrop" spammers, you couldn't be more wrong. That has nothing to do with Bitcoin, and they're not learning how to use Bitcoin. They're learning how to jump through hoops to get made-up BS tokens.
Besides, Bitcoin testnet isn't meant to teach users how to use a Bitcoin wallet, that's pretty much straight forward. It's meant for developers to test the things they're building without putting their real money at risk.

When people ask for OP's coins, he can do whatever he wants.

I wanted to say: "I strongly disagree", but had my doubts about semantics.

I looked it up:

I still strongly disagree again with what you said. Freedom of speech means nobody, and especially the government, is allowed to force you to keep quiet on any subject. But it seems totally fine to me to pay someone to say something. That's like a job, and if you take the job, you'll have to do it.

Server side or client side?

Again: does this add any security that happens client side?

When Stake got hacked, $41 million was stolen. They are a lot more like a centralized exchange, and yet, they keep massive amounts of money in their hot wallet. So I don't think it's the type of exchange that makes them keep that much money in a hot wallet. Even if they'd have to pay a few employees 24/7 to manually keep an eye on a much smaller hot wallet, it would be a lot cheaper than losing this much money.

In the past month, Unstoppable wallet (now with only 2 coins) has used 685 MB mobile data, and 829 MB through Wifi. The weird thing is: I'm on Wifi 90% of the day. It's as if it waits for me to go out, and then starts updating

I've asked the same question before, when exchanges got hacked. In general, you should only keep small amounts in a hot wallet. Could it be this is "small" to them, and they have much more in cold storage?

Do you check the serial numbers of your bank notes for known crimes in the past before accepting them? I've said it before and I'll say it again: attacking Bitcoin's fungibility is the only way to attack Bitcoin. They can't shut it down, they can't stop it, they can't ban it, but they can make people believe they shouldn't accept it because certain coins might be bad!

If this happens to banknotes, it's not to blame you, it's meant to catch a bad guy. There's a famous case in the Netherlands, where a murderer was caught when he started spending banknotes of the ransom he received, of which the numbers had been recorded. Karma eventually caught up with the murderer, when he was ran over by an excavator.
Catching murderers is a good thing! But with banknotes, it doesn't make people afraid to accept them, just like people shouldn't have to fear that certain Bitcoins are "different" than others.

Yes (see that same thread). It's futile, even on testnet the hashrate is far too high for CPU.

A few mBTC is enough to open LN-channels, but with such low block rewards, there's not much to give away. And since most people don't have an ASIC laying around to mine some, there aren't many options left.

They also spam others to convince them to buy whatever BS they made up, and I do believe some of them, although gullible and naive, don't deserve to get scammed. But I can't do more than warn against it, and that's a losing battle anyway. There's always a new sucker to get scammed.

Lol. I must have hit a nerve. Who's alt are you? Too afraid to say this from your real account? Figures.

The campaigns paying in made-up tokens are a whole different level indeed.

I remember the days of running oclvanitygen on my GeForce 840M with 9 Mkey/s. You're 1000 times faster.

Tip: search for more than one prefix at a time. It large increases the chance of finding one of them.

That has to do with paying for a post, not with the quality. This short post earned 15 Merit from 4 people.
I like how hilariousandco puts it:
If you look at someone's post history, and all you see is endless pages of posts with 2 paragraphs, all with the exact same length, it's obvious they're only posting to reach the spam target. Any natural conversation (real life or on a forum) varies from very short to very long.

That's true. And I noticed in my short time as a campaign manager that my best users quickly got swooped away by better paying campaigns. But it's a choice made by the company. Stake could have paid higher rates for less posts, but instead they do this:
They choose to pay for up to 163 posts per week. That gives a great incentive to spam, and since they don't care about quality, the result is that this campaign fills 80% of the Top 25 users with most posts. And I bet (pun intended) they'd all stop posting the moment they don't get paid for it.

Last time I tried, I couldn't mine using CPU. There's not much left to mine anyway: the block reward is 0.01220703, and in some blocks fees are higher than that.

The problem is that someone manages to earn money from this. But I still prefer that over spamming the real Bitcoin blockchain to sell Ordinal crap, so indeed: let them do it