We're developing a new startup. We want to monitor activity of shills who're trying to crash the Bitcoin project.

This has the huge potential to save Bitcoin - believers' time because they don't have to waste time reading the same
copy pasted arguments and FUD over and over.

Responding to the sockpuppets is a waste of time, they shill full-time taking shifts in the cubicle and their asses are covered by mods and upvote/downvote robots.

We want to measure using a scientific method the intensity of shills and collect proofs of various events of interest (sockpuppets, downvote robots, censorship on "uncensored" boards)

If we discover what boards are "taken over" we save time by notifying everyone of this, quit visiting, and turn the boards into the echo chamber and circlejerk it is.

Here is a proof of concept home page:

Yes Satoshi is here.

Yes assuming segwit is widely used, old signatures could be eliminated on non-archival nodes. Reduces disk space.

Bitcoin will still be here in year 2100. Dollar? Maybe

I think the segwit pruning would help much more than this. The gains should be on the order of 50% reduction.

I'm sorry, care to elaborate? I forgot why you're ignored

Yes and they secretly mine using it That explains the high difficulty

You're right.

Let me just add, as a reference, these people have been testing crypto hash functions in the lab, SHA256 since 2004.

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/shs/shaval.htm

So for example they tested in 2004 the 234 F-Secure® Cryptographic Library for Windows 2000 . If you are interested you can buy this product and test if it's the indeed the same function Bitcoin uses. Protip: yes

Let's talk. What would they do? Open that file and change one of the numbers? Then fake all books about crypto and update it on all websites?

What type of Backdoor? Collision? Partial Collision? Second pre image attack?

Are you aware that SHA256 and RIPEMD160 are the most heavily scrutinized cryptographic hash function out there?

This is the whole thing:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/zfs/zfs-59/zfs_kext/zfs/sha256.c
Just one table and two procedures. Care to explain to us what may be hidden in there?

 BlindMayorBitcorn & Fatman3001 are shills

Classic REKT here we go

This post is my opinion.

The hard-fork / blocks are full narrative seems to be U.S social media specific.

There could be events like western media articles (Remember `Hearn quit` and `Bitcoin is Dead`). This could affect the demand.

But other events can have a decisive influence. Russia and E.U deployed bail-in legislative, if bank runs occur this could lift Bitcoin.

To comment on the original issue, I feel that Chinese miners need to take this situation into account.

What Chinese could do is to mine smaller blocks or upgrade the spam filters. This could debunk the "Blocks are Full" myth.

For example you could deploy 0.5 MB blocks (block size decrease) during the 1.4.2016 fun day. You could spam Dogecoin and release fun articles that people are moving to Dogecoin. The core team could release Block Size Decrease to 0.5 MB BIP.

Certain topics are taboo on the r/btc board
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Yes that would be possible. But again I'm not a physicist so I can't really argument the many proof of work chain stuff.

Well failsafe could be good, but then Bitcoin and Bitcoin Backup would be almost 1:1 copies so if there's some fundamental flaw, both would suffer from it.

The way I see it we have Bitcoin, the strongest kid on the block, and the rest are fads.

Attacks on altcoins would be whack-a-mole, fight on Bitcoin would be a real fight with real troops trying to shut down mining farms around the world. It's basically the same kind of fight for cheap natural resources that we had for millennia.

we can't have many proof of work blockchains, under the assumption that mining hardware can be sufficiently programmable or replaceable.

Why? Simple, the miners from the strongest blockchain (where mining consumes the most Joules of energy), can change/reprogram the mining chips and "hop" to the weaker chain and cause havoc, double-spends, then hop back.

Many proof of work block chains only works in the universe where there are different possible proof of work functions and the hardware is tough to engineer.

In this case there would be 1 chain per mining algorithm. This is why Lite and Doge is in my opinion an anomaly. The Lite miners can jump to doge and cause havoc any time.
From a different point of view Doge was meant to be a joke so the Doge people know about it and it was their goal to create a shitty "fun" coin from the start.

Of course things like X11 are pure pile of shit because The chain is only as strong as the weakest link, so if one of the algorithm is prone to collision then the whole function is not strong at all. Furthermore assembling hash functions in this manner may be weak because of the interaction between two or more successive functions. Putting on a tinfoil hat, if we are unlucky these successive functions could cancel each other collsion resistance in an unknown manner, that the creator couldn't predict.

Looking from a different point of view, it's good that we have so many shit coins. This is consistent with the bad money drives out good money theory. People hoard the strong coin and circulate the shit coins because

Altcoins follow the Worse is Better programming philosophy. After the PUMP phase their value drops forever so people are forced to spend them, similiar to Quantitative Easing or negative interest rates. This generates real economic activity on the internet.

At the peak of it's popularity, in October, 0.8% of miners voted for BIP 101

As of today, 0% of miners vote for BIP 101

You are right. This is why the block 395783 has 974.8271484375 KB

They packed it full of some transactions, it's not exactly full but it's obvious that all these miners respect the 1MB limit.