Let me tell you something about eyewitness reports, though I don't expect you to listen. I once served on a jury in an assault case with many eyewitnesses, all of whom disagreed on various details about what happened, and who were all completely contradicted by CCTV footage of the incident, which showed it happened completely differently to how everyone thought it did, and which completely exonerated the accused. We returned a verdict of "not guilty" based primarily on the CCTV footage. If we had to rely on eyewitness testimony, we would have convicted an innocent man.

Eyewitness testimony is worthless. People misremember things, misinterpret things they do remember, and even outright lie. It is foolish and dangerous to rely on eyewitnesses.

I figured it was only a matter of time before BADlogic switched to straight-up death threats, though I suppose it's equally likely he's too stupid to know that consuming poison will kill you.

Bitnodes is not always accurate. If you have any incoming connections at all from other nodes, you are reachable. You can verify that the port is open by trying to connect to it from an outside machine (even just with telnet or something; you don't need another Bitcoin node for this).

What does this mean for Russian text that is legitimately posted in English sections?

Nope, Google Translate can't make heads or tails of it now. This could be a problem (though whether it's a bigger problem than plagiarism remains to be seen).

We have such a contest. It's called "Who can make the most insightful, informative, or otherwise useful post?".

I regret to inform you that you are not a winner.

Actually, the Most Baffling Thing is that the Universe is not balanced, at least with regard to baryon symmetry. Normally, whenever matter is created, equal amounts of antimatter are also created, and this should have been the case during the formation of the Universe, but it inexplicably wasn't. The Universe seems to be made almost entirely of matter, with barely any antimatter, and nobody knows why. It is hoped (mostly by those seeking the Nobel Prize for Physics) that new cosmological surveys and particle accelerator experiments will eventually explain this anomaly.

SegWit already quadrupled the maximum block size to 4 MB. Your argument is invalid.

Actually, most of the chlorine in swimming pools is (or should be) present as hypochlorous acid (HOCl), with free chlorine in the range of 2-4 parts per million, which is harmless (actual pool water nastiness occurs when hypochlorous acid reacts with organic contaminants in the pool to form chloramine and chloroform, which are not as harmless). Cl₂ is nasty stuff, and is the reason why a mixture of acid and bleach is not the miracle cleaning solution some people think it is.

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The amount of platinum used in electric cars is minuscule. Even fuel cells only use a fraction of the platinum as catalytic converters. It won't even come close to matching present demand.

For reference, making outgoing connections over Tor (including to other hidden services) only requires that you set the address and port of your Tor server as your proxy in Bitcoin's network options (or, equivalently, the proxy option in bitcoin.conf). It does not require that you run a hidden service of your own and no further configuration is required.

Cleavage doesn't mean much if it's the bottom half that's naked.

Half-naked, but not topless? Isn't that the wrong half if you want people to pay attention to the boobs?

It isn't. Ephemeral hidden services created via listenonion work exactly the same as static hidden services, and you can receive incoming connections through them (they'd be entirely useless if you couldn't, since they serve no other purpose). If you can't get listenonion to work, I would suggest checking the logs (both Bitcoin's and Tor's) for relevant errors.

I fail to see what any of this has to do with port forwarding, which is entirely irrelevant to running a hidden service.

The professional industry? Oh, you mean the "professional" industry. I see your meaning now. I wouldn't worry about it. The "professional" industry is always quick to adapt to changing technology. They're better at it than any other industry, in fact. Personally, I'm looking forward to this particular revolution.

Platinum has an odd place in the market because although it is regarded as a precious metal, most of the demand for platinum is actually for industrial and scientific purposes, so economically it behaves more like a base metal. In particular, unlike other precious metals such as gold, the price of platinum tends to fall during economic downturns, as demand for manufactured goods made from the metal drops.

The rise of electric cars is also starting to put a big dent in platinum demand - nearly half of all global platinum production is for catalytic converters, a market that will evaporate completely as fossil-fuel cars are phased out. This by itself probably accounts for the recent drop in the price of platinum, and it's only likely to fall further.

It's not needed, but it's often desirable to have nodes with a static .onion address, eg as fallback nodes.

Huh? It's not supposed to work. By default, public IP discovery is disabled when using Tor, for anonymity, so forwarding port 8333 is useless (doubly so if you bind to 127.0.0.1 instead of the address you forwarded the port to). If you want to be able to receive incoming connections over both Tor and clearnet (anonymity be damned), additional configuration is required. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish.

No, you can expect to see a lot of "Warning: not banning local peer" in your debug.log as well.

Yes, unless you specified a different local address in torrc. (Assuming you're running Tor and Bitcoin on the same machine, of course. Though if you are, I'm not sure where your previous error came from.)

10 incoming connections, in addition to the usual 8 outgoing connections.

Yes, if you get any incoming connections at all over Tor, it is working. You can verify that it's over Tor because the peer will appear to have the IP address of your Tor proxy server, with a random port. You can also telnet port 8333 of your hidden service (using torsocks) to verify that it is reachable.

I get that too. It doesn't seem to indicate a problem. Random connection failures seem normal for Tor.

It means you don't own that IP address. You're supposed to bind to one (or more) of your own addresses, specifically the one specified in the HiddenServicePort entry in torrc. Note that this is only necessary if you need to avoid receiving incoming connections on your other addresses (in particular your public IP address, if you have one, which would compromise your anonymity).

I usually have at least 10 or so, but it seems to be normal for a new hidden service to not see many connections at first.

No, you aren't. Consider identical twins, who have identical DNA yet are different people. You are not your DNA, or even your body. You are your mind. All of your experiences and memories as well as your personality, identity, and consciousness, everything that makes you you, is in your mind. Some say that the mind exists purely as function of brain activity, and that by precisely recording the state of all brain structures, a person's mind can be stored digitally. Others say that the mind has a non-physical aspect which many refer to as a "soul" or "spirit" which prevents it from being stored by physical means. In any case, storing your DNA is insufficient to recreate you as the person you are today.

Second. It's funny to watch the OP struggle to come up with original insults. Like "you little clit". How is that even an insult, anyway? I've always found clits to be fun to interact with for everyone involved; I can only speculate as to why OP doesn't like them.