It seems this is kwukduck's idea of a dead cat bounce:

This is delicious.


I'm archiving this log as a permanent reminder of BU's incompetence.

No. The compass will just point in a different direction. Like it already does. Compasses don't point to true north/south and everybody who uses them for navigation knows this and how to correct for it.

What do you want, a merit badge? This isn't Girl Scouts. Adults don't get prizes for learning something as basic as how to use a map and compass. I know you think you're some kind of super-genius for figuring it out and I hate to burst your bubble, but everything you've said is common knowledge to most people over the age of 12.

No. What's to wonder about? Down is the direction a plumb bob points. Up is the other way. Don't tell me you spend a long time struggling to understand that gravity makes things fall down.

I know for sure. Bow down to my superior knowledge. It's because a compass makes it easy to find which way's south.

A better excuse is that, before compasses, it was easier to find which way's east, since that's where the sun and other heavenly bodies rise. In case you didn't already know.

The scientific term is "disintegration rays" and they're getting to your brain again. Life has gone on during past magnetic reversals and will continue going on when it happens in the future.

Everyone knows that, and everyone who uses compasses for navigation know how to correct for it.

It is well understood.

Wait, madam! You forgot your hat!

Because medical treatments aren't computers? That point is so obvious that only a complete moron would need it pointed out. Old treatments are still useful. I've used drugs developed in the 1840s. New treatments are less useful, as there has been less time to assess their efficacy and safety. Again, at the risk of stating the obvious, medical science progresses at a slower rate than consumer electronics.

If by "us" you mean people who believe in that quackery, then you're right. Nobody will be surprised by your passing, and nothing of value will be lost.

OP, don't believe the snake-oil salesmen who tell you you've got "nothing to lose". That's a lie. Only your body is lost. You've still got your possessions and soul to lose. Don't destroy your family's inheritance by wasting money on this nonsense, and don't destroy your soul by giving these quacks more resources with which to kill someone else.

"You have reported 2940 posts with 100% accuracy"



I've now reported more posts than I've made. Am I in the top 10 yet?

Natural intelligence (in brains) is known to be an emergent property of the complex connections between large numbers of relatively simple structures (neurons). Neurons are sufficiently well-understood to simulate their behaviour in software, though a human brain has about 100 billion of them, which is far too many to simulate on current hardware.

IPv6 typically doesn't use NAT, so other nodes can connect to you directly without port mapping. Does Bitnodes say you're reachable when you enter your IPv6 address?

In any case, you can disable inbound connections on all networks by starting Bitcoin Core with the listen parameter set to 0 (either on the command line or in bitcoin.conf). You can also limit the total number of connections with the maxconnections parameter.

That was a soft fork; the post you cite even says so in no uncertain terms, and it also explains the difference between soft forks and hard forks. Are we supposed to think that you are illiterate?

You're wrong. At the abstract level, transaction fees are the result of a transaction's output being less than its input, thus "destroying" the bitcoins. These bitcoins are "recreated" by the miner who includes that transaction in a block (this step is optional - some bitcoins have been permanently destroyed by miners not collecting the fees to which they're entitled). A transaction fee is fundamentally different from simply transferring bitcoins to a miner - in particular, it is impossible for the sender of a transaction to specify which miner will mine the transaction and collect the fee, which is radically different from traditional fee-based services.

A a more concrete level, which is what the OP was asking about, if you run a miner in the far future, when the block subsidy drops to zero, the miner will keep running, and keep producing income, for as long the owner is able to maintain it.

There's no need for me to discredit those who have ads in their signatures; they do that to themselves.

Andrei56 and DannyHamilton are correct. Although only 21 million coins will be generated, miners also collect transaction fees, which are already a substantial fraction of the mining reward and will never go away as long as people are still using Bitcoin.

As you are new to this forum, I should warn you that this is one of the few forums where users are allowed to include advertisements in their profiles and get paid to post. Most such users post without regard to whether their information is correct or helpful. Beware of misinformation from users with ads in their profile.

Impossible. There are currently only 448,582 blocks.

By "the blockchain", do you really mean "blockchain.info"? They're notoriously unreliable.

No, the hand is just a straight-up hoax, rather than an actual find that's been misreported. Someone obviously just took some bones and tissue from another creature and glued them all together with no regard for how convincing the end result is, which is not very. Note how the wrist bones appear to be a single large bone that was cleanly sliced into pieces, which were then arranged completely randomly and not attached to the fingers, or even each other. The guy in the video claims this is the result of the hand being crushed by a rock, but crush injuries don't result in bones being cleanly sliced up and rearranged like that. The X-ray looks absolutely nothing like an injured hand.

How gullible does someone have to be to believe something like that?

I think you'll find the atmosphere goes all the way down to the Earth's surface, thus distorting distant objects that are not in space. Such as aircraft landing and navigation lights.

The problem with making photography available to the masses is that the masses know nothing about photography. I've seen people use a flash to photograph the Moon, like they think that'll illuminate it better.

Can you create a script to construct sentences with English grammar?

No, what you need is a unique moral and philosophical outlook on life that potential members can relate to. Something to make them feel like they have a special purpose in the universe that can only be fulfilled by joining your cult. Many so-called "Satanic" cults withered into obscurity because they didn't come up with anything that hadn't been done better by other religions. So what has your cult got to offer?

Just an average party, then. Except I don't see any cake. That makes it a below-average party. You can't base an entire cult on that.

Because any company with more than one employee will, by definition, have expenses several times greater than the average income of its employees, since their salaries are part of the company's expenses. And a successful company will, also by definition, have gross income even greater than that. If your company's income is even remotely comparable to that of any individual working for it, you have a budget problem that can't be solved by skimping a few pennies in transaction fees.

For rapid international payment processing? I don't know that.

Sure you will. Competition is necessary to ensure market efficiency. As I told the OP, if you know of a cheaper system, you should use it.

I do not know why you think it makes sense to compare the overhead of a company to the income of an individual. Nor why you don't just include that overhead in the price of your services. Nor why you need to make 10,000 transactions a day in the first place. Nor why you don't just switch to a cheaper payment system, such as, um... uh... you know, one of those... cheaper ones...

On the contrary, that's exactly what it means. If your transaction fee is even slightly less than the cost of including your transaction in a block, miners have absolutely no incentive to do so, and your transaction will probably never be confirmed. That it why it is so important to pay the correct fee.

I say you're a cheapskate. I myself don't want to wait even one hour, and pay the maximum rate to ensure my transactions are included in the very next block, which typically costs about 5 cents extra for a grand total of 15 cents per transaction. I don't rightly know why people try to get away with paying less.