Probably. It certainly wouldn't be the first time scammers have pretended to be scam investigators. What better way to steal money from people who, not to put too fine a point on it, are "proven suckers"?

It's a standard part of police training to interact with actors pretending to victims or witnesses in fictitious incidents. Some departments even make cute little fake towns for this purpose. It's no secret. Doesn't everybody know that?

The problem is not that sig spammers can't write (bad English does not make a post spam), but that they can't (or won't) read. Half of all spam replies ignore what previous posters have said (often just answering questions after they're already answered, but bonus points for replying with questions already answered in the thread), and the other half are completely off topic due to not even reading the OP! My ignore list currently has 3,390 users and is growing at an alarming rate. This nonsense has to stop.

What's to be done about threads like this one? Pretty much every reply is from an illiterate sig spammer except for my reply calling them out (which didn't stop them, no doubt because they didn't read it - I don't know why I thought they might). The problem of sig spam has officially gone from "goddamn annoying" to "fucking ridiculous". Tell me again why we don't just ban paid posts like every other forum?

ITT: Sig spammers can't read the FAQ.

Our power grids are quite well-protected, thanks in no small part to NASA and other researchers keeping a (metaphorical) eye on what the sun's doing. There'll always be crackpots like you who misinterpret these alerts as representing some kind of danger that, for some conspiratorial reason, nobody else is warning about, but with the rise of public information and decline of public education, it regrettably can't be helped.

Nasty weather indeed. Best wear a coat if you need to go out before it clears up.

Pool pokémon are definitely bad; they're weak against lawn types, which are more common.

Obvious hoax is obvious.

A scammer, in other words.

It has to involve a nuclear reaction (specifically fusion, since you're adding a fuckton of extra nucleons) by definition. You've got an atomic nucleus, you make it react in some particular way, it's a nuclear reaction. You may as well talk about turning one chemical into another without involving chemical reactions, or turning something cold into something hot without involving heat.

Like the goose that lays golden eggs.

Or not. So much for no nuclear reactions. Incidentally, a tokomak reactor is an astonishingly impractical choice for a neutron source; I'm not sure why it was mentioned except to deceive laypeople. Not that the rest of the patent makes any sense at all.

It's hard to believe people actually fall for this nonsense.

What? Is a two-day weekend not good enough for you?

Yes it has. You even admit it.

But not exactly the same. You'd think God would send a proofreader.

Not much. After all, what difference does it make if there are 150 Psalms or 151? Or 155? It's close enough, right? And the Longer Ending of Mark 16 is just superfluous extra detail, right? It's not like anyone would make it a major part of their church service in an attempt to get closer to God. Nope, all the changes in the Bible are only minor and not significant at all.

They do. Live video of parliamentary proceedings is digitally distributed for public viewing using a newfangled invention known as "television", or "TV" as kids these days call it. You might have heard of it.

This article explains everything perfectly: nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/its-not-about-the-technology-its-about-the-money/

TL;DR: You're not missing anything. It doesn't seem to make sense because it really doesn't make sense.

Yes. Use coins mined in that block as one of the inputs.

Make double-spend attempts to yourself, sending to a different address on each chain. Since both addresses belong to you, you don't lose anything (except transaction fees) if it fails, and after you eventually succeed, coins from each address can only be spent on the corresponding chain.

Alternatively, if different consensus rules make certain types of transactions valid on one fork but not the other, just create such a transaction.

I live up the road from a quarry. I've seen exactly how "cost prohibitive" it is to move huge amounts of rock: not at all. Furthermore, it never has been very hard to move big rocks at any time in history. While I understand how such magical devices as wheels, ropes, and pulleys may seem like "great technology" to the simple-minded, I can assure you they're not.

Except they actually weren't. The consensus rule was (and is) that the sum of the outputs of a transaction must be less than or equal to the sum of the inputs, but the integer overflow bug meant the sums weren't calculated correctly. It's a bug.

The DAO =/= Ethereum. There is no bug in Ethereum. Instead, a poorly-written Ethereum contract sent money to someone the creator of the contract didn't intend, in exactly the same way that a poorly-written Bitcoin transaction can send money to someone the creator of the transaction didn't intend. This has happened many, many times in Bitcoin and nobody has suggested "undoing" poorly-written transactions, since that would destroy the usefulness of the system.

Everyone including you, it seems. It was a soft fork (which didn't specifically target any particular transaction, it just fixed the overflow bug).

Oh, you mean like how my tongue is the envy of lesbians? I get it now.

So gay men want to fuck women so badly they'll kill other men for the chance to do so? That just raises further questions!

Watching unfunny sitcoms doesn't make you gay. It just means you have terrible taste.

Ah, it's a secret. It's not that your rant makes no sense, it's that the explanation of how it makes sense is a secret!

Can we possibly find out without having to come for your pussy?

It is normal to see no addresses until you've actually, you know, created them. You can create a new receiving address at any time by clicking Request Payment on the Receive tab, or by going File -> Receiving Addresses and clicking New.

You should not move wallet files around while Bitcoin is running, except for saving a backup file using File -> Backup Wallet.

You say that as a joke, but it's actually true. Binocular vision makes it possible to see around objects by a few degrees; without it, objects physically occlude more of the background, thus appearing larger. That's why 3D porn is so disappointing.