what if people have already asked this question a million times already?

you mean the opposite; Belarusian government has barely changed for something like 40 or 50 years. That's stability, not instability



I would

1. Remove any carpeting, add a wooden floor if there was not one already. Place miners in the partition beneath the wooden floor
2. Run the miners on a lower setting during the day as a cronjob (reduce fan noise)



in the short term, sure

but if Bitcoin is here for the long-term, then an entire generation of expert Bitcoin miners could emerge in Siberia. Sounds alright to me.

lol

this test cannot pass the "write some basic html/javascript" test

you've misunderstood the game


I once discovered that a troll (who you regularly engage) was posting for over 20 hours straight. That means a minimum of 2 people both have the login for that account, and must coordinate their responses in order that they do not contradict themselves when speaking as the single character they pretend to be


look at it another way

if you have good knowledge of Bitcoin, what is the most effective use of it?




you've likely spoken to them both, but they frequently register new usernames to troll BCT with

(khao77 is very likely Zin-Zang, aliashraf is very likely Anonymint)

@cryptojor

anti-virus is a pointless waste of space, just delete the av program


in the days when updating your system over the internet was unheard of, computer viruses sometimes did spread. in practice, they were still rare.


now, there are no malware threats that cannot be mitigated by simply choosing a secure operating system, and keeping it up to date. I've been doing exactly that for 10 years, any virus worth a damn would have stolen some of my BTC, and that hasn't happened.

this is true. i'm not paying 1 satoshi though



you only live once, why sell everyone out just for yourself?



It was when I discovered that the established media, financial system, academia and the justice system were housing a bunch of lying crooks that prop up a false narrative of how the government are just here to help you, when in fact they're squashing regular people's power, their ability to fight back, and murdering millions and millions of them instead

BitHodler, do you want to stand by and maintain that system? you have massively questionable ethics if so, that's the sort of thinking that gave us Apartheid or Nazi Germany. What wouldn't you do to save your own skin?

I'm already past my limit with the genocide, then lying to me and everyone else to actually attempt to convince me genocide is necessary. But you're cool with that?

---

"Cowardice asks 'is it safe?'
Vanity asks 'is it popular?'
Expediency asks 'is it politic?'

But conscience asks 'is it right?'
And there must come a time, when we do something not because it is safe, popular, or political
But because it is right"

I'm biased, but the people writing comments in this news section often have better information and better analysis than the so-called reporting they're commenting on. and it's ctually like that many places on the internet, good information is found in the comments not written by the ostensible professionals. it's like that phenomenon where teachers are usually useless at practical applications of the subject they teach

no it doesn't, it sounds entirely plausible

that's exactly what an astro-turfer would say!



indeed, you contribute all over the forum. one could make the argument that I am a former astro-turfer/troll-bukkaker covering my tracks, as I used to engage trolls too much, if only to identify them as such


@WindFURY and @DooMAD exist seemingly only to talk to the trolls though. They barely make any other posts.

between 500,000 and 1 million BTC

that's alot of benefits

we could call them troll orgies, or maybe troll-bukkake?


In this thread, Anonymint & Zin-Zang take a shit in WindFURY's mouth, WINDFury burps and says 'thankyou, more please!!!'

correct, it's actually lost some liquidity since it's peak



incorrect

the software development is the indicator of the network's maturity, and both updated clients and plans for new improvements are continuing

• Trampoline routing tackles routing scaling; nodes would keep a local routing map, instead of maintaining a map of the whole network, then they delegate routing decisions to other nodes with knowledge of their own locality
• Path splicing/permute-route will handle route failures quicker by continuing from the last known good point on a failed route, then calculating multiple possible routes from there (currently, entire route is re-computed on failure)
• Eltoo makes it impossible to steal funds with old channel states, effectively removing the need for penalties and watchtowers (un-cooperative channel partners can close an Eltoo channel, not use old states)
• AMP improves liquidity by allowing a node to use multiple channel balances to satisfy a single relayed payment
• Channel Factories allow users to collaboratively rebalance channels, without having to pay routing fees
• Statechains are not a Lightning specific tech, but could improve Lightning by enabling a 1 step setup for people who own zero BTC

There's SO MUCH stuff happening with Lightning, I'm sure I must have forgotten at least 3 or 4 other improvements.



So, hey, "journalists", any chance of you, I dunno, doing your job? Instead of other people doing it for you?

(for the record, pooya87 and ETFBitcoin actually do make contributions to the forum in addition to entertaining trolls)

@DooMAD


don't you think that when your account is 99% arguing with trolls, it makes you look like a fake?

i.e. you're only here to keep the trolling alive, not to stop it?




edit: "sometimes, the only winning move is not to play"

you're never going to be comfortable using something if you use it once, then don't touch it for several years



yes



keys can stay on Ubuntu offline machine.



it'll work, but you're giving up your privacy, who Microsoft will sell to anyone they like

what's with the "should" part?

I am defending my stance so that others can come to their own conclusions: in this thread, that you posted in

this is really a rhetorical point I'm making, but maybe it will spark a discussion


but certain users should be singled out for this behaviour, notably:


@WindFURY

@DooMAD

@ETFBitcoin

@pooya87

(perhaps other notorious users have been left out, I'll add later if I think of them)



So, would you like to explain your own personal answers to this question?

Question:

What is the difference between BCT users who argue with technical trolls

and

"astro-turfing" users who are actually working with the trolls to make it appear like there's still a legitimate argument taking place



Example: Segwit thread on Discussion sub


Answer:

Not much

no it isn't



speak for yourself

regulations get used to push small businesses out of the marketplace, and are hence a bad idea that only established/big businesses want



I'm not. I am a person. Other don't want it either, and choose to avoid it

Tell you what: you use it, if you want to. Don't tell me or anyone else what to do though



and it's already been adequately proven in this thread that protecting your identity is not just for crooks




wrong again



that's incredibly naive. thank god you've not got any power (one can tell these things)




terrible idea, the same old "we're protecting you" will really mean "we're protecting our friends"

you're wrong, again


economic power gives you more powerful rights than anything else can, rich people know this


you're basically encouraging everyone to simply accept a reduction in the power everyday people have, by giving up information about themselves to the most powerful people who are abusing the information to increase their own economic power, and may well abuse it in increasingly less ethical ways


it's not like you don't already know this at some level, but now I've spelled it out to you, will you continue to adhere to your point of view?