It's always good to have a contingency for events that might lack clarity at first. However, it's not like we've needed it all that much in the past few years. Hence, the inactivity. theymos was quite clear what he intended to use it for.

I didn't have one in the first place, so that's always a plus. Although, I've seen this sort of response outside of the forum. Twitter will likely be transformed into something very different, whether that's for better or worse remains to be seen. However, a lot of existing users are deleting their accounts simply because they disagree with the political choices being made right now.

I believe Elton John may have voiced his concerns about censorship or misinformation on the platform.

As much as I hate to admit it, Khabib is only so well known due to the antics between him, and Conor. That got a lot of eyes on the sport, despite it being very WWE like. Khabib hasn't got the exciting style that typically entertains the fans. I mean, I've grown a little tired of the crowds booing every time there's a grappling exchange etc.

Conor did a lot for Khabib's image, and he got to come out of that little exchange on the moral high ground. I think this was around the time I was getting into the sport myself, I'm not one of these die hard fans that have been here from the start. The UFC is generally quite new. I for one, hadn't seen much of Khabib before then. Obviously, I've gone back, and watched them now.

Technically, even when you do understand the code, and verify it. You can't guarantee that the new code that you've used, despite being clean, won't be exploited by a potential attacker. It potentially increases the attack service of your browser.

So, larger modifications, and therefore more complex tend to yield more problems. However, the decision solely relies on the user, and their threat model. Plenty of users have modified their browser, including myself.

Merits are most definitely hit, and miss. Plus, don't get me wrong popularity does still play a factor in that. I think certain users have a real conscious way of distributing merit, while others are much more casual about it. Both are fine, since that's what creates the diversity to allow users to rank up.

I don't know what theymos' thought process was, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was a last ditch effort to shore up the forum, before the removal of signature campaigns all together, because they definitely do contribute a massive factor to the spam problem. I know theymos has previously stated he quite likes the idea of a sub economy on the forum, and I'd probably agree. However, there's a certain point where it becomes more detrimental, than positive.

I do think that the merit system has, and still is correcting the large amount of problems we had before.

Well, you probably do have a problem with centralised exchanges then. Since, they can never guarantee the safety of your coins, and I imagine in their legal terms they go into this in some depth.

Plus, you'd be surprised how many people lose important things, whether it's from neglect or making their passphrases too difficult. It's a slippery slope, and the majority of people have awful security practices.

Unfortunately, for Dana White; Paddy doesn't have the same sort of persona or skill set as Conor. Conor was so popular because of his loud mouth, but also he backed it up. He usually put people to sleep in the first or second round. If you can last longer than that with Conor you'll probably beat him.

Paddy is a little less eccentric, and doesn't have the same explosiveness in the octagon. He'll still be a star, I'm sure. However, Conor level? Probably not, and that's okay. People like Conor are rare, they're the perfect combination for the fans, and the money counters in the UFC.

I've run into this issue a few times while deleting posts. Although, I always put it down my old laptop that was running on 8-12GB ram, and trying to run several virtual machines at once. Thus, potentially the requests were bundled up together. Interesting that you'd run into it on a normal computer setup. Since, I've now got a better laptop, and haven't run into this problem in a while. Specifically, I run into this when ctrl clicking the delete button. Since, I've removed the prompts.

What exactly were you doing for this to ping up all the time?

If it was a virus, I'd recommend completely securing the device you had it installed on. What was it, was it a wallet pretending to be Bitcoin Core? You should only download from official sources, and verify it always.

Not enough users here verify before installing something. As soon as you execute the program you can probably consider yourself compromised, and since it wouldn't be easy to identify to what extent. It's recommended to take the complete wipe, and isolate approach.

What wallet file were you trying to download?

Even then, reaching post milestones is relatively easy, and could be done in a short period of time. I think the better way of measuring someone's achievements would be the impact they've had on others here. For example, there's a ton of users here that are known for what they've done to make this forum a better place. You only have to look at the community awards, and who gets nominated due to their achievements or impact that they've had.

Merit is another way; since that's generally only given for impactful or substantial posts.

It's the money that can be made here that's changed the perception of many users. Instead of being a place where you can discuss about something you're invested in, a lot of users are now here because they want to make money, and might actually not have much of an interest in Bitcoin itself.

As a trade off of this; a lot of users now think that your posts always have to be of the upmost importance, and of top quality. Which, is somewhat nice. However, it's unrealistic to expect every post you churn out to be gold. Instead, users should be posting because they have something to add, whether that's right or wrong. Instead, of posting out of necessity.

The amount of money that casino's, at least the very popular ones I don't think they'll be too concerned about the amount of energy usage they have. Remember, a lot of their games are guaranteed profit, so they'll know within a certain margin what they'll be taking in each day.

I'm also not sure why we'd be particularly concerned about casino's keeping their profitability? I imagine, the energy useage would be the last of their concerns, and it's more likely that people start wising up to casino games like slots, and start live sport betting instead, since you aren't guaranteed to lose money in the long run.

I like the effort, unfortunately a lot of the rule breakers aren't unintentionally breaking the rules, they just don't care. They're here for one thing only, and that's to make money. So, they probably haven't even looked at the rules, let alone attempt to do something like this.

It's also probably important to outline that a lot of us probably break the rules unintentionally from time to time. For example, off topic posts are almost common place. I think every user does this from time to time.

I think that's a little unfair. Many people lose passwords, banking details. The only difference is there's a safety net with fiat. I imagine a lot of the Bitcoin that was in wallets in the early days has been lost due to mismanagement of their private key. Especially, before Bitcoin made it into the mainstream spotlight, and didn't balloon in price.

I'd like to think that most people now know the importance of safeguarding the private key, but the reality is a lot of people are likely very lapse about it. Just as they're with other things when it comes to the security of it.

The thing is I wouldn't say these are reliable sources. Depending on what Youtube videos you watch, it could be a spool of lies or misinformation even if it's not intentional. So, I'd avoid Youtube videos unless they've been peer reviewed enough. There's simply just too much content out there that's just plain wrong.

Books are generally the best place to start as they've had enough people peer review it. The native language barrier could be a problem in that, but I still think Youtube videos aren't the best place to go about learning Bitcoin.

Try convincing them to store their Bitcoin with another exchange; its not going to happen. Wallets on an exchange should be a thing of the past now. There's been multiple discussions over the years about it, and I'd agree. It just doesn't make sense. Exchanges should be designed in such a way that you can't store anything on their platform. It's very likely that people start moving onto peer to peer exchanges with the constant downfalls of these centralised exchanges.

Unfortunately, these infulencers basically switch their opinion on a penny too. So, while many people probably thought it was good for publicity, and therefore adoption for these to be promoting it. There's always a motive, and it's money. They were directly getting paid for it, and unfortunately their involvement probably hurt Bitcoin more than it helped it.

Since now you've got them apologizing for their involvement, and promoting it. That's going to be there permanently. The NFT craze was mainly down to these Youtubers promoting it. That's the world we live in now though, people don't do their own research anymore, they listen to their favourite Youtuber.

99% is probably a sensationalist remark just to grab people's attention. In reality, that number would be much, much lower. Although, definitely a point to be made there.

Honestly, using fiat with a bank is probably the best idea for these types of people. There's nothing wrong with that, I do think banks get criticized a lot around here, and while I would generally agree with that. Certain circumstances they might actually make sense, and I think the senior person who doesn't want to take responsibility for their own money, and have scam/fraud protection built in; makes a lot of sense.

I know Satoshi is almost worshiped like a god around here. However, they're very likely a normal person or a collection of normal people, that decided to do something, and that's the difference. Instead, of coming up with a great idea, and not following through. They actually made a product, which you could argue has already changed the world. So, while I do think Satoshi should be idolized for actually doing something, I don't think painted them out to be this all being, and amazing figure is the right way to go about it.

I think there should be more draw too. We could still score it by rounds, but Carla vs Thug Rose comes to mind. No one won that fight. It was probably one of the worst fights I've seen, and there was basically no action whatsoever. So, in my mind I was hoping they scored that as a draw, since nothing actually happened. It was almost disgraceful how nothing happened that fight.

I don't see the UFC doing it though. It's very much a win or lose sport.

One of the reasons for the inactivity is that nasty leg snap though. Although, obviously he probably shouldn't be in the rankings, we all know that he's good enough. You put him against most of the fighters outside the top five, and he probably wins, and I'm hoping that's what Dana decides to do. Since, putting him against the top fighters is just going to tarnish his reputation further.

It's quite possible with some favourable matchmaking he'll start putting some wins together, and reach some of the heights he was at before.