I know that it is running on a custom version of SMF 1.1.*(19?) As per the footer;

SMF i think is primarily written in PHP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Machines_Forum
I'm not entirely sure if Bitcointalk also uses MySQL as primary DB, since this is all heavily modified. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case though.

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The new forum however is supposedly using AngularJS. (One could argue that that is also already pretty dated, since Angular 2 basically made JS obsolete (It's on LTS already.).

You can see the progess of the "new" forum software here, https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk

No, you don't. I tried a bech32 adress and it returned "Not a Valid bitcoin adress"


EDIT: Nested segwit adresses also don't work?


I'm sorry, but what reputation exactly? That you haven't scammed anyone yet? You're posting this from a newb account.

Might be an idea to escrow a certain amount of bitcoins by someone that is trusted within this forum to improve your reputation just a little bit.


So, how much exactly?
I see.

Too bad that there's no way to verify you actually have 112BTC 

Do i get 1% of the profit you guys made, or do i get 1% ontop of my original investing amount?

If it's the latter, it seems pretty obvious to me that this MUST be a ponzi? You can't garantuee 1% dividend daily. No company can...?

That's a yikes for me. There's no such thing as a legit business offering "garantueed profits" amounting to 1% a day. That would be 3,678.02% a year. Insane.


If you don't mind me asking.


Where does this metric come from? Is there any kind of transparency? Can you validate your claim that you have over 20k "Investors"? That looks sketchy as hell.

This heavily depends on what exactly you already know, and how much you want to know, but a good book that i've recently bought the paperback version off, (Mastering Bitcoin, Edition II) can be found here, https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

It explains in great detail the inner workings of Bitcoin, and some of it's future solutions. (Lightning Network, Segwit, etcetera.)

A site besides Bitcointalk which i think is particularily useful for any questions related to the technicalities of Bitcoin is; https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ You'll find many detailed answers here about a wide variety of questions. Definitely worth checking out if you want to know certain things.

Add blackmailing to the list of degenerate things you're doing... 

No, you're here to pollute the forum with your farmed trash accounts, and you're somehow rationalizing it by saying others are responsible for your actions.

Can you be more ironic than this? Pahahhahahhaha. That's coming from someone who farmed over 150 accounts and is now whining about not being able to sell them.

How am i, in any way, responsible for the accounts YOU sell?  

You're trying to do something that's "good" for your net worth, sure.

Is this how you rationalize things? Ho Lee Fuuk.

I don't think any "responsible" member needs 150 accounts. Good luck with that.

Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

Also i'm pretty sure you've harmed the forum already by "farming"(SPAMMING!) it with 150 accounts....? You probably churned out a million one-liners which are absolutely cancerous.


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But extorting the entire forum sure as hell isn't toxic  . - Buy my accounts or i will sell/give them away to scammers/spammers.

Do you have any idea how ludicrous you actually sound?

I don't think that it really matters "what good" they are for the people farming them, but rather how devastating they are for "real" users/visitors of said bots.

No one is going to bother reading those spammy topics. (I know i wouldn't). Longterm these accounts are really going to kill any organic discussion on said boards.

I've always had some ideas about creating something similar to this; but i really don't see how you can market this correctly to people. If it's not decentralized most people will call you a "Scammer"/ think you'll run off with their "Investments". Which is why it's good that you fixed that issue, still, a lot of people will probably still be very suspicious.

How exactly do you make money?

And; how is the market going to react to certain "memes"- apart from their popularity they have no ''function'' which will result in most if not all of them being a Pump & dump - your entire platform being a pump & dump.. -> Which will ultimately result in no one using/trading on your platform.

This would be ideal, however i highly doubt this is what will happen. That'd be wayy to predictable.

Anyway, i'll be keeping an eye on this. Could be interesting.

"Safety" is very, very relative.

For the average user, an exchange might be safer than using your laptop/pc, considering how many people might be affected by malware/keyloggers etc.

This however completely destroys the foundations bitcoin was once build on (Be your own bank etc), as you're essentially making use of the thing bitcoin sought to "destroy".

No exchange is 100% safe, so no. No wallet is probably 100% safe either, but here it is usually YOUR fault if something goes wrong, and you usually have a certain degree of control over it..
(Which isn't the case with exchanges. They control your private keys so your fate is 100% in their hands.)

Use Electrum if you're looking for a good SPV (A wallet which offers full functionality without the need of downloading the entire blockchain), otherwise Bitcoin Core will also be a good option.

Actually, there seems to be quite a massive change between certain exchanges. --

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitfinex/btcusd

Bitfinex is trading at 6710$ pBTC

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitstamp/btcusd

While Bitstamp & Coinbase are trading at roughly 6400$ pBTC

Are the deposits on Bitfinex disabled or what exactly is causing this massive difference in price when compared to other exchanges? I know that Bitfinex traded at roughly 7750$ earlier this week, but i've yet to find a cause for that.

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EDIT; got it. https://medium.com/bitfinex/fiat-deposit-update-october-15th-2018-18ddd276c3fd

Still; you should be able to arbitrage just fine right?

Regardless of deposits working or not (Which seems like a pretty huge indicator as to how good this site is working as awhole.), why do you use this site in the first place? You know this is a MLM scheme right?

You're ultimately going to get scammed.




- ''only 3-5 minutes a day'' -
- ''See the magic happen'' -

If those aren't two red flags to a site claiming to be able to let you earn thousands of $, i don't know what is.

I think it depends on what version exactly, i believe some older versions were/are not directly impacted by this vulnerability,  that said, it's never a smart idea to run w/ old software implentations.

So, yes using the last version is Definitely preferred.

The private key cannot be used for what exactly? Generating an adress? That sounds.. Anomalous?

I strongly believe/suspect that there are multiple "exchanges" in the Service Announcements board which pay people to bump their threads.

Most noticeably; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4971628.320

(This exchange also uses SMM panels to boost their following on twitter et al. Proof; http://archive.is/EP6bn, http://archive.is/GVqcL, http://archive.is/PzrmF click one of the eggs that retweeted their stuff, you'll see the accounts have since been blocked.)

And is overall just extremely shady, they have no users/traffic data but more volume than the likes of Cryptopia, but i won't go into that now.

This entire site is just a ticking bomb waiting to go off.

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What exactly can be done against this w/out concrete proof of them doing it? I know that there are some rules to prevent paid bumping, but how exactly is this usually proven?

That's still weird though. I don't think an old version should necessarily equate to the signature being found invalid?

It works just fine for me. Are you sure you imported his keys right?



This is how it should look;



It may say that his certificate is invalid or "The Data could not be verified". This is simply because i haven't created a key and used that to certify his public key. The signatures however are matching.
(I suspect this might also be the case with the data in your screenshot, although i have no clue how *exactly* the program you're using works, so i can't really tell..)

If you however want to do so, there are some great guides availabe; See https://bitzuma.com/posts/how-to-verify-an-electrum-download-on-windows/

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EDIT:
I verified his public key for the sake of it. It should look like this;

 

Traffics are obviously inflated. Why exactly are you selling this faucet? Is it no longer profitable? What's the reason?

Alexa has 70% of your traffic coming from USA. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/btcdrizzle.com#?sites=btcdrizzle.com

Similarweb has >5% https://www.similarweb.com/website/btcdrizzle.com#referrals

Care to explain how that's possible. Seems like you bought some alexa rank boosters.

Which shows 10k users.

Meanwhile your faucet only has 800 active users on Faucethub.io, uhhh? That's a lot of advertising (but only a 15% bounce rate )

A site that's even better in my opinion (both in design and content) is https://coinmarketcal.com/, you might want to check that out as well.

https://timecryptonews.com/ looks quite poor in comparison.

I've looked into the the error, and correct me if i'm wrong -- It's basically that Bitcoin Core was unable to detect correctly whether a transaction had been double-spend, or not.
This vulnerability seems pretty huge, but not huge enough for a mining company to let their entire reputation go to waste.

Although, that brings me to another question -- If there was no such "assertion" anymore, could a user somehow doublespend a transaction without the miners being able to identify that it is infact a  ‟double-spend‟ - and thus it being possible that said miners didn't know they were including an already spend transaction?

Or would this prevent that?

Whether it is still possible or not by network rules to accept/validate a block containing such a transaction -- I'm pretty sure that if any miner right now would mine/include/build such a block, it will be quickly orphaned, as the majority of the miners are not malicious, and the reputation of said miner destroyed.

Therefore it seems pretty unlikely to happen - if it still is even possible in the first place. (Which i'm pretty curious about? Is it? There's a fairly large share of nodes still running older versions.)

You can see the amount of nodes # per version here, https://bitnodes.earn.com/nodes/