Was it a forum cliche or a fat fingered phil. Sent merit to wrong person.

[philipma1957]

Will set this up in a minute.



Merit summary for philipma1957

Merit: 1864

Sent in the last 120 days

Today at 07:12:11 PM: 4 to ryanc for Re: Super BrainFlayer 2019 - Enormous Blooms, Gigantic Text-Files, all BTC ADDRESSES


Today at 07:10:38 PM: 4 to btc-room101 for Super BrainFlayer 2019 - Enormous Blooms, Gigantic Text-Files, all BTC ADDRESSES


Today at 07:09:56 PM: 2 to gmaxwell for Re: Super BrainFlayer 2019 - Enormous Blooms, Gigantic Text-Files, all BTC ADDRESSES

he is op and I simply don't understand how he got merits  when I was trying to send to ryanc

I was looking to give this person 4 merits.

I am the the author of Brainflayer. Please be aware that this poster is violating my copyright, and any software they offer (if it exists at all) may include malware.

Brainflayer is not free (as in speech) software. Distributing modified versions of it (with the sole exception of forked repositories on github) is illegal. Distributing precompiled binaries is illegal without exception.

As gmaxwell pointed out, a lot of what was posted by btc-room101 is "technobable nonsense".

and give gmaxwell 2 merits

Here is where I post the standard warning:

Bitcoin "hacking" tools have frequently been used to spread malware.

We could make some guesses as to why: Someone creating actual hacking tools is likely to be someone with missing or unusual morals-- if they'll hack other people, why not you?  People who want to use hacking tools are also victims that people won't necessarily feel too bad about ripping off.  The greedy impulse of potentially stealing some Bitcoin may also blind people to being properly sceptical about what they're downloading and running.

Whatever the reasons are, it happens.

Often the 'hacking' tools are not just not real, but they're technobable nonsense.  Other-times they are real, but with an unwelcome surprise inside.

In this case the post sets off a number of red-alarms, for example "64gb bloom filters" make no sense at all. There are about 500k unique output addresses, a filter with a one in a million false positive rate is about 2MB in size. The author's other posts are full of other technobabble nonsense, like "ECDSA primes".

Consider yourself forewarned.

Some how  op got 4 merits.  not quite sure how it happened. was one an ipad and suspect I did something wrong.

Sooo has anyone had merit giveaway glitches?

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Sooo has anyone had merit giveaway glitches?

I did in the early days of the system, and I think it was because I'd reloaded the merit pop-up screen after giving someone merits--it's been so long that I can't recall what happened, and I do believe that problem was fixed (but I could be wrong).

Not a big deal if you've got enough merits to send, though it's definitely annoying to hand out extra merits when you didn't mean to.  I don't think it was your fat fingers, btw.  Mine are like shredded pepperoni sticks and I still manage to not make the mistake I made way back when.

[suchmoon]

Sooo has anyone had merit giveaway glitches?

I've fatfingered merits once or twice... happens to the best of us. I don't believe there is a system glitch that would send merits to the wrong post.

[philipma1957]

Serves me right for using the ipad mini to give merits. I will stick with the pc for now.

[Steamtyme]

Were you opening multiple tabs then going to merit them? Easy to get confused and open the wrong one, especially if you only accidentally clicked the merit link while scrolling. You would have to take note of the receivers name, and I know I rarely double check I have the right person... never really though to.

I did always find it a little odd that the post you are meriting doesn't appear as a preview or quote somewhere on the page. It could even be a feature you could toggle for those that don't want it.

[philipma1957]

Were you opening multiple tabs then going to merit them? Easy to get confused and open the wrong one, especially if you only accidentally clicked the merit link while scrolling. You would have to take note of the receivers name, and I know I rarely double check I have the right person... never really though to.

I did always find it a little odd that the post you are meriting doesn't appear as a preview or quote somewhere on the page. It could even be a feature you could toggle for those that don't want it.

Ah the ipad mini 5 can do weird shit. 

I simply don't understand how it happened. It is annoying  that he got some merits when he should be tagged