It's certainly not meant for heavy use and I doubt they will have high speed for free plan.
Big negative side for their paid version is NO support for bitcoin payments.

I also don't have firefox account, but I think I tested it before with some temp email address.
They are probably trying to compete with Brave VPN and Opera VPN, and I doubt they will keep free version long term.

I'm not sure if everyone knows how to or is able to sign a message.
Originally, I wanted something relatively simple. But I will keep that option in mind, we will discuss it again at the end during a large debrief.

Which popular browser was the first one to add a free VPN? I think it was Opera, right? Or am I mistaken? This 50GB From Mozilla for free is an amazing offer in terms of free limit. It will be more than enough for many customers and for even those who sometimes stream, 50GB monthly will still be efficient. Which browser is the next? Chrome?  or Edge? Maybe unsupported Internet Explorer.

Anyways, VPN is becoming another form for browsers to get more money. I prefer Mullvad and IVPN over any browser company created VPN every day. Even though Mozilla is good, I still think this way.

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Guys, did you see new videos from Mullvad? Here is the link: https://mullvad.net/en/and-then

Yes, signing a key is good, but, I had thought like this: we sent the prediction to Halab via PM, and after everyone sent it, he published it on his message publisher..

But, I think that as it is good...

I was convinced that it was a joke, with accusations of possible earlier access to the PM publisher. 

This guide can help you LoyceV's Beginners guide to correct use of the Trust system.

People can trust or distrust each other and it does not mean if theymos adds you to the DT1 list, you will be a DT1 member. If there are enough other DT1 members distrust you, you will be out of the DT1 member list.

It is certain that it is so. However, for an online service, there should be some kind of team that will be supplemented when others have private matters.
Again, I respect that they are honest here and did not try to present us with a fake problem in order to cover up their own failure.

In 12 years show me where I complain other than notblox and holy. Look at my untrusted feedback. If I were so bad, there would be a lot up there.

Yes that is understandable. But you have to realize that the market is not strong at the moment, and we have been self-funding this for longer than a year now. We are serious, but practically we can't be spending all our time on this


Bills were missed 

50GB/month is rather big, if you don't download or frequently stream video. But as usual, it's weird to see Mozilla product (including their paid VPN) available in less country than their competitor.


I doubt it's worth it, sometimes i hear people claim their self-hosted email blocked or classified as spam by popular email provider (gmail, outlook and others).

Firefox just released FREE VPN service, but there is a catch.
You need to have Mozilla account, there is only 50GB free per month, it works only in browser, and rollout is gradual (not for everyone yet).
Currently there is only five locations to choose: USA, UK, France, Germany and Canada.


https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/built-in-vpn

I think Mailfence is supporting that, but I think they are not open source.
Self-hosted email is the probably the best option available today, but it's not free.

@LoyceV
https://logpaste.com/ seems to be down. It was offline yesterday as well. Maybe it's temporary or perhaps they won't return again. I have been looking for an alternative. What do you think of PrivateBin? https://privatebin.net/

Can you reconfigure your scrapper to scrap data from PrivateBin? Or if you have another suggestion, I am all ears...

I agree with you there. Just focus on the features and pros of your product and work on improving the cons without making unnecessary comparisons and starting useless drama.
I like to ride my bicycle from time to time, but I am not going to advocate or pretend that cars and planes shouldn't be used because they are not as safe as my bicycle, and I am also not going to go on a holiday with it.

Or connect it to your desktop via cable and use it that way. Using it wirelessly isn't a must if it doesn't work.

Even honest owners and developers of software wallets shouldn't make that argument regardless of how much they love the apps they make. They know there are better ways than that.

A smart man as well.   Putting newer users into a gang is stupid.

In addition to LoyceV's comment, it's worth mentioning that most of them can still be used while being plugged in.

+ Considering that most of them are compatible with other wallets, they can always opt for one of the so-called safer ones.

+ Some of them also give their users the option to use their own nodes.

Exactly and that's why I finally pulled the plug on them... I thought their app was unstoppable, but it turns out it wasn't that hard to stop them ^{[I just did]}: Select their app, then hit uninstall

I see what I saw..

You didn’t see it?

Just had the same problem now that I run bitcoind --testnet4 after a long time:

It's pretty clearly a block filter index issue. I'm very curious to know why LoyceV cannot reproduce this on his VPS. It's most likely a reorging thing. My node receives a chain that is reorged later, and the block filter index becomes corrupted for some reason. (Which is a semi-serious bug; reindexing testnet4 takes a few minutes, but mainnet can take a lot more time, if the user is unfortunate enough to shut down his node on a reorged mainnet block.)

You should definitely still be removed from DT1 so LoyceV doesn’t have to keep you on a leash.

Hmm... you caugt me on time as I take a quick trip back home before hitting gym.

You're one of the top 5 people on the forum whose opinion I weight with utmost regards, and you wrote me a long explanation that I digest with 30 chews. As such, I won't be ashamed to say that I stand corrected and there might be bias in exercising inclusion and exclusion on my TL. Removing him now.

 no...
 I'm just another viewer appreciating and vibrating a lot
 with this very important event that is happening
in the Wild West of social networks... hehehee..

but I hope to continue watching closely and
I don't want to receive your rmalus and have to watch from afar hehehhe

What did you see when you got to Saturday this week? I’m i eliminated or still in the game after stealing your life 

But...

   -I choose LoyceV. !.
  /


                                                          
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                                                            -Take .25% malus!!

Before I joined the forum, I knew about Bitcoin but it was just on the surface. There wasn't anything deep about my knowledge of Bitcoin and Bitcoin investment. It was on the forum that I learnt most of the basics of Bitcoin from which I grew from them to my current level of bitcoin knowledge.

The forum is very helpful especially when you're intentional about learning from here. Apart from Bitcoin, you'll learn about cryptocurrency in general and other helpful knowledge you'll need to improve your depth and versatility. There are a lot of experienced users that you can always learn from almost all their posts like @JayJuanGee, @LoyceV, @Fillippone @BlackHatCoiner etc. On local board here, @CryptopreneurBrainboss @igebotz @Charles-Tim and few others are also very good in impacting helpful knowledge when you read from them.

You do have a valid point, but imho in the same way people are not perfect, this trust system is also not perfect.
Sadly I don't have a really good idea how to make it better, but maybe some kind of "separation of powers" may be of help and maybe this is one new such power/estate, if done properly.

I don't know if the idea was thought well, maybe 1miau needs more time or some help with good ideas instead of negativity... I somehow hoped for more support for the good intention, at least...

Why did he played with people's feelings? I also welcome him back but he need a slap before hugging him.


This is not an invitation if he said not pm you first about it.

Before anything, I would like to say a very warm WELCOME BACK to 1miau! I am glad to see him returning...


About this project, I am very honored to see he considered to assign me as a co-founder but, to be honest, this took me by surprise, as we did not talk anything about this before the thread was launched. lovesmayfamilis was right... I did not know about this.

In any case -- and I am saying this as gently and polite as possible -- I will have to decline this invitation. I share the opinions of LoyceV and of nutildah (at least first line of his post).

So while I am touched to see that 1miau took me in consideration, I will not be part of this.

Hey, I didn't ask for any of this!
Just pick someone else to steal a life from

That’s a possibility I have considered. But I don’t think LoyceV would risk his reputation for this game. That would be stupid.
To avoid any risk of cheating, you can wait for LoyceV to submit his prediction first, and then make yours.
We could make a special rule where LoyceV has 2 hours before the deadline to submit their prediction. I don’t know what time zone you are in, but that would give you at least 2 hours to react.
Is that okay with both of you ?

So LoyceV is apparently going to see my prediction 

Let the battle between Hypnotizer and LoyceV begin !!
For this special round, you can only make one prediction via LoyceV’s PM publisher.
The winner of this round will not lose a life and will also win 10BTC. Unfortunately, the loser will lose a life.
The other participants can take a few days off.

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Round 16.5 : The duel round
What will be the price of Bitcoin at April 29, 2026, 12:00:00 AM (BTC closing price on 28/04/2026) ?
Submit your predictions before April 27, 2026, 06:00:00 PM.

Cash shop: OPEN (only for the duelists).
 
Special rules : None

what was weird in my case is that I posted your guide for negative trust and it was more or less just ignored.

Let’s get the duel started….

due to popular demand, I’m going for LoyceV even though I know I probably will lose but I want to get eliminated in dignity.. 

..poor examplens, 1% malus threw him away,
I didn't even need to have spent my btcs hehehee...

- but @Halab,

 I want to see the duel between Hypnotizer and L0YcYv hehehehe, !!!!!111

and even so I'll want to buy life now, because I want to feel
with both feet inside this game!!

-waiting for the duel to start!!

Round 16 is now over, here are the results :

Closing price on 25/04/2026 : 77 619$

Name	Prediction	B/M	Final prediction	Difference
ESG	76 930,84	0% malus	76 930,84	688,16
cryptofrka	76 750,00		76 750,00	869,00
Pmalek	76 407,00		76 407,00	1 212,00
examplens	78 260,00	1% malus	79 042,60	1 423,60
Leahized	75 120,00		75 120,00	2 499,00
Hypnotizer	75 098,45	0,25% malus	74 910,70	2 708,30
LoyceV	82 194,65		82 194,65	4 575,65

                              

ESG, this round is definitely yours. Your rules, your win, your 50BTC.
But I’m going to add a little house rule (the situation forces me to, nothing personnal). ESG, with those 104 BTC, are you buying a second life now ? 
If so, you will be eligible to be chosen for the duel (round 16.5).
If not, I won’t allow you to spend those 104BTC until after the end of round 17. You will always have your 104BTC. I promise.

Ho no LoyceV, you are the last one. What a loser. But your protection is effective, so you don't lose anything.

Hypnotizer, you didn't have enough BTC to cancel your malus. But you should also have given yourself a bonus to keep from losing your last life.
Your participation in this game is hanging by a thread. You have one last chance with the duel card.
We will wait for ESG's decision to see who you can challenge to a duel.
For now, you can challenge :

Name	Life(s)	BTC	Comment
Leahized	♥♥	97	Hunter's card
LoyceV	♥♥♥	25

and maybe ESG.   

You so lucky, Closer to your prediction. You will see it soon.

Let's see here, What's going on with LoyceV.

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That's great news, indeed! 1miau, if you receive this notification, welcome back!!


Fixed!

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As LoyceV pointed out, this is a pretty purposeless endeavor as this type of problem is already handled by DT. If you disagree with the way DT is doing things, you should speak up about it. Aside from a few outliers, we are pretty amenable to considering new input.

Plus its kinda weird to have claimed your account was "dead" and then change your mind about that. I guess it was an over-dramatization.

Saving to afford my third life..

Also this PM round doesn’t give you that adavantage luke when it’s public..and I’m kinda somehow busy this few days.

uhm…I realized that too late, that is why i probably would get eliminated along the way..


I saw what you did there…

But it really doesn’t matter since no one can probably ever break that record before this battle ends.

You are very welcome in our alliance.

Many thanks for your feedback.
The alliance will be decentralized where every unique feedback according to DT standards comes into play.

The are no rules exept the guide from LoyceV about how to leave trust.
The alliance is rather ment a defensive one, which should protect against unjustified feedbacks simply to make it unattractive to unfairly accuses and unjustified negative trust.

Golden words. Let me recall one user with the nickname "Ratimov." The guy worked so hard to achieve fame. Dozens of new open and seemingly useful topics, the most generous merit source for beginners, and the best reporter, he competed hard with many in the knowledge of the "best." But alas, how did it end? His fame only brought him problems, as his vanity grew to such a point that those around him turned into plebeians, after which he left the forum with swearing and insults.

Is this what the forum wanted? Those who come to the forum just like that, without ambitions but being sincere, will not rush to power or anything else in order to rise up and get some "buns" as soon as possible. And others, trying to create competition here and there, end up rather stupidly.

After all, the saying is that "the higher you fly, the more painful it is to fall"; for some, it sometimes becomes a good conclusion for their lives.

If the price of bitcoin ends at 78000 today, with you will have a duel. Hypnotizer has 0,25% malus. And you will be lose a life. Hahaha

Another question,

that may survive to the end, he will be get the reward?

Man, you sabotage me every round.
Just wait until I win one, revenge is served cold. 

-Still has a chance to win again.

I honestly thought you'd offer Leahized money and protection for the Hunter card.
Other than that, going for the most bullish (or bearish) prediction and protecting yourself was the only play.

Glad you went this route, now I hope Leahized loses a life so we can discuss the Hunter card. It's difficult to negotiate when people feel safe

Ha.

I'm pretty sure there's literally a million posts with a variation of hOw dO i lEaRn aBouT bItCOin?

It has never been easier to learn about something. You don't even need to find the right website anymore, Google will answer your questions for you. At the same time, I don't think people have ever been more lazy. We're gearing up for an interesting future.

I just realized that examplens' PM was indeed sent, but it doesn't show up on LoyceVs' PM publisher page. So I'm posting this screenshot as proof of his prediction :

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Everyone has sent their PM, so here are your predictions for round 16 :

Name	Prediction	B/M
Hypnotizer	75 098,45	0,25% malus
Leahized	75 120,00
Pmalek	76 407,00
cryptofrka	76 750,00
ESG	76 930,84	0,00% malus
examplens	78 260,00	1,00% malus
LoyceV	82 194,65

                  

And the user protected by LoyceV is... LoyceV !! It’s easy to see why he’s so courageously bullish this time .

i like to read the forum. i like to merit posts. i go many days without posting.

so the current "Recently" on "Last forum visit" in my profile is useless. the merits give me away.

LoyceV had a good suggestion; the forum/script collects a users merits to send as he reads them and only send them the next post. as posting obviously needs to be real time. but me sending merits does not have to be real time, they can wait till the next time i post. so the merits from me to others would suddenly pile in at once.

however the forum currently lacks this capability. odd for such a wealthy forum.

I added the server when I wanted to know if Cake can pay sub 1 sat/vbtye fee but it was not able to. I have changed to 2 other servers and one other that has the name of cake wallet but all are not working. I decided to leave it on one if the servers and I restart the wallet and it showed the balance.

But I am confused because the node I added which was the last on the list was shown to be working:

It's not a big deal it's sometimes either a derivation path issue or a syncing problem. All the times I've faced this issue on cake wallet you just have to continue refreshing the wallet it will eventually display if it doesn't you can close the app and re open it probably a couple times it fixes itself.

Anytime I hear mycelium I get a stomach ache lol... It's literally the king of derivation path issues and that's a newbie killer. Nonetheless the only wallet I've never really had similar issues with is ELECTRUM.

Hide prediction is dangerous for me. save me this time.

If I can win once without losing my life, maybe I will be stronger, like you

They can join social media for finding job opportunities and can use their personal photos, with information about their occupational skills and previous job positions. These things are necessary for their accounts but if they care more about privacy, they won't post more sensitive personal information than these ones, and DON'T flex their lives on social media more than what is most necessary for job finding accounts.

Like LoyceV once posted that he taught his kids don't post personal photos on social media.

Privacy is really hard to protect especially with Internet and many social media platforms now but there are things to learn and apply for better privacy.
https://bitcoin.org/en/protect-your-privacy
https://bitcoiner.guide/privacy/
https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/privacy.html

more for fun, nothing against you man, you are sure to take advantage
 that you will already take 0.75%M,....
 
 the situation of loyceV with three lives is worrying....

But surely now the protégé will be him,....

As for me, I'm one foot in, and the other foot out of the game....hehehe  lets fun!

Take it easy, man, I'm not the one threatening. LoyceV has 3 hearts, plus he uses some twilight zone methods 

You may want to correct your sentence to include the crucial missing word: "... have not ever mined an empty block."

Recent data on this page https://mempool.space/graphs/mining/pools shows that MARA Pool has mined 4 empty blocks in the time frame of last 6 months. So, naturally your cited report from 2024 is outdated. Foundry USA has indeed so far never mined an empty block. Only 4 empty blocks for MARA is still a pretty low value. And yes, it's a bit off-topic.

@LoyceV
I have no data and evidence that Foundry suffered a network disruption. Foundry saw both later staled blocks from competing pools, even mined shortly on top of them (it's briefly mentioned in 0xB10C's blog according to broadcasted Stratum work jobs by Foundry). But for some reason Foundry quickly abandoned mining on top of foreign blocks.

I can understand that because AFAIR Foundry found pretty quickly an own block 941881 (anchored to their own 941880) very shortly after Antpool's 941881. After this I don't remember atm the further facts.

If I didn't get it wrong, it makes no sense to me if and that Foundry saw ViaBTC's block 941882 (anchored to Antpool's 941881) and presumably mined very briefly on top of it depending on the timestamps of arrival of Foundry's 941881 and later Foundry's 941882 and ViaBTC's 941882.

To better argue, I will need to find the time and passion to compile timestamps from others what was published in the blog posts I provided links for.

When Foundry found their block 941883 and later 941884 plus 841885 anchored to their own sequence of blocks, the fate of the foreign pool's blocks was sealed and the "foreign" two-block chain branch got staled.

Foundry likely got a bit lucky, but there's still something odd, IIRC. But I need to compile the timestamps to better see the picture. May take some time as it's not the most urgent thing for me.

My point is not to accuse Foundry. I just find it interesting and in the last few years where I watch and monitor the blockchain somewhat more closely a more than one stale block branch hasn't happened. It's very very rare and that makes it interesting to look even closer. Thank you all for your patience and contributions so fare here.

I strongly disagree. That is just a glorified popularity contest IMO. It's fun for the community to participate in and I think the community enjoys it.

Users are definitely recognized via merits, some users are added to trust lists as they have demonstrated good judgement and have shown to be trustworthy, others like LoyceV have tons of information threads that people reference when others have a question which IMO is a great way to recognize a persons contribution to the forum.

At the end of the day, most of the well respected could care less about the pat on the back recognition, but the guys trying to come up are looking for a pat on the back. Do they really need it? You do good, you act accordingly, you help out where you can, you'll be known as a good user. Simple really.

What we need is something like demerit.


Legends even did not need merit to contribute to the forum years ago, and merit system was launched only because of spamming in the forum escalated to very high annoying unacceptable level in 2017 and 2018.


Forum needs demerit source applications against bad merit sources and official demerit too.

• LoyceV's deMerit source application
• Merit source unapplication
• SmartGold01 merit source or farmer?

High priority = I want my transaction confirmed in the next block and I don't want to risk having to wait longer.

They recommend 2 sat/vbyte, you pay 0.5 sat/vbyte and gets a quick next block confirmation, sure. But there was probably a non-zero risk of having to wait 10 extra minutes for a second block.

Right now:

-Mempool-
No priority 0,2
Low 0,2
Medium 0,5
High 1

-Electrum ETA-
Next block 3.2
Within 2 blocks 2.1
Within 5 blocks 1.2

I couldn't get < 1 sat v/byte with any option (i.e Mempool).

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