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1. Post 67229870 (unedited backup) (by *Ace*) (scraped on Sun Oct 11 19:29:19 CEST 2026) in Brief monthly overview of the local board activity:
I'm interested in seeing the effect of sigbanned users on each board. The number of sigbanned users for each board is a start. It would be interesting to see how many posts and merits those users were involved in over the last few months. Run your reports again without including those users.
Ok I created a tool where it analyzes the activities of users who have received the sigban, counts the uid per board id, how many posts they have written, how many Merit received and how many Merit they have sent
You can find it in brdb.cc/explore and then clicking on the sigban analysis tab
I hope this is what you were talking about. You can choose a timeframe of 30 days, 120 days, or all time, but the latter will count towards approximately 31 million posts. I don't have all the history of Bitcointalk, about 45% so the count is only indicative on all time
Very nice.
it would be nice to have the list of the users on each board, so i can know, for example, who was the sigbanned user that wrote on the italian board.
also
- What is board #0?
- I understand you are italian, but please use the comma as thousand separator, my eyes are bleeding
I can enter the names of the sigbanned users and display them as banned or crossed out if it helps you.
I believe board#0 contains deleted posts but I have the metadata for them. When I imported the post titles from loycev, many had already been deleted. So I couldn't get the board where they were written and for convenience I grouped them by board #0 which doesn't exist on Bitcointalk
At school they taught me that the "." is to delimit thousands and the "," is to delimit decimals.
Unfortunately, it's a professional deformation and it's difficult for me to do otherwise.
2. Post 67229216 (unedited backup) (by Cricktor) (scraped on Sun Oct 11 15:27:13 CEST 2026) in How do we define "airgap" around here?:
So for the truly paranoid, make your computer shut down when someone opens your door, when you get up from your chair, or when your window shatters. You won't have time to lock it when you're disoriented from the bright explosion.
OK, this is a bit too far down the paranoia rabbit hole for my taste. I don't believe this is any near a realistical attack scenario for a crypto wallet user.
I can lock my computer within a second or so, have to do it countless times while on work when I have to leave my desk. Hitting the right keys is probably already deeply engraved in muscle memory. Still, likely won't help me, I'm shure I'd fade out being scared to death and/or stunned completely if a flash grenade went off in my room. WTF, on every level of imagination!
OK, let's build a bunker panic room and do our crypto wallet stuff there and only there. [sigh!]
3. Post 67228607 (unedited backup) (by joker_josue) (scraped on Sun Oct 11 11:00:13 CEST 2026) in How do we define "airgap" around here?:
As for air gapped.
Remove wifi
remove bluetooth
Remove ethernet.
I finally did it! I found a laptop that wouldn't make me feel bad if I accidentally broke it in the process.
The ultimate paranoid airgapped offline laptopWell, looking at your account, I think I must be a very careless person.
I'm starting to get lost, not knowing which way to go...
4. Post 67228541 (unedited backup) (by joker_josue) (scraped on Sun Oct 11 10:32:55 CEST 2026) in Reports about wallet-draining by Ledger users. Total losses $86M+:
How's this scenario:
- Someone knows you own a hardware wallet (thanks to a data leak).
- Someone breaks into your house and swaps your hardware wallet for a compromised device with esim broadcasting "feature".
- You don't notice anything wrong, and use your hardware wallet.
- The moment you enter your PIN, it's broadcasted to the thief, who has your real hardware wallet and steals your coins.
This kind of scenario is a fairly systematic scenario, we already know how the main flow is,
we have already discussed it, starting from the data leak that occurred and became an early warning that there was something wrong with Ledger and all those affected
Some users have already discussed how to check the integrity of Ledger hardware whether or not it is safe from spy devices, keyloggers and the like.
Image Source: Generate AIWell, this type of scenario has always been possible; it wasn't necessary for this kind of event to happen.
Furthermore, something like this can happen with any brand, be it Ledger, Trezor, or any other.
They'll say the problem is that Ledger had customer data leaked. Yes, but apparently it's happened to other brands too; there are also logistics companies that deliver the orders.
Finally, if we go down this path, I think the best solution starts with memorizing the seed. Only then can we avoid external factors.
5. Post 67228351 (unedited backup) (by TheButterZone) (scraped on Sun Oct 11 08:22:31 CEST 2026) in LoyceV's 0.1 sat/vbyte Electrum Server Adventure:
If you can find a way to enable "label sync" plugin in that Text UI, you can use labels_pull and labels_push commands to sync it with you original wallet's labels.
I couldn't, there's no setting for label sync inside the TUI, and I can't find it in text.py either. Even after enabling 4.5.8's LabelSync & doing a force upload of that wallet, then opening the wallet remade for 4.8.2 TUI, same LoyceV server set between the two of them, TUI didn't auto-sync either.
What I ended up having to do is this, after I exported walletname_electrum_labels.json from 4.5.8 GUI:
import json
import os
import sys
import getpass
# Add your Electrum source path so Python can find the package
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.expanduser("~/Electrum-4.8.2"))
from electrum.storage import WalletStorage
from electrum.wallet_db import WalletDB
wallet_path = os.path.expanduser("~/.electrum_482/wallets/walletname")
labels_path = "/Users/Batman/Desktop/PGP/walletname_electrum_labels.json"
# Load storage and decrypt if encrypted
storage = WalletStorage(wallet_path)
if storage.is_encrypted():
password = getpass.getpass('Wallet Password: ')
storage.decrypt(password)
# Initialize WalletDB with decrypted storage data
db = WalletDB(storage.read())
# Load exported labels JSON
with open(labels_path, "r") as f:
labels = json.load(f)
# Update the database labels dictionary
wallet_labels = db.get('labels', {})
for key, label in labels.items():
wallet_labels[key] = label
db.put('labels', wallet_labels)
# Write the updated database dump back to storage (re-encrypting if necessary)
storage.write(db.dump())
print(f"Successfully imported and saved {len(labels)} labels.")
Then
~/Electrum-4.8.2/venv/bin/python3 ~/import_labels.py
and that successfully imported & saved, all labels visible in TUI now.
6. Post 67228273 (unedited backup) (by logfiles) (scraped on Sun Oct 11 07:25:55 CEST 2026) in [SCAM] premiumblock.org successor to premu.xyz scam.:
Nice catch Zwei. I noticed the same alt accounts have been shilling Playblind in the now deleted posts which suggests that the gambling board has been infested with scammers and their scam casinos
https://bitlist.co/search?content=Playblind&limit=20&sort_by=date_ascThe dumb scammer also went ahead and distrusted a certain member who has been in active for two years now using some of his alts. I wonder what he must be smoking
It looks like someone used his account farm for excluding SebastianJu:
7. Post 67228103 (unedited backup) (by Shishir99) (scraped on Sun Oct 11 03:21:07 CEST 2026) in [Updated October 31 LoyceV's Trust list viewer - Create your own Trust list!:
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They all have one thing in common. All these accounts were already red-flagged for shilling and cheating. Most of these accounts have several negative feedback. They probably thought that this many Trust exclusions would kick SebastianJu out of the DT network. Only if they had spent more time on the forum and known how it works. LOL.
Yeah, I changed my mind and built my own trust list last week. There is no better way to fight against the bully who misuses the DT power that was given by the community.
8. Post 67228077 (unedited backup) (by taufik123) (scraped on Sun Oct 11 02:30:55 CEST 2026) in Reports about wallet-draining by Ledger users. Total losses $86M+:
How's this scenario:
- Someone knows you own a hardware wallet (thanks to a data leak).
- Someone breaks into your house and swaps your hardware wallet for a compromised device with esim broadcasting "feature".
- You don't notice anything wrong, and use your hardware wallet.
- The moment you enter your PIN, it's broadcasted to the thief, who has your real hardware wallet and steals your coins.
This kind of scenario is a fairly systematic scenario, we already know how the main flow is,
we have already discussed it, starting from the data leak that occurred and became an early warning that there was something wrong with Ledger and all those affected
Some users have already discussed how to check the integrity of Ledger hardware whether or not it is safe from spy devices, keyloggers and the like.
Image Source: Generate AIAugust 14, 2023GazetaBitcoin explained about how to do a Ledger hardware integrity check that he received from Betnomi and even this was earlier than anyone
and 2 years later found a Ledger Nano X device with an Implant that has been described as a 1st generation Implant
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5461815.msg62694410#msg62694410Pmalek has also talked about the reverse engineering of the Ledger Nano X hardware implant carried out by Joe Grand, a crypto user from Thailand
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5432116.msg67083679#msg67083679
Alright, that's what it is? Then manufacturers should be able to add a coated later of thick aluminium inside the shell, to prevent cellular signals from exiting in the first place. This would kill the remotely exploitable part.
And please nobody suggest to put all of your money in an iPhone. You can't airgap a phone.
@LoyceV: hopefully thick aluminium layers can solve this, right?
It may be a new type of Ledger with a thick aluminum coating, but there will always be new ways for scammers to modify the implants they will implant on the devices they distribute. Actually, the main problem is that the distribution is carried out even involving an authorized reseller who turns out to be already in the Acquisition, so that they have full access to make the implant and then take it all at once.
Ledger has failed and scammers are one step ahead.
Bitcointalk Forum users are actually one step ahead of anyone else, but the Producers and developers associated with it have never been involved with the community like ours.
underestimate people who remain consistent in their view of the development of crypto technology and how it is used.
WILL THE NEXT CASE TARGET TREZOR OR OTHER HARDWARE WALLETS?Let's see
9. Post 67227425 (unedited backup) (by MarryWithBTC) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 22:00:20 CEST 2026) in Questions for the member who coined "HODL" - GameKyuubi:
I have a different question:
How do
I post something here that will go viral on the internet and crypto Twitter? Nothing seems to be working
Any day our posts here begin to go viral on social media, LoyceV will be the first to leave the forum because he doesn't want algorithm to determine what he reads.
@GameKyuubi, are you richer than a corrupt politician in my country?
You were HODLING, you should be richer than Laszlo that bought 2 pizzas with thousands of BTC
10. Post 67227417 (unedited backup) (by LTU_btc) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 21:58:25 CEST 2026) in Reports about wallet-draining by Ledger users. Total losses $86M+:
After this story no way that I would every buy hardware wallet from official resellers. I can't trust third part anymore after this. And yeah, why always Ledger, like their reputation wouldn't be bad enough. But people will continue to buy from them, no matter what.
If you buy direct from Ledger, you get your name and home address leaked. If you buy from an authorized reseller, you get a hacked device. You're screwed either way.
This is why I recommend DIY solutions like SeedSigner, ShieldSigner, Krux & Kern to those who know understand self custody. By not using "hardware wallet" hardware, you remove supply chain risks from your setup. In theory, you can remove those risks by buying direct from the company that makes a hardware wallet... but then again, maybe not, especially for smaller hardware wallet companies. In the end, you still have to trust those companies.
Going the SeedSigner route means using an off the shelf Raspberry Pi. There's no supply chain risk because the thing wasn't designed to be a hardware wallet. To be even safer, manually generate your own random seed phrase.
Imagine the attacks thieves and hackers will be attempting to pull off when Bitcoin hits a million.
Yes, there is some alternatives. I looked into these names that you mentioned and it looks way too complicated for average user who wants ready to use, simple product. Yes, it's an option for more tech advanced people, but I guess such people is minority.
Why is anyone still buying Ledger? They've lied in the past, and replaced their crucial "seeds can't leave the device" for "seeds will be uploaded to our servers" years ago. I would have expected them to just leak
all seeds at some point, but even if they lied
only once, they
never deserve to be trusted again! This has been known
for years!
Why? Because average user don't check Bitcointalk or Reddit and they're not aware about all these issues related with Ledger. And it's not secret that Ledger invest quite a lot money into marketing, what helps to cover all this negativity
11. Post 67226667 (unedited backup) (by BlackHatCoiner) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 17:41:43 CEST 2026) in Selling Blake2B BTC for real BTC:
Is the Knots chain the same as BTCB2, or is that something else again?
Knots chain, Lukecoin and BTCB2 are all the same.
I don't want to coinjoin my Bitcoin, that'll only raise questions in the future. I was thinking of getting some dust that doesn't exist on the Fork chain, probably from an exchange.
You can do that. You can also just coinjoin 20k sats, and consolidate them along with your BTC, so they all gain replay protection without "raising questions".
An easy way to do it is to simply join a Wasabi Wallet coinjoin, and your coins will most certainly gain replay protection, because at least one input from the coinjoin has gained replay protection.
Won't they also gain the nonsense that centralized entities refer to as "taint"?
If you're buying this moronic notion that I had never any troubles with, you can just do what I told Loyce above. Just pass a tiny nearly dust amount into a coinjoin and use that in one transaction with your other BTC. If you're still afraid they might flag you for being a terrorist, you can just move your BTC in a transaction with an OP_RETURN message with more than 83 bytes.
12. Post 67226646 (unedited backup) (by stompix) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 17:31:31 CEST 2026) in Selling Blake2B BTC for real BTC:
I should create a guide on how to sell the BTCB2 coins, because it's a bit tricky. I sold mine, but when I tried to move my BTC to a brand new address, they were replayed on the Knots chain
Is the Knots chain the same as BTCB2, or is that something else again?
Knots, bip110, blake , blake2b, they are all the same they still don't want to stick to one name because they claim to be the real Bitcoin!
I don't want to coinjoin my Bitcoin, that'll only raise questions in the future. I was thinking of getting some dust that doesn't exist on the Fork chain, probably from an exchange.
That was my concern before, not sure why I would taint my coins and why I would even pull them for cold storage at all to do this again for a couple hundred dollars, risking a lot in terms of security. So you have two choices
- either spend once your Bitcoins from one wallet to another still in your control in a way that is not allowed on their blockchain
- get some "tainted" change but be careful with exchanges, some pull coins out of dormant cold wallets, and their tx are sometimes still broadcasted over knots
13. Post 67226439 (unedited backup) (by BlackHatCoiner) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 15:57:49 CEST 2026) in Selling Blake2B BTC for real BTC:
Any idea where I can find more information on this "Blake2B"?
Information such as what? The no-KYC exchange that has listed it is in here:
https://neoxa.exchange/trade/BTCB2_BTC.
I should create a guide on how to sell the BTCB2 coins, because it's a bit tricky. I sold mine, but when I tried to move my BTC to a brand new address, they were replayed on the Knots chain, so it's not as simple as just "moving your BTC once". An easy way to do it is to simply join a Wasabi Wallet coinjoin, and your coins will most certainly gain replay protection, because at least one input from the coinjoin has gained replay protection.
I used Shrike (a Sparrow fork). I don't think there's an Electrum fork.
14. Post 67226366 (unedited backup) (by NotATether) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 15:29:43 CEST 2026) in Selling Blake2B BTC for real BTC:
Any idea where I can find more information on this "Blake2B"? The name is too generic with too many similar names. I'd like to find a block explorer or even Electrum clone (for instance to see if a replay occurs or not).
The price is up again, so selling becomes more interesting.
This is their Bitcoin.org copycat:
https://bitcoin-blake2b.orgAnd this is their mempool.space copycat:
https://mempool.guideBasically they are forking all popular Bitcoin software to modify the version to work with B2B instead of BTC.
Btw they are using ticker XBT which is quite silly but the whole project should die slowly anyway so it should not be too big of a problem.
15. Post 67226299 (unedited backup) (by OcTradism) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 15:07:50 CEST 2026) in Reports about wallet-draining by Ledger users. Total losses $86M+:
Why is anyone still buying Ledger? They've lied in the past, and replaced their crucial "seeds can't leave the device" for "seeds will be uploaded to our servers" years ago. I would have expected them to just leak
all seeds at some point, but even if they lied
only once, they
never deserve to be trusted again! This has been known
for years!
It's another nail on their coffin, not sure the last one as we all have to wait and witness what will happen next with Ledger.
Ledger is so crappy from data breaches, to Ledger Recover (smh with this product), then this Ledger authorized reseller CryptoBilis but maybe more, it's hard to trust Ledger again.
It's close source too.
In my mind, an authorized reseller selling bugged devices is the nail in the coffin for Ledger. I'll be actively recommending against Ledger from now on.
16. Post 67226234 (unedited backup) (by pooya87) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 14:41:19 CEST 2026) in Reports about wallet-draining by Ledger users. Total losses $86M+:
Just another reason to justify my long dislike of hardware wallets!
I've never fully trusted them, as it's a "black box" I can never fully verify. But I've used them, and it's much more convenient than manually creating all keys offline.
No arguments there. I would probably still suggest using hardware wallets to some people but add a warning to my suggestion from now on. And the hurdle is not just about lack of convenience of creating keys offline, but the fact that many users aren't technically skilled to be able to do it
correctly.
17. Post 67225996 (unedited backup) (by NotATether) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 12:55:56 CEST 2026) in Reports about wallet-draining by Ledger users. Total losses $86M+:
1st generation: As you say, it uses an LTE Modem, an eSIM MFF2 with Vodafone NL Profile which is data-only and a manually generated antenna.
Alright, that's what it is? Then manufacturers should be able to add a coated later of thick aluminium inside the shell, to prevent cellular signals from exiting in the first place. This would kill the remotely exploitable part.
And please nobody suggest to put all of your money in an iPhone. You can't airgap a phone.
@LoyceV: hopefully thick aluminium layers can solve this, right?
18. Post 67225974 (unedited backup) (by NotATether) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 12:47:37 CEST 2026) in Complete Tutorial for using ShareX with TalkImg/others for Newbie:
Now, when you will press your Hotkeys(like- shift+ prt scr) for GIF capture, it will capture your screen and also automatically to TalkImg
Kudos for effort,
BUT I think a huge warning is in place: I would not want to have a shortcut to upload the content of my screen to a third-party website! One mistake and you risk hurting your privacy!
This is why when I want to upload an image to Bitcointalk, I explicitly go to talkimg.com and select the file or just Ctrl-V paste it.
By the way, I haven't found any GOOD way to share files on a forum.
All of the image hosts either have expiration dates or dubious privacy and security standards.
19. Post 67225959 (unedited backup) (by NotATether) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 12:42:37 CEST 2026) in OrangeFren.com - instant, KYC-free, exchange comparison:
Dutch (state funded) media had an article last week:
Consumers don't care much about the massive number of data leaks. They managed to find a "consumer psychologist" who says people don't really care anymore. To me, this sounds like conditioning people to stop caring about the many privacy violations we have. At least once a year some company leaks my data, and I'm not even talking about the billions of people who take pictures in public and then publish them on social media.
We have quite good privacy laws, but if there's a data leak, there are no real consequences for the company (or government) involved. Meanwhile, they're required to collect more and more data on everything. Even some budget webhosts are now asking for KYC information, and most people just do it.
Abso-fucking-lutely!
Everybody already knew that governments don't really care about us, but it is quite astounding to discover the level of maliciousness these people have to their own constituents.
Crypto is the main way we can fight this which is the main reason they are trying to regulate it hard.
20. Post 67225838 (unedited backup) (by AHOYBRAUSE) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 11:39:01 CEST 2026) in DefaultTrust changes:
~ yet he continued and even messaged people that "trust my judgement"
I don't want to read too much drama, so I'll cherry-pick these comments only. From the OP, I take it requesting people to adjust their Trust list is acceptable:
In borderline cases, it should result in something of a political battle.
while even in this message insulted me personally.
"Feeling insulted" is
a choice. If you choose to let someone on the internet hurt your feelings, that's not a reason for negative feedback.
Also:
Be the bigger man!With great power comes great responsibility (
source unknown). Especially when you're on DefaultTrust (or if you want to be on DefaultTrust in the future), you shouldn't (ab)use that power by leaving (negative) feedback when someone does something you don't like. Your Sent feedback is what others use to judge your judgement.
If someone on the internet is mean to you:
boo fucking hoo! Use the Ignore button, and forget about them.
You seem to miss the point where I waited a long time to make this feedback, while he already gave me one and still proceeded to post more nonsense. He old him several times to stop and let’s avoid each other, just got him to continue. Anyway, don’t care anymore and my mind is set.
I don’t have to let him drag my name through the dirt over and over and over again in now 4 different threads, enough is enough and thinking such behavior is tolerable is your choice. I made my choice and I stick with it.
21. Post 67225624 (unedited backup) (by ABCbits) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 09:21:49 CEST 2026) in Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard:
--snip--
But the reason is not what I expected:
ABCbits Merited many old posts (posted around 2014) from inactive account. That's totally fine, it's not the account farm I expected to find.
Thanks for the data!
Some discussion on old thread can be interesting for me. But i better hope those account aren't hacked or sold.
22. Post 67225565 (unedited backup) (by dufresne) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 08:50:13 CEST 2026) in Do i need Electrum’s latest version:
i would also buy a Trezor hardware wallet
If you're not in a rush: their annual Black Friday discounts are high enough to never buy their product the rest of the year
I’ve been attentively following the Ledger incident since the news broke yesterday, and honestly i don’t think i want to get any hardware wallet after that man. I know that it’s not the fault of the manufacturers and all, but the supply chain risks exist with these devices. I will stick with my setup, electrum on an airgapped machine, i’ll feel much safer with this method.
23. Post 67224946 (unedited backup) (by Crypto Library) (scraped on Sat Oct 10 00:03:07 CEST 2026) in Complete Tutorial for using ShareX with TalkImg/others for Newbie:
Now, when you will press your Hotkeys(like- shift+ prt scr) for GIF capture, it will capture your screen and also automatically to TalkImg
Kudos for effort,
BUT I think a huge warning is in place: I would not want to have a shortcut to upload the content of my screen to a third-party website! One mistake and you risk hurting your privacy!
Yeap, that's also an important part, I also have faced this kinds of things, and to be honest I haven't used these shareX tools for a long time after installing them, just for this reason.
At that time, I didn't understand how to use it, just pressing the screenshot would upload it directly
(thats really risky) and a few days ago only for this reason I posted on the
TalkaIMG thread to implement the option to change the profile from public to private,,,,although that option was already in TalkaIMG.
Anyway, the main thing I wanted to say is that, if you follow this tutorial,
pressing Prt Scr or pressing a specific hot key will not directly upload the image. Here, first the editing interface will appear, then if you click the upload button or press Ctrl + U, the image will be uploaded to the Host.
Capture the screen>Editing Interface>Then UploadBut yes incase of GIF direct upload option was selected, But even in this case, if anyone wants, they can disable this direct upload option.
That reminds me, wasn't there an extension that allowed you just hit the add image button like you were uploading from an app? I'd appreciate if you had the link.
Are you talking about the
Lightshot (screenshot tool) ? But isn't it will only allow you to take the SS from only browser?
24. Post 67224472 (unedited backup) (by DireWolfM14) (scraped on Fri Oct 9 21:36:49 CEST 2026) in Need help recovering BTC from a 2018 Coldcard Mk1 setup — 12 words, PIN and USB :
LoyceV's tutorial on seed phrase recovery (linked by DaveF) is a good place to start. If you don't have a dedicated off-line computer, a quick and easy way to safely recover the wallet using your seed is to use Tails OS:
https://tails.net/Create a bootable USB with the Tails iso, and boot your computer to it. It'll start your computer with all networking features turned off, and it'll have Electrum pre installed. You can use Electrum to recover your see and extract the master
public key to use on an online computer to create a watch-only wallet and check for the funds you want to recover.
25. Post 67222886 (unedited backup) (by DdmrDdmr) (scraped on Fri Oct 9 12:52:55 CEST 2026) in Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard:
Update 09/10/2026: The dashboard gives you
access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit.
Link:
BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard.
Updated the Merit Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data:
Total sMerit: 2.417.109
Total TXs: 1.275.269
From Users: 26.813
To Users: 51.899
minDate: 2018-01-24 22:12:21
maxDate: 2026-10-09 02:44:23
Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (28/09/2026 .. 04/10/2026) is 5.548 which is
up 3,07% from the previous week.
There are no new Legendary members nor new Hero Member this week.
Note:
-Copper Members and non-native ranks (staff, etc) are displayed as real (regular) ranks.[/quote]
Note: I won’t be able to update this thread for a few weeks presumably.
Do you have an easy way to show which old users received their first Merit in the last week?
<…>
This file contains the date of everyone’s first merit, alongside some other info (banned, user_id, name, rank, ProbableInitialRank, dateCreated, dateCreatedRef, nDaysFirstMerit).
If you play around with DateFirstMerit and DateCreated you should be able to see roughly a starting point to pull the thread from.
Note: dateCreatedRef is the account's date of creation, but for accounts preexisting the Merit System, it represents the date when the Merit System kicked-off (I rehashed a query I had from some time ago, thus the odd field and nDaysFirstMerit calculus).
26. Post 67222403 (unedited backup) (by ABCbits) (scraped on Fri Oct 9 09:32:19 CEST 2026) in Decoding BitcoinTalk's Two Most Discussed Topics:
Leave your opinion in the comments.
Advertising your website in Meta is a new low.
While we're at it, i wonder what is forum or rule stance against what OP does?
https://bitlist.co/search?author=Criptoview&only_deleted=true&limit=20&sort_by=date_desc shows most of OP deleted thread and reply either contain website or very generic reply.
27. Post 67222281 (unedited backup) (by Lillominato89) (scraped on Fri Oct 9 08:34:55 CEST 2026) in [Experimental] Bitcointalk quality score:
To be honest, I’ve never checked how much power my laptop uses – I’ve never really been that curious, shall we say
But I assumed it used a lot more power, and in fact I find it very strange that it could use less than an LED bulb
Easy indication: if it's warm and has a fan running, it eats power.
I've seen (and avoid) laptops that draw 40W or more continuously. The rare sweet spot are small laptops that don't have a fan.
All in all, I find it astonishing that their total power consumption is so remarkably low
In general, Intel is more energy efficient than AMD. I always check the CPU's TDP before buying.
I think even RaspberryPi should work fine
That's what OP started with, until it broke:
My Raspberry Pi has decided to give up the ghost
Apart from reading the laptop’s technical specifications, how do you actually measure the laptop’s total power consumption? Do you use a multimeter?
You’ve made me want to check how much power my PC uses. Just out of personal curiosity
Thank you for the excellent examples you’ve given
28. Post 67221584 (unedited backup) (by takuma sato) (scraped on Fri Oct 9 00:01:25 CEST 2026) in Whats the current state of testnet3 vs testnet4?:
If it's an additional backup, it doesn't increase the risk.
It increases the risk of sleeping easy that your printed QR code encoded descriptor can get destroyed, because "you have a backup".
I've always liked "raw" private keys, but I prefer printing them (with BIP38 encryption).
I've made mistakes when writing down WIF private keys enough times to understand there's a significant risk with humans writing down non-
human readable text. Plus, a seed phrase can produce unlimited addresses. A private key is just one address, ugh.
The descriptor is the most scary part of N-of-M multi-sig, in my opinion.
Agreed, I also never trusted "seed wallets" beyond spending amounts because im paranoid about the whole concept. Same goes as PSBT, some of the stuff could be used for a derivation attack in theory, so PSBT content files should be encrypted and then decrypted during the transaction, but the file just contains raw text as of now. Legacy wallets are safer in theory since it's all isolated with it's own private key but they give you it's own set of problems since you could screw up during backups, or during running a watch-only wallet etc, and they are deprecated in more modern versions of Bitcoin Core anyway.
29. Post 67221483 (unedited backup) (by dkbit98) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 23:27:43 CEST 2026) in [Experimental] Bitcointalk quality score:
How's this scenario: get a laptop with 8 GB RAM, SSD and a 4 core processor that consumes 4-6W. You pay for your fibre anyway, so it only adds about a euro per month in electricity cost
But it's still terrible for your privacy.
I think even RaspberryPi should work fine, or those small mini pc units, if you already have some old monitor collecting dust.
This devices are spending less electricity than regular laptops, and they usually more quiet than laptops.
30. Post 67220998 (unedited backup) (by Lillominato89) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 21:05:37 CEST 2026) in [Experimental] Bitcointalk quality score:
Hmm… We can’t just look at the CPU’s power consumption; the PC has to be on 24 hours a day, and on average all the components would consume between 25 and 30 watts per hour.
I actually measured it for the entire laptop, the 4-6W depends on the load. It can probably go as low as 3W without screen. The right hardware can be amazingly energy efficient.
you have to bear in mind that the PC is subject to obsolescence and requires almost constant maintenance.
You're talking to someone who used the same laptop for almost a decade
I’m not sure if it’s worth it in the long run.
Probably not. I've moved the large majority of my data processing to different servers.
I don't think my internet provider at home would appreciate uploading one TB per day.To be honest, I’ve never checked how much power my laptop uses – I’ve never really been that curious, shall we say
But I assumed it used a lot more power, and in fact I find it very strange that it could use less than an LED bulb
So either I’m missing something, because as far as I remember, every piece of hardware should have a power consumption rating – for example, the motherboard uses XX watts, the CPU yy watts, and the graphics card ZZ watts.
All in all, I find it astonishing that their total power consumption is so remarkably low
31. Post 67220806 (unedited backup) (by Lillominato89) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 20:00:49 CEST 2026) in [Experimental] Bitcointalk quality score:
I really don’t know much about any of this, but I can safely say that for Ace, self-hosting would cost more than what he currently pays.
You mentioned electricity costs in your country; here in Italy, electricity bills average around €120–130 a month – three times as much. Internet costs for a fibre connection are no less than €25 a month
These figures don’t take into account having a PC running 24/7; the bill would soar significantly.
How's this scenario: get a laptop with 8 GB RAM, SSD and a 4 core processor that consumes 4-6W. You pay for your fibre anyway, so it only adds about a euro per month in electricity cost
But it's still terrible for your privacy.
Hmm… We can’t just look at the CPU’s power consumption; the PC has to be on 24 hours a day, and on average all the components would consume between 25 and 30 watts per hour.
In Italy, that would cost €7–8 a month, though it always depends on which tariff you’re on.
It would be a small saving, yes, but it would cause more hassle; moreover, you have to bear in mind that the PC is subject to obsolescence and requires almost constant maintenance.
I’m not sure if it’s worth it in the long run.
32. Post 67220587 (unedited backup) (by BlackHatCoiner) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 18:53:13 CEST 2026) in Whats the current state of testnet3 vs testnet4?:
If it's an additional backup, it doesn't increase the risk.
It increases the risk of sleeping easy that your printed QR code encoded descriptor can get destroyed, because "you have a backup".
I've always liked "raw" private keys, but I prefer printing them (with BIP38 encryption).
I've made mistakes when writing down WIF private keys enough times to understand there's a significant risk with humans writing down non-
human readable text. Plus, a seed phrase can produce unlimited addresses. A private key is just one address, ugh.
The descriptor is the most scary part of N-of-M multi-sig, in my opinion.
33. Post 67220434 (unedited backup) (by Cinexa) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 18:09:07 CEST 2026) in [Experimental] Bitcointalk quality score:
The total monthly costs are approximately €8.20 which includes the costs of the VPS and an additional 40GB of storage space. When I imported everything from loycev's site I had to expand the space .
Hi, how much storage did it take to export and store everything? I'm also curious whether LoyceV actually shares the data with people who want to run their own projects.
I run a Chrome extension, and my website has a few tools that currently pull data from Bitlist and Loyce.club on every search:
Forum Dossier and
Flow Explorer.
I'm planning to store some of that data on my own server and crawl a few specific boards 24/7 for new posts, so the tools keep working without relying on outside sources for every lookup.
34. Post 67220157 (unedited backup) (by BlackHatCoiner) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 16:32:07 CEST 2026) in Whats the current state of testnet3 vs testnet4?:
Doesn't that only apply to accepting the "future" block, and not to mining it on purpose?
By mining it "on purpose" do you mean to mine the block, keep it temporarily locally and broadcast it on time since the network will reject it if you send it sooner? Yes, that is not supported by default on Bitcoin Core, you'd have to modify the client
and the miner / mining pool software.
Well, I wrote my WIFs on a piece of paper. And did the same later with descriptors. Because you never know, when your hardware would crash, and it is a good option, to recover things, if something goes wrong.
This is a really bad practice, and I don't understand why so many people write down the descriptor text, which is why I'm so against descriptors in the first place. There is a real chance you've messed up your WIFs or descriptors, if you write them down on paper. It's a really big string of text.
35. Post 67220096 (unedited backup) (by GazetaBitcoin) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 16:13:43 CEST 2026) in [Mega resurse pentru cei noi] Găsiți aici ce aveți nevoie înainte să întrebați:
Topic original:
[Mega resources for newbies] Check here, find most of your need, before asking.
Note- Utilizatorii noi adresează multe întrebări repetate, iar topicul acesta se află aici, în secțiunea Beginners & Help, pentru a-i ajuta să găsească răspunsuri la întrebările cele mai frecvente, fără a le mai pune.
- Sper ca acest topic să mai rărească aceste întrebări, său măcar să ajute cumva.
- Știu că unora dintre cei noi nu le va păsa de acest topic, dar asta este.
- Topicul este în dezvoltare, nu este complet încă.
- Este încuiat temporar, pentru a evita spam-ul.
CuprinsTopicuri referitoare la forumUnelte construite de comunitatea forumuluiCampanii de semnături & avatar conduse de comunitateCărți despre Bitcoin* Link-urile de descărcare pentru unele cărți sunt luate de pe [RESOURCES] Free bitcoin/blockchain/finance eBook. Link-urile pot fi inaccesibile oricând, depind de Maus0728.Resurse pentu învățatPortofele
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36. Post 67219786 (unedited backup) (by BlackHatCoiner) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 14:40:43 CEST 2026) in Whats the current state of testnet3 vs testnet4?:
It's always been terrible indeed.
Yes, and I've never understood why this is the case for the largest Bitcoin project (
the Bitcoin project, some would argue). Especially when so many wallets use the Bitcoin Core RPC to estimate fees etc.
Also, the fact that there are so many wallets is due to Core having a terrible internal wallet, but this is another discussion.
That's only if you hack and recompile Bitcoin Core, right?
No, it's consensus rule. No hacks needed.
It doesn't start downloading the blocks I mind. It sees the block height (16), but doesn't use them. What am I missing here?
This is most likely because of the hardcoded minimum chain work:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/282a05b8d10e317d2ce4b42b96ee8b13345804ea/src/kernel/chainparams.cpp#L380. If your node's chain's work is less than that, other nodes will ignore it.
37. Post 67219776 (unedited backup) (by ultrloa) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 14:37:13 CEST 2026) in Dutch tax refugee: which country to move to?:
If in this particular case Bitcoin was purchased/acquired in country A, can it be taxed in country B under more favorable conditions?
For most countries, I think I'd have to realize my gains before moving. Here, that's still not taxed. But if I'd move to another country, chances are my cost base will reset to what it was years ago. So selling and buying back I think, which is annoying to do.
Sorry to come back to my solution.
If you move to Switzerland, you don't have to realize gains. You can move your bitcoins without selling and buying back. As long as those bitcoins are legit and legally declared (those are two separate things) in your original country, it's fine to move them there without offramping. No cost reset.
And I think this is good reference towards that statement you have said
https://swissfinancemarket.ch/en/fiscalite-crypto-suisse-2026-afc-bitcoinThis is good site to look which countries could possibly give him much higher take home
https://dual.tax/rankings/dutchAlso if you scroll down you can see the comparison of tax comparison on each countries.
38. Post 67219635 (unedited backup) (by cryptofrka) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 13:42:32 CEST 2026) in Additional ideas to tackle spam on BTT:
That's one of the reasons I've rejected almost every offer to run a signature campaign (the other reason is I didn't trust them). The fact that someone else is going to do it if you don't do it, shouldn't be a reason to do it if it's not right.
If the forum would enforce the
Signature Campaign Guidelines, no campaign manager would get away with paying shitposters, and we wouldn't need Sigbans either.
Define 'right'. It's not as if we're doing something that's morally irresponsible.
It will be done by somebody else anyway. If I feel I can do it better, I think I'm actually doing something good by running it myself.
If the forum would enforce the Guidelines, some sort of order could be created.
As long as the forum does not, well, what do you expect people to do? They will run them in a way that makes them the most money.
39. Post 67219052 (unedited backup) (by BlackHatCoiner) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 09:57:07 CEST 2026) in Whats the current state of testnet3 vs testnet4?:
I never trusted Bitcoin Core's fee estimation, and always picked my fees manually.
One thing that remains a mystery is why Bitcoin Core's fee estimation is so garbage. It's even big mystery than Bitcoin Core not supporting some mnemonic standard for its wallet, and forcing its users store their wallets digitally.
Well, if you use testnet4, then you can always disconnect from the network, wait 20 minutes, and then mine any block on your CPU. If all you need is testing things, and not trading coins, then that should be sufficient.
Tiny detail: you'll need to wait 2 hours longer because blocks are mined 2 hours into the future already. Or just change your system clock
No, you don't have to wait 2 hours, just 20 minutes. The second 20 minutes have passed, a block you mine that is 2 hours into the future becomes valid again.
40. Post 67218730 (unedited backup) (by notocactus) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 06:47:31 CEST 2026) in Bitcointalk's historical important changes:
Local rules:
- It is not a self-moderated thread, because Meta board does not allow self-moderated ones; but if one spams here, I will report spam posts to moderators.Table of contents
ContentsForum nameIt was invented by
Jeff Garzik who bought the domain.
read moreDomain name(s)Forum administrators- Founder and first admin: satoshi. Created this forum on Nov 22, 2009
- theymos was promoted as one of admins in 2011 together with Gavin Andersen and sirius
- sirius become the head admin since 2012 since the disappearance of satoshi until 2012
- Since 2012, theymos was the head admin
- theymos did not have any special access to Bitcointalk.org and its DNS until around 2013 not sure. It seems theymos mistakenly remembered something with time in 2012 and 2013.
- Since still searching, forum has a second head admin, Cyrus
New forum softwareRank systemThe bitcointalk.org forum created in 2019, on 22
th November 2009, by now it has had three significant changes (listed below) in its rank system.
For more details, please see:
History of bitcointalk.org's rank systemMerit system1.
Merit & new rank requirements2.
Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirementsFor more, please see:
Trust system1.
Original Trust system2.
Default Trust change;
3.
Trust flags (from which we have flags that have separate and different functions than Trust, feedback, to avoid misusing)
I highly recommend the guide from LoyceV:
LoyceV's Beginners guide to correct use of the Trust system4.
5 trust feedback per userIt was applied since 2nd February 2019
OK, new limits:
- You can't give more than 5 ratings to a single user.
- Your total sent ratings is limited to three times your activity, but at least 1.
- The comment length is limited to 600 characters, but each newline counts as 120 characters.
Bump changesI am not sure when bump rules first applied, but maybe here:
1.
Marketplace rules and guidelines (first version of bump rules)
2.
Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ13. Bumps, "updates" are limited to once per 24 hours.[2]
21. Old bumps should be deleted. [2]
22. Advertising (this includes mining pools, gambling services, exchanges, shops, etc.) in others threads' is no longer allowed, including, but not limited to, in altcoin announcement threads. [8]
3.
Bumping changes on some boards (bump button & bump score)This idea to build up a bump button and bump score began here:
community generated suggestions to improve the forum (+ eventual voting on them)An example: a bump button sounds good as a fix for certain very visible problems, but it also codifies a broken system. People would use bots to bump all of their threads constantly, giving "industrial" posters a huge advantage over casual posters. A captcha could maybe help a little, but there are services where you can pay a tiny fee to have captchas solved for you. (Which opens another question: maybe a comparatively tiny fee should be allowed as an alternative to having you solve a captcha.) A better solution would be to replace the concept of traditional bumping with something quite different, with different bumping models for different types of sections. But that requires further thought. If implementing a bump button was free, perhaps it'd be worthwhile to at least do it for now and fix a few minor problems with bumping today. But since it's a clearly-imperfect solution, this isn't even on my miles-long to-do list.
And there:
Ideas for topic ordering in altcoin announcements?For more, please see:
Bumping - Rules, FAQsCopper membership1.
Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirementsI am not sure about this one, and will check further.
2.
grin is now accepted for forum paymentsLater, in November 2021, theymos
disabled grin as one of payment methods for Copper Membership.
Guide steps to wear Copper membership is
hereUsername change policyPlease read
Chronologically, it was allowed since 2009 till 2011, in
August 2011, change was made and since that timepoint, only moderators, donators, VIP members can change usernames by themselves. Other members have to contact theymos for username changes and it very barely was approved.
This policy lasted from 2011 till December 2019 or January 2020, when theymos began to change his policy again, and he more easily accepted username change requests. Around time when I made
this thread.From 2020 to 2025, it's more easily to get approvals from theymos than previous years.
Image displayCaptchaRestrictions on newbies' PMsRestrictions on signature in some boardGeneral statisticsIn 2017, after a DDOS attack, theymos disabled some of forum stats and user stats at profile page like "Show general statistics for this member."
Lots of traffic, not sure yet whether it's mostly legitimate or a DDoS getting through Cloudflare. In any case, I changed some things which may help.
I might've figured it out. A bunch of things are currently disabled; I'll work on safely enabling them in the coming days.
In 2018.
Collecting some of these stats became too expensive, so I had to disable some them. IIRC, I changed it so that topic read counts only count logged-in members, and some of the stats related on members online were totally disabled. I would like to enable them again, but it probably won't happen too soon.
Altcoin giveaways are not allowedGiveaway threads are not allowed15. No on-forum altcoin giveaways. [6][e]
For more, please see:
Altcoin give-away rule results in temporary bans. Read before posting.Retention/ Privacy infoSeclog changesAccount recovery changesOld:
New:
Thread ownership can be changedFrom WO, theymos considered to disable signature in some serious boards later.
Links no longer open in a new window/tabAvatar changesVote changesBadge changesNewbie jailsSelf-moderated threads*- If you want to make a self-moderated topic, do it at beginning. Click on Additional options, and choose self-moderated. Do it firstly before you compose content of your topic, because after a long writing time, you will forget to choose the option.
- You can not convert a non-self-moderated topic to a self-moderated topic.
- Convert self-moderated topic to non-self-moderated topic
- YES, you can.
- How?
- Move your self-moderated topic to a board in which this option is not allowed. *
- Archival or Meta
- You should use Archival board for this purpose because Meta is for important discussion about the forum issues, not for your own issues, and for such conversion purpose
*: Scam Accusations, Important Announcements, and Auctions. Anyway, Archival is the best board to do so because if you use other boards for this purpose, it is abuse and makes those board like your trashcan. Should avoid.
Self-moderated topics? Can you say what boards this applies too? This is going to be bad if it is on certain boards, cause some people can edit threads to benefit them, I really hope it is just the off-topic board.
I can manually make threads self-moderated (only I can do this), but I only do this if the thread is extremely long/entrenched and the OP is trustworthy, since you are not allowed to delete any posts made before the topic became self-moderated.
- After Round 353, theymos decided to suspend ad sales on September 20, 2022.
- On 14 May 2024, theymos removed it completely when adding a SMF patch
2FA addedMixers bannedSecond chancesSecurity BountyAI use in the forumIn February 2026, theymos wrote
AI guidelines with his official stance and guidelines for forum users on how AI use will be treated. Take a look at his guidelines, and make sure you won't break forum rules with your AI use, you are allowed to use AI but in a right way.
Signature ban & appealOn 20 July 2026, there is a new type of ban on the forum, aims specifically at spammers and it's announced by @nultidah, not by @theymos or @Cyrus - two forum admins.
MiscellaneousReferenceThe active administrators are currently:
theymos (me)
Gavin Andresen
sirius
Sirius runs the server.
It's surprising how well-documented history can become totally forgotten... Satoshi created the forum on Nov 22, 2009, and was head administrator until almost 2011. Then Sirius was head administrator until 2012, which is when I took over.
Cobra also owns the bitcointalk.org domain name. I consider the forum to be basically owned by or at least dedicated to the Bitcoin community, though; I don't call anyone an owner of the forum.
That wiki article is kind of terrible...
Of course not, do you really need to ask?
- I was made a forum admin in 2011, after Satoshi left. (Silk Road also appeared after Satoshi left.) I didn't have any special access to bitcoin.org until around 2013, and in fact I didn't even have any access to the bitcointalk.org DNS until 2013.
There was a period where both Sirius and I were active administrators. For convenience, I reckon Jan 1, 2012 as when I became head administrator, though it was actually a gradual transition starting before and ending after that.
The story of how I became head admin is actually pretty boring. Moderators were needed, so I was made a global moderator. Then admins were needed, so I was made an admin. Then over time the other admins slowly lost interest and resigned until I was the only one left. I guess most of the people who were around here to see this have more-or-less left the community now. That's a bit sad.
It's not entirely clear, but for simplicity I usually say that I became head admin at the beginning of 2011, a little over a year after the forum was created.
The forum was originally located at bitcoin.org/smf, then forum.bitcoin.org (hence the redirect), and finally bitcointalk.org. Fun fact: The name "bitcointalk" was invented by Jeff Garzik, and he's the one who bought the domain.
Based on the fact that I now felt that the driving force behind theymos' decisions was not $
Right, I don't care about making money from the forum personally. (I've actually thought about getting rid of the forum ads, since it's often a big headache and the forum has enough reserves for a long time, but operating at a significant loss while there's money basically just sitting on the table feels
wrong, even if the level of loss is sustainable for quite a while.)
The things on the forum which encourage spam are allowed mainly because it's part of the forum's mission to be
as free as possible. Eg. banning bounties would undoubtedly reduce spam, but that'd be destroying an entire economy/population/culture which has been able to develop due to the forum's freedom. I am
willing to take this sort of action, but only as an absolute last resort. It's always preferable to handle these problems by
reshaping the environment to make them non-problems, rather than removing some freedom.
It's wonderful when someone is able to
constructively do something on the forum instead of continuing with whatever they were expected to do under the status quo. Enabling that sort of thing is exactly why Bitcoin and this forum were created. Though bitcointalk.org is not a worldwide welfare organization, and people are not
entitled to make money.
Limiting newbie participation is very harmful for a community.
Newbie jail will never return: I consider the newbie-jail period to have been extremely damaging to the forum. When barriers to participation are too high, then the best people often just won't go to the trouble of joining, and the people who
are willing to jump through the hoops are often people who aren't good for the community: people with nothing better to do, scammers, get-rick-quickers, etc. Having a permanent newbie jail policy would improve things a lot in the short-term, but would end up being a fatal poison to the community.
The low signal-to-noise is a real issue which seriously annoys me and is often on my mind. But as you mention, fixing it
non-destructively is difficult.
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41. Post 67218691 (unedited backup) (by alani123) (scraped on Thu Oct 8 06:07:19 CEST 2026) in Appeal in the Sigban Case:
For anybody reading this - why can't signature campaigns on Bitcointalk be treated as a job?
This job is paid by clients, that pay signature campaign members to select members that they think represent the brand best.
Allow me to selectively only respond to this part, as it stuck with me: you're looking at this from the perspective of a company that earns from advertising. That ignores its influence on the forum. The profit is for the company, the pointless posts are for Bitcointalk.
It's a bit like dumping trash in a river. As long as you don't look at the river, it's great for everyone involved, and everyone earns from it.It's odd people can have such a skewed view of value.
I guess the thought process goes a bit like: x thing is convenient for me, so why shouldn't you all let me overdo it?
Well, the simple answer is that because if this situation keeps going on it becomes a lose-lose for everyone.
The forum becomes undesirable to visit for normal discussion, the ads get no clocks, advertisers withdraw and finally financial incentives are taken away from everyone, even good posters.
The value in offering advertising as a service is derived from being able to advertise to a crowd that is potentially genuinely interested in what's being offered. Facebook, twitter and sites with Google ads can offer a chance for businesses to receive exposure to a targeted crowd and potentially also to groups akin to the general population. Bitcointalk is already hyper specific, but the degradation of posting quality in latest years has led to a vicious circle.
For one it has been YEARS since a business offering actual goods or services has advertised here.
Campaign managers should realise that their job isn't just about fulfilling quotas, otherwise there will be no job for them anymore sooner or later. If most of them aren't going to enforce quality standards someone would have to heavy hand it. The sig bans to spammers are actually mutually beneficial to spammers. They're even lenient enough to give even the worst cases a chance to improve.
42. Post 67216383 (unedited backup) (by Ziskinberg) (scraped on Wed Oct 7 14:19:19 CEST 2026) in [Monthly Merit Analysis] Pilipinas Local Boards — September 2026:
PILIPINAS LOCAL BOARDS
Monthly Merit Analysis — September 2026
Pilipinas • Others • Pamilihan
This thread will track the monthly merit activity within the Pilipinas local boards.
The purpose is not only to see who received or sent the most merit, but also to observe how merit is distributed across our local community over time.
Boards covered:PilipinasOthersPamilihan
SEPTEMBER AT A GLANCE| Metric | Total |
| Total Merit | 87 |
| Merit Transactions | 74 |
| Unique Merit Receivers | 30 |
| Unique Merit Senders | 26 |
| Merited Posts | 56 |
Detailed breakdowns are posted below.
TOP MERIT RECEIVERS| # | Member | Merit | Merited Posts |
| 1 | Peanutswar | 20 | 6 |
| 2 | fullfitlarry | 9 | 3 |
| 3 | arwin100 | 5 | 4 |
| 4 | Maslate | 4 | 3 |
| 5 | Coin_trader | 4 | 3 |
Complete receiver ranking is posted below.
TOP MERIT SENDERS| # | Member | Merit Sent | Users Merited |
| 1 | cryptoaddictchie | 37 | 25 |
| 2 | GazetaBitcoin | 7 | 2 |
| 3 | klarki | 7 | 1 |
| 4 | Shinpako09 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | irfan_pak10 | 3 | 1 |
Complete sender ranking is posted below.
MERIT DISTRIBUTION BY BOARD
MOST MERITED TOPICS
MERIT CONCENTRATIONTop 5 receivers received:
42 meritsShare of total merit:
48.3%Other receivers received:
45 merits — 51.7%
SEPTEMBER OBSERVATIONBased on the current September data, the main Pilipinas board received the largest share of merit with
38 merits or 43.7%.
Pamilihan also received a notable
27 merits or 31.0%, despite being a more specialized child board.
Peanutswar was the highest merit receiver with
20 merits, while cryptoaddictchie was the most active sender with
37 merits distributed to 25 users.
The Top 5 receivers accounted for
48.3% of the total merit, while the remaining receivers shared
51.7%.
It will be interesting to compare this every month and see whether merit becomes more distributed, whether new users start receiving merit, and which of the local boards become more active.
MONTHLY HISTORY| Month | Merit | Transactions | Receivers | Senders | Top Receiver |
| September 2026 | 87 | 74 | 30 | 26 | Peanutswar — 20 |
MethodologyThe report tracks merit given to posts identified within Boards 219, 274 and 268.
Total Merit and Merit Transactions are counted separately because one merit transaction can contain more than one merit.
The same method will be used for future monthly reports so the monthly results can be compared.
This is the first version of the analysis. The board mapping will continue to be refined, particularly for merit given to older local posts that had no new activity during the month.Data SourcesBitcointalk Merit StatisticsLoyceV Merit DataCoverage: September 1-30, 2026SEPTEMBER 2026 — FULL MERIT LEDGER
Detailed merit transactions for the Pilipinas local boards
This section will contain the complete September merit transaction list.
Each entry will show:
- Date
- Merit sender
- Merit receiver
- Amount of merit
- Exact merited post
- Local board
| Date | From | To | Merit | Post | Board |
| — | — | — | — | Complete ledger will be inserted here | — |
September TotalTotal Merit:
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43. Post 67216273 (unedited backup) (by Shishir99) (scraped on Wed Oct 7 13:37:49 CEST 2026) in bitbollo Reputation, ponzi scammer account farmer or reputable forum DT member?:
The real version.
Definetely. That's why I have spent around 140 messages exposing a scam and getting harassed in public.
This guy has literally no limit on the amount of bullshit that can say - even making "partial" quotes.
Yea sure everyone is annoyed to be mentioned, imagine being mentioned 170 times in 2 weeks by the same user.
Look who is talking about the
"Real" version.
Allow me to quote some of your version then.
Little Mouse versionWhenever my managed contests were criticized by jeremypwr and LoyceV (if I'm not wrong), I slowly paused them. I have been approached by a few users who were interested to assist me running contests but I didn't because I didn't want to be criticized again for them. I have paused them for indefinite time, until I can come with better contest idea.
bitbollo versionplease @[name removed] can yousupport the flag for a CONFIRMED SCAM THAT WAS ENDORSED BY LITTLE MOUSE !?
Or you have changed idea once you have seen another guys scammed / Little Mouse wants provide "better contest idea"?
My PostIt seems the case has escalated faster than light.
I myself participated in the review campaign as well, and I was paid. Even though I gambled that away, others confirmed that they were able to withdraw the funds. So, your missing reward is an exception here, which might have happened by mistake. My best guess is they didn't credit the reward since there was an ongoing issue with your account, which you reported already.
I am not taking his side just because he is a campaign manager. His job is to make sure you get paid for the review. I checked the entire thread, and I can see he said he will pay for the review. However, I also see that he was rude, probably because you kept pushing him and he felt disturbed.
Frogbet might turn into a scam casino, and they may get negative feedback for their actions. But I think your negative feedback on Little Mouse in this case became a personal issue rather than a financial dispute. He insulted you a couple of times, and you did the same by calling him a scammer multiple times, even though he is just a campaign manager.
You two should sit together, have some coffee, and fix this mess. Take a break, come back with fresh mind and I am sure that will help.
bitbollo version- "hey why escalate so fast - 7 days?" - or
- "hey have you play to the best tower game - in a scam website?"
I can go on and on; should I show more of your quote manipulation?
44. Post 67215565 (unedited backup) (by *Ace*) (scraped on Wed Oct 7 07:26:08 CEST 2026) in [Experimental] Bitcointalk quality score:
I try to sort out and import all the feedback you give me, but I often forget to notify, last night I made a lot of changes, inserted new tools for the analysis of sigbans, the pizza day winners' ranking, fixed some bugs, and inserted the tooltips you proposed
Hey Ace! What are your monthly costs right now to keep everything operational? I meant the combined cost of hosting, domain, VPS (I know about this part), and any other maintenance costs that I'm not aware of. It's just a curious question I had in mind.
Seems like you have added literally everything into your database! Now the only thing that remains (most probably), is the addresses posted by every users on this forum!
The total monthly costs are approximately €8.20 which includes the costs of the VPS and an additional 40GB of storage space. When I imported everything from loycev's site I had to expand the space . Instead I bought the domain for $14.99 per year.
So the monthly cost for everything is around €9.50, more or less this should be the cost, I have not converted the cost of the domain into euros
Honestly, I don't even know if it's a good value or if there's something better out there.
45. Post 67214716 (unedited backup) (by lightning-roulette) (scraped on Tue Oct 6 22:30:37 CEST 2026) in [ANN] Roulana.com — live 3D roulette on Solana (USDC):
LoyceV, thank you, and good to see you again. You tested the withdrawals on Lightning Roulette back in 2020, I remember it.
This one is on Solana and not on Lightning, but if you want to look,
test.roulana.com is the same table with test money. You can also just watch the real table without a wallet.
46. Post 67213496 (unedited backup) (by xLays) (scraped on Tue Oct 6 16:34:31 CEST 2026) in [MUSIC] Ballad of LoyceV:
When this is created on the reputation board, for LoyceV individually. It might be interesting as well if you were making music for the reputation as a whole, such as mentioning the people involved in this Reputation section.
As you've done for the "Watch the Wall" thread - that's pretty cool, bro.
since I have so much time after reading your post I actually made this one myself, inspired by the ibminer/this thread.
I think this one I made is kinda cringe though and for sure most of us probably wouldn't like it. I even listened to the song myself and thought, “yeah, I don't like this either.” lol
I just made it for the sake of making something. Lyrics were helped by cgpt and I generated the song using Suno.
https://youtu.be/c9x4RizkZn4?si=ljn3wRs4BVcZm6l0
47. Post 67213004 (unedited backup) (by cygan) (scraped on Tue Oct 6 13:39:07 CEST 2026) in Die Default Trust wurde geändert ! :
da es von Lafu leider für die monate juli, august und september keine updates gab, aber dieses thema doch aktuell bleiben sollte, möchte ich ihn etwas unter die arme greifen und euch wenigstens das update für den monat oktober veröffentlichen
im oktober waren 116 user berechtigt in die dt-liste mit aufgenommen zu werden:
alte dt1-liste:
HostFat
gmaxwell
OgNasty
qwk
Vod
vapourminer
mprep
philipma1957
babo
Cyrus
Welsh
ibminer
d5000
joker_josue
Pmalek
albon
wwzsocki
Timelord2067
jeremypwr
gbianchi
EFS
Swordsoffreedom
hybridsole
stompix
hilariousandco
Buchi-88
willi9974
JayJuanGee
NeuroticFish
achow101
DaveF
examplens
nutildah
irfan_pak10
yahoo62278
bitbollo
zazarb
pooya87
LFC_Bitcoin
o_solo_miner
mocacinno
Real-Duke
klarki
The Sceptical Chymist
SFR10
Lucius
TryNinja
holydarkness
tweetious
AakZaki
giammangiato
buwaytress
crwth
Ale88
Kryptowerk
hosemary
JollyGood
igebotz
roycilik
CryptopreneurBrainboss
hugeblack
KTChampions
Trofo
icopress
JeromeTash
logfiles
Bitcoin_Arena
tvplus006
mole0815
bitmover
DdmrDdmr
shahzadafzal
Lakai01
morvillz7z
Husna QA
Bthd
fillippone
cryptofrka
abhiseshakana
The Cryptovator
lovesmayfamilis
DireWolfM14
Little Mouse
YOSHIE
inspace
jokers10
Awaklara
geophphreigh
zasad@
Rikafip
NotATether
Stalker22
bullrun2024bro
decodx
BlackHatCoiner
Charles-Tim
Lillominato89
Free Market Capitalist
YodasRedRocket
Mia Chloe
neue dt1-liste:
theymos
HostFat
gmaxwell
OgNasty
Vod
vapourminer
mprep
Foxpup
philipma1957
Cyrus
Welsh
ibminer
joker_josue
Pmalek
Mitchell
albon
wwzsocki
Timelord2067
jeremypwr
gbianchi
EFS
Swordsoffreedom
hilariousandco
buckrogers
Buchi-88
Lesbian Cow
willi9974
JayJuanGee
NeuroticFish
achow101
DaveF
examplens
nutildah
irfan_pak10
yahoo62278
bitbollo
pooya87
LFC_Bitcoin
o_solo_miner
mocacinno
Real-Duke
klarki
LoyceV
SFR10
Lucius
TryNinja
holydarkness
Lafu
Cointxz
AakZaki
giammangiato
buwaytress
crwth
Ale88
Kryptowerk
Vispilio
hosemary
JollyGood
igebotz
roycilik
CryptopreneurBrainboss
hugeblack
KTChampions
icopress
sheenshane
logfiles
Bitcoin_Arena
GazetaBitcoin
mole0815
bitmover
Lakai01
morvillz7z
fillippone
cryptofrka
abhiseshakana
The Cryptovator
lovesmayfamilis
DireWolfM14
notblox1
Little Mouse
inspace
Awaklara
efialtis
geophphreigh
zasad@
Rikafip
Etranger
NotATether
Stalker22
bullrun2024bro
decodx
Charles-Tim
Lillominato89
Free Market Capitalist
ZAINmalik75
AHOYBRAUSE
YodasRedRocket
PowerGlove
SirJohnVonSlotty
Mia Chloe
aus unserem deutschsprachigen bereich sind insgesamt 10 leute vertreten: Buchi-88, willi9974, o_solo_miner, Real-Duke, Lafu, mole0815, Lakai01, efialtis, bullrun2024bro und AHOYBRAUSE
hier ist nochmal der original beitrag von theymos:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5117330.msg67198109#msg67198109wer genau rausgeflogen ist und wer dafür neu aufgenommen wurde, dies könnt ihr aus dieser liste entnehmen - hier hat es leider qwk und d5000 getroffen:
48. Post 67212700 (unedited backup) (by AakZaki) (scraped on Tue Oct 6 11:35:49 CEST 2026) in [MUSIC] Ballad of LoyceV:
When this is created on the reputation board, for LoyceV individually. It might be interesting as well if you were making music for the reputation as a whole, such as mentioning the people involved in this Reputation section.
As you've done for the "Watch the Wall" thread - that's pretty cool, bro.
49. Post 67209582 (unedited backup) (by lightning-roulette) (scraped on Mon Oct 5 12:12:49 CEST 2026) in [ANN] Roulana.com — live 3D roulette on Solana (USDC):
Slow death, thanks for looking at the old thread. Part of what you say is true and part is not.
True: I stopped posting in that thread in December 2020 and I never wrote there what happened. I should have. Sorry to the people who followed it.
Not true: the casino did not disappear. lightning-roulette.com kept running and it is online today. I worked on it until 2022 (my commits are public:
github.com/igreshev/lightning-roulette) and since then other people run it. In the old thread nobody wrote that a withdrawal was not paid, and LoyceV wrote there in November 2020 that he made many small withdrawals and they were fast.
About the $100: that is not a deposit to play. It is the smallest amount for people who want to invest in the bank, which means to be the house. Nobody has to do that. To play you sit down with $20 and the smallest bet is $1.
And if I vanish again? This is the reason I built it this way. Your money is not with me, so it does not matter where I am:
- You take your money out of your safe with your own wallet. The program on Solana pays you, it does not ask my server.
- If my server stops in the middle of a round, after at most 10 minutes anyone can cancel that round and every stake goes back.
- Investors ask for their money, and 24 hours later they withdraw it themselves, also without me.
The part where you have to trust me is the upgrade key, I wrote about it in my post above.
50. Post 67208737 (unedited backup) (by TheButterZone) (scraped on Mon Oct 5 02:16:07 CEST 2026) in How to make a bitcoin transaction and pay less than 1 sat/vByte:
Pmalek, since version 4.6.2 of Electrum, you no longer need to use the wallet.relayfee=(lambda: 0) command, and all you need is to be connected to a server that accepts transactions with a fee rate of less than 1 sat/vbyte.
I noticed this after SeriouslyGiveaway shared a link to your topic in
another thread thinking that it's difficult to make such transactions using Electrum.
You may want to consider editing the topic, so that it reflects the changes that have made it easier to make sub 1 sat/vbyte transactions in more recent versions of Electrum.
LoyceV
I mentiond your name here, as I didn't want to repeat the same thing in
your thread.
That's great, if only the newer versions of Electrum didn't have minimum system requirements above what we actually have.
51. Post 67208726 (unedited backup) (by hosemary) (scraped on Mon Oct 5 02:05:13 CEST 2026) in How to make a bitcoin transaction and pay less than 1 sat/vByte:
Pmalek, since version 4.6.2 of Electrum, you no longer need to use the wallet.relayfee=(lambda: 0) command, and all you need is to be connected to a server that accepts transactions with a fee rate of less than 1 sat/vbyte.
I noticed this after SeriouslyGiveaway shared a link to your topic in
another thread thinking that it's difficult to make such transactions using Electrum.
I made this post, because you may want to consider editing the topic, so that it reflects the changes that have made it easier to make sub 1 sat/vbyte transactions in more recent versions of Electrum.
LoyceV
I mentiond your name here, as I didn't want to repeat the same thing in
your thread.
52. Post 67208506 (unedited backup) (by Majestic-milf) (scraped on Mon Oct 5 00:26:13 CEST 2026) in Question About the “=1” Trust Rating on My Profile.:
Its tiring how users will ask a question and when it's answered they go mute. I expected that op will use the same energy with which they asked the questions to either acknowledge the answer or defend themselves. I know that we ask things we don't know to know better but sometimes too it's as though we know what the issue is but we just want to draw attention to ourselves. SMH
Yes, he is so simple that he did not bother to read the rules of the forum, and after he had already received tags on two of his alternative accounts, he decided to spam on the third.
After he received two tags from
nutildah and LoyceV on his first account, he decided to register two (or more?) accounts, as they say, just in case.
But his posting has remained the same; you don't even have to check it on purpose.
Here we go again. Another unnecessary post that should have not even been created and true to sayings, he's not innocent. This user is a typical proof that spammers don't care whether they don't add value with their content, they just do whatever because they can actually do it. It's like saying " fuck it, I'm applying to be a nuisance".
It's not a surprise either that the Chamby thread will lose traffic because the main purpose of people talking there wasn't to promote the token but for the merits so now that that area has been sorted out, the leeches are being sifted out.
53. Post 67207146 (unedited backup) (by SeriouslyGiveaway) (scraped on Sun Oct 4 17:07:19 CEST 2026) in Increase in Bitcoin transaction fee when the network is busy:
Electrum allows you to make transactions with a fee rate of less than 1 sat/vbyte on both desktop and mobile versions, and all you need is to connect to a server that allows broadcasting such transactions.
Since there are many nodes that accept sub 1 sat/vbyte transactions, there's a very good chance that you don't need to change the server at all.
Making Bitcoin transactions with fee rate under 1 sat/vbyte requires a little bit technical practice and there are guides on it. If don't do some technical steps, Electrum wallet only accept fee rates from 1 sat.vbyte and above.
How to make a bitcoin transaction and pay less than 1 sat/vByteLoyceV's 0.1 sat/vbyte Electrum Server Adventure
