Okay, it's not important anyways.

About that size, it's because the wallet keeps track of the same transaction ID in different entries aside from the actual transaction.
IIRC, it saves its txid under the address' transaction history, QT history, the wallet's "coins" (both unspent and spent outputs), and some more entries that I've probably missed.
Plus, some of those include the VOUT and/or sizes.

And most importantly, the discrepancy in size is because it's saved as JSON, the contents are saved in text,
So rather than the actual size of the transactions it's based on each character's size, e.g.: a 300vBytes transaction would be more or less 1.5kB in UTF-8.
Then include the other entries and those big spam transactions of those addresses, it should reach the average that you've described.
Full Wallet Encryption (not secrets-only) could decrease the overall size though.

Bot confirmed!!!!!!   

You and proudhon.. . .

 


By the way, proudhon has not logged in since last April.  Maybe someone poured water on him?


It seems that for the overwhelming majority of normies who have studied bitcoin for more than 100 hours, the correct word would likely be "when" rather than "if" as you mentioned.

Yet, for Philip, "if" seems to be the more accurate of representation of his thinking on the matter, since he is expressing his own thoughts that involve both ongoing lackenings of confidence and also his ongoing under appreciation for what dee cornz is - even though Philip has likely studied bitcoin for quite a bit longer than 100 hours, yet he still does not seem to get it... beyond appreciating that bitcoin is number go up technology that might not end up going up.  For Philip, he might consider whether bitcoin goes up or not to be like the flip of a coin, or some random thing in which certain powers that be are able to control.. which also shows some level of ongoing errors in his assigning of values and probabilities to dee cornz within the world as we believe it to be.


It is true that bitcoin is a product of both maths & sciences and various ways of connecting with human behaviors and even power projection in the real world.  If we are attempting to assign odds to what bitcoin might or might not do, we have to attempt to account for both aspects - to the best of our abilities, which does not necessarily mean that we understand the various influences and their balances enough to figure out outcomes such as price or even outcomes of the various network effects (within the Trace Mayer framework), as they continue to play out..


Surely, you don't understand bitcoin.

And, you also may well not understand the value of treating bitcoin as an investment rather than as a trade.

But, hey whatever, smartie-panties, do what you like.  And, potentially find out that after a couple of cycles (such as 8 years) or more that you are not able to turn back the clock, and your options in life would have had ended up much better if you  were to have had treated bitcoin as an investment rather than as a trade.

Some guys figure out these matters sooner than other, and some guys can never get out of their trading mindset - so their odds of actually outperforming the bitcoin investor are not likely to be good, especially if we look at repeated behaviors that might play out 2 cycles or longer.


Hahahaha

Greater than 1 does happen from time to time, yet you are correct in your implication that I had hesitated before changing the 1 to a 2.....


That image shows some variation of my reaction, too.

I've been meaning to undertake a project like this for quite some time, but was shy about linking a publicly-accessible to server to my home IP address.  Through the discussion in LoyceV's adventure thread I found an affordable solution; a VPS with plenty of horsepower and diskspace.

I've been running my own personal SPV server and block explorer on private hardware for almost 6 years now, so I have quite a bit of experience running a full node.  However, this is the first time I've used Fulcrum for the SPV server interface.  Previously I've used ElectrumX on my rack server and Romanz Electrs on my Dell Optiplex mini nodebox that I like to run as a backup incase the server was being finicky or (more likely,) I broke something while tinkering with it.

I fount Fulcrum pleasantly simple to set up and work with, and it's noticeably faster to synch my larger wallet files than ElectrumX. 

Here I'll share my configuration files incase anyone else cares to take on a similar project:

bitcoin.conf

fulcrum.conf

Inspired by LoyceV's adventure, I decided to publish my own Electrum SPV server for the community to use.

Without further ado:

Electrum SPV server:
Clearnet: electrum.direwolfm14.com
Tor: xotqmhnei2wy7fk423tekp62ilcxpawnf4aiqmnkfhuutfkimgpqk5qd.onion

Bitcoin Core relay:
Clearnet: bitcoin.direwolfm14.com:8333
Tor: ezfbd7e5t6srgqfbjhqxpxqyg3x557rakkr7z5mhfqu7z6cuym7nmfyd.onion:8333

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Minimum Tx fees set to 0.000001BTC per vByte.
No TxId or IP address logging.

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Client side configuration:

SSL Clearnet:

SSL Tor:

TSL Clearnet:

TSL Tor:

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GPG key staked here.
Self-moderated thread - Please remain on topic.  Discussion, suggestions, and pertinent comments welcome.  No spam.

Two of the most legendary users. LoyceV is one of the true backbones of the forum, with deep on-topic knowledge and his legendary Meta projects, while icopress is doing his job extremely well and manages this excellent contest which really is a great way to think a bit about the community.
   

philipma1957 is an user I probably have never nominated but is always there and contributes interesting views about Bitcoin and other topics. And TryNinja may be the user this category is named after


I highly appreciate that legendary cypherpunk geek gmaxwell still spreads his deep knowledge and even patiently explains basic Bitcoin virtues to dumber users like me and even to users who are clearly not having good intentions. Stwenhao is one of the most active users in the Development & Technical section and also has explained me lot of things I had doubts about ABCbits is another legendary geek, their posts are short but extremely on point.
   

Maybe most don't remember it, but one of Bitcoin's 2025 most remarkable ATHs occurred just on the 15th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day. As many know I'm an advocate for "Bitcoin as a global currency", and thus this was a legendary moment for me And the Pizza Award is a classic.


BitVM2 is one of the most interesting initiatives for Bitcoin's programmability and the feasibility of more decentralized sidechains. KYCNot.Me is needed more than ever in our Orwellization of society. Related, b1exch is maybe a bit preliminary as this is a new project but it's refreshing that privacy-oriented services are still choosing this forum to present themselves.
   

Sausalitox is a new user in the Spanish forum who's made interesting threads in a forum where user activity could be a bit higher, highly appreciated. And Satofan44 appeared this year too, I think, and provides good content.


nutildah is one of the people keeping the forum in shape. And vapourminer ensures quality from the background.


Created a lot of math-oriented in-depth threads about Bitcoin's long term price predictions and about decision making when it comes to the eternal question: Invest or not? And how much? Is Bitcoin still on track to adoption?
   

MaxMueller is very knowledgeable and helpful and created several excellent in-depth threads. famososMuertos is one of those keeping the Spanish forum afloat, and regularly updates the local version of the Wall Observer.


Foxpup is probably among the people in the backgound most contributing to quality here. (I honestly don't know that much about the gender of most users here, with very few exceptions, so only one nomination).

Let's say I want to know the addresses from which the satellites of a specific address came. Up to 5 hops back.

Final Address
1hop: Address A + Address B
2hop: Address A = Address C + D & Address B = Address E + F
3hop: Address C = Address G + H & Address D = Address I + J & Address E = K & Address F = L + M + N
etc... etc...

Did I manage to explain the idea?

Are you able to perform a test to see the addresses associated with 5 hops from another address?
I've been wondering how long it might take for him to generate that list, so to speak.

That took a while, but certainly fast considering it's Electrum.

Sometimes, it's also the other operations that the client has to do with those transaction like their fiat-equivalent values and historical rates.
If you have any of it enabled in the settings, you could try another benchmark with it disabled.

Even reputable news agencies use AI to translate their articles.

Therefore, I say the best way to try and deal with them in the forum is to try and interact with the user who creates this type of content. This interaction will allow you to see if they are using AI 100% or not.

At this point, i can't help but agree with you. Guess i'll have to be more careful with sending merit there.

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To other reader, at least 12 of his post already deleted on "Development & Technical Discussion" board by moderator, https://bitlist.co/search?author=Eze%20BTC&board_id=6&only_deleted=true&limit=20&sort_by=date_desc/.

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All of the posts are deleted by moderator, likely because because off-topic or short unhelpful post.

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1. All of these post shill btcrpc dot rcal dot me.
2. Necroposting within few months to few years.

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User: martinex

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* This user is part of sockpuppet/account farm who spam with AI/chatbot, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5573695.0.

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1. There's no correlation between staking coin and well-known exchange.
2. Mining doesn't use lots of data (unless you self-host your mining pool), so mentioning internet quota doesn't make sense.

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User: Antona

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* This user is part of sockpuppet/account farm who spam with AI/chatbot, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5573695.0.

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All of those are generic spam, that have been deleted by moderator.

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User: gibrab16

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* This user is part of sockpuppet/account farm who spam with AI/chatbot, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5573695.0.

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All of those are generic spam, that have been deleted by moderator.

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User: Xxmodded

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* This user is part of sockpuppet/account farm who spam with AI/chatbot, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5573695.0.

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All of those are generic spam or only repeat what other member have said. One of his post already deleted by moderator.

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User: bournekin

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* This user is part of sockpuppet/account farm who spam with AI/chatbot, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5573695.0.

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1. This post is unhelpful, because it's not specific at all.
2. Mining typically don't require Bitcoin node, unless you plan to run self-hosted mining pool. So mentioning node isn't needed here.

"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."

Nobody is going to read AI slop. But it's very beneficial to write pages with AI if/i] you heavily rephrase the output over and over again ad apply lots of instructions and "skills" that make it more closely resembled to what a human would write.

You of course have to provide links, diagrams, etc. But it's like playing in god mode.

At this point, i can't help but agree with you. Guess i'll have to be more careful with sending merit there.

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Explanation why post 1 is technically wrong.

Here, I would add that those who misuse their technical knowledge for such tasks often end up like the that member. Although, such tactic might be hard to find at first glance but it's karma or the law of cause and effect that takes place and that's what happened with the member who used the tricks to hide that he was using AI content to get paid.

Such a misuse of AI, If I recall correctly then a high ranked member from Stake campaign also used AI content to get paid and such activity destroyed that account. The greed is the main enemy in such cases, the member's who're in campaigns where more posts get paid, such members either give more time to forum and make more posts on daily basis but that's mostly spam, or they try to trick others using AI content generation tools.

Same is true for the members running multiple accounts, but in the end they always end up making mistake of forgetting the law of cause and effect. Even by using most advanced tactics, they'll always end up getting caught and destroy their hard work. Even extra smart people are human and they sometimes make human error and that's enough to find how they broke the rules to get extra advantage. I hope the ones who've found a way to use AI such tactically will learn from the mistakes of the members who got a signature ban, and stop using such malpractices for good.

That rule is mainly to prevent annoyingly-bad translations. Posting a good (and also direct) AI translation is fine, in my view. Though if specific local-board moderators want to ban it or limit it, they can. Also, if you or your post have nothing to do with a local board, then your post may be off-topic even if translated.


Not specifically, but it'll be a factor in deciding whether a user is a habitual low-quality poster.


I don't think that AI would be able to do that specific task reliably, at present.

I did sketch out a design for having AI essentially be able to subtract merit from users who looked like garbage-posters, and I was excited about the idea for a while, but in the end I decided that:
 1. The tech is currently too unreliable. Rating the quality of posts is something that it's fairly bad at, I found. It also opens up security/reliability issues such as prompt injections.
 2. Some things which distinguish this forum from the rest of the Internet include a more human touch, fighting back against the "dead Internet theory", and calling-back to BBSes of old. Too much usage of AI in forum operation might dilute that.

It seems those AI shit poster doesn't bother to read anything, they just copy paste other people's post and command their AI to generate new post. They really don't have the slightest respect for their Sig campaign job.


Uh--huh, and finally he got banned, right?

Hopefully that will cut down on some of the AI junk on the forum, lol...

This marks the end? I hope so, but the fight against this kind of thing is gradual and the approach used to tackle it matters so much. It got worse and so annoying to the point that some would still write nonsense with the AI. This means it's an automated functions linked directly to the forum, which is unforgivable.

LoyceV neutral tagged a user recently, and when I was reading the post, for which he was tagged, I was angry within me, to tell you how annoying these guys could be.

This is where the issue lies, and I hope the admin and moderators apply wisdom here. It's not everybody who can write well in English or express themselves constructively. Well, they (admin/mods) should see souls in posts as the means for their final verdicts.

I also implore people to improve in themselves, as some don't deserve any excuse. It's disgraceful to be in the forum actively for 2,3,4,5 years and still writing like an elementary school pupil.

Ah! Something big in meta. Seems generous tbh. Personally, I don't want to see any AI material, write/create original even if it may be not perfect; I mean how will one improve if you use AI to perfect their material?


I am of the opinion that AI can never replicate a real human. Humans evolve — their habits and behaviors change while AI will try to replicate philipma1957 based on fed data without having any substance, no originality.

In the end, the artificial philipma1957 will depend on original philipma1957 for everything, doesn't that tell you everything that you need to know?

(^ I am not feeling confident on it, because I just remembered how good is deep fake videos, and how often I keep getting fooled by those but still posting anyway cause I feel it still makes some sense)


And people's brains are gonna go to gutters.


This was beautiful to read!


Bruh, spelling? I use keyboard that auto corrects spellings for me — shouldn't be a problem, is it?

I'll give you an example, which has already happened on the Portuguese board.

Imagine that I'm going on vacation to Germany. I'm thinking: look, I can ask on the German forum for tips on visits and even about places that accept BTC as a form of payment.
So, I'll go to the German forum, start a thread, and ask. Logically, I'll translate it into German, but I'll also leave an English version.

Where am I breaking any rules in this? If we're a community meant to help each other, I don't see anything wrong with it. It's one thing to go there and make one or two quality posts (so to speak), it's quite another for me to go there and post in every thread and try to be involved in everything.

This rule was created to try and ensure that each local board is primarily intended for speakers of that language. Otherwise, there would be no point in having these types of boards. That's why I say that this rule is very often misinterpreted.

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We are a community. Don't always look at everyone with suspicion, as if they are just nitpickers who are only here because of the subscription campaigns. Remember that Bitcoin has only reached this point today because of a true community spirit.

Yes, there are unscrupulous people who want to take advantage. But it's also true that the forum has always been a place where this was discovered, sooner or later.

To keep this debate as a matter of whether or not people should use translation tools in the forum is simply to want to limit the use of this forum and close it off to an even smaller group of people.

Don't try to restrict people's freedom of expression! Those who abuse this freedom should be punished.

Therefore, these ideas, which suggest that translation tools cannot be used or that you always have to indicate when a text is being translated, make no sense.

Those who write their own ideas and spend some time on the forum can usually tell when a text was created by AI or has been translated. When that suspicion arises, try interacting with the author of that text, and you'll soon be able to find out if it is true or not. We all have our own writing style. And that includes not only the text itself, but also how it is presented (aesthetically speaking).

Therefore, don't point the finger at everyone who contributes to the forum just because they use translators.
^{(I'm not talking about anyone in particular, but just the community in general. Please don't misinterpret my words.)}

I wonder if that shithead is only buying red-trusted Legendary accounts--I can't tell since he writes like he's messaging his drug dealer (aaaabsolute shocker I tell ya).  Were I to start visiting the Invites&Accounts section again, there's a non-zero chance my computer monitor would get punched through the wall undeservedly. 

I confirmed the bug. Not working in Tor. Thanks for reporting.
Tor is blocking mempool space api.

I will get home in a few days and fix it. No access to any computer now... I am traveling in vacation.

Thank you for sharing this.

my german was in high school and in college. it is poor to say the least.

but there are at least five people that post there that I like to talk to when they post in english.

I did use google translate and some of my own knowledge to attempt a few posts there in german and a few member said just use english.

frustrating as I may have improved my german a bit.

There are some telltale signs that make AI posts easily recognizable. Of course I think an account deserves a more official confirmation before being banned, but the point is I don't necessarily have to read the whole thing before knowing its worth double-checking. I'm actually surprised how these signs persist over multiple years now.

It must be somewhat harder to detect AI these days but most shitposters use it because its easy and fast. They don't want to be bothered with "humanizing" prompts, removing emdashes, introducing punctuation errors, etc. It might be faster to just crank out shitposts old fashioned style.

Finally some AI guidelines, it was really needed. AI is good thing when it's used for good purppose. But too much AI causes more harm than good. Still, these guidelines leaves lot of grey area and leaves lot of room for interpretation.. But I guess it's hard to make complete solution for this issue.

This rule is a bit outdated IMO. Back in 2014 and previoulsy translation tools worked quite poorly. It worked fine to translate separate words, but it wasn't able to translate fluent sentences or text. Now situation is different. Things like Google translate is working very well when you try to translate sentences or text. It's not much difference whether you will use AI or Google translate.
Still, I wouldn't like if users who can't write in English would be allowed to do it using AI. It's ok is specific cases like when you have some issue or want to ask question about something. But not when you want to farm sig. campaigns using AI

Just click submit and you will see the result.

It is working. I will make an uodate later to automatically click submit when you submit the url.

Let's not risk the last moment this round.

Prediction: $69989
I choose LoyceV, this is strategic, it has nothing to do with LauraV's alt identity. 

da unser Lafu momentan leider nicht die zeit hat, uns hier in diesem thema aktuell zu halten, möchte ich ihn etwas unter die arme greifen und euch das update für den monat februar veröffentlichen
im februar waren 113 user berechtigt in die dt-liste mit aufgenommen zu werden:

alte dt1-liste:

neue dt1-liste:

aus unserem deutschsprachigen bereich sind insgesamt 10 leute vertreten: Buchi-88, willi9974, Real-Duke, Lafu, polymerbit, Kryptowerk, mole0815, Lakai01, efialtis und bullrun2024bro
hier ist nochmal der original beitrag von theymos: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5117330.msg66361122#msg66361122

wer genau rausgeflogen ist und wer dafür neu aufgenommen wurde, dies könnt ihr aus dieser liste entnehmen:

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In this area I agree with @theymos
A forum where technology is a central theme, distancing it from our daily lives, doesn't make much sense.

Logically, I don't agree with posts generated 100% by AI. Doing so by copying and pasting, without citing the source, is really wrong. Now, this shouldn't stop people from using it to extract ideas or informative details.

So I think you really shouldn't use AI to write our posts. But, if someone uses it to translate some text, I should use it as a true translator, and not as a writing assistant.

At most, take the ideas he gives and write them in your own words!



I have been pointing out for some time that these AI tools are highly prone to errors in analysis. There are several studies that show how these detectors fail even with ancient texts, claiming they were written by AI – texts thousands of years old.

We have many writing patterns, and AI writes based on an analysis of these human patterns. Therefore, it's not so difficult for a human to write originally, with a pattern that appears to be AI-generated. Therefore, I think it's a mistake to evaluate a text simply by looking at these AI text detection systems.

The text needs to be analyzed in another way, at least here in the forum. Look at several of the user's posts, as theymos says, and observe if their writing style has significant differences. Sometimes it doesn't take much to notice; just the way they respond to a question raised about the suspicious post is enough.




I don't want to turn this into a debate about these "rules"... I think that this "rule 27" (like others...) is often misinterpreted.

The idea behind this rule is to prevent someone like me, a Portuguese speaker, from going to the Russian tab to chat, because there are more topics there than in the Portuguese tab. But that shouldn't stop me from responding to something that's there, where I was quoted, or perhaps about a subject very close to me.

But that shouldn't stop me from responding to something that's there, where I was quoted, or perhaps about a subject very close to me. I've done this myself, sometimes even leaving the text in the local language, in English (and sometimes even in Portuguese), thus allowing readers to do their own analysis. I did this punctually, and I never felt any kind of problem or discomfort from native speakers of that language. However, the person should not do this systematically and routinely.

On the other hand, this rule does not apply to the global English forum. I think that's the point theymos is referring to, where we can translate a text into English and participate in the general forum discussion.

Another point is that I think it's excessive for people to use AI models for translation. It's better to use tools specifically designed for that purpose, like Google Translate, even if those tools also use AI. I say this for a very simple reason. Just as it doesn't make sense to spread butter on bread with a cleaver, it doesn't make sense to use an AI model to translate text (in most cases used here on the forum).

Ultimately, everything deserves common sense from everyone: from those who write using translations; from those who read; and through moderation.

Round 2 is now over.

With the withdrawal of 5 players, your chances of winning have just skyrocketed. Thank them.

Here are the results of Round 2 :

Closing price on 11/02/2026 : 66 938$

Name	Prediction	Block	B/M	Min	Max	Final prediction	Difference
TryNinja	69 119,16	935867	0,50	68 773,56	69 464,76	68 773,56	1 836
examplens	68 999,00	935899	0,25	68 826,50	69 171,50	68 826,50	1 889
promise444c5	68 500,00	935948	-0,50	68 157,50	68 842,50	68 842,50	1 905
cryptofrka	69 755,00	935901	0,75	69 231,84	70 278,16	69 231,84	2 294
Becassine	69 438,67	935855	0,25	69 265,07	69 612,27	69 265,07	2 327
Pmalek	69 318,00	935856	-0,50	68 971,41	69 664,59	69 664,59	2 727
mv1986	70 333,33	935953	0,75	69 805,83	70 860,83	69 805,83	2 868
Leahized	70 527,00	935951	0,75	69 998,05	71 055,95	69 998,05	3 060
GazetaBitcoin	69 923,00	935923	-0,50	69 573,39	70 272,62	70 272,62	3 335
LoyceV	69 949,13	935949	-0,50	69 599,38	70 298,88	70 298,88	3 361
Hypnotizer	70 208,40	935875	-0,25	70 032,88	70 383,92	70 383,92	3 446
ESG	63 300,00	935888	-0,75	62 825,25	63 774,75	62 825,25	4 113
Doan9269	72 600,00	935934	-0,25	72 418,50	72 781,50	72 781,50	5 844
BABY SHOES	72 938,00	935933	-0,50	72 573,31	73 302,69	73 302,69	6 365
Danydee	72 950,00	935948	-0,50	72 585,25	73 314,75	73 314,75	6 377
LogitechMouse	73 696,69	935866	0,50	73 328,21	74 065,17	73 328,21	6 390
xLays	73 594,00	935948	-0,50	73 226,03	73 961,97	73 961,97	7 024
Mr. Magkaisa	77 777,00	935950	-0,50	77 388,12	78 165,89	78 165,89	11 228

                                                

You had the opportunity to rob me, but you didn't. I can't stop you from being bad predictors. There has to be a winner, and that winner is you : TryNinja. You will be pleasantly surprised to see 50BTC in your account.
Sorry Mr. Magkaisa, I advise you to destroy the '7' key on your keyboard. You lose one life.

For the round 3… Errr wait, do you smell that ?? What is that smell ??
Aaaaah yes, it’s the smell of love. Saturday is Valentine’s Day. Even here, you won’t escape it. I feel like spreading love.
I know that in 2026 consent is important, but not in this game. You must "love" someone !
Be careful, love is like marriage, it's for better or for worse. I won’t say more.

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Round 3 : The round of love

What will be the price of Bitcoin at February 17, 2026, 12:00:00 AM (BTC closing price on 16/02/2026)?
Submit your predictions before February 15, 2026, 12:00:00 AM

Cash shop: OPEN

Special rules :
In addition to Bitcoin’s price, you must choose your “Valentine” among the participants still in the game.
If you don’t choose your Valentine, your prediction will not be valid.
A person can be chosen by several people.

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We can say that for this round, these are the first interactions between players.

Yes, you have a good and solid point on what you just stated above regarding the new guide Sir Theymos just gave by allowing the use of A.I by forum members to be able to translate their own words from one language to another. Because by so doing, you are indirectly just allowing the use of A.I, because I'm 100% sure that many people will abuse and misused this opportunity, and when been caught, they will just claim and argue that they just used A.I to translate it but never did copy and paste. Since Theymos just clearly stated that it is allowed.
So in other to avoid this, there should be zero tolerance on the use of A.I, unless if the post/thread clearly states it was generated with the use of A.I. And such post shouldn't be counted as eligible for signature campaigns post. Because that's the only way to discourage people from posting A.I garbage.

If someone wants to translate a post , he or she should go hire a translator on the service board, rather than using A.I. Because by so doing, it will make the forum look far more professional. That's just my humble opinion.

The farmer of those accounts is either dumb to think it's easy to catch the pattern, ir has no clue about the trust system works. Rainbet is largest campaign with over 150 participants + how many left the campaign. By wearing Rainbet campaign, nobody will notice. And because he is shitposting, he relied on the campaign nager in the campaigns he managed to apply won't check the post history as the believe they were Rainbet active participants.

While your point is most probably the best explanation, I also fully understand OP's point of view (maybe also because I was not once an innocent victim of national profiling, although not in gambling).

Imho it's not a problem that they protect their business as they can against abuse. Imho the problem is in the way they've communicated it.
Probably they were overly sincere about it, forgetting that it can hurt feelings (and hurt the business too!)
They definitely need some communication professionals who can sugar coat this kind of messages or hide them behind some lies on technical or legal stuff.

The "your captcha code can be invalided" thing always shows up when login fails and you're using a captcha code. The error message is intentionally vague to avoid giving an attacker any additional info. If you're not sure whether it's a problem with your captcha code or your username/password, try it without the captcha-code and see. You have to fail logging in 50 times in ~30 days before your captcha code is invalidated, though, so it's not likely to happen accidentally.

If your password seems to stop working, I would strongly lean toward thinking that it's some problem with your browser or password manager. I don't see any reason on our end why that'd just randomly happen. Somebody reported to me recently that they noticed some possible login weirdness with Chromium, but it's hard to look into this sort of thing without a lot more info.


Right. This has been in place for over 6 years.

I'm honestly not sure it is even worth keeping those accounts active if someone is farming them.
It seems that either the marketing team is directly involved in account trading or someone is tarnishing the brand's name by doing this shady thing.



Yeah, they weren't very active before.
heck, now they are slowly popping up everywhere...

I have 2 theories about that:

1) It makes the account look like it was in a signature campaign recently, and thus capable of getting into campaigns.
2) Rainbet is actually paying somebody for this.

Chances are someone is just priming all these accounts for sale. Well, good luck now that most of them were tagged. Maybe the owner is planning to con someone unaware of how the trust system works or something.

yes I know your site very well and I know about this page
However, I hadn't looked at the raw data and I didn't know the percentage incidence of so many password changes in such a short time.

so there are two things
- or there was a hacking
- or it's a farm that's changing hands

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Timeframe: 01/01/2026 to 01/31/2026
Boards included: Pilipinas (+4 child boards)


Halos pareho lang yung bilang ng mga post noong December at January, bumaba lang ng konti. Pero kahit nabawasan yung mga post, tumaas naman yung quality dahil mas humigit pa sa doble yung merits. Maganda yung start natin ng 2026 so sana magtuloy-tuloy, since kulelat tayo sa lahat ng local boards noong 2025 pagdating sa merit/post ratio (0.18 lang).

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Quote Board   Posts (Jan 2026)   Posts (Dec 2025)   Difference Pilipinas 627 677 -50 Pamilihan 91 58 +33 Others (Pilipinas) 18 26 -8 Altcoins (Pilipinas) 14 17 -3 Altcoin Announcements (Pilipinas) 0 0 0

Medyo tumaas yung activity sa Pamilihan dahil doon sa free bet para sa PBA finals, haha.

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Quote from: December 2025 Pos.   User   Posts 1. arwin100 29 1. cryptoaddictchie 29 3. gunhell16 28 3. Peanutswar 28 5. lionheart78 24 6. Fredomago 23 6. bhadz 23 6. tech30338 23 9. xLays 22 9. julerz12 22

Quote from: January 2026 Pos.   Change   User   Posts 1. NEW GreatArkansas 31 2. ▲(4) tech30338 28 3. ▼(2) arwin100 26 4. ▲(5) julerz12 25 4. ▼(3) cryptoaddictchie 25 6. NEW coin-investor 24 7. ▼(2) lionheart78 23 8. NEW aioc 22 9. ▼(3) bhadz 20 9. NEW blockman 20

Nagbabago-bago yung top posters as usual, pero halos same lang din yung range ng mga post nila. Meron ding mga bagong member na nagpo-post sa local board natin.

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Quote from: December 2025 Pos.   User   Merit 1. cryptoaddictchie 51 2. LoyceV 6 3. SFR10 5 4. julerz12 3 5. Beparanf 2 5. DdmrDdmr 2 5. Peanutswar 2 5. TypoTonic 2 5. arwin100 2 5. bhadz 2

Quote from: January 2026 Pos.   Change   User   Merit 1. = cryptoaddictchie 41 2. ▲(3) DdmrDdmr 26 3. ▲(1) julerz12 11 4. ▲(1) TypoTonic 10 4. NEW mindrust 10 6. ▼(1) Peanutswar 9 6. NEW coinrifft 9 8. NEW GazetaBitcoin 7 8. NEW fillippone 7 10. NEW fullfitlarry 6

Mas naging pantay yung distribution last month kumpara noong December, pero karamihan parin ay galing sa local source natin. Nakatulong dito yung merit spree ni DdmrDdmr, tapos meron ding iba pang mga non-local users na nag-contribute.

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Quote from: December 2025 Pos.   User   Merit 1. coinrifft 13 2. Peanutswar 10 3. TypoTonic 8 4. julerz12 6 4. tech30338 6 6. arwin100 5 7. SFR10 4 8. blockman 3 8. cryptoaddictchie 3 10. PX-Z 2

Quote from: January 2026 Pos.   Change   User   Merit 1. = coinrifft 26 2. = Peanutswar 24 3. NEW fullfitlarry 18 4. ▼(1) TypoTonic 16 5. ▲(3) cryptoaddictchie 14 6. NEW Kelvinid 8 6. NEW crwth 8 6. NEW demonica 8 6. ▼(2) julerz12 8 10. NEW Mr. Magkaisa 6

Stable yung top 2 users at dumoble pa yung volume nila, pero marami rin namang iba pa na nakatanggap ng merit.

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Quote Pos.   User   Posts   Merit   Ratio 1.   coinrifft   20   26   1.30 2.   Peanutswar   20   24   1.20 3.   fullfitlarry   17   18   1.06 4.   crwth   11   8   0.73 5.   Kelvinid   14   8   0.57 6.   cryptoaddictchie   25   14   0.56 7.   SFR10   10   5   0.50 8.   Mr. Magkaisa   15   6   0.40 9.   Yamifoud   13   5   0.38 10.   joeperry   11   4   0.36

Para merong consistency, ang isasama ko nalang dito eh yung mga may sampung post o higit pa. Sina coinrifft, Peanutswar, at fulfitlarry yung best posters natin. Mahigit isang merit yung natatanggap nila sa bawat post, kahit marami silang post na ginawa.

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Quote Pos.   Topic   Author   Replies 1.   Mangutang para makabili ng Bitcoin, good idea ba or suicide move?   Kasabus   42 2.   Crypto regulation in the Philippines is useless?   Finestream   41 3.   200,000 BTC offered for single concert? Another great opportunity wasted?   arwin100   36 4.   Global Crypto Tax in the Philippines   demonica   31 5.   Congress what?   Finestream   28 6.   Philippines officially launched the world's first fully on-chain National Budget   acroman08   23 6.   PBA Finals, SMB vs TNT 2026 (Free entry)   Mr. Magkaisa   23 6.   Pusuan o Laruan: Crypto is a type of gambling   demonica   23 9.   Deepfake at AI Scams: Bagong Banta sa mga Crypto Holder — Handa ba tayo?   crwth   22 10.   Gas discovery — pwede na bang lumago ang bitcoin mining?   Furball808   21

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Quote Pos.   Title   Author   Merit 1.   Wei Dai: Isa sa mga Inspirasyon ni Satoshi Nakamoto   coinrifft   10 1.   Babala: Isang Scam Project na Nagkukunwaring “DeFi / Mining Rewards”   cryptoaddictchie   10 3.   Re: Pilipinas Local Board Statistics (Brief Monthly Overview)   TypoTonic   9 4.   [Awareness Thread] Crypto & Investment Scams in the Philippines   Kelvinid   8 5.   [Botohan 2025] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆   Peanutswar   7 5.   Libertarians -- Nasaan na kayo ngayon?   fullfitlarry   7 7.   Pilipinas Local Board Statistics (Brief Monthly Overview)   TypoTonic   6 7.   Paano maaring ma-wala ang Bitcoin mo gamit lang ang CTRL-C CTRL-V   Peanutswar   6 7.   Bakit Hindi Kayang Gayahin ng Altcoins ang Monetary Policy ng Bitcoin   coinrifft   6 7.   Paano mag Import/Export ng Labels sa mga sikat na Wallets   fullfitlarry   6

The problem is in the explanatory part of the sentence. Every casino name so many countries all the time in their terms, denying services but no one will ever do this with that explanation.
 
This is your personal business until you publicly state, 'I deny my partial/full services to INDIANS because some Indians tried to cheat me'.

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I do not. I have explained my intentions already. As a forum member (and an active contest organiser) I saw something wrong (IMO) and created a topic.

YES. In fact I am not from Nigeria, but this information is irrelevant here.


How convenient . We don't offer this bonus to Nigerians because in the past some Nigerian cheated.
 
I know that was an example of how discriminatory behaviour against a group is wrong just because of some individuals.

interesting
in your opinions is hacking or account farms?
I asked myself this question, surely there could be a connection even if it's not certain

Statistically, how often does a password change happen for all these people? Surely @LoyceV knows this..

So I should be upset because sites have terms like this?


They're limiting citizens from multiple countries from being able to register and enjoy their site. We didn't choose where we were born.

Discriminatory behaviour based on things on which individual has very less or no control. AFAIK this stereotypical attitude is not exclusive to governments. I am not aware about the legality of it but to my moral compass it appears discriminatory thus this discourse. I am sure I will learn more things form you.


Or may be why from some specific individuals and how can the platform prevent that instead of blaming the whole nation. But anyway I care less about their operations. My concern was very limited.

OR I can create a discourse, which I am doing. Thanks for your personal opinion.

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They are al in the same page anyway. Thanks for you input.

Thank you. I have created a type 3 flag.

@ABCBit, you can say I am lying when I know what I am saying. The link was not deliberate. Try pasting a link and miss a number or figure or maybe mistakenly add a number to it if you wouldn't get same result. Nobody is above mistake and that's the only time I made such error.

About you saying you've corrected me several times, we were having a friendly conversation and you politely pointed it out like it wasn't that serious. How's that a "tagable" issue? You don't expect me to be right all the time. We are humans who can be wrong in analogy. You obviously overflogged the matter if we're both being honest. I was only typing to share my knowledge.

@LoyceV, I really don't have a problem with what ABCbit is doing, I support sanity in the tech board. My point is that it seems like he just personally don't want anyone to come to the board except the person finds favour in him to do so. I refuse to believe so however, because I have had friendly conversations with him and he's actually been one of my favorite on the board. If you look at his reason for tagging me and few others, you'd see he overflogged the issue, as if he wants to deliberately drive everyone out of the tech board, even people genuine intentions. It's really not fair and I must voice it out without bias.

FWIW, it's not exactly unknown wallet considering total download and star on github. It also pass all basic tests on wallet scrutiny[1], although they haven't verify the reproducibility.

[1] https://walletscrutiny.com/android/com.gemwallet.android/

Hiking through life on flip-flops is exactly what I imagine the dude does. We have our own Leonidas, don't you dare panic selling:

Lock and unlocked.

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Here is a summary of your predictions :

Name	Prediction	Block	B/M
Becassine	69 438,67	935 855
Pmalek	69 318,00	935 856
LogitechMouse	73 696,69	935 866
TryNinja	69 119,16	935 867
Hypnotizer	70 208,40	935 875
ESG	63 300,00	935 888
cryptofrka	69 755,00	935 901
GazetaBitcoin	69 923,00	935 923
BABY SHOES	72 938,00	935 933
Doan9269	72 600,00	935 934
Danydee	72 950,00	935 948
promise444c5	68 500,00	935 948
xLays	73 594,00	935 948
LoyceV	69 949,13	935 949
Mr. Magkaisa	77 777,00	935 950
Leahized	70 527,00	935 951
mv1986	70 333,33	935 953

                        

Green B/M: bonus
Red B/M: malus

Please note that 6 participants did not take part in this round.
In addition to the two dropouts, three other people will be marked as “Missing in action” (Ambatman, memehunter, and philipma1957) at the end of this round.
Also note that two did not follow the rule on block numbers (max 935 950), but I will close my eyes (I didn't pay attention).
I will update this table as the block numbers come in.                                             

Note that it is highly likely that there will be several winners.

What does that mean?

If they were honest and truly concerned about their reputation and customer satisfaction, they would have responded to you long ago and returned your funds. This long delay clearly shows they are untrustworthy.. Take a look now at kycnot.me and the screenshot I attached. It's good that they've placed a warning message at the top, visible to anyone choosing to use their exchange regarding your ongoing case.



Also, their representative on the forum did not follow up on your case until the end after their last reply in your thread, and their last activity on the forum was 7 days ago.

We cannot fully rely on Trustpilot because I have even found that they have recently become lenient with fake and paid reviews, and most of the reviews came from unverified accounts.

I completely agree with you; the OP should create a Type 3 Flag ASAP.

So, you mean we should treat every smart phone as "not safe"?

I've just received an email from them, but there isn't any substantial information yet since I'm still waiting for a reply. Do you still recommend creating a Type 3 Flag, or should I hold off?

Are you saying what @Elmoha is saying is totally wrong? Because I was flowing with his explanation and I was so convinced it makes sense. now I don’t know what to take here and I really want to get the better explanation.

For many wallets this is an option which isn't enabled by default, I think:
"Spend unconfirmed change" (Bitcoin Core, Expert options on Wallet tab)
or similarly phrased like "Spend unconfirmed coins/UTXO"

This means you can spend your own yet unconfirmed coins which are waiting in mempool to be mined in a block. If you create multiple such transactions and all have suitable transaction fees, they can and likely will be mined in one of the next upcoming blocks, depending on the paid transaction fees.


I found this in release notes of Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 which confirms LoyceV statement in his first reply here.

I think you are right, regarding my story that I quoted below is not only a fictitious story, but a real story and now it is proven to exist in this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5573822.msg66384835#msg66384835

In common sense, if it is not because of the paid bumping service as you mean, why do they buy an account that has been marked with RedTrust.
I think this has something to do with what you mean.

I've given tons of those myself, including ones that were formerly negative (prior to the merit system).  Somewhere along the line I got the impression that neutral tags for post quality made no difference to campaign managers.  Do you happen to know if they do make a difference?

If so, I might take that up as a hobby again, because I'm damn certain bitcointalk can use all the help it can get in cleaning up the mess these shitposters leave all over the place. 

Speaking of that: I'd love to see a new section entitled "Landfill".  In it would go all of the posts deleted by mods via reports of shitposting from members (or noticed by mods on their own).  Then if any newcomer had any questions about what a low- or zero-value post is, they could just browse Landfill until they figured it out.

Just over 24 hours left to make (or edit) your predictions.


Did I miss something ? It's not 50/50 ?

Dunno, but this is most likely to happen,

Aww damn, I could see more flow coming in,,

• February 06, 2026, 02:36:22 PM - beami - Password Changed
• February 06, 2026, 02:17:02 PM - rmhuntley - Password Changed
• February 06, 2026, 02:59:14 PM - mrongoz22 - Password Changed
• February 06, 2026, 02:43:17 PM - jamkesmas -  Password Changed
• February 06, 2026, 02:32:59 PM - mrongoz_imut - Password Changed
• February 06, 2026, 02:30:32 PM - tazmantasik - Password Changed
• February 06, 2026, 02:24:01 PM - celot - Password Changed
• February 06, 2026, 02:21:47 PM - muratsink - Password Changed

I pulled the trigger.  They give you 10% discount if you pay for the annual plan, so it ends up being $197.76 for a year, or $16.48 per month.  Not bad for all that you get when compared to the big boys.


Yeah, not great for a high production environment, but now if I want to create a hobbyist public SPV server to share with the Bitcointalk community, at least it's not costing me an arm and a leg.  This is something I've been wanting to do for a while, so stay tuned.

I made just 2 posts there because they caught my attention seeing as it's something I've done before, what are you talking about, making baseless accusations, and what the heck is account farming, what does that mean, explain it to me please, and if I'm in ur ignore list, just go ahead and ignore me, what the heck man, if u have a personal vendetta against me, just say it out and leave me alone

That does look like a sweet deal.  There's also this one for $10/month, and it's currently "in stock":



Do you mean you can pay for multiples and "splice" them together?  For example, if I purchased two the above I could have 8 cores, 32GB of ram, and 2TB storage all the same server?