Sure…

Quitting is never an option …

Not at all...
 practically impossible to achieve this again...
-But the interesting thing is that you knew how to manage
your 0.3% bonus very well.

-Congratulations!.

Yeah I see it, what I meant is something like that, in that layout but for hot topics.




Yes you did understand what I mean. The word "trending" is close to this. But IMO, trending has nothing to do with merits (quality). Only engagements (views and replies). CMIIW.

Thank you for sharing your experience with "hot topics" feature on other forum. At least I know what's the downside of this kind of feature. And I agree with you about that. It could make replies concrentated on some hot topics only. But I think for people who loves foruming, they will keep exploring, not limited to hot topics only.




And add a weighted scoring system based on merit, views, number of replies, velocity of activity, and time frame 
Sorry TryNinja, too many request. Just kidding




I know myself and I am 100% sure that the problem is on me. I failed to explain. Sorry

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I asked Gemini AI to explain it better, using the Reddit scoring system for example. Because they have some categories, like Hot, Top, Rising, New, Best, etc.






So, these 2 called Top Topics. See the text at the end on the link.
Top-merited topics, all-time https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=toptopicsat
Top-merited topics, recently https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=toptopics

And this one called, hot topic.


But as Loycev said,

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BTW, guys, I read all your replies here. Thank you for all your responses here. But I can't quote and reply to all of your replies. All replies are very helpful to address my question.

At the end, this is what I mean, visually.

Nice catch, i'll tag this another spammer/possible scammer as well.

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User: MrToshi

Additional information (optional):
* I wouldn't trust his recovery service.
* Another user briefly explain red flag of his service on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5580097.msg66609993#msg66609993.

List of post:


Promoting his service on inappropriate/wrong board.


* He tried promoting his service 2 times, when earlier attempt deleted by moderator.
* From quick google search, there's no software with name "BitcoinWifHashCracker" or "WifHashCracker", although there are few software with similar name. So his suggestion isn't exactly helpful since other people can't be sure which software refer to.

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User: tridentobedient

Additional information (optional):
* I made this report, partly because old account less likely to get nuked for spamming.

List of post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5579263.msg66611798#msg66611798

The actual quoted post doesn't contain clickable text "geometry game 2". This is common case of "hidden" SEO spam, where the spam link added few days after creating the post. Otherwise, it's just plain spam post that agree with other user.

Bitcoin mempools have become better a lot in recent months than 1, 2 or 3 years ago with hypes from Inscriptions like Ordinals or Runes. Recent months, you can get very quick confirmation with 1 sat/vbyte fee rate and if you are technical, you can broadcast your transactions with fee rate under 1 sat/vbyte.

How to make a bitcoin transaction and pay less than 1 sat/vByte.
LoyceV's 0.1 sat/vbyte Electrum Server Adventure.
Make sure to avoid wasting BTC for too high fees – step by step guide (Electrum).
Minimizing bitcoin transaction fee.
Minimize your transaction fee with Electrum wallet.

If I understand OP very well, for a topic to be hot, you don't need to like it or hate it. It doesn't need to be hot with you or cold with another member. It does not necessarily need to be a very quality post. It could simply be something trending, or an ongoing trolling but due to it has received highest number of replies in a short period, it becomes a hot thread .

This feature is common in other groups, but I am not a fan of it. That feature has a way to influence what people read in the forum. It could also lead to inactivity in some boards. Someone would just login, go straight to hot topics, contribute and log out, thereby missing other parts of the forum.

So, instead of the hot topic feature, the auto-bumping when a fresh post is recorded tends to work well. So, a hot topic (thread) in a board is that thread that is always at the top despite not been pinned.

You’re welcome 

I still hate you for stealing my BTC 50

Wow…

Thank You LoyceV 

Here are your predictions for Round 14 :

Name	Prediction
promise444c5	70 325,00
Doan9269	70 550,00
Leahized	70 998,00
Hypnotizer	71 199,50
Pmalek	71 248,00
LoyceV	71 641,62
cryptofrka	72 000,00
ESG	72 088,08
xLays	75 067,00
examplens	DNP

            

And the user protected by LoyceV is... oh, that's so cute... you helped me, so I'm protecting you... So the lucky one is Hypnotizer.

Maybe for you and me, but in some countries people obviously have different attitudes towards such things. Nowadays, when even children are being brainwashed into thinking that the use of AI in content creation (audio/video/text) is completely normal, I don't expect the number of plagiarized posts to decrease, but rather the opposite.

Hot topics with you can be likely not hot topics with me and the other members.

It's similar to how people see a post is a good post, quality post, constructive post or not helpful post. Surely shitpost is clearly realized while to say it is a good/ quality/ constructive post, it depends on whether it is helpful for the reader sometimes, and for the forum member generally. It's hard to agree with each other about a post like it is helpful or not helpful.

With a newbie, it's a helpful post for me but with a legendary member, it's not helpful for him. While generally it is still a good post for the community when a question asked and a helpful answer given.

Very much unlikely, unless in a situation he is already low on RAM, then the improvement might have come from stablizing memory usage, such as preventing heavy swapping just as you mentioned above.

May I know if the twice or more you tried and it worked was on one system or different computers?
if it's with same system, it could be a specific bottleneck on the system, likely low RAM or other heavy apps were open.

That’s not the feature I am talking about, but thank you for that, I learned new things today. The icons, or the number of replies or views, don’t reflect the kind of hot topics that I meant. For example, topics that cause drama between members can easily get many views or replies. Or simply the opening of a new signature campaign can get many replies instantly. Also, what’s the point if there are so many “hot” topics?

What I mean is a section where we, as members, can see what’s hot in this forum recently, something that is easy to access and instantly visible when you open the forum, even for non-members. I mean like… maybe 5–10 hot topics globally or locally.




The links you gave me are a good source, but still not what I meant. My definition of hot topics is not specific, just generally quality topics that deserve merits, worth discussing, and worth viewing. Even other members would recommend them because they are interesting, objectively or subjectively. For me, ideally, hot topics would be a list of topics that changes every week.




Maybe if “Hot topics” is considered to be applied in the future, we need to use a weighted scoring system based on merit, views, and the number of replies, with the final decision based on votes from moderators or users like you, LoyceV

Why not configure it to calculate chainwork using the new field after the fork height? It will only appear outdated in the old nodes. New nodes' chainwork will be rendered correctly.

The problem is the timestamp. If they consider them invalid, and try to mine a block with real difficulty, but with >20 min timestamp than the previous block, old nodes will reject it because of bad-diff-bits. What we want is for the old nodes to follow the new chain without having to update.

Wiping out CPU blocks works if they replace the CPU blocks with their min-diff blocks, but this can be a very complicated and inconsistent solution. Invalidating blocks with >20 min timestamp (road C) and introducing a new bits field (road D) are the only consistent softfork proposals that have a chance of actually working.

Ok mumbo jumbo send me a test data and i will proof

One of the most stupid newbie accounts that uses AI directly in its posts.



GPTZero: 100%
Copyleaks: 100%
Originality.ai: 100%

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Another newbie who was caught using AI in his posts. Of the 5 posts I included, they were detected using AI.

User: RuneStockx


GPTZero: 100%
Copyleaks: 100%
Originality.ai: 100%


GPTZero: 100%
Copyleaks: 100%
Originality.ai: 100%


GPTZero: 100%
Copyleaks: Not Detected
Originality.ai: 100%


GPTZero: 100%
Copyleaks: Not Detected
Originality.ai: 100%


GPTZero: 100%
Copyleaks: Not Detected
Originality.ai: 100%

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This newbie account also spams forums with its AI-generated posts. Of the four posts I included, it was detected as AI-generated.

User: SusanVac


GPTZero: 100%
Copyleaks: Not Detected
Originality.ai: 100%


GPTZero: 100%
Sapling.ai: 100%
Originality.ai: 62%


GPTZero: 100%
Originality.ai: 100%
Stealthwriter: AI Detected


GPTZero: 100%
Originality.ai: 100%
Stealthwriter: AI Detected

Here are the result:
Quillbot: 44% AI
Stealthwriter: 70% AI
Gptzero: 100% AI


Here are the result:

Gptzero: 100% AI
Stealthwriter: 76% AI
Copyleaks: 100% AI
Sapling: 56% AI

1 sat/vbyte for transactions to have a first confirmation in a next block is quite popular in recent months, and it's a very good fee rate to use compares to how considerable higher fee rates Bitcoin users had to use in past years.

They even can get a first confirmation quickly for their transaction with fee rate lower than 1 sat/vbyte but they must check Bitcoin mempools and choose a proper fee rate for their favorite waiting time.
How to make a bitcoin transaction and pay less than 1 sat/vByte.
LoyceV's 0.1 sat/vbyte Electrum Server Adventure.

Ahm? I thought you were going to do a draw after listing each participant
with a 'ten', and wait for the next block to close?
- but no... is there as a mercenary!!

>Out of curiosity only, what are the values?  hehehe...

So no deal and I lost the round just like that ..

@halab let’s go back to using the tool for prediction 

hello,

so since i have the first 34 chars and the public key, i could use rckangaroo if i understand right. because i can short the bit range by a lot . but how ?


i put a 1 in the missing parts and then
i did exactly what this web said : https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet_import_format
and also make one for z (example L14Cf...zzz). is this right ?

now i have two long hex chars , i checked in what bit range those two hexare like where the value changes and its 80 bits.
so could i just input the small right part of the first hex and use it as start range no?

Yes, I knew LoyceV’s wasn’t a daily update, but I needed to have UserIDs to get my tool up and running; scraping from scratch was a bit time-consuming. Even the Merits I got for free from the forum, I obtained using LoyceV’s data, if I’m not mistaken.


I can’t remember exactly which list I used, but I think it was a text file containing usernames:UserID or the other way round. I didn’t get them all, though – I don’t think I fetched the data properly and only got 16k records, but I’m sure there were millions of UserIDs.
Actually, that’s fine, because otherwise each round of data retrieval would take weeks rather than days..

You don't understand. It's better for you when you have the first chunk of characters of your WIF than otherwise, because this would limit the range of private keys to search in a much more favourable way (if I don't get it wrong, I haven't had to do such a recovery myself so far, only experimented a bit to gain some knowledge).

What LoyceV mentions is when you have a limited bit-range that needs to be explored and you have a public key exposed and known of that private key, you can use methods like Kangaroo to find the correct private key much faster than a conventional brute-force search in such a range.

Off the top of my head I can't estimate what 17-18 missing trailing characters of the WIF translate to with respect of missing bit-range. IIRC, five of the trailing characters are the embedded checksum, so you're actually missing 12-13 characters of your WIF (WIF private keys are 51 or 52 characters long, Base58check).

Roughly you're missing around a quarter of your private key, if my napkin math is right, let's assume around 65-75 bits, maybe 80 at worst. That's a bit-range size which seems very doable with a modified RCKangaroo solver or similar at very first glance. (I might be wrong as I compare it to the Bitcoin puzzle challenge where limited bit-range private keys have been "easily" broken for ranges below 100 bits with an exposed public key. The last largest bit-range cracked with exposed public key is currently puzzle #130 (129 bits range) but this one took months with thousands of GPUs, IIRC.)

unfortunately its only the first 34 characters . also that FinderOuter seems to only use cpu, so too slow for my 18 lost chars no?

Bitcoin SV is not a fork of bitcoin, it is a fork from Bitcoin Cash.

Other forks of bitcoin forks are Bitcoin Diamond and Bitcoin Gold. You can read more about thine on this topic: LoyceV's Bitcoin Fork claiming guide (and service)

If it's nothing then it shouldn't exist either if I'm correct, looking at the reference it points to this thread which is a failed and false accusation, having learnt that the AI accusation is wrong why should a neutral tag still exist ?

it's just a note, like you said but the note connotes something that could be read with meaning which is not true if anyone is looking at the trust of IVYSTAR?
I still insist it should be removed because I never used an AI.

He can read and learn about it after recovering his account successfully or even without that account recovery. Because his account was not banned, so he is allowed to use the forum with another account if he wants.

LoyceV's Beginners guide to correct use of the Trust system.

I just put a neutral informational tag, you're making a fuss about nothing.
I've been following the AI ​​issue in other contexts—it's called prompt poisoning—and I assure you I know a lot about it, but it hadn't occurred to me to apply it in the forum.
There are no apologies, and we just added a note, me and LoyceV.
There is no witch hunt, just a note.

If that happens, there's obviously a typo and the user has to do it again.
If it's just during restore, there's not much issue in having a wallet accept raw entropy.
The issue here is during backup, but Bobby already mentioned that it's SOP to test the backup before depositing anything to it.
Since it's an "Advanced Feature", that should be hidden by default, either only accessible though command or inside a toggleable option with warnings.

And it's not something non-standard.
It simply skip the BIP39-related parts, everything follows BIP32 standard.

Besides, the full context is: I simply implying that what he wants isn't possible without changing BIP39's spec.
So, I showed him what is the possible alternative way of achieving that.

Today is making it exactly 2 months since I was ban from the forum not entirely but posting or responding to PMs however, the ban was meant to last for only 1 month with is 30 days but ended up to stay for 31 days which I was active all the time checking in, but however I couldn't make a post during the ban with the ban Appeal account because it would have been considered ban evasion if I had responded to this thread, so I kept my cool.

However I was engaged with other life activities since I felt the forum passed a very wrong judgement on my case but I couldn't argue further because I firstly make a comment which I said " whatever is Theymos and the mods choice on this case I will accept it" but however I guess I was wrong I shouldn't have said that because I was not lying nor am I an AI or use AI to make post in the forum.

Where I am so surprised is the fact that someone (nutidah) even did the maths and did understand that I wasn't using AI nor did the post which has been deleted was made from AI using the forum standards of finding out AI posters yet the mod took his decision which was not in my favour.
Furthermore, After the allegations I discovered the OP of this thread didn't really care much about this case as he left the thread in the hands of the forum.

The experiment was one that has never existed before so it was nice to see but it was flawed to and extent however OP didn't even wait to see if anyone was going to get caught or not but because he was eager to post this after my comment was quite questionable which one or two people did question him.

Now, I think that the fact that the signature ban still exist is no longer a matter of if I was AI or not but now an oppression because I can't do anything about it, having looked at the comments and how people agreed to the fact that I wasn't using AI or have I used it especially with PowerGloves comment, I now have concluded that it's no longer an unjustified punishment but an oppression, which is why I stayed away from the forum till today and now it's 2 months so I'm back to question the authorities... WHY?

Why waiting on the answer, I will use this opportunity to thank everyone especially @nutidah for his strong arguement that the accusations was a false accusation, and also use this opportunity to ask LoyceV to remove the neutral tag which he gave since I am not an AI shitposter unless there is evidence which was used to back up such claim as this thread being used as reference obviously said otherwise, and for Babo I don't really know why you copied LoyceV and did same thing without even taken your time to make further investigation, unless there are valid evidence or reason I don’t see why you also have to tag my account.

Round 13 is now over, here are the results :

Closing price on 10/04/2026 : 72 973$

Name	Prediction	B/M	Final prediction	Difference
LoyceV	72 100,00	0,3% bonus	72 316,30	656,70
promise444c5	72 269,00		72 269,00	704,00
xLays	71 767,00		71 767,00	1 206,00
cryptofrka	71 250,00	0,4% bonus	71 535,00	1 438,00
Doan9269	71 170,00		71 170,00	1 803,00
examplens	71 012,00	0,2% bonus	71 154,02	1 818,98
ESG	70 688,08	0,3% bonus	70 900,14	2 072,86
Pmalek	70 648,00	0,3% bonus	70 859,94	2 113,06
Leahized	70 582,00		70 582,00	2 391,00
Hypnotizer	69 412,00		69 412,00	3 561,00

                              

Hypnotizer, you are back, but this time for the last place. Apparently, you had trouble waking up. Sorry, but I'm going to have to take back the life you stole from me.

Why ?!?!! Rhaaaa, why him ?? Why give him a bonus ??... Well... well done LoyceV, you have won this round. 50BTC has been credited to your account.
And for the next 3 rounds (round 14, 15 and 16), you will be the Protector of the game.
Ideally, within the first 24 hours of these three rounds, you will need to give me the name of the person you are protecting in that round via your LoyceVs PM Publisher tool (I won’t go into detail about how the delay works).
This protected person cannot lose a life. This person cannot suffer a malus. If a malus is applied to him, it will be canceled (and not refunded) (that’s why it’s important that you don’t give the name of the protected person).
This protected person can be you, but you cannot use the same name twice during these three rounds.
The name of the protected person will be revealed after the prediction period.

For the next 3 rounds (rounds 14, 15, and 16), the two players with the worst predictions will lose a life. Unless one of them is protected.

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Round 14 : The Bloody round
What will be the price of Bitcoin at April 16, 2026, 12:00:00 AM (BTC closing price on 15/04/2026) ?
Submit your predictions before April 13, 2026, 06:00:00 PM.
 
Cash shop: OPEN
 
Special rules :
The two players with the worst predictions will lose a life.
LoyceV has to protect someone.

Data from LoyceV is regularly updated on a weekly basis. You should run some kind of auto update on a the same time span, so to keep the pace for new users.
Relying on the users to manually input the data they ask for might be bad in the long run, as someone would be discouraged to see a lot of missing values.

Such a "feature request" is in my opinion bad to dangerous for obvious reasons, not only what LoyceV mentions. The smallest typo in what an "advanced" user might use as "something raw" for the binary seed will yield an empty wallet.

It would be too easy to screw up and there would be nothing to indicate you've done something wrong. Seriously, who wants that? For sure, I don't!

I don't judge if someone doesn't trust a hardware RNG and rather feels more comfortable to generate their own random entropy. I just hope for them, they do it right and don't mess up, because it's quite easy to mess up and commonly a little bit more challenging to do it right (if you aim that your own generated entropy is of similar quality compared to RNG circuits of reputable vendors of hardware wallets).

The majority of wallet operate with BIP-39 and this pads one bit of SHA-256 partial checksum for every 32 bits of entropy. Like it or not, it's the defined standard. It's probably not the best solution, but it's what stuck and what is widespread implemented and used.

I understand you. This seems like a dilemma and there should be a way to balance it.
Of a truth, if Casinos expose the tactic they use to catch cheaters, cheaters will definitely improve to beat those tactics. In the other hand, a casino cannot present their resolution and everyone believe blindly without verifying. The balance could be having a few reputable users from the forum side that casinos will allow this private information in a situation like this.


The model of casinos business is that they try to keep more money in the system than money leaves the system. The reason why some casinos make deposit extremely simple and seamless but during withdrawal, the reverse will be the case.

Tell me.. I will stay quiet.

The problem isn’t having alts but what you choose to do with your alts mate.
Having alts doesn’t guarantee you must cheat or break forum rules with those alts, I mean the likes of LoyceV has an alt account, but is he doing anything wrong with the alt? the only thing is that, since having alts might eventually bring about some complications, it’s best to avoid it, and try to be transparent with your dealings with other accounts, especially when it involves exchanging transactions via wallets because right now, forgetting to do that could make you take the fall for someone else’s misconduct even though it’s obvious you’re innocent.

The rules are clear, have your alts (if you want to) but avoid breaking any rules, and if you do this then you shouldn’t have any problems with anyone. capiche

I can, with a tiny margin or if the price stays within your exact prediction and mine

I can, with a tiny margin or if the price stays within your exact prediction and mine

There’s still possibility I lose( which is game over for me) but incase you eventually win, let’s make a deal pls … Will you be able to willingly give me 20% or 30% of your BTC reward, I will also do same if I win this round.

Yeah.. use me as shield just as LoyceV did 

It actually does... 

In order to ensure that all images have the same number of display days, the system analyzes the most viewed images that were uploaded in the second-to-last month. Therefore, at the top of March, you'll find the 10 most viewed images from March, but which were uploaded in February.

It will be somewhat the sequence that LoyceV mentioned. The images uploaded this April will be analyzed in May. The results will be included in the May statistics, which will be published in June.

I've been using this method for a year now: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5450546.msg65243649#msg65243649

It may not be the ideal method, but it's what I found to ensure that all images uploaded in a month have the same display time. Or to prevent the list from becoming cluttered with images that were uploaded years ago.

I think he wants to mention the
" Top ten most viewed images of the month",
 in which case the date of upload would not be relevant.

Well, what I think is not the answer, he will say the right thing.

, 

The testnet4-fix branch is now rebased with bitcoin/bitcoin:master. It was simpler than I thought:

Yes, I think a direct mail before any block signal, if it even happens, is definitely a good idea. Mara, Foundry and wiz (the person behind mempool.space who is also a testnet miner). Maybe I also make a page "Testnet4 Fix" to make this whole process easier.

Nope.
I tried several other discs and they are working fine, only one with movies is not working.
And I keep them all in exactly the same way, they are protected from scratches in separate purse with separators.
I almost forgot how loud those cd/dvd drives are, loading every time computer boots up

Your wallet seed phrase should be back up and store in a safe place only you know, it's a best backup method. Your head (I guess you implied about your brain and memory) will be only like supplementary backup method, as it is dangerous and can be broken, lost anytime so it should never be your main backup method.

Reminder about memorization risk as a backup method is written in this helpful education article.
How to backup a seed phrase.

How to let your loved ones inherit your wallet and bitcoin, hosemary helped you with LoyceV's topic.

This is all you need to know: https://claude.ai/share/5bd729a2-10ec-4675-9403-d4a71c8dabd8.

The seed is used to derive master public keys, which are then used to derive Bitcoin private keys. k value (which R is computed from) is derived deterministically from the Bitcoin private key and the hash of the message (i.e., the transaction). Therefore, no random number generation is needed. For each pair of private key and message hash, there is a unique R value, derived deterministically.

It's simple. Tell someone you trust about your funds.
Teach them how they can get access to your funds, or at least tell them those words are all they need to recover the funds.

If you want someone to have access to your funds only after your death, LoyceV's instruction may be helpful to you.
Using Locktime for inheritance planning, backups or gifts

You don't need an RNG to generate an R value for your signature. If your private key is securely generated, you can use it to hash it, along with your message, to generate an R value. This is RFC 6979, and it is supported by every bitcoin wallet, IIRC.

So, as long as you use a dice to generate the 128 bits for your seed phrase, you no longer need an RNG. You can just take advantage of that entropy and extend it everywhere else. This could be applied beyond bitcoin. You could just roll a dice enough times, and store the results during OS setup, and then your Linux would need not to ever call an RNG. It's just not user friendly.

100 dice rolls are more than enough.

I hope we climb slowly  without any drop from here.. that’s the only way I can save my ass.. LoyceV I saw what you did  . Now I have to pray it stays above 72.2k, you’re wicked 

Here are your predictions for Round 13 :

Name	Prediction	B/M
Hypnotizer	69 412,00
Leahized	70 582,00
Pmalek	70 648,00	0,30% bonus
ESG	70 688,08	0,30% bonus
examplens	71 012,00	0,20% bonus
Doan9269	71 170,00
cryptofrka	71 250,00	0,40% bonus
xLays	71 767,00
LoyceV	72 100,00	0,30% bonus
promise444c5	72 269,00

                  

Thanks for this exposition. I had wondered why moderators don't delete obvious insults until I discovered how they maneuver to get the posts not deleted and now you validated my suspicion. I never knew that such  big loophole exists in the unofficial rules.

Well, this is your personal view about him and I believe many will also disagree with you. I have respect for franky1, not because of his view of bitcoin which seems somewhat controversial, but because most times he stands alone and he stands firm. When I was new in this space, I understood he was banned from posting in the technical section and he was always disagreeing with LoyceV. I think the disagreement was about LN. It seems that franky doesn't endorse it because it happens off the chain. But meanwhile, he doesn't make people feel less of themselve at the slightest provocation.

Friend, I’ve been here for about a week, and moderators have already deleted 5 of my chatbot-related shitposts. I also received a neutral feedback for that. However, I only used the chatbot as a translator when I wrote something myself, I asked it to translate and refine it before posting. Still, my posts were detected as AI-generated, so I deleted them myself and took time to read the forum rules.

I’m not here to report newbies I’m here to help clean up the forum by addressing AI/chatbot misuse. If reporting AI users is considered wrong, then I sincerely apologize for that. I can also see that you’ve already added another neutral feedback, which I honestly didn’t expect just for reporting.

Yep, me too. a quick check at your post history shows that you are also a spammer. This is a forum not "stalk others profile or judge others"!

This is a forum. This is not a court. Spammer LoyceV.

Thank you, LoyceV!

It is a pleasure.

How do you get around Cloudflare if you don't mind asking? Use something like Selenium on a windows machine? Or you pay for some API to handle it for you? I don't think it's easily achievable with something lightweight like BeautifulSoup

I had similar a few weeks back, which I ended up changing my script to get around the cloudflare. which resulted me in pinging the server a bit too much during that time during testing.  However, this time around it doesn't seem like its affected at least my monitoring system is showing me its online, but I restarted it too be sure and its working.

I did have issues just general browsing late last night, where the host was failing. So, I'd assume LoyceV's assumption is correct and there's been a high level of traffic recently aimed at us.

I now see what you mean.

The softfork is just one rule: invalidate any block that has a timestamp by 20 minutes more than its previous one. That's it. In pseudocode, when a miner would call to get a block template to mine, it would look like this:


What you are asking is what happens if, after the journey to February, we are at 10 minutes block interval, a new miner joins, drives the difficulty up by, let's say 3x, and leaves? In that case, block interval takes 30 minutes, and difficulty is just reduced by 50% at next epoch, to 15 minutes per block. No big deal really, and I remind you that this has never happened before.

In the case that a Bitcoin miner suddenly switches to mining testnet blocks with the old client, then a split will occur, where he's mining on top of some CPU block, with current timestamp, and Mara & Foundry continue on the softforked chain, rejecting his blocks.

Testnet is not fucked up for another 6 months. Mara & Foundry continue on their journey to February, with no interruption. They just ignore the other chain. Miners do need to be informed about the softfork, though, otherwise they will have their blocks constantly reorged by the majority.