Firefox and Tor browser are free, Linux OS is also free, and there is a bunch of free software still available, so I would not make generalization like this.
Problem for me is that I need to create account, connect it with email address and my browsing habits, history, bookmarks, etc.
Still for some poor third world countries with restrictive regimes firefox VPN could still be alternative option.

Check out Zen browser, new Firefox fork without tracking crap.

As someone who indexes posts for a living, don't do this. A user with a huge post history can easily clog your network connection while it downloads. Better to expose it as a graphql database, which is much more efficient to get the parts you're actually interested in.

Wouldn't it be easier to ask for a signed message from an address he has posted? Gazetabitcoin is also buddies with the guy I believe, maybe he could let us know if it's the real 1miau also? I seen someone mention signed message earlier in this thread and I haven't seen a message, might be time to tag til we get to the bottom of this.

LoyceV or TryNinja could dump old posts and new posts into a text file and anyone can have AI analyze it.

Did my mention of the service cause the issue with the images breaking? Did I shoot myself in the foot and then asked who shot me?
If it did, can it happen again the next time the website is mentioned somewhere?

Yeah, we can always go back to that but I wanted to take you out of the picture so I wouldn't always have to PM you and bother you with the updates. Logpaste seemed like a simpler and automated solution but it seems a thing of the past now.

I am not surprised to be honest. I am sure there are other casinos that I need to update. I wanted to start yesterday, but Logpaste being down gave me a reason to procrastinate further.

You can say that again. I agree that I have been so unlucky but I am not ignorant to why I have been this unlucky. I will not totally say I am unluck because in those cases people also understood and came through for me. I think there are two other accusations you missed out. One RajaKing that was linked to me and another user so.
I have been in two weeks April retreat. I was still focusing to finish the church program, but now I can no longer focus, so I had to excuse the church environment, got a reservation to put myself together.
The reasons I got into much problems are two;

• My welcome post in the forum
• My rapid growth in the forum.

My welcome post:
This post exposed me to danger, because it got a few older members upset but I learnt a lot from it. They either misunderstood the post or it was so early to make such a post.  At this point, I received advice from two users; One said I should avoid quoting and replying to legendary members, while the other said I should develop a thick skin.

My Rapid Growth:
I can boldly say that I was one of the non-technical newbies that experienced rapid growth in the forum.
The future of Bitcointalk: Low Ranking Top Merit earners in the past 30 days
This became a disadvantage because my fellow low-ranking members were amazed at my growth and were sending me pm. Some decided to study my posting pattern in order to be like me, but I rather advised them to learn from the Legendary members instead.
Some established members who earlier thought I wasn’t a newbie became confident of their doubt. It was on this premise the then Ratimov mentioned my name.
To clear the air, he didn’t mention me as a member of his 60+ alt farm, he only placed me on the watch list because of my merit count. He later removed my name from his watch list.

The case of Kaggie and RainbowKun
If you ask me, I would say we lost good members of the forum because of unnecessary attacks or bullying. The RainbowKun of a guy who was nick named “The Bitcoin Prophet” was on a different level as a newbie. He was writing bitcoin articles that would be suspected in today’s world to be written by AI. He earned so much merits until someone created a thread that suggested that people should stop sending merits to him. It was LoyceV who intervened that no matter how much merits he earned, in as much as he continued to produce quality, people shouldn’t stop meriting him.
Check the profile of both RainbowKun and Kaggie and see their activity to merit ration. But they unfortunately left the forum after much pressure.
PrivacyG, you might not have received these backlashes because you likely grew from the technical side of the forum. I noticed we registered here the same year, but we did not cross much paths in our early forum days.

The case of MagicalKing:
There was when Scyptical chemist created a thread for people to pm him for post review. I believed his pm should be flooded then. He created a thread that Myself and MagicalKing sent him pm 2.5 hrs apart by calling him “sir” and using the word “humbly”. I was confused and also felt unlucky because growing up I was taught to use the word “sir” to an adult responsible man. I maintained it in the forum until I was told people don’t like it here. The word humbly is always used in requesting formerly or semi-formerly. Someone applying to receive 50 merits should naturally be humble.
I didn’t know the way about of the MagicalKing because I stopped seeing him around in the forum, maybe he lost interest in the forum.

The GeorgeJohn case:
The accusation was as a result of coincidence in reserving a slot in chipmixer campaign. It was BlackHatCoiner that called us out then. I remember that Lovesmafamilies lent her voice then in the matter.

Side note 1:
Some BTT members from the Nigerian local have some whatsApp groups where they share opportunities off and on the forum. Sometimes when a campaign is opened, someone might decide to share the information which could lead to rush in application.

Side note 2:
Most Nigerians don’t take privacy seriously. So, when the idea of the forum being a privacy forum occurred to the early users of this forum from Nigeria, they mis-interpreted it for us. So, that made it difficult for a Nigerian to come public and say he introduced someone to the forum. They only come up when there is trouble, which then makes it unbelievable. It was just like a secrete affair, mistaken as privacy.
GeorgeJohn was actually the person that introduced me to this forum. I am grateful to him to the extent that I couldn’t hold it back, I had to let it out when zasad@ asked a related question years back in his interview. If anyone cares to read, I exposed some percentage of my personal life there.

My Plea:
John had been in this forum since 2020, a year before he introduced me. I wasn’t happy that it seemed I was growing more than him, the reason why I was suggesting him to Ratimov.  This is his 6th year in the forum but he is yet to hit the legendary rank. It took me far lesser time. John has about 114 merits to hit the legendary rank, if some merit sources can do it for me, I will be very happy.

I have been avoiding to write wall of texts, I am sorry if I had stretched anyone that cares to read to this stage. I value the forum and her members. I had a rough start in the forum but I learnt too many things in this forum. BTT was able to teach me what the university could not teach me. I value and learn from most users here even when I don’t have personal contact with you.

@1miau we have always gotten along very well and had great PM conversations. I never had any reason to distrust you and in fact I know some very noble things about you. One detail that caught my attention was the "spelling mistake" of the word "meant" and I know you don't misspell this word usually. Now this does not seem to be a mistake since you repeated it twice, unless unless your "a"-key is broken, but since you are using it for other words, this coincidence can be safely ruled out.

Again, you never gave me a reason to doubt you, but why the hell are you getting the word "meant" wrong twice?

I'm not running away from anyone. I am just being privacy conscious thus the full node setup, initially I wasn't thinking about having a full node, but after learning ways txn are broadcast I think it'd be wise to participate and protect myself.

To be honest my plan to self custody is mainly risk mitigation, not your keys not your coin. In terms of keeping UTXO private doing CJ and all, I am still hesitant, my worries are mostly surrounding how can those self custody sats be spent moving forward. Long term I am convicted with holding sats, but I do not want my UTXO through CJ or whatever method cause trouble in my future spending - be it sold off to fiat, move to LN or whatever it may be. Where I am from Bitcoin policy isn't well discussed topic in public, hodlers are rare, self custody is even more rare, however there are crypto exchanges that are approved by local securities commission. My concerns are surrounding what are the implications of doing CJ for all / partials of my UTXOs in the future.

What is the tradeoff of not doing CJ as a self custodian who just holds for long term? What are the implication of doing CJ on all the UTXO?

Amazing!! Maybe I was just one of those users that really don't know how the DT system work but good enough how  this thread has just  educated me on things I really need to know about it. Am a kinda releive right now, my appreciation to sir LoyceV, sir hosemary and everyone that has contributed immensely in me, thanks once again.  Probably at my free time I will visit any of the stated link for further knowledge.

Thank you so much for the explanation, LoyceV. Everything is clear now.

Another way to say that is:
If a name is crossed out under Depth 1 in the trust network, it can't be listed again under Depth 2, but if the excluded member is blacklisted, their name is removed from Depth 1 and can appear in Depth 2.

The duel is now over. Here are the results :

Closing price on 28/04/2026 : 76 345$

Name	Prediction	B/M	Final prediction	Difference
Hypnotizer	77 689,50	0,25	77 883,72	1 538,72
LoyceV	78 500,00		78 500,00	2 155,00

                              

The bears won over the bulls. Thanks to that, Hypnotizer, you have earned the right to play at least one more round.
Sorry LoyceV, but those three ♥ were ruining the harmony of my table. I prefer when everything is neatly aligned, so you lose a life.
               
Everyone wake up !! It’s time for round 17.
The winner of this round will have a tremendous privilege : the chance to take part in an experience that will completely change the world. No less than that. I have put all my money into this project, and it’s about to come to completion.

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Round 17 : Defy the death
What will be the price of Bitcoin at May 04, 2026, 12:00:00 AM (BTC closing price on 03/05/2026) ?
Submit your predictions before May 01, 2026, 02:00:00 PM.
 
Cash shop: OPEN
 
Special rules :None

Yeah, you are now getting data from LoyceV mirror now. So if bitcoindata is down OR if LoyceV mirror is down, your topic images will break.

It is impressive how things just break by themselves sometimes 

I read that post and your posts about Lauda's case several times very carefully, but I still don't get you.

Please read my post and point out anything that's wrong. Maybe, I don't know how the trust system works.

• To be a DT1 member, you need to be selected by theymos and number of other DT1 members who trust your judgments is equal or more than number of other DT1 members who distrust your judgments. Here, DT1 members votes are counted even if they themselves have been excluded by other DT1 memebrs. Is this true?
  
  
• If you are not selected by theymos, your judgments are trusted by at least one DT1 member and number of DT1 members who trust your judgments is equal or more than number of people who distrust judgments, you will be a DT2 member. Is this true?
  
  
• I have been selected by theymos. It's possible that I am not DT1 member, but a DT2 member. Is this true?
  

Now let's get to your scenario.
LoyceV, hosemary and 98 other have been selected by theymos.
5 out of those 98 people trust hosemary's judgments and 5 out of those 98 people distrust hosemary's judgments. LoyceV neither trusts hosemary's judgments nor distrust them.

Now hosemary is DT1 member. Am I right?


LoyceV excludes hosemary from his trust list. This makes hosemary to be out of DT1, but this doesn't necessarily mean that hosemary is no longer a DT member. Am I right?

Now assume that LoyceV, the 5 people who trust hosemary's judgments and the 5 people who distrust hosemary's judgments are all DT1 members (I mean they have not been excluded by other DT1 members). In this case, hosemary is not DT member. If LoyceV is exluded by other DT1 members, hosemary will become a DT2 member. Am I right?


Now let's get to the part I don't understand.
You say hosemary can make himself a DT2 member by requesting blacklisting from DT1. Am I getting you correctly?

As I said, to be a DT2 member, I need LoyceV to be excluded by other DT1 members. I don't understand how I can become a DT2 member if theymos blacklists me. I am still excluded by 6 and included by 5 DT1 members that they themsleves have not been excluded by other DT1 members.

I know this.
DT1 members can vote against other DT1 members, even if they themselves are excluded from DT1 list, but they can't vote against DT2 members.

You and I are both DT member. You distrust me and that makes me become a non-DT user. If you are removed from DT1 list for any reason, I will become a DT2 member.
You said "if that same user requests blacklisting from DT1" and that what's I don't get.

How can I change things with making a request blacklisting me?
To be a DT2 member, I need theymos to blacklist you, not myself and I can't ask theymos to blacklist LoyceV.

You probably meant if LoyceV requests theymos to blacklist himself from DT1 list, then hosemary will become a DT2 member.

I read your posts about Lauda's case, but I think I didn't understand your point correctly. I am probably missing something.


Let's say I have been selected by theymos as a DT1 member. 5 DT1 members trusts my judgments and 6 distrusts my judgments. Now I am not a DT member.
I ask theymos to blacklist me, so that I am never selected as DT1 member by his algorithm. I don't understand how can this makes me a DT2 member under the same votes (5 DT1 members still trust my judgments and 6 still distrusts my judgments).

Even if theymos blacklists me, I still have more trust exclusions than inclusions.
I can be a DT2 member only if one of those 6 DT1 members that distrust my judgments is removed from DT1 list, so that only 5 of them are counted for DT2 voting. So, I need to ask theymos to remove one of those 6 DT1 members (which is impossible), not myself.


What am I missing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Bills were missed 

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


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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I see what I saw..

You didn’t see it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But...

   -I choose LoyceV. !.
  /


                                                          
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                                                            -Take .25% malus!!

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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

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

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

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

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

So LoyceV is apparently going to see my prediction 

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

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

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

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

Let’s get the duel started….

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

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

- but @Halab,

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

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

-waiting for the duel to start!!

Round 16 is now over, here are the results :

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

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

                              

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

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

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

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

and maybe ESG.   

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

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

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


Fixed!

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

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

Saving to afford my third life..

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

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


I saw what you did there…

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

You are very welcome in our alliance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another question,

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

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

-Still has a chance to win again.

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

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

Ha.

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

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

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

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

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

                  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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