Do you really think that “sucking up” would work with Lauda?  You’d wind up with dripping-red distrust from her instead.  Either that, or she will turn you into a newt.  No, you won’t get better.

Let’s see, what else:  A sharp wit is meritorious, yes.  It adds to the forum.  It is also true, I seem to be adept at inducing smart, interesting people to like me.  Some people might call that “earning respect and making friends”.  Awesome “forum trolling skills” I’ve got there.

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Thanks, Tyrantt.  I’m not sure; but I think that until recently, excluding the famous +50 insult post, my most highly-merited post was Bitcoin’s Public-Key Security Level.  It is now handily beaten by a few others, such as segvan: Segwit vanity address & bulk address generator; I’ve actually found that high-quality coding of open-source software which people want is the very best “merit-farming” activity.  That’s what my involvement in forum controversy is distracting me from—and my merit score would probably be at least 100 higher, if I weren’t spending time speaking out against outrageous smear campaigns.  I think three other good examples are three successive posts I made in a thread pertaining to random number generation (0, 1, 2).

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So, why are you here in this thread?


Agreed that the S/N ratio can be bad; but in Dev & Tech, it’s recently become much better.  I blame the merit system for the improvement.  As for big-blocker nonsense FUD, by the way, it is meritorious to rip apart anti-Segwit disinformation of the type promulgated by Btrashers, sometimes unfortunately repeated by people who just don’t understand the technical bits.  Vide:  Currently, “Merited by Foxpup (7), gmaxwell (3), achow101 (3), AGD (2), HeRetiK (1), CASlO (1), Manfred Macx (1)”.


I am indeed proud of that historic forum moment, whereby I became the first and only forum member to get +50 for an insult, as a shriek from the target of the insult.  But if you think that’s my “most ‘notaeble [sic]’” post, then you haven’t read much of anything that I’ve written.  Try it sometime.

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That’s some lovely trust I’m farming here:



I can attest that you are not Lauda, because you are neither me nor Satoshi, who are both Lauda.

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Now, are we talking about me, or about how Lauda is a witch who must be burnt at the stake?

Ah, yes.  Here’s the witch!


No, my friend of a friend reliable unidentified source told me that you turned him into a newt.  Whereas I myself am personally testifying that you cast a magic spell on me, enthralling me and compelling my behaviour in supporting your persecution of the poor, innocent Mr. Quickseller.

BURN THE WITCH!