I joined the forum on the December 14th (2017) and so far my logged time is: 59 days, 7 hours and 38 minutes. Not sure about others but I believe this time log should be enough for me to claim that I spend good amount of time from my days on the forum. This means, I come across good posts very often but sadly I can not merit most of them because most of the times I am out of sMerit.

The standard of giving merit for me is not very high (I hope it's not a problem). Whenever I find a post a little informative, the poster put some thoughts and little work before posting it, the poster expressed some humor - I do not hesitate to merit the post. Here are the 10 posts that requires to apply for a merit source. I hope from these, theymos will find some good reasons to try me.

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036425.msg46095345#msg46095345 (archive) Beginners & Help by joniboini

Quote from: joniboini on September 24, 2018, 03:23:04 AM

Quote from: aywing on September 24, 2018, 02:24:32 AM

what is the benefits of permissioned blockchain?

There are several 'benefits' (it depends on how you look at this). You can limit who can read the block or who can be the validator/miners and etc. By limiting the numbers of people who can read the block, the data on the blockchain will be 'safe' from third-parties, therefore only a few people will know it. The government would love this one. By limiting the number of validators, you can maximize your profits (assuming you own the blockchain and become one of the validators), so you'll get rich quickly. CMIIW.

Quote from: aywing on September 24, 2018, 02:24:32 AM

How can i distinguish the difference on functions between centralized db and permissioned blockchain?

Not really sure get your point, you're talking what (technical) functions / features (like, block confirmation time?) available on a centralized database and permissioned blockchain? Read the source code or features, maybe?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5038867.msg46218693#msg46218693 (archive) Development & Technical Discussion by HeRetiK

Quote from: HeRetiK on September 27, 2018, 08:06:09 AM

The title is not only clickbait, but also utterly wrong.

Block withholding attacks and 51% attacks are two entirely different things.

51% attacks by definition always include the majority hashrate, block withholding attacks not necessarily do.

Granted, block withholding attacks such as selfish mining are at their most effective with the majority hashrate, but then again every attack on PoW is. In the end once a miner achieves majority hashrate they can attack the network whatever way the like, regardless whether they decide to withhold blocks or not.

Apart from attacks on the incentive structure of PoW such as selfish mining, block withholding attacks are usually thwarted by... waiting for confirmations. That is, by using the protocol the way it was meant to be used.

That being said:

Quote from: qcitycoin on September 27, 2018, 07:42:59 AM

A particular signer is an account owned by a foundation or organization that initially designs the block chain or operates the block chain, and is called a verifier.

So the solution to block withholding attacks is.... federated trust.

...

*slow clap*

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5039047.msg46227643#msg46227643 (archive) Serious discussion by sister1001

Quote from: sister1001 on September 27, 2018, 12:20:03 PM

It was 2017, after a summer of sky-rockets hitting x20 and even more, when Wabi, a Chinesse ICO that basically provided no info on the real use of its token and had what was possibly a WP made by a 8 yr'ld kiddo armed with safety scissors and a non-toxic glue stick managed to get an oversubscribed ICO kicking o x43 two days after it's launch.

Yeah...those times.. It was about then when I wandered the Blockchain panorama with some ether, far closer to the single than the triple digits, bought after a fight to death with Kraken's Cloudflare and 404s with, at the time, a useless trading system, trying to make some sense of why all this precarious ventures were actually growing far beyond reason and, needless to say, searching for my chance to take advantage.

And then, I came across this ICO. Let's call it the F token just to have it named. F token has a cool page, properly built, excellent team. The White Paper is very professional, no trace of a misspelled word, the team is public and impressive,.... SBSP - Solid Business & Solid People. When the day comes I am ready. The recent gas wars have showed me that being a minute late is being a minute too late and having 100 wei in the gas price of your MEW becomes a must to get into the good ones. Three, two, one... there it goes my unreasonable amount of ETH

I could write at large about the next months, full of Telegram messages with elusive answers, half truths, red coloured numbers ending up in hope, despair, anger, sadness and finally, acceptance. Yet rather than that, I will simply say that I still hold that token, rotten and buried - if bytes can rot - among hundreds of 0x transactions - worth less than a cheap burger in a no-go borough of this city.

And you may think that I am just an irredeemable hodler, unable to accept that it's gone forever, but I know better: That token is still in there as permanent reminder of what I went through out there in the new frontier, where dreams are born and slaughtered in the blink of an eye and even the wisest can be blinded by the glitter of a ethereal Bitcoin.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5039120.msg46246319#msg46246319 (archive) Bitcoin Technical Support by tarball

Quote from: tarball on September 27, 2018, 08:27:04 PM

Quote from: AdolfinWolf on September 27, 2018, 04:32:33 PM

EDIT: AFAIK, you can't access your private key on Android Electrum.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2381046.0

Unless you mean the extended or master privkey, you can export individual privkeys. In the current version of Electrum, you go into the 'Receive' tab then tap on the address. It will send you to a list of addresses in your wallet. Tap the address you want, then tap 'Details.' Their will be an option to 'Export private key' which will require you to input your passcode first. You can then tap on the privkey and it will be copied to clipboard.

In previous versions of electrum, the address list was in a tab called 'Address' just like the tab 'Receive' or 'Send.'

I have posted screenshots below.

Quote from: AdolfinWolf on September 27, 2018, 05:35:45 PM

Clearly you haven't been using the right blockexplorers. His adresses do check out in terms of BCH being stored on them.
Also he didn't post his privkey, but an xpub. However you make a fair point. I haven't checked it out, but as far as i am aware, there is no way to access an xpub on the android version of electrum? Or is it just privkeys that you're unable to access?

You can export the master pubkey as well, just not the master privkey. You need to tap the top part, which will take you to the master pubkey and place where you can get seed.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5038907.msg46262815#msg46262815 (archive) Lending by condoras

Quote from: condoras on September 28, 2018, 09:15:12 AM

Quote from: ImHash on September 28, 2018, 06:07:03 AM

I don't understand, A campaign manager leaving me a neutral feedback has nothing to do with me defaulting on a loan. I posted this for anyone who does trust me to give me this loan, Not for you guys to come here and say that you are not going to give me this loan Cheesy

Of course you do. A campaign manager leaving you a neutral feedback, which was a negative before and warns people do be more than cautious dealing with you.
A loan is more than a serious deal and the only way for someone to be "safe" is Collateral. Not trust.

We point you out the reasons why you wouldn't get this loan filled and if you want it, what you should do and get it.
Nothing more, nothing less. Cool

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036768.msg46112685#msg46112685 (archive) Trading Discussion by manfredmann

Quote from: manfredmann on September 24, 2018, 01:29:51 PM

Learning by doing refers to a theory of education expounded by American philosopher John Dewey. He theorized that learning should be relevant and practical, not just passive and theoretical by "John Dewey".

In my few months of Bitcoin investment I have failed, I got loss, and I was like to give up and walk away. Yet, I am not that type of person that does not know how to comeback. I have made my plan basing on the great philosopher John Dewey with his great contribution on the theory of education which is learning by doing principle.

Thus, I have applied it on cryptocurrency and fortunately it work. I was able to recover my losses and still enjoying on the thing that I was doing letting it as part of routine. Here is how I do it.

#Exchange - Choose an exchange that you can trade easily with bitcoin to fiat and vice versa so that you can save more time on it.

#Study - I Invested a little amount of bitcoin and study its market price how it moves in just one day.

#Anticipate - Some things could not work since I am busy also doing my job and could not anticipate the market price movement for bitcoin in a day. So I made another way how to anticipate bitcoin market price movement. How? I am only seeing the percentage of the market price increase once it gets 2% or more increase I sell my bitcoin holdings little by little for example I have invested 3K USD with 2 % increase or more depending on market price movement if it continues to increase I continue to sell also little by little.

#Profit - the trading of bitcoin to fiat money is already a profit.

#Wait - Wait for some time that bitcoin market price moves downward. It may take few hours or maybe a day where you can see it clearly on coinmarketcap.com. I am pretty sure that bitcoin market price is predictable these days after the green market for bitcoin, red market will follow. So wait for the red market to show up.

#Invest - The profit you get on that trading could be invested again after waiting on red market for crypto. Pretty sure you could increase the number of crypto if you will do this.

#Apply - After seeing the methods I used. I had conclude that I am learning by doing itself on those process. So I applied it and invest again and brings my investment into new level that I could afford.

#Hardwork - You should have a little to time to check from time to time the market price movement of Bitcoin. It does not compensate that much time since coinmarketcap.com is only one click away!

#Believe - It take sometime to recover my loss but I believe on myself and continue to do what is right.

#Results - I have gain 25% increase of my crypto regardless of its market price value and that 25% is almost a means to recover some of my losses in the previous investment.

I learned and still learning on this investment with the great principle of John Dewey's principle learning by doing. Patience and HODL is not the only key to success because hardwork!

Hardwork and Effort never betray - Guy Sensie (Naruto Shippuden)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5040108.msg46289336#msg46289336 (archive) Mining (Altcoins) by SpceGhst

Quote from: SpceGhst on September 28, 2018, 11:19:46 PM

After my first 6 months of mining, I have come up with a few pearls of wisdom for beginners:

90% of all mining program errors are due to too much overclock/undervolt
The other 10% are caused by errors in configuration
If youre sure the problem is not the riser, the problem is the riser
Never keep any wallets on a machine you use for mining
Its hard to mine the most profitable coin because its always changing
If you have to sell your mined coins immediately to pay the electric bill, you probably dont need to be mining (have some working capital)
The pool with the highest hash rate doesnt make you the most coins over time
Always keep older versions of mining programs, you might need them one day
When a new GPU driver comes out, let somebody else be the guinea pig
Time is money in mining. If your machine is down, youre not making money
Fine tuning a rig can be time consuming; dont let it consume all your time
If it aint broke, dont fix it.

Please feel free to add your own...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5040761.msg46352809#msg46352809 (archive) Meta by Welsh

Quote from: Welsh on September 30, 2018, 02:48:15 PM

Quote from: RocketSingh on September 30, 2018, 02:21:02 PM

AFAIK, smart bots can solve 9+2=?. This is the reason big websites are increasingly placing trust on Google's Re-CAPTCHA. Unfortunately, Google's Re-CAPTCHA does not provide word challenge anymore. All are just images and they dont get solved even if you are correctly pointing them. The reason behind this is Google's machine learning AI is far from perfect as of yet. They assume, good IP will always correctly solve the captcha. But, they dont. Hence, the irritating problem we face with Tor.

There's a sneaky little way of bypassing Googles captcha, but requires coding a script, and using that. It's likely how all of these newbie accounts are being created automatically, and being used for malicious purposes. I'm not sure how we would combat this either as removing Google's image verification would result in a lot more spam than we already have. Unfortunately, the way to bypass the google image captcha is fairly well known, and seems like Google don't have any plans on changing it.

AFAIK there just isn't a better solution than the current implementation. I've seen people suggest implementing a captcha per post, but honestly they don't care, because they can automate it with a script. I'm sure theymos is well aware of this issue too, and requiring a captcha per post would affect legitimate users more than that of the spammers. Implementing a simpler approach wouldn't really benefit the forum. In regards to the Tor issue, and how long it can take sometimes. Then, we need to weigh up the pros, and cons, and see if we want usability over forum readability. If it were removed then it would certainly lead to mass amounts of spamming, but the current implementation isn't foolproof either. At least, I don't think so. I haven't had to log on in months, but I'm sure its exploitable like all the other captchas on other sites.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5041045.msg46355133#msg46355133 (archive) Meta by Ardavan2150

Quote from: Ardavan2150 on September 30, 2018, 03:35:29 PM

Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on September 30, 2018, 03:22:46 PM

You got that right, our whole fucking society in the UK has been changed over the years to accommodate people who follow that ridiculous ideology.

People who moan about treatment of Muslims, Id like to ask them how they feel about the treatment of homosexuals & women in their faith?

By the way Muslims arent a race, Islam is a faith/ideology. Criticising or condeming Muslims cant be construed as racism.

I don't believe in any religion and I think they are all a scam. BUT I don't think someone should be berated just because of their beliefs. What you are also referring to as treatment of homosexuals and women are very limited to a regions of Saudi Arabia and Iran only.
Not all the muslim countries follow that. Indonesia is majority muslim and there is no problem with being a muslim/homosexual. What you know about Islam and Muslims is what the media want you to know. Do not think this is true for all the muslims around the world.

I don't know how UK society changed because of muslims, but If you are changing your rules and regulations to make sure every person every citizen has the right to believe and practice their own religion, it make sense to me. Cause it's their right.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5040771.msg46355117#msg46355117 (archive) Beginners & Help by bill gator

Quote from: bill gator on September 30, 2018, 03:35:18 PM

Litereally the next post from your account after creating this thread was as follows :

Quote from: Dig Bicks on September 30, 2018, 03:07:58 AM

you piece of shit, badmouthing this guy for promoting an ICO? Your promoting a fucking gambling website that steals money from people. Your a real piece of shit hypocrite.

Insults, misrepresentation, profanity, misspelling, poor grammar and the list goes on. Why would anybody merit this? This is representative of your entire post history.

Then you sit here baffled that you are struggling to move up the ranks. You routinely insult other users on faulty or non-existent logic. You are consistently crass, unpalatable and vulgar in such a way that isn't even close to humorous. You put out one-line posts that bring nothing to the conversation and only seek to troll around while being rewarded for it.

If you truly want merit then you're going to have to completely reshape your behavior around the forum. Merit is not even something that's important, so you should be worried about something that is actually a priority; something like being a contributing member of the community, learning how bitcoin works, or providing a good/service to the forum. There are endless ways to provoke merit into your direction, but none of them are gimmicks and all of them require behavior to change.

I love bitcoin and since this community is playing major role to promote bitcoin - I love this forum too. I hope becoming a merit source will give me another way to engage more with the community.

Thanks in advance.