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Re: [May 2025]Fees are low, think about Consolidating your small inputs @1.00 sat/vb
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Cricktor
on 05/05/2025, 20:05:07 UTC

Seeing only partially filled blocks is really nice for fee penny-pinchers (like me). With the ordinals and other data spam at peak, there were times where I almost lost faith that we will ever see partially filled blocks again. Nice to see once again, that I was wrong.

Patience pays out...
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Re: Mempool Observer Topic
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Cricktor
on 05/05/2025, 19:55:45 UTC
⭐ Merited by bitmover (1)

Basically, Bitcoin block could have gone empty. Can someone remind what happens when almost empty blocks are mined in a row for, for example, 1 hour?
There's no such thing as empty blocks as a block must at least have the mandatory coinbase transaction. One (coinbase) transaction could be considered "empty", it depends on your definition of an empty block.

Nothing happens even if the miners would mine dozens of almost empty blocks. I would only raise the question why there are so few transactions. Everybody on vacation or on heavy party hangover? Internet broken? Cheesy


I remember that some people said, empty blocks are bad for the network security.
What could possibly be the explanation for such a claim? Little to no transactions to mine into blocks would be seriously concerning. But that's basically all I can think of (I don't know all, for sure).
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Re: What do you think of this address 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF?
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Cricktor
on 05/05/2025, 19:19:21 UTC

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Nonsense, until you sign a Bitcoin message from that address. I'm sure you'll find excuses to not have to do it. Whatever...

By the way, the public address you deliberately placed in your account profile is simply invalid. Not sure, if you even know it.
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Re: 🔥 GingerWallet.io - Desktop, Non-custodial, Open source | #CoinJoin
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Cricktor
on 04/05/2025, 20:24:22 UTC

My GingerWallet syncs to my Bitcoin Core node v28.1 and I haven't really observed any sync issues so far. Contrary to your setup I use my GingerWallet only as a hot software wallet, so no hardware wallet connected.

What is the sync counterpart in your case, an Electrum server or Bitcoin Core or Bitcoin Knots?
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Re: [TUTORIAL] Cold storage device on a Raspberry Pi
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Cricktor
on 04/05/2025, 19:43:50 UTC

Hi apogio,

a translation to Naija language has been made of your tutorial and I commented there to add the detail that after making changes to the /boot/config.txt file usually the Raspi needs a reboot to apply those changes to take effect.

Maybe you add this detail for Raspi newbies, too?

See here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5399898.msg65346544#msg65346544
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Re: Info-thread: Translation of Useful English topics to Pidgin {mix images}
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Cricktor
on 04/05/2025, 19:33:07 UTC

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Cricktor
To switch off wireless internet, we fit edit di config.txt file, as follows:
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sudo nano /boot/config.txt
Den add dis line fo di end:

dtoverlay=disable-wifi


Please, excuse that I don't speak your local language.

Can you add the detail that after making a change in the /boot/config.txt you should reboot your Raspi to apply the change. I feel this is missing and maybe someone doesn't know this.

dtoverlay=disable-wifi disables wifi subsystem
dtoverlay=disable-bt disables Bluetooth subsystem

Use both dtoverlay=... lines if you want to disable radio interfaces altogether.
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Re: Seed phrase recovery?
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Cricktor
on 04/05/2025, 15:15:52 UTC

It gone because if mixing wallet mnemonic seed and many random words which are not wallet mnemonic seed words.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but nope, OP said that it's all words from mnemonic wordlist. He basically failed to document his own obfuscation or correct pattern how to find his mnemonic wallet recovery words in his grid of words.

Maybe his recovery words are at prime number positions in his extended list of words or something similar, like jumping like a chess bishop on a grid of words. Possibilities are vast and I always wonder why people invent something but fail to document it. Because one thing is for sure: you will forget whatever you invented when you don't use or repeat it regularly.


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Loss due to complexity / not being able to restore from backup

Complex your wallet back up will not make your back up safer but more risk of failure in recovery later.
Not much to add to this. Add complexity and/or obscurity and fail to document it for you or your heirs and you have a recipe for desaster and loss.

Whatever you do, you should verify if you can successfully recover your wallet(s). If you have your non-standard procedure(s) only in your head, it's almost guaranteed you will forget something and shoot yourself in your foot. Don't do this, apply KISS principles!


I have about 30-50 seedphrase words here
What an odd way to describe how many words you have.
Indeed, I would think it should be possible to count the words and tell the exact number. Not that it would make much of a difference. Without any clues, you can't really brute-force this. You don't have the time and/or the energy to exhaust the search space.
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Re: OLD BTC private key format, help!!!
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Cricktor
on 04/05/2025, 12:52:53 UTC

I’m helping a friend recover Bitcoin from an old wallet dating back to 2010. The laptop is long gone, but luckily there’s a printed sheet with the following details:
...
Does your "friend" remember which wallet software it was? It might be possible to figure it out, because back in 2010 there weren't terribly many wallets available. It could involve a lengthy research in this forum digging through old topics and posts.

No backups available? No hand-written notes?

Well, if your friend used exotic cli tools, he should've documented what he used. Actually he should've documented stuff regardless of what he used. All too often it shows that after considerable time has passed, devices died and whatnot else, people don't remember what they have done or used and how.

I mention this here not to poke a finger in wounds but to highlight the importance of proper documentation for valuable assets and how they're stored and how they can be restored. Don't forget to actually test if you can restore a wallet from backed up details. If you don't have this, it's only a matter of time when it will shoot you in your foot.
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Re: [OPEN] eXch Anti-Phishing Campaign
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Cricktor
on 04/05/2025, 11:04:29 UTC

Isn't there a possibility to make a call from a public phone or similar? How much does a temporary "burner phone" cost, I am willing to donate the cost.
The town I live in doesn't have any operational public phone boxes anymore as far as my search revealed. Mobile phones killed them all unfortunately.

Prepaid burner phones or prepaid SIM cards aren't avalaible officially without KYC unless I go for the black market or other shady offers. That's not quite my cup of tea, sorry.

Thanks for the offer to donate, but I doubt it's worth it, see below.


I am very interested in what 1api.net has to say about all the reports so far and why they do not respond to them.
To some extend, me too. But as Haunebu says, it may not yield anything. They could simply refuse to comment or say anything. It's already not promising that they seem not to respond to any report sent to them. They sit it out and get away with it if no German authorities (cybercrime units?) have a reason to pressure them or ICANN kicking their butt (if ICANN actually does this, waiting to see proof).

I can't really contact German cybercrime without revealing my identity and without personally being scammed I doubt they would persue any hints from me even with good details on examplens' fraud expose website (kudos!).

Call me a chicken, I won't be offended. I value my privacy in crypto space.
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Re: Bist du neu hier? Stell dich bitte vor!
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Cricktor
on 04/05/2025, 10:10:43 UTC

Erstmal willkommen.

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Normalerweise gebe ich gerne etwas Merits für eine persönliche Vorstellung in diesem Faden. Das hier ist ja mehr Werbung für euer Projekt, welches ulkigerweise anscheinend nur mit einer "kontroversen" Bounty-Kampagne "beworben" wurde, wo der OP den Inhalt seines Posts gelöscht hat. Überhaupt fehlen da so einige Posts in dem Faden, komisch. Daher halte ich mich zunächst einmal etwas zurück.

Nicht wundern, der Bounty-Manager Vercall wurde als Cheater/Scammer entlarvt, Quelle: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5540019. Fairerweise muss man hervorheben, daß keine Hinweise präsentiert wurden, daß Ava Area selbst ein Scam sein könnte. DYOR! Ich kenne app.solidproof.io nicht, aber hier https://app.solidproof.io/projects/ava-area scheint das Team KYC-Daten hinterlegt zu haben, was Scammer vermutlich vermeiden würden. Wie gut app.solidproof.io tatsächlich prüft, kann ich nicht sagen. DYOR!

Falls jemand denkt, ich schreibe hier off-topic: die obige "Vorstellung" ist halt ungewöhnlich, was erstmal nicht schlimm oder so ist. Ich wundere mich nur, daß Ava-Area ihr Projekt hier in diesem Faden vorstellt und nicht in einem "anständigen" Projektvorstellungs-Post (eigener Faden/Topic im passenden Forumsteil). Damit ihr von Anfang an Bilder sichtbar einfügen könnt, empfiehlt sich der Erwerb eines "Copper Member" Rangs.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
Cricktor
on 04/05/2025, 09:13:48 UTC

Can you point a bro in the right direction about this, please?
Learn how to search efficiently. For newbies I suggest to use ninjastic.space to search this forum as you're not rate limited there.

This query searches for occurances of "slipstream" in post's text in this topic: https://ninjastic.space/search?content=slipstream&topic_id=1306983

Newest appear first, go to last hit or any other that gives you the details you're looking for:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg64379149#msg64379149 (kudos to WanderingPhilosopher)
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Re: Are we not secure in this forum in a case like this?
by
Cricktor
on 03/05/2025, 19:55:25 UTC

OP, if you had a valid email address and your email account expired for whatever reason (didn't use it for one year e.g. and your email provider deleted your email account if they have such an account usage policy requiring a minimum use within a certain time to keep the account alive), it was detected by the forum when sent emails to your email account bounced back as undeliverable. If this invalidation of your defunct email address by forum software didn't happen, it would be possible that someone else registers your deleted email address and takes over your Bitcointalk account by requesting a password reset via email.
(At least theoretically, because the adversary would need to know which email address belongs to your Bitcointalk account. But who knows where you may have spilled the beans...)

It's possible you didn't notice that your email address expired. Well, now it's the time to fix this issue and change your account's email address to one that actually works. You may need it in case you forget your password.
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Re: New moderator in forum?
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Cricktor
on 03/05/2025, 15:31:22 UTC

@mprep
How about if the merge script at least could preserve the post date and time in what it merges when it finds consecutive posts that may not have been consecutive posts initially due to deletion of posts in between.

In my opinion it's beneficial to preserve the post's date and time when they get merged for whatever reasons but especially with your script. Reporting violations of rules 21 or 32 is another thing, but I'd like them to preserve the timeline for mergers, too.
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Re: Little things that bug you/me about the forum
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Cricktor
on 03/05/2025, 14:59:00 UTC

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I understood what you suggested initially and we may disagree, that's totally fine. I simply oppose your suggestion that the Subject of a topic should remain unchangeable for anybody else except the OP. You asked for opinions, you got mine. We don't need to find consensus.

Let me add another thought regarding consequences of your suggestion:
If the OP is the only one to define the Subject for the whole thread, I would assume that the Subject should change for every post in a topic when the OP updates the topic's Subject, no? (Of course, the Subject for any other poster could remain unchanged but does this makes sense when you allow the OP to update the Subject and nobody else can change the Subject?)

Now think about the following potential of abuse:
OP posts a topic with some agreeable Subject. Other users chime in and post: Yay, I like your topic... whatever...
Later OP changes Subject to something really nasty and/or offensive and above assumed update mechanics is imprinted on any poster of the topic/thread. I definitely wouldn't want this.

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Re: Little things that bug you/me about the forum (By: PowerGlove)
by
Cricktor
on 03/05/2025, 14:16:25 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)

Similarly, right now, when I'm writing this post, I'm also adding some extra text "(By: PowerGlove)", in the Subject of this thread that you can see when I post this.

Now, I wonder why a poster is allowed to make changes in the Subject of a thread? I mean, if I have created a thread and chose a subject line for it, it should be only me who should be allowed to change that if I ever want to and not those who are going to post in my thread.

So, my suggestion is that when a poster is about to post something in a thread, or if they want to modify a post, the textbox in front of the "Subject:" should be closed for them, so that they don't get to make any changes in the subject when they are making a post. That textbox should only be available for the creator of the thread so that if the creator wants to make a change in it, they should be able to do it, but posters shouldn't be allowed to do that.

That's it. Let me know what you guys think. Smiley
Your change of Subject here is only visible in your post, not in the topic listing of Meta.

I don't like your proposal, as I sometimes "fix" deliberately the Subject when the OP has chosen a really bad Subject or I want to add an additional emphasize. I rarely do this, though.

The idiot who applied to a lot of signature campaigns by trying to fake them as [OPEN] is just plain stupid and earned his spot on every campaign manager's blacklist.

Frankly, I don't really see a point to disallow a change of the Subject by any poster when this change is limited to the user's own post. This doesn't update the Subject of the topic, this can only the OP do or moderators/admins.
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Re: [OPEN] eXch Anti-Phishing Campaign
by
Cricktor
on 03/05/2025, 13:29:19 UTC

The strange thing with exch[.]cd is that it is not listed in any WHOIS database:

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I get these details from https://whois.domaintools.com/exch.cd:
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Whois Record for ExCh.cd

Domain Profile
Registrar SCPT
IANA ID:
URL:
Whois Server:
Registrar Status ok
Dates 124 days old
Created on 2024-12-30
Expires on 2025-12-30
Updated on 2025-02-03
 
Name Servers MILLIE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 29,956,777 domains)
SRI.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 29,956,777 domains)

 
IP Address 185.196.11.206 - 1 other site is hosted on this server

 
IP Location Switzerland - Bern - Port - Global-data System It Corporation
ASN Switzerland AS42624 swissnetwork02 Global-Data System IT Corporation, SC (registered Mar 24, 2017)
IP History 2 changes on 2 unique IP addresses over 0 years
 
Hosting History 1 change on 2 unique name servers over 0 year
 
Whois Record ( last updated on 2025-05-03 )
Domain Name: exch.cd
Registry Domain ID: 20195-niccd
Registry WHOIS Server: whois.nic.cd
Updated Date: 2025-02-03T12:00:16.313Z
Creation Date: 2024-12-30T10:45:03.526Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2025-12-30T10:45:03.588Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2025-12-30T10:45:03.588Z
Registrar: SCPT
Domain Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
Registry Registrant ID: h6OGA-3X0LX
Registrant Name: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Registrant Street: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Registrant City: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Registrant State/Province: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Registrant Postal Code: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Registrant Country: DE
Registrant Phone: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Registrant Email: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Registry Admin ID: 7dtdU-MNNaA
Admin Name: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Admin Street: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Admin City: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Admin State/Province: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Admin Postal Code: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Admin Country: DE
Admin Phone: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Admin Email: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Registry Tech ID: tu4lt-ZDyS4
Tech Name: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Tech Street: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Tech City: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Tech State/Province: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Tech Postal Code: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Tech Country: DE
Tech Phone: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Tech Email: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Registry Billing ID: pE2EY-DMCVw
Billing Name: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Billing Street: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Billing City: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Billing State/Province: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Billing Postal Code: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Billing Country: DE
Billing Phone: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Billing Email: Redacted | EU Data Subject
Name Server: millie.ns.cloudflare.com
Name Server: sri.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC: unsigned

For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp


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To complain to ICANN about a registrar's negligence to prevent phishing abuse by domains under registrar's control, we would need solid evidence that the registrar didn't act after being notified.

Whatever it takes to gather such evidence, I would assume it needs to be solid and best a lot of it, too. We may need to pool such evidence somehow.

E.g. 1api.net responded with a ticket no. but hasn't came back to me since too many days. I speak German, but I don't have a burner phone to call them and maintain my anonymity properly. Need to figure out how to do it with proper opsec. I don't really want to link my account here with my real identity.


@eXch and @eXch Support should in my opinion show clearly on their remaining online domains that any other imposter domains offering coin swap services are a scam. They clearly tell, they closed their operation. In my opinion they should list the only valid domain names they use(d) and any other domains are imposters with scam intent.
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Re: Fake Ledger physicial upgrade scam
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Cricktor
on 03/05/2025, 12:54:01 UTC

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You aren't that naive, are you? I'm 100% sure that the physical letter's envelope didn't have any sender's address on them. The letter itself likely has Ledger's HQ Paris address (I didn't check) on them. The scammer very likely didn't disclose their own location unless they are insanely stupid (can't exclude this entirely).




This taught me a lesson to avoid hardware wallet generally. I will prefer airgapped device and use a software wallet on it.
I find this conclusion a bit over-the-top, I mean to avoid hardware wallets. The problem is not the hardware wallet itself, it's the data trail a buyer produces when they purchase such stuff online AND companies like Ledger who can't secure your customer data because they screw up or don't care or are just a bunch of incompetent people regarding customer data.

Ledger could produce the coolest hardware wallet the world has seen (they won't), with their history records, I would never ever buy anything from Ledger. I've limited power as a buyer, but I let my wallet speak and deny Ledger to receive any money from me.


You can build a hardware wallet from parts that don't scream "crypto hardware wallet", e.g. Krux or Seedsigner or similar DIY projects.

Air-gapped cold wallets are secure as long as you execute them properly, but they are less convenient than a hardware wallet (some of which you can buy offline, but only at very limited places which might not be accessible for many users).
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Re: none solicited transaction
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Cricktor
on 03/05/2025, 11:52:27 UTC

May I ask why you want to send it back?

At first glance, the transaction doesn't look suspicious to me. The amount you received is not in the ballpark of what's typically used in dusting transactions. And additionally, I don't believe someone guessed your address out-of-the-blue because this is practically extremely not likely to happen (near zero probability).

You said, you used your address at least once for a coin swap. Do you want to tell us which swap service you used?


Your public address bc1qcd2hvtkm2l7pmuvyu9t0rt8585ca0rd456jt5c received two coins so far and spent the first one in December 2024.

According to walletexplorer.com there are three addresses which are linked to belong to one wallet by some common heuristic:
https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/567673cfffc34c1c/addresses

You may have overseen some connections of your three addresses earlier.

The sender's transaction looks a lot like a payout or withdrawal from a service (exchange, swap, casino, mining). It consumes two inputs and pays to 1983 outputs, one of those many is your address.

The sender's compiled wallet had at least 5,466 transactions from 1,605 linked wallet addresses.
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Re: [Neue Auswertungen] Wir deutschsprachigen und die Merits ...
by
Cricktor
on 02/05/2025, 11:48:25 UTC
⭐ Merited by cygan (3) ,MaxMueller (1)

Ich glaube übrigens auch, dass die 2W Zyklen nicht durchgängig laufen, sondern zwischendurch (zum Jahreswesel?) neu gestartet werden, manche Zyklen also weniger als 14 Tage haben.
Ansonsten wäre es mir nämlich schleierhaft wie ich mit 845 Tagen im Forum auf 868 Activity komme....  Roll Eyes

Siehe hier: TIL Activity does not work on precisely 2 week intervals + interval timings


ich meine es ist auch so, dass es auch nur ausreicht in den 14 tagen mindestens einen beitrag zu schreiben um dann die 14 punkte in der actitity zu bekommen
kann mich aber auch irren. stecke in dieser materie auch noch nicht so 100%ig drin...
Nein, ganz so ist es nicht, es ist komplizierter. Mit nur einem Post innerhalb einer Activity-Periode hast du ausstehenden Anspruch auf die restlichen 13 Aktivitypunkte dieser Periode, die du mit mehr als 14 Posts in einer folgenden Activityperiode dann auch tatsächlich bekommen kannst, durchaus nachträglich.

Siehe Erklärung hier: FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit und daraus zitiert:

The way activity is calculated is complicated to understand, but simply put you can only get 14 activity points every two week period. This is basically all you need to know but I will explain the intricacies and technicalities of the system below to avoid any confusion:

★ You can only get 14 activity points every fortnightly period.
★ The fortnightly periods are fixed and do not start when you sign up.
★ A list of all the dates of the activity periods can be found on this spreadsheet (credit goes to jambola2 for compiling it).
★ You can technically get more than 14 activity in two weeks if you sign up between periods.
★ You only need to make at least one post in each activity period to be able to collect the activity at a later date. For instance, you could make one post in three different periods and you would then have 3 posts and 3 activity, but a potential activity of 42. Once you made the 42 posts you would then have 42 activity but no more. If you made one post in 35 different periods you would then have 35 posts and 35 activity but a potential activity of 480. That means you would be a Junior Member but if you made the full 480 posts you would instantly become a Hero Member.
★ If your post count eclipses your activity by 14 or more then you will only need to make one post in the new period to get the full 14 activity. For instance, your post count is 200 but your activity is only 28. To get another 14 activity you will only need to make one post in the new period and you will then have a total of 42 activity.
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Re: [OPEN] eXch Anti-Phishing Campaign
by
Cricktor
on 02/05/2025, 10:54:51 UTC

You and everyone else here are being PUBLICLY paid tens of thousands of Euros, stolen from ByBit, directly by a "company" that has since shut down because of law enforcement.
Show proof that eXch uses exactly so-called stolen coins OR STFU! You sockpuppet only blabber the shit you're told to spread here. Hilarious...


You are being paid to launch false complaints and harass the hosts, registrars, and owners of news sites and blogs that reported on eXch laundering money for the Lazurus NK hacking group. Conflating news blogs like monero [.] forex with clone/phishing sites like exch [.] cd may confuse low level staffers at web hosts, but not law enforcement.
Now show proof that monero[.]forex and darknetbible[.]info didn't funnel traffic to phishing carbon-copies of real eXch OR STFU!

If you make accusations, you've to provide proof otherwise who cares about your sockpuppet blabber. Get some medical help, you need a reboot of your brain v0.1alpha.


Thank you to exch and exch-support for making these illegal payments publicly. A shocking number of people involved here were stupid about their identities.
How much did you get for your brain-farts to post here and maybe somewhere else on asocial media? Genuinely curious.


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Ah, the other sockpuppet again. How much did you get for your lame insults blabber to post here? Genuinely curious.