The stealth address is a method where additional security can be granted to a user of a cryptocurrency. For example, if someone wanted to receive a number of tokens of a cryptocurrency from a sender as a payment for work, but didn’t want anyone else to know about it, then they could give the sender a stealth address. When the sender sends the funds to the receiver, a random unique address is created where the funds will be shown to have gone on the blockchain. What this means is there is no link between the stealth address and any other transaction address the receiver may have used. This therefore provides a layer of anonymity because no one will be able to see how the receiver spent their received funds.

In security engineering, nonce is an abbreviation of "number used once". It is often a random or pseudo-random number issued in an authentication protocol to ensure that old communications cannot be reused in replay attacks. For instance, nonces are used in HTTP digest access authentication to calculate an MD5 digest of the password. The nonces are different each time that the 401 authentication challenge response code is presented, and each client request has a unique sequence number, thus making replay attacks and dictionary attacks virtually impossible.

 

I posted similar thoughts in a merit thread in the Beginners & Help forum board but I will share my thoughts on merit here as well.


I've found that it's very difficult to get merit here. The system appears to favor people who were already here and established in the Bitcointalk forum when it was introduced (I believe only at the start of the year?).

It has ended up creating a barrier for newbies and new people who visit Bitcointalk as many do not receive any merit from the small portion of members who can distribute it.

The system (and merit givers themselves) also favors English speakers or people who have a well-developed English vocabulary. There are much fewer merit givers in the local / foreign language boards and they are much less populated. This has been confirmed by several merit-givers who have created their own threads on this. It's basically a form of discrimination against foreigners.

I find it quite puzzling that a forum that's been around for years, and based on decentralized networks and cryptocurrency, has managed to adopt and implement a centralized and archaic system of forum rewards that favor a select few. It's both ironic and hypocritical!

What's worse is that it's basically created a black market for people to trade their merit. People are paying for merit. There are telegram groups (and probably other social media groups) set up for this express purpose. Is that really what the system is trying to achieve?

I've been here since late last year and haven't been able to acquire a single merit point. I don't have the English barrier problem as English is my native language.

What makes it even more difficult for newbies and Jr Members is that there is an unwritten rule not to beg for merit... so you can't even ask for it. That will most likely just get you blocked from merit givers or possibly a -1 Trust (?)

I honestly think the whole system needs to be rehashed or redeveloped so that everyone has a chance to get merit (or maybe just turf out the whole system altogether??).

The global blockchain and cryptocurrency industry still has a lot of room to grow with new people entering crypto markets and looking up websites for info every month. Judging by some of the arrogant and judgemental responses from the Hero and Sr Members in this thread, if this and the other reasons above results in the reception they can expect to get from a popular forum board, what message does it send to them??   

It comes off as being very cliquey, protective and insular! There has to be a better way.

 

I've been using the BountyFollowers service on several Twitter accounts for a few months now. I don't mind checking in every 6 hours and adding 10 new followers each time. For better feeds (and less spam) I also mute pretty much the majority of followers that I add through this service.

Although lately I find it's been playing up. On one account a few weeks ago, the add new followers page kept suggesting the same 10 twitter users, even though I had already added them. I thought maybe it was an issue with my cookies or my cache and cleared/refreshed both, but it was only on one account. Logging in to a different account and doing the add new followers worked fine.

Now, just today, I find that Twitter has suspended the Bounty Followers twitter account (inactive since late last year) and that you can't add new followers nor reconnect / login and authorize Bounty Followers to access your Twitter account. When I attempt to join with Twitter to link BountyFollowers to my account, I get the following message:



It looks like Twitter have found out about it and stopped the service.

Hopefully the developers will create a new one and reintroduce it. This was apparently only a beta version.

 

 

Haven't tried using the script but I have been using the BountyFollowers service on several Twitter accounts for a few months now. I don't mind checking in every 6 hours and adding 10 new followers each time. For better feeds (and less spam) I also mute pretty much the majority of followers that I add through this service.

Although lately I find it's been playing up. On one account a few weeks ago, the add new followers page kept suggesting the same 10 twitter users, even though I had already added them. I thought maybe it was an issue with my cookies or my cache and cleared/refreshed both, but it was only on one account. Logging in to a different account and doing the add new followers worked fine.

Now, just today, I find that Twitter has suspended the Bounty Followers twitter account (inactive since late last year) and that you can't add new followers nor reconnect / login and authorize Bounty Followers to access your Twitter account. When I attempt to join with Twitter to link BountyFollowers to my account, I get the following message:


It looks like Twitter have found out about it and stopped the service.

Hopefully the developers will create a new one and reintroduce it. This was apparently only a beta version.

 

Just to follow up... it seems Bounty Followers no longer works when trying to authorize access to a Twitter account. It says authorization has been revoked.

I also noticed that the Bounty Followers twitter account has been suspended.

It seems this service is no longer available.

If you are still logged in and click to add followers, it will no longer add followers to your twitter account.

Twitter RT Link:
https://twitter.com/mangodecrypto/status/990849365232111616

LinkedIn Repost Link:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6396617218217644032/

Will email all my other details.
 

I've been using this service for a little while on my twitter account. It's been working great but something has happened and now I keep getting the same group to follow every 6 hours.

After I follow them, I refresh 6 hours later and its the same group of 10.

I've tried clearing the cache & cookies from my browser and logging out and logging back in but still no change. Tried it on an alt twitter account and works fine (?)

I just sent an email requesting help to bountyfollowers@gmail.com looking for some support.

I think you need to distinguish between "cold" hardware wallets vs software and mobile wallets (there are also paper wallets too).

You also need to distinguish whether you hold the private keys for the wallet you use or whether they are held by a third party.

Ledger Nano S and Trezor are cold hardware wallets where you hold the private keys.

Coinbase is basically an exchange wallet where they hold your private keys so that's one less level of security and depends on your trust of Coinbase as a third party.

Exodus and MEW are also popular. I believe both have been hacked at times in their history so you need to be careful. MEW was actually just hacked recently. I'm not sure who stores the private keys for these wallets (between the user or the wallet company).


 

I can't say for certain why your post was removed as I didn't see it. I am also not a moderator. But I think the best reason as to why your post was removed was because it has probably already been answered in an existing pinned post (its possibly a frequently asked question) or it was deemed not relevant to the board it was posted in.

Did you try searching for an answer to your question before making your post?

I've been doing airdrops quite actively since late last year when I started to really get involved in crypto.

I have to say that many are simply fake. Many twitter airdrops for instance are just fake accounts linked to fake websites (if that) and just want to accumulate followers so they can spam their referral links or get you to join their airdrop telegram group so they can spam their airdrop referral links there.

Sometimes it helps to check with the official coin account (on Twitter) or on their actual website to see if they are actually doing an airdrop or if its just a fake. The official coin account will usually put out a warning if there is a fake airdrop form circulating.

I have to say that the Bethereum project has done extremely well.

In just a few months, the project has amassed a high amount of followers on its social media channels (closing in on 100,000 Telegram members) and has executed a brilliant bounty campaign.

Now the ICO has launched and it has consistently achieved high ICO ratings across all the ICO rating websites.

Well done to the Bethereum team for an excellent campaign!

 

I noticed that too. I log in periodically as its mainly a waste of time with such low odds. 

I probably had about 0.01 Ripple in my account after visiting for a few months so it's not major loss.

Will be interesting to see if the site goes back up at all.

Joined & completed all tasks.

Telegram: @mangodebango
Twitter:    @mangodecrypto

You raise some interesting thoughts but I'd expand on it a little. Might also need a slight retweak with your English there. 

I filled out the form. Hope it helps with your numbers. 

Try using bountyfollowers.com . You will see immediate results within the first 24 hours, just follow your group. 

To be positive you need to think positive. Free yourself of stress and worry and try to be optimistic. Things will change. It comes from your internal attitude and responses.

While I'm certain there is definitely life "out there", I wasn't so certain that maybe we had been visited - until I saw those official navy pilot videos that were released last year from an incident over the ocean a few years ago. The UFO in the video cannot be explained.

lol nice work there...

But I think the EOS card is a little OP eh?