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Why is there the "tether" tag if it is off-topic?
After searching the main site for the tether tag and finding a few not-closed (and upvoted) questions about USDT (like this and this) I figured my question would be fine.
But it wasn't.
Why such ...
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Adding more community-specific reasons for closing
I've noticed that many questions closed with "Other - add a comment" have the same reasons written in, and I'm interested to hear your opinions on whether they should be added as permanent ...
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Canonical topic for "exporting private key from descriptor wallet"?
We have been getting the question "How to export a private key from a descriptor wallet?" a bunch of times in the last year or so. I know there are a number of answers to it already. Is ...
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Is javascript syntax highlighting working?
From here, it seems that syntax highlighting should work.
However, it doesn't seem to work for the javascript question I asked earlier, and some others - e.g:
Bitcore-p2p: Peer.connect does not work
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Should we more proactively act against bad questions?
I find the Bitcoin stackexchange a gold mine of information about the Bitcoin network. Unfortunately the large number of good questions and answers is dwarfed by the much larger number of poor ...
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Why are questions asking for proofreading of long descriptions of a concept not well received?
I saw a question that went into a lot of detail on a concept and then asked whether that description was correct. The question post ended in asking a number of additional questions about the topic. ...
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Tag for "verifying software download during installation"
We have now a number of questions about how to verify release binaries during the installation process. Perhaps there are enough to start using a tag for that.
What do you think about release-...
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Please color the links on the main and meta sites
I have seen the links are black in the main site and they are just underlined. Please make them colored like other main sites on SE. A link should be different than the rest of the words so that it's ...
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Please make the cards colored
I saw the "Ask Question", "Review your question", "Save edit", "Start writing", and "Got it" cards are black in the main site just like its meta. But ...
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Join us in celebrating Pieter's amazing accomplishment!
Pieter Wuille recently reached a special reputation milestone on the Bitcoin StackExchange site!
Join me in congratulating Pieter on this accomplishment - he's the first person to reach 100,000 points....
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2023 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #2 on Bitcoin has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2023 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Bitcoin Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2023-...
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Are Ordinals and Inscriptions on-topic?
In the past, there was broad support for narrowing the topic of Bitcoin SE to “technologies that are applicable to supporting the bitcoin currency, in the past, present, or future”.
While it seems ...
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New voting buttons make it hard to distinguish voted upon posts on MAIN site
The new voting buttons have made it significantly more difficult to see whether the user has already voted on a post. I’m aware that on other sites the filled-in background after voting is a different ...
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Notice: We are participating in the Moderation Strike [resolved]
Stack Overflow recently announced that we are no longer to take action against content that was produced using large language model based text generators (e.g. ChatGPT). In my experience, such posts ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Improved site description
I've noticed the site description for Bitcoin SE, shown in the sites overview and in search engines, has not changed since its inception in 2011:
Q&A for Bitcoin crypto-currency enthusiasts
Now, ...
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Odd behavior with @ sign
On this answer, Ugam Kamat left a comment that tagged me with an @sign.
I responded with a comment where I attempted to reciprocate by starting with @UgamKamat, but when the comment was posted, that ...
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I just want to thank this community with all the respect I have for helping people to not get scammed
I just this morning got the bit coin mining scam and was excited to find out that I had $30,000+ in Bitcoin n to withdraw it after the 364 days of a 365 day period for $64. Well I decided to Google ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Should we remove links from tag excerpts?
There are some tags whose excerpts include a link, for example lightning-development-kit:
Lightning Development Kit (LDK) is a library written in Rust that
allows you to build a lightning node ...
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Should “address“ be a synonym of “invoice-address”?
Many novice Bitcoin users misconstrue addresses as a permanent identifier like email addresses. However, Bitcoin addresses should rather be perceived to have the character of a unique invoice ...
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Let's keep tag excerpts crunchy
Tag excerpts show just the first couple sentences when a user is tagging a question. Many of our tag excerpts start with “collects questions about <tag-name>…”, “should be used to collect ...
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Monthly Topic Challenge: Let's ask about Lightning Development Kit‽
Lightning Development Kit (LDK) is a library to integrate Lightning into existing Bitcoin wallet projects written in Rust. Our site so far has only a single question about LDK. That feels like an ...
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Weekly Topic Challenge: Let's ask about replace-by-fee‽ [2022 edition, Finished]
Replace-by-fee has been a hot topic in the past few months. Our site already has 82 questions, but we probably have not everything covered yet.
Please use replace-by-fee to tag your questions, and ...
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Are Homework questions on-topic? If so, what standards do we want to set for them?
We have recently had a few questions that either outright indicated or strongly gave the impression of being homework. I do not think that it is our place to do students' homework for them. It is ...
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How to address requests for Bitcoin book overviews?
I noticed that we have multiple questions that collect bitcoin book recommendations per answer post. So far I have found:
What are some good resources for understanding Bitcoin?
Any books about ...
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