Topic: The Bitcoin Wiki Modernization Project - request changes and edits here - page 2. (Read 1631 times)

For the PayPal page: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/PayPal
Should probably add the fact that you can now buy & sell BTC if you are in certain countries but you cannot withdraw.

Also a page for RobinHood is needed since you can buy & sell there too. But also still not withdraw.

Probably need a page for John McAfee....just not sure what to put there....

-Dave

Yeah, a short page explaining how IRC works, how IRC clients work, how Freenode works (because this channel is hosted on Freenode's password-protected IRC server), and where you can download them from, would probably make life easier on would-be editors who are trying to get verified who have never used an IRC client or even heard of it, but it would have to be placed near the front page for them to see it, otherwise it just becomes another obscure article like the many orphaned pages already on the wiki.

Thank you! Because of such enthusiasts Bit-Wiki still value.


Do you think it makes sense to make detailed instructions on how to enter the IRC channel and leave it in the message thread about the edit request? I couldn't figure out how IRC works on my own.

See ya! 

It is done.

https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Software&oldid=68877

Hi!

Need your help to fix the broken link and the outdated company info.

Here is the page: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Software

1. We need to change company name from "Merkeleon" to "Merkeleon Exchange Software"
2. We need to fix the link from http://www.merkeleon.at/ex%D1%81hange/ to https://www.merkeleon.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-software/

Printscreen: https://clip2net.com/s/4d1yEBI

Best regards!

I just have one minor change to propose, for the Difficulty calculation that's currently shown here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty#How_is_difficulty_calculated.3F_What_is_the_difference_between_bdiff_and_pdiff.3F

You can compute the difficulty in a much simpler manner, at least in C and C++.


In C, just change cmath to math.h and std::ldexp to ldexp.

The ldexp() function lets you scale by a power of two almost for free, by directly adjusting the exponent on the floating point number.  Thus, the difficulty calculation gets reduced to a couple integer arithmetic steps, single floating point divide, and a single scale-by-power-of-2.

This should be quite a bit faster than what's currently on the Wiki, and it's far more direct.  No need for multiple floating point multiplies or an expensive floating point exponentiation.

New pages OP_CHECKMULTISIG and OP_CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY (a redirect to the other page) were just made! Next up in line is OP_CHECKSIGADD Much easier than scanning a ton of links or updating graphs IMO, but those will also be taken care of in due time

I really need to finally fix my computer (swap SSD) and join IRC again. I think I was in the bitcoin channel. dont want to check my logs now.

I can't seem to edit that page, it appears to be write-protected for administrators only. See the padlock symbol on the top left of the article.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_Bitcoins_(the_newbie_version)
says BitQuick.co supports SEPA. this doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

it apparently did in 2015 https://blog.bitquick.co/index.php/2015/01/09/bitquick-becomes-first-major-bitcoin-trading-marketplace-to-implement-p2sh-multi-signature-escrow-addresses/
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doesn't seem to be a thing anymore || Josien allows you to buy bitcoins and litecoins with iDEAL and SEPA bank transfer.

clevercoin seems to be no more || CleverCoin allows you to buy and sell bitcoins directly on an exchange with iDEAL and SEPA bank transfer.

The Statistics page is not giving any info: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Statistics
The Clark Moody link on that page is good but the https://bitcoincharts.com/ link has not been working for a long time.

The Meetups page has tons of bad links: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Meetups

Bitcoin Yellow Pages can be changed to dead / inactive: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Yellow_Pages

Gatecoin was liquidated: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Gatecoin

The VanityMining chart needs an update: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanity_mining_hardware_comparison can probably link here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vanitysearch-yet-another-address-prefix-finder-5112311 and more info here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50823897 although even my post is way out of date.

More as I go though more notes that I have made.

-Dave

I used to batch the updates all in one post but that became cumbersome to do so I gradually moved to write all the updates without all the formalities and procedures since nobody really reads edit history in the first place. (The OP todo list is also woefully out of date which I have to fix)

But about suggestions, better to lump them all in one post unless the suggestions start taking a whole screenful of space. Most people don't follow up on this thread replying anyway so it's not too big of a problem.

A line that says something like, these are the gift card sellers that have been established for a period of time that have earned the communities trust. There are others out there that may or may not be legitimate.

The other issue that I see is that there are some that although legitimate are viewed very poorly in the community and on this forum by some people. bitpay.com comes to mind.

Side question, I have a few other thoughts about updates. Do you want them all in one post or separate ones? I figure separate one are better, this way we can discuss each one separately and others can reply without it becoming a mess. This is why I brought up the pools in one post and gift cards in another.

-Dave

Definitely.


What I might end up doing is making an exhaustive search for all gift card selling sites but a big problem with trying to find them all is that how can I be completely sure that none of them are scamming (some fraudsters pretend to make gift card stores to scam people). So the most logical approach would be to write a page for each of the major and minor stores, and then finally make the compiled list, complete with inbound links back to Bitcoin Wiki pages.

Do you think that there should be a page or pages about the BTC to gift card options? Bitrefill.com / coinsbee.com / egifter.com etc.
Part of me thinks it would be good, another part thinks that if you list some but not all it might be looked at as favoritism when it just comes down to lack of time to find them all and list them.

-Dave

I moved the defunct mining pools to another category. That should be a good start but I will need to scour the mining board for newer pools and add their info in there too.

Also I should really finish adding the ECC operations, and removing/marking all the multibit stuff that @fourna mentioned.

1. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cryptocurrency_Legal_Advocacy_Group

The external website still online, however
1. Looking at article title on page 1-10, there's no single article about cryptocurrency.
2. I checked few random article and found out it was copied from another website.
3. First article date is December 24, 2019 even though the organization announced on April 10, 2012.

Most likely the domain is expired or sold to someone else. I suggest to mention the domain now owned by someone else and switch the external link to archive such as https://web.archive.org/web/20120911122253/http://theclag.org/.

2. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability_FAQ

Might be worthy to mention Taproot slightly improve scalability on specific case (mainly script with multiple condition or signature)

Thanks for editing the page and removing the inactive organizations too. Had so much of personal work to take care IRL and I didn't have much time in moderating the local reddit community or joining the wiki discussions happening over here. I think you can probably remove the 'Bitcoin Alliance of India' organization from the non-profits as they were dead quite a few years back.

I think this does sound like a good idea, but we need bitcoiners from the respective countries to confirm for the same on how trustworthy the meetup is actually. Truly speaking, there are far less hard-core bitcoiners in India and majority of them are just random toxic crypto traders looking out for profits and scams and hence the Indian meetup spaces might be dominated by them. There is a crypto group called "IndiaBits" in telegram which is run by trustworthy old-timers from 2012, but let me confirm with Gabru (the admin/lead of IndiaBits) before adding the edit so that we will be able to know if they are running the group as an NGO or just as a discussion place after all.

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I/We (2-3 more bitcointalk members) are working on an open source website which will serve as an Indian alternative of bitcoin.org so that we will be able to include the site over here The idea will take some time to realize as I don't have time to work on it like how I did during 2019-20.

The entire pools section needs to be redone.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools
Pools that no longer exist, payment methods that are no longer relevant, etc.

Also there are a bunch of links on that page to pools / locations that no longer exist and should probably be removed before someone puts up something bad at one of the linked sites.

-Dave

I could, but I'm not a bitcoin wiki admin and can't give people editing privileges, so I'm stuck with changing everything myself. This kind of power is basically what nanotube, luke-jr and SomeoneWeird (admins) have on the #bitcoin-wiki IRC channel on Freenode.



That's something else I got to do soon, cleaning up all the Multibit references and maybe including Electrum/MyCelium/ wallets instead. Basically lots of fatigue between doing my dev/writing jobs and maintaining my site the last few weeks really ate up a lot of my time to make changes.