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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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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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New tag for questions concerning mining reward structure
Lately (and for the past 10+ years) there have been many debates over the shift from block subsidy to transaction fees as the main part of block rewards, and how that impacts Bitcoin's security. ...
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Please add tag BIP85
There are some existing questions on this topic.
The tag would make them easier to surface.
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There appears to be multiple projects that contain bitcoinlib in their name
Should questions about the "bitcoinlib" installed with pip be tagged under "python-bitcoinlib"?
They're clearly two different projects, and fortunately python-bitcoinlib uses the ...
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What's the difference in scope between the tags [opcodes] and [script]?
I've seen opcodes pop up on a lot of questions lately. I was wondering how the scope of that tag differs from script. Should opcodes perhaps be merged into script?
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Should private-key-format and wallet-import-format be merged?
I noticed yesterday the tag private-key-format. Given that wallet-import-format already exists and has three times more questions, should the two be combined in some form? Is one of them a subset of ...
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Some tag synonyms I found
bitmain -> antminer
bip-37 -> bloom-filter
bip-70 -> payment-protocol
wif -> wallet-import-format
fraud -> scam
seed -> deterministic-wallets
hacking -> hack
On the contrary, I still don't have ...
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Should Bip141 be a synonym of Segregated-Witness?
Could someone please merge bip141 into segregated-witness?
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Should mastercoin be renamed to omni or omnilayer?
There is currently a mastercoin tag. However, mastercoin renamed to Omni quite some time ago, and is no longer used. Most users who started in recent times simply know it as Omni or Omni Layer.
I ...
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Why is the bitcoin tag not allowed?
If the question is related to Bitcoin and not altcoin then the bitcoin tag should be allowed, since questions related to altcoins are allowed on bitcoin SE it is not redundant to specify.
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Should we burninate the tag [alternatives]?
The alternatives is to be too broad and unfocussed to be useful. I suggest it's burnination.
Questions tagged with alternatives should be retagged to the following other tags:
altcoin-development: ...
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A tag for questions where coins are sent to a different cryptocurrency by mistake?
eg when BTC is sent to a Litecoin address, or to a Bitcoin-Gold or Bitcoin-Cash address. These kinds of question are becoming quite common.
We have tags for wallet-recovery and recover-private-key, ...
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What is the bch tag?
There is a tag called bch. It looks like it is supposed to refer to bitcoin-cash, and maybe is mean to be BCC, but can anyone confirm? I've been wrong about such things before.
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I've burninated a few tags, sorry for the mess on the frontpage
I've manually burninated the following tags:
control: Multiple topics, so I replaced it with governance, ownership, coin-control
speed: Multiple topics, replaced with hashrate, transaction-capacity, ...
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Should "hardware" only pertain to "mining hardware" or should this include payment kiosks?
In the spectrum of hardware that does, or could exist with Bitcoin, should hardware be an all encompassing tag, or should there be some kind of separation between
mining
hardware wallets / 2FA
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Are the tags [hd-wallet] and [deterministic] different in scope?
The two tags hd-wallet and deterministic appear to be encompassing the same scope. Does it make sense to keep both, or should they be merged? If they are different, how?
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What is the meaning of the bitcore tag?
Is the bitcore tag supposed to be for questions about the Bitcore project? It seems that some people use it (perhaps mistakenly) to talk about the unrelated Bitcoin Core software.
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What tag should we use for brick and mortar store payments?
We just had another inquiry about accepting payments in a physical store: How would a restaurant accept Bitcoin?
We have a few of them already:
What is necessary for a Hotel to accept Bitcoin as a ...
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The transaction tag is too unspecific. Should we split it up?
transactions is on a huge number of questions. Transactions are such a central element of Bitcoin that it would make sense to better structure those questions. We had a similar issue with mining. ...
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PSA: Mining retagged and blacklisted. Use these tags instead
mining has been eradicated from the site.
In the future please use the following tags instead:
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Three tags for Multi-signature: multi-sig, multi-sig-address and multi-sig-transaction
Does it make sense to have different tags for multi-signature addresses and transactions? Aren't those intimately linked?
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Merge [anonymity] into [privacy]
I think that anonymity and privacy collect the same topic of questions and should be merged. Privacy seems to be the more accurate term, therefore I would make anonymity a synonym of privacy.
What do ...
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Mining is on more than 10% of the questions, how can we structure that content better?
Mining is a central topic to Bitcoin, yet we lump everything even remotely related to it into one tag, mining. Tags lose a lot of their usefulness when they are applied to too many questions.
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Which tags would be a more suitable replacement for the tag "server"?
I’ve been having a look at server.
It is failing to define a proper category: It’s meaningless by itself, has no definition, and unlikely to be used correctly just based on its name. It’s being used ...
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Top Tags requiring a tag wiki
Tag wikis give a short overview detailing what kind of questions a tag collects. Tag wiki excerpts are shown on hover, and even more importantly, when users tag a question post.
There are currently ...
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Take another run at tagging on Bitcoin.SE?
There is still a bunch of tags left that need work from the Weeding out bad tags initiative 2014. I’d be willing to invest some time to go through the tags once more and pre-select some to work on. ...
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Tag for "time between blocks": Block-Interval or Block-Solution-Time?
We seem to have several tags that collect questions on the same topic (and a lot of the questions about it aren't properly tagged at all).
The questions concerned with the time between blocks seem to ...
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What's happening on Bitcoin.SE in 2015?
What's moderation actions have been taken on Bitcoin.SE in 2015?
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Bootstrap or bootstrap.dat
It seems to me that bootstrap and bootstrap.dat are redundant. Should we merge them? If yes, which one do we keep and why?
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What should the [hd-wallet] tag mean?
There are several HD wallet proposals. The most common one is BIP32, and a less common one is gmaxwell's proposal. Recently, we've been getting questions about both of them, both tagged with hd-wallet....
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Suggestion: synonym [bip16] to [p2sh]
I think we should merge bip16 into p2sh. They cover the same topic, and P2SH is more descriptive.
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Tag graph from stared.gihtub.io/tagoverflow
I just discovered the Tagoverflow Tool, and thought I'd share it with you.
The picture shows the 32 most used tags on Bitcoin.SE colored by community detection. The two orange ones that are partially ...
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Please help put tags on [Untagged] questions!
We have burninated almost thirty useless, terrible, or ambiguous tags today, and could use some help:
Pick a question that has the untagged tag and fix the whole question:
title
grammar errors
typos
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Suggestion: rename [tag:solo] to [tag:solo-mining]
I think that solo should be renamed to solo-mining because that is more self-explanatory. Afaik there are no other things that are related to solo with bitcoin, so it is not because of that (google ...
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What should we do about the tags "attack", "weaknesses", "vulnerability", "security", and "resilience"?
attack, resilience, weaknesses, security, and vulnerability all seem to be covering roughly the same topic.
Which should we keep, which should we merge, and why?
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What tags could we introduce to better distinguish topics concerned with different areas of mining?
We have over 1000 questions concerned with the topic of mining, yet the number of tags that further distinguish questions in that realm is pretty small:
mining, mining-pools, cgminer, miner, ...
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Do tags for specific countries make sense?
I have just been scanning the newest tags and we now have bulgaria, australia, uk, eu, and probably a bunch more.
As far as I understand, we consider questions about "how to buy coins in specific ...
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Three tags for Transaction Malleability
We currently have at least three tags for transaction malleability:
txid-malleability, malleability, transaction-malleability.
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What would be better tags for "What is Bitcoin?"
What is Bitcoin? is currently tagged with exchanges, which doesn't seem very fitting. What would be better tags for the question?
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"Graphs" and "Charts" are pretty similar tags, should they be merged and in which direction?
"Graphs" and "Charts" are very similar tags. Should they be merged? If yes, in which direction?
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Weeding out bad tags initiative 2014
During the process of burninating [tag:software], I found other ill-defined tags. I have collected them for us to tackle together. It's time to sort out this tagging mess. Let's get this started.
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What is the focus of the tag Software? Remove it?
It is not clear to me what the focus of software is supposed to be. Most software used with Bitcoin can either be specified more distinctly, as "wallet", "client", "miner", "website", "exchange", or ...
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What is the tag "miner" referring to?
I was just looking through tags and was wondering what miner refers to, because it has no tag wiki, but is a fairly often used tag (56x at time of this question). Does miner refer to persons engaging ...
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localbitcoins Tag for LocalBitcoins.com
My suggestion is to create a tag called 'Localbitcoins' or 'Localbitcoins.com' for users with questions about the Local Bitcoins website. This could potentially conflict with the local tag, however I ...
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Remove [tag:math]?
I think that the math doesn't serve a clear purpose: The meaning of the Math-Tag seems to range from statistics, over exchange-rate to cryptograpy. It only appears as a single tag in one falsely ...
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Should the tag 'usage' be removed?
The usage tag has the following description: "General questions about how to use the Bitcoin client or related software and products."
That is a very broad definition and might be applied to any ...
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Does the [coinbase] tag refer to the business or coinbase transactions?
The [coinbase] tag does not have a description yet, however seems to currently be used for both the business and in the meaning of 'coinbase' transaction.
Does the [coinbase] tag refer to the ...
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What is the intended use of the technical-analysis tag?
I always assumed that the technical-analysis tag referred to technical chart analysis, i.e. the prediction of future BTC exchange rates based on chart patterns and the psychology of trading. However, ...
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