FWIW, I have also been thankful for it many many times.

Aren't you a bit picky there?
I'm not a native speaker but always thought it could be applied to mixed group (men + women) when addressing people in a friendly manner?

Anyway, it's nice to see the chainradar story finishing happily!

It's not incorrect.

From Merriam-Webster:

Or perhaps you prefer Oxford:

Sorry for off-topic, but I'm not a fan of people trying to dictate what language is "correct" to use in a non-technical setting, especially in this context where both of the most well-known/respected dictionaries agree with the asexual usage. Also, sorry, but it's a man's world

Do what you want, I'm not stopping you. I'm just trying to make aware its cognitive effects.

Dictionaries tend to record popular usage (where did popularism ever leave governed society?) of language but etymologically, a guy is still a man, making guys to refer to anything other than a group of men, etymologically incorrect despite a social norm. You don't refer to a female as a guy. A guy definitively represents a male.

If you're interested in the controversies, subtleties, and implications of continuing this defect of culture, it's a career-long topic of Prof. Hof that he can give rhetoric, general and specific anecdotes, and just enjoyable conversation about, for every reason that I agree. In summary, it propagates a subtle male supremacy of society in a world where women are continually harassed by social norms.

Don't get me wrong, I still slip "guys" incorrectly at times, but I always catch and correct myself now that I know better.

Create a wallet in a live environment in ram with a super long password (100+ characters) and don't write down it or the seed. Send your coins to the address. Why do you want to burn your coins?

Yeah, I guess I wasn't specific enough.
I'm looking for a way to create a provably unspendable burn address.
Meaning it should be obvious, for example contain a lot of consecutive X's.

keep generating wallets until you get one with a lot of x's.

this vanity address generator exists

https://monerotalk.org/t/vanity-address-generator/134

https://github.com/ehmry/monero-vanity

so you'll essentially publish the viewkey?

Couldn't you still take the same advice I gave but then take whatever address was given and replace the first 10-15 characters with something along the lines of "xxxxxmoneroxxxxx", then again, the viewkey would no longer work so you wouldn't be able to view it anyway. Interesting.

I know. The difference with Monero is that no one will be able to see on the blockchain whether the address is indeed receiving transfers, unless you publish the viewkey.

Are you relatively new to monero? Viewkey and payment_ID are things unique to Monero (I think). There is no equivalent in bitcoin (because there is no need).

oh good point. I don't know. I just assume it works because its always talked about as one of the cool things about Monero.