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Good luck on becoming a merit source in your local sections. PH Local boards are active and they need sources. After all the entire forum is in dearth of merit sources in my opinion.

Thanks for featuring me busting alt accounts in your posts as well. ;D

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Definitely, we need more merit sources in the forum, people that took out their time to write quality posts should be merited, it gives them the motivation to always post very good contents. Your collections are very nice, especially the second on the list. Wish you well in your application.

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Am I that red tagged member you are showing as an example to people? I think that's me with -32 negative trust score. well you should know that they are all false and I have never scammed anybody unlike many people walking with green trust. good luck though.

Am I that red tagged member you are showing as an example to people? I think that's me with -32 negative trust score. well you should know that they are all false and I have never scammed anybody unlike many people walking with green trust. good luck though.

While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.

Hello crwth (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=914465),
Can you please explain me why you are merited some of reply on your thread ? Because of they support you ?
Did you read the thread about Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)


If you become merit source how we expect you will fairly distribute merit after become merit source ?

I expect appropriate  explanation from you. I think this is not good practice for spend your smerit and it will prevent you from become merit source.

Hello crwth (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=914465),
Can you please explain me why you are merited some of reply on your thread ? Because of they support you ?
Did you read the thread about Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)


If you become merit source how we expect you will fairly distribute merit after become merit source ?

I expect appropriate  explanation from you. I think this is not good practice for spend your smerit and it will prevent you from become merit source.

Thank you for bringing this up. I'm fully aware of the requirements that theymos has included and all I did was merit those replies that are really good and made me feel more motivated. I don't regret to merit because for me it was an appreciation, that's why it was only one (1). There are a lot of posts that have received one merit and it just means it increased the value of the thread. I'm not going to merit every reply because some are just repeating what everyone said. I know the responsibility of becoming a merit source. It's a good practice to appreciate someone that has given a value more of the application. That is just my thoughts about it.

Hello crwth (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=914465),
Can you please explain me why you are merited some of reply on your thread ? Because of they support you ?
Did you read the thread about Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)


If you become merit source how we expect you will fairly distribute merit after become merit source ?

I expect appropriate  explanation from you. I think this is not good practice for spend your smerit and it will prevent you from become merit source.

Unless all our post at our local section will be at English(since this was our second language) to make it a fair in distributing the merit. By the end of the day we should be able to improve English to be able to communicate not in our local board but in every section in the forum for us to contribute from it.

Hi I’m crwth. I’m applying to become a merit source. The merit distribution in the local board Philippines are not that big and I want to help by focusing most of the merit to be distributed on our local board, Philippines, to help my countrymen and improve the quality of posts with merit.

Unless all our post at our local section will be at English(since this was our second language) to make it a fair in distributing the merit. By the end of the day we should be able to improve English to be able to communicate not in our local board but in every section in the forum for us to contribute from it.

Nasa kamay na ni theymos yan lahat kahit mag disagree pa ung mga DT members. As long as makita nya naman na kailangan talaga ng merit source sa mga local thread (not only in the ph), iga-grant nya yang request. Un nga lang, sana may iba pang mga representative sa ibang mga local section para mas fair.

I think you should not have double standards for different threads when discussions are going on about the same issue. You throw me the exact opposite questions and criticising my post in  my thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4596160.msg41478586#msg41478586) regarding crwth's Merit distribution trend and I already answered there.

In the other hand I should respect crwth has cleared some doubts by replying to my thread(though some clouds are still there).

I don't think it's fair for the distribution of merits that the posts in local section is in English. It's possible that there posts in local that are not in english yet worthy to be merited.


Kung tutuusin mo, marami ang merit distribution sa ibang local threads. Di ko lang sure kung mayroong representative kada local board o sadyang maraming lang ang nagmemerit sa ibang local pero patas naman na magkaroon ng merit source sa local board (Philippines) kasi napag-iiwan na siya.

Can you please explain me why you are merited some of reply on your thread ? Because of they support you ?

I think this is not good practice for spend your smerit and it will prevent you from become merit source.

@OP ~ I think he is pertaining to this pic ( http://imgur.com/pf65Qjn). Honestly, I'm also bothered by this.

I'm also a Filipino, but no offense, I agree with Coolcryptovator this time because I see his point.

Regarding giveaway, can you pointed me where he announced he will send merit for support him ?  I can't find his post. But I saw on his thread he was given some merit for reply and that was not big. I think it's not much problem. Even it's look not fine.  But I think it will not prevent him to become merit source if his other condition is fine.

For me there's nothing wrong for giving merits to someone who agreed on your opinion or someone who complemented you but since you are now applying to become a merit source then be ready for the changes (if ever you will be accepted).

As a future merit source, much better if you will now practice better judgement and being more careful in weighing of post quality. Sir don't get me wrong, actually I understand that you only want to show appreciation for those good respondents

mods or other members of this forum (especailly outside our local board) might have a bad impression to you,

Just a reminder, a good merit source always based on the construction and essence of others' post not mainly depends on whether it agrees on his own perspective or not. :)

I admire you because you stepped up in order to give recognition for those quality posters in our local board and to give inspiration for others <...>

Actually you didn't see the whole picture and it's not 3 sMerits but 6 sMerits.

I don't get that "especially outside our local board" Is that means, whatever happens inside the local board is fair and others won't questioning about the distribution of Merits. Please can you enlighten me.

I'm also a Filipino, but no offense, I agree with Coolcryptovator this time because I see his point. For me there's nothing wrong for giving merits to someone who agreed on your opinion or someone who complemented you but since you are now applying to become a merit source then be ready for the changes (if ever you will be accepted). As a future merit source, much better if you will now practice better judgement and being more careful in weighing of post quality. Sir don't get me wrong, actually I understand that you only want to show appreciation for those good respondents but if you insist to continue this then mods or other members of this forum (especailly outside our local board) might have a bad impression to you, might say that you are inefficient or even emotionally-biased merit source; That will be a stain in your good reputation and I'm sure you don't want it to happen, right? Just a reminder, a good merit source always based on the construction and essence of others' post not mainly depends on whether it agrees on his own perspective or not. :)

Nevertheless, I do support your application believe me or not. Actually, I admire you because you stepped up in order to give recognition for those quality posters in our local board and to give inspiration for others at the same time so good luck to you and I hope you will be accepted :).

Am I that red tagged member you are showing as an example to people? I think that's me with -32 negative trust score. well you should know that they are all false and I have never scammed anybody unlike many people walking with green trust. good luck though.

Good luck to you guys in your desire to get a local merit source.

and perhaps crwth could help some Philippino Filipino members to receive these.

We, the Filipino people are waiting.

Great, I am a filipino yet I haven't noticed it. Since you already pointed out , I want to help you on this terms. Tho i will not be applying as a merit source.  I will be constantly distributing my merit to our fellow men. I just hope tho that your application will be granted out so you could help more of our country men

I noticed that change of spelling. I'm a bit traditional - when did the spelling change?

It seems like there is still no update about our candidate's application. By the way I found our applicant's application thread in about 4th page of the Meta and I'm bumping it. There will be no problem about it isn't?
My local board is still looking forward for Admin's acceptance for crwth's. I hope that he'll get accepted soon or sooner. Time doesn't matter, what important most is I hope he'll get accepted as my local board really needs him as a Merit Source.

We will patiently wait for up coming updates Admin.

May I ask if there is a hint whether our candidate is accepted or not? I am just wondering how this approval of merit sources works.

To give you guys an update, there is still no movement or any communication about my application. Hopefully soon it would be processed so I could give more to the forum.

Rooting for you sir! It would be really nice if there would be a merit source on our local board, and afaik there's no current Ph native merit source, if you'd be the first, please give to those only who deserve, thanks and goodluck!

Thank you for all the appreciation and support. No worries, it would be given to the people who deserves it.

Bumping my application.

is going to be more 3 to 4 month to what i have seen so far, in general we sure need more sources in the local sections.

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I recently viewed the Application of F2b from France. Here's the link; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4899677.msg44215584#msg44215584

Hoping for the best to both of you. I've also seen what Piggy said;

Let's wait more time and be patient, I know that your app. will be accepted.

Hey, crwth bumping your Merit Source Application cause I I felt pity for those people who are exerting much effort just to contribute in our local. I want to give them merits but the problem is I don't have enough of 'em, patiently waiting for your approval. Give them in behalf of me. :)

If they feel appreciated, we are going to produce lots of quality posters. :)

The efforts of them shouldn't be just ignored, an additional source of merit could be a great impact to the quality of posts and members here in bitcointalk.

Do you think that I have the required status quo in applying for becoming a Merit Source? It seems that one is not enough since dabs and rickbig is not that active.

Just kidding. ;D

I think you deserved to be a merit source on local thread of Philippines. Also we should have people like you who exert a lot of efforts to impart knowledge and help all newbies. I'm just a newbie and probably hoping to be somehow like you. Kudos! Hope they approved you.

Why not? Try applying. You might get yourself accepted before me  :D. But I still feel hopeful! We really need a lot of source of merit to make our local board more active and have more quality other than being known as shit posters.

Hahaha! Nope I'm just kidding. I am just making friends here. I still have lots of lectures to learn in different aspects of cyptocurrency and the forum itself. I think one active merit source in our local is enough to inspire other local members. Em counting on you :) Made my day lol ;D

The more merit source, the more good poster will born here in our forum. I know that Filipino have creative minds and that will lead us to our success. We need a thing that might push us to do a certain things and that's a source.

Well, I think @Insanerman can do also the responaibilities of a merit source, what do you think?  ;)

I also realized that I am willing to apply if and only if I have theyoungmillionaire's endorsement as a merit source in our local section LOL. ;D THAT WILL BE AWESOME.

Anyways, why he/ she is not applying in our local board. theyoungmillionaire is one of the most famous public figure in this community, I must say that he/ she is overqualified. :o

I am always willing to help and back up people in our local board especially if it is part in furtherance of growth in the Philippines local board. However, all I can do is to assist, inspired, and tell others about what we can do to our community, not the decision-making person (theymos endorsement - that is awesome).

Merit source is not a Celebrity stuff that you need to be famous to be qualified as one. When I am finding posts that are merit worthy, I end up reporting plagiarism case, which I can see that being a merit source is not that easy. You need to find more quality posts that are not plagiarize. Amidst this shitposter spree, I appreciate what our current merit source are doing – having the time to find quality posters (Good Job guys!).

Thank you, Insanerman. As of the moment, I do not see myself as one of the merit source.

As to crwth, I support your application and of course all the merit source applicants.

Good luck!

See you around.

I am just happy working backstage helping people here.

Anyways, why he/ she is not applying in our local board. theyoungmillionaire is one of the most famous public figure in this community, I must say that he/ she is overqualified. :o

I am just happy working backstage helping people here.

It looks you are still the Silenthero LOL ;D

These members are so hungry to receive merits pushing them to create a long high quality plagiarized posts. ;D and I see a lot of them and it is sad that few of these people comes from our own country. I think I should be making a post regarding the increasing cases of plagiarizing content in our local this might confuse people which/ what posts should be merited, I don't want these merits to fall in quality plagiarizer peoples.

Hopefully, the reality is near. As of now, still not accepted. Tried to check it out by trying to give in to the local board, still no avail.

There are a lot of possible members who are worthy to be merit sources in our board. If I'm not accepted, then that's just it, I hope others step up so we could help improve our local board more, not only regular posts should be done but more activity with quality.

Hi I’m crwth. I’m applying to become a merit source. The merit distribution in the local board Philippines are not that big and I want to help by focusing most of the merit to be distributed on our local board, Philippines, to help my countrymen and improve the quality of posts with merit.

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2. [INFOGRAPHIC] Helpful Guides  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3380726.0) by  theyoungmillionaire (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1180530)

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• He made it easier to understand for the newcomers to this forum what the forum is and how they can improve the experience with the forum. With opening of new threads and a merit guide to go along with it.

Wow, this @theyoungmillionaire guide says it all, no doubt he deserve to be merited more for being some creative and informative in his post creation. My opinion, topic should be pinned for easy accessibility by newbies, it will help them a lot.

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Thank you, Insanerman. As of the moment, I do not see myself as one of the merit source. I am just happy working backstage helping people here.

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For the suggestions, I would do my best to be active more on the boards and supporting our fellow men who deserve it. Let's do our best to be better!

This may help to give some additional context to the merits being awarded on the Philippine local board:
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C-    Top Receivers

Curious this,
Is this worth to have +50 merit?: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1358010.msg25918933#msg25918933
https://archive.fo/OC0g3

Gonna have to put this thread up, Pilipinas Local Section is really in need of Merit Source, even if we have Dabs and Mr.Big(rickbig41) still they just doesn't count...

Reason:
Dabs is always at the WO
Mr. Big is busy I think ??? and unlike before he's not acrive anymore for awarding Merits (mainly because he's a GM)

I don't deserve to be a Merit Source but crwth is. Though I can say that he has given his all here, and yet something more has to come.

theyoungmillionaire is pretty much busy as far as I can observe, but still he's giving some of his earned sMerits if he happens to see one.

If only more source can dump him/her some merits for sure @theyoung will flood our local board with merit to those who are deserving, I trust his/her judgment on quality posting as well crwth.

I will support you until you become a merit source Philippine(Pilipinas) Local board has no merit sources but only the moderators which is they don't really send merit to a good quality posts who deserves it.  

We Support you to become a merit source, not just because you are our fellow countrymen you have helped a lot of people in our local board especially newbies who are having a hard time understanding the rules and regulations of this forum.

What has happened to this application? Was there any success?

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Since mid to end of august 2021, the main merit distributors have not awarded any merits there (at least one is a Merit Source). Whether that is due to time, the nature of the posts, their quantity or quality/interest is something I don’t really know.

Something odd is happening in Phillipines board for quite some time. They went from being one of the most merited local boards (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5231446.msg53993163#msg53993163) to one of the least (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5231446.msg58207474#msg58207474), in only year and a half. While its true that during that period their post count went down significantly (same thing happened with majority of other boards), but 90% decrease in that period is imho kinda far too drastic to be explained with lower post quality/quantity.

Maybe it's time for Philippines board members to apply for merit source status.

at the moment our local board is not very active than previous years. If you look at our board you will see that it is different than a few years ago.

if a member here posts and creates threads there is usually no reply or a small number of replies
so other Filipinos have chosen not to post or reply in philipines board.

if you compared to other loacal boards the merits award is very far apart, in other boards  their merit source conducts tests/task and if you can do that then you will receive merits.

Narinig niyo ba or nakita nag pop-up ang article na ito sa Facebook, or kung saan man. Bale nabasa ko to kahapon ng umaga, at medyo nanghihinayang kung hindi na marretrieve ang password ng kanya drive.

https://i.imgur.com/heAhjVZ.png

Brief intro tungkol sa article na ito; Isang German progammer ang nakakalimot ng kanyang drive/wallet password. Naka store daw ito sa Ironkey Digital wallet sa isang hard drive.
Base rin sa article, ang password ay sinulat sa isang papel at ito ang nawala.
Nakuha daw niya ang Bitcoin na ito dekada na ang nakakaraan bayad at umano ito sa kanyang trabaho ginawa noon.


https://news.yahoo.com/password-guess-worth-240m-bitcoin-114623757.html (https://news.yahoo.com/password-guess-worth-240m-bitcoin-114623757.html)


Masakit para sa isang enthusiast or nahumaling na sa crypto, ang mga ganitong pangyayari. Bagamat may mga pangyayari talaga na hindi inaasahan tulad ng mga gantong bagay.

Sino ba naman ba ang hindi manghihinayang mawalan ng Millions worth of Bitcoin in Dollars, pano pa kaya kung in Peso.

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Pano nga ba dapat tayo mag store o mag safe keep ng Private keys/password ng ating mga wallets? (Base sa mga napakingan kong parang podcast or interview dati 2016 or 2017 pa yata ito) pero eto yung tumatak sakin:

May mga advantages at disadvantages ito;

Advance Keeping (eto kasi yung narinig kong term nung speaker noon):

• USB storing - Sa isang USB naka store ang keys at password
• Google drive - Sa email naka store
• HDD - Hard drive

Maraming paraan na paniguradong bago pedeng idadag dyan, adyan ang Hardware wallets (ledger for example), yung tinatawag na cryptosteel (Nabangit lang sakin to ng kaibigan before pero di pa ako nakakakita totally) at iba pa.

Advantages:
USB storing at HDD - offline storage, pede mo itago kahit saan mo gusto. For USB, kung hindi makampante pede mo ito dalhin kung nasaan ka man.
Safe kung titignan kasi ikaw lang makakakita o makakahawak, as long as nakatago ng maayos.
Google Drive - Online storage kung titignan, Private email o ikaw lang mismo ang nakakaalam na may email ka nito. (not much of an advantage I guess)

Disadvantage/s:
USB at HDD - Madaling sabi prone, sa sira ang mga eto. Simpleng bagsak lang pede ng ma corrupt ang file o masira mismo ang mga ito.

Sa pagkakataon na gusto nating iretrieve ang mga laman ngunit kulang tayo kaalaman kung papaano, dito pumapasok si risk factor na ipapaayos natin sa iba. Sabihin nating kakilala o kaibigan, pero alam natin pag may perang involve ibang usapan na.

Magamit ang mga ito sa hindi secured na Laptop o Computer (hindi inaasahang pagkakataon) - maaring mapasukan ito ng virus or maaring ma kopya ang lama nito


Google Drive - ang disadvantage ay ang pagiging online, Prone nito sa mga hack at para sakin hindi siya advisable.

Traditional:

Sulat kamay - Nakasulat sa papel, libro, at iba pa.
Safety deposit box - (eto yung last na nabangit) medyo matrabaho (pag mag open ka sa mga banko) at mahal (Kung bibili ka ng personal) pero safe nga naman, kasi at ikaw lang ang makakabukas.

Advantages:
Sulat kamay
- Kung titignan (para sakin) sa paraan na to mas free  sa online hacking.
- Madaling makita at hanapin BASTA nakatago ng maayos (tipong hindi Magagalaw ng asawa o nanay yung sarili nating kalat  ;D)
- Magandang itandem sa safety deposit box, para safe and secured

Disadvantage:
- Kung hindi maigi pagkakatago, maari itong maisantabi at makalimutan lalo na kung ito isang pirasong papel (tulad ng nangyari sa article)
- Mas madaling makopya at maaccess ito ay kung lantaran ang pagkakatabi ng mga ito.

Ang mga nasa taas ay kakaunti pa lamang kumpara sa mga bago ngayon.

Sa aking opinyon:

Ang pag store ng wallet keys or password, ay dapat nga talaga natin pahalagahan. Kung maari mas madami kang pag tataguan o lalagyan (Basta alam mo sa sarili, na ikaw lang ang may alam) mas okay. Hindi naman natin masasabi ang mga mangyayari mga o susunod na mga ara, kaya mas maigi ng sigurado. Wag makuntento na safe na ito, kung maaari safe na safe na safe talaga. Iwasan din pala na ipanglandakan ang kita mo sa Bitcoin maaring maging target ka ng iba alam niyo naman ang mundo ginagalawan natin. Maging lowkey (personal na opinyon lang  :))

Hindi rin, naman masama ang pagkakaron ng onte o iilang back ups para sa mga ito. Basta siguradihin lang natin na maiingatan natin ang mga ito. Para maiwasan natin mga pangyayari tulad ng nasa article.

Eto ay naipayo lang din sakin dati ng kaibigan ko, iwasan ang pag kuha ng litrato (sa mga sulat kamay) or iscan ang mga ito para iwasan na mahack kunyari ang phone at makuha lahat ng laman.


Sa iba nating mga kababayan dyan, ano sa tingin niyo pa ang maaring o maipapayo niyo lalo na sa baguhan?  :)

Throwback sa post(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232576.0) ko last year, nung nasa kababaan pa ang price ng bitcoin:


Nakakatawa ano? March last year lang yang nagpost ako tungkol sa pagbaba ng price ng Bitcoin(approximately $4000-$4500 ang BTC at that time) dahil pansin ko angdaming nagpapanic sa mga replies sa mga topics dito sa Pinas section.

At ngayong naghit nanaman tayo ng all time high($50,000) at karamihan saatin ay siguradong sobrang saya, eto nanaman ang panibagong thread naman. Bull market edition naman. :P

Muling paalala lang, na wag sana nating ikalat sa karamihan ng mga kakilala natin at sa social media na meron tayong bitcoin/crypto at malaki ang kinita natin.

Bakit? May makalaman lang na isang masamang tao na meron tayong crypto holdings na may malaking halaga, e may posibilidad na may makidnap saatin o sa mga mahal natin sa buhay para dun sa crypto holdings natin.

Yes, alam ko, sobrang baba lang siguro ng chansang may mangyaring ganito(kasi in the first place marami ngang may di alam kung ano ang crypto), pero is it worth risking? Isusugal natin ang seguridad natin at ng pamilya natin para lang maipagmalaki natin ang holdings natin? Big no. Better stay humble lang, and ipagpatuloy lang natin ang pagstack natin ng sats. ;)

Documented Physical Attacks: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/master/README.md
Topic: ❗ [Security] Iwasang Gumamit ng Custodial Wallets, at iba pang Security Tips https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215182.0
The $5 Wrench Attack: https://cryptosec.info/wrench-attack/

Congrats sa mga naghold at nagtiis after ng multi-year bear market. https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/120/apple/271/party-popper_1f389.pnghttps://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/120/apple/271/party-popper_1f389.pnghttps://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/120/apple/271/party-popper_1f389.png

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Dito tayo mag uusap all about Axie Infinity. Axie News, Game Updates, Game discussions, Scholarship offerings, Axie breeding Collaboration and anything about axie ay pwede iPost dito sa ating thread.

Hello guys,

Dediretso na ako sa topic. Gaano ba talaga kahalaga ang mag-encrypt ng file, text messages o kaya plain text?. Sa opinyon ko, mahalaga ang mag-encrypt ng mga data or personal na impormasyon kung may gusto kang file, plain text or messages na gusto mong ingatan kung sakaling may malware or virus ang iyong personal na computer na nagsesend ng file sa hacker. Ang pag-encrypt ng data ay nakakatulong ito upang palakasin pa ang iyong seguridad ng iyong napaka importanteng impormasyon katulad ng private key ng iyong wallet at json file ng wallet mo. May 7-zip na magagamit kung file ang iyong e-encrypt at gumamit ng desktop application na di kailangan ng internet para iwas ma share online.

Sino ba sa inyo ang nakakapag-encrypt na ng data, message o kaya plain text?.
Nakakatulong ba sa paghigpit ng seguridad sa iyong importanteng impormasyon?.
Gumagamit ka ba ng encryption tools?.

SHARE niyo experience niyo dito para naman may matulungan tayo.
ALAM ko naman na di nw kailangan ng encryption ang coins.ph pero paano naman sa ibang wallet na di katulad ng coins.ph?.

Encryption explaination na thread kung ano ang encryption.
 Asymmetric Encryption Vs. Symmetric Encryption! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5342058.0)

just a fair warning lang mga kabayan na may isang FB page ang nag papanggap na official LTO page at nag offer ng "legitimate" na lisensya kahit wala ng test na galing sa LTO. not only na icocompromise mo ang personal information mo sa pag kuha ng "lisensya" gamit ang page na yan. ma iimpound din ang iyok sasakyan kung sakaling mahuli ka na peke ang iyong lesensya at malaki rin ang chance na I keep nila ang bayad mo at taguan ka na or hindi na papansinin ang mga complaints mo. I suggest na paki share na lang incase na may kakilala kayo or friends sa fb na balak kumuha ng lisensya galing sa fb page na yan.

https://i.imgur.com/2sdfYKe.jpg  https://i.imgur.com/JWvJxAP.jpg  https://i.imgur.com/d0pmbXr.jpg

ito yung post galing kay gadgetaddict kung san ko nakita yung warning
https://www.facebook.com/ytgadgetaddict/posts/345802663568005

dito mo naman makikita yung official post from Asec. Goddes Hope Libiran
https://www.facebook.com/DiyosaLibiran/


just incase na curious ka what other scam or phishing attempts are out there na target ang unsuspecting na mga kababayan natin.
fake BPI Express website (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5305358.msg55983039#msg55983039)
[NEW] Netflix phishing e-mail (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276660.msg55217260#msg55217260)
UnionBank SMS phishing scam alert! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5269267.msg55008174#msg55008174)
REMINDER from Coins.ph (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5214775.msg53516210#msg53516210)
[WARNING] FAKE BDO officer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5312513.0)

Talaan ng nilalaman

      1. Ano ang Lightning Network? (#post_point1)
      2. Paano gamitin ito? (#post_point2)
             a) Paglikha ng isang channel sa pagbabayad (#post_point2a)
             b) Pagpapadala at pagruruta ng mga pagbabayad (#post_point2b)
             c) Pagsasara ng channel (#post_point2c)
      3. Mga wallets at nodes (#post_point3)
      4. Mga nakaplanong features (#post_point5)
      5. Mga panganib ukol sa seguridad (#post_point6)
      6. Mga magagamit at mapagkukunan ng impormasyon (#post_point7)

1. Ano ang Lightning Network?

Ang Lightning Network ay isang kahalili sa tradisyunal na on-chain transaksyon sa Bitcoin. Hindi nito kumpletong pinalitan ang mga ito dahil kinakailangan pa rin ang mga transaksyong on-chain para sa pagsara at pagbubukas ng mga channel sa pagbabayad. Ang Lightning Network ay isang pangalawang layer solution at ganap na makasali. Ang mga transaksyon na ginawa sa pagitan ng mga kalahok ng Lightning Network ay walang negatibong epekto sa Bitcoin network. Pinapayagan ng Lightning Network ang instant at sobrang murang pagbabayad na P2P (micro).

Ang Lightning Network ay binubuo ng mga node na nagpapanatili ng mga channel sa pagbabayad kasama ang ilan sa mga kasali sa network.

2. Paano gamitin ito?

Upang simulang gamitin ang Lightning Network, kailangan mong gumamit ng isang katugmang software (see Mga wallets at nodes (#post_point3) section). Ang bawat wallet ay may iba't ibang proseso ng pag-set up at feature kaya dapat kang tumingin ng isang gabay para sa iyong pagpili.

a) Paglikha ng isang channel sa pagbabayad

Ano nga ba ang isang channel sa pagbabayad?

Quote from: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_channels

Ang Payment Channel ay klase ng mga pamamaraan na idinisenyo upang payagan ang mga gumagamit na gumawa ng maraming mga transaksyon sa Bitcoin nang hindi ginagawang lahat ang mga transaksyon sa Bitcoin blockchain. Sa isang tipikal na channel ng pagbabayad, dalawang transaksyon lamang ang naidagdag sa blockchain ngunit  walang limitasyong o halos walang limitasyon ng mga pagbabayad ay maaaring gawin sa pagitan ng mga kasali.

b) Pagpapadala at pagruruta ng mga pagbabayad

Ang magkabilang partido ay nakikipag-ugnayan nang hindi nai-broadcast ang kasalukuyang estado ng kanilang kalakal sa blockchain. Pareho nilang itinatago ang kopya ng impormasyon ng channel. Sa tuwing nai-update ang isang channel, ang mga partido ay pumipirma sa isang transaksyon sa pangako na nag-iingat ng isang tala ng kasalukuyang estado ng channel. Ang mga transaksyong  ay maaaring mai-publish upang maisagawa ang pagsasara ng channel ng hindi nakikipag ugnayan sa isa't-isa.

Ang pagpapadala ng mga bayad sa Lightning Network ay posible hangga't mayroong hindi bababa sa isang landas mula sa iyo patungo sa ibang tao sa pamamagitan ng iba pang mga nodes na bukas ang channel sa pagitan nila. Ang lahat ng mga node sa landas ay dapat may sapat na liquidity. Ang bawat node ay ginagantimpalaan para sa pagruruta ng pagbabayad alinsunod sa kanilang patakaran sa pagbabayad. Ang malalaking pagbabayad ay maaaring hatiin at ilipat sa pamamagitan ng iba't ibang mga ruta salamat sa MPPs (mga pagbabayad na multipart); habang sinusuportahan sila ng lahat ng pagpapatupad, ang mga wallets ay hindi.

Sinisigurado na mayroong sapat na liquidity sapagkat ito ang pinaka mahirap na bagay para sa karamihan sa mga nagsisimula. Kapag binuksan mo ang isang channel sa isang tao, makakuha ka ng kapasidad na papalabas. Hindi ka makakatanggap ng anumang mga coins sa pamamagitan ng channel na iyon maliban kung gagastusin mo ang reserba ng channel (1-3% ng kapasidad ng channel). Mas maraming mga coins na gugugulin  mo, mas marami kang matatanggap. Kung may magbubukas ng isang channel para sa ,yo p makakakuha ka ng kapasidad na pagpasok at makakatanggap ka lamang sa pamamagitan ng channel na iyon maliban kung nakatanggap ka ng higit pang mga coins kaysa sa halaga ng reserba ng channel.

Ang ligtas na pagruruta sa pagbabayad ay hindi posible kung walang Hashed Timelock Contracts (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hashed_Timelock_Contracts) (HTLCs). Ang halimbawa sa ibaba ay nagpapaliwanag kung bakit kinakailangan ang mga ito.

Quote from: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hashed_Timelock_Contracts

1. Si Alice ay magbubukas ng isang channel sa pagbabayad kay Bob, at si Bob ay magbubukas ng isang channel sa pagbabayad kay Charlie.
2. Gusto ni Alice na bumili ng isang bagay mula kay Charlie sa halagang 1000 satoshis.
3. Bumubuo si Charlie ng isang random na numero at bumubuo ng SHA256 hash. Ibinigay ni Charlie ang hash kay Alice.
4. Ginamit ni Alice ang kanyang channel sa pagbabayad kay Bob upang bayaran siya ng 1,000 satoshis, ngunit idinagdag niya ang hash na ibinigay sa kanya ni Charlie sa pagbabayad kasama ang isang l kundisyon: upang makuha ni Bob ang bayad, kailangan niyang ibigay ang data na ginamit upang mabuo ang hash.
5. Ginagamit ni Bob ang kanyang channel kay Charlie upang bayaran siya ang 1000 satoshi, at nagdagdag si Bob ng isang kopya ng parehong kundisyon na inilagay ni Alice sa pagbabayad naman kay Bob.
6. Si Charlie ay mayroong orihinal na data na ginamit upang makabuo ng hash (tinatawag na pre-image), kaya magagamit ito ni Charlie upang matapos ang kanyang bayad at ganap na matanggap ang bayad mula kay Bob. Sa paggawa nito, kinakailangang gawing ni Charlie ang pre-image na magagamit naman Bob.
7. Ginagamit ni Bob ang pre-image upang tapusin ang kanyang bayad mula kay Alice

Ang mga mobile client ay nagtatag ng mga pribadong channel na hindi nakikilahok sa pagruruta ng pagbabayad.

c) Pagsasara ng channel

Ang mga channel sa pagbabayad ay maaaring isara kung ng pakikipagtulungan man on hindi (puwersahan).

Ang mga channel na hindi nakikipagtulungan sa pagsasara ay maaaring simulan anumang oras. Bagaman, walang katuturan na gawin ito kung ang iba pang node ay online at nakikipagtulungan naman. Bilang default, kailangang maghintay ang isa ng 144 na mga block (~24 na oras) bago magamit ang saradong transaksyon. Ang halaga ay napagpasyahan sa oras ng unang negosasyon sa channel. Tandaan na ang halagang ito ay maaaring maging mas mataas sa ilang mga kaso. Halimbawa, Eclair Mobile (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.acinq.eclair.wallet.mainnet2&hl=en) ay sini set ang delay sa 2048 blocks (~2 weeks) kung ang isang tao ay magbibigay-daan sa pagtanggap sa LN. Ang pagkaantala ay nagbibigay ng oras sa iba pang partido upang bumalik at mag-online at suriin kung na-publish ang pinakabagong transaksyon. Kung ang ibang partido ay nag-broadcast ng isang lumang transaksyon,  maaari itong bawiin at i-broadcast ulit na galing sa multang transaction sa loob ng pagkaka antala.

Ang mga channel na nakikipag tulungan sa pagsasarao ay maaaring pasimulan lamang kapag ang iba pang partido ay tumutugon. Ang pagsasara ng transaksyon ay maaaring magamit agad kung ang parehong partido ay sumang-ayon sa kasalukuyang estado ng channel.

3. Mga wallets at nodes

May mga iilan lamang na Lightning Network at ang bawat isa sa kanila ay posibleng maglaman ng ilang mga bugs na maaaring may resulta sa pagkawala ng mga pondo. Tatandaan na ang Lightning Network ay nasa beta pa rin. Ang mga wallet ng iOS at Android ay madaling gamitin at hindi nangangailangan ng maraming pag-set up kumpara sa LND, Eclair at c-lightning na ginagamit upang magpatakbo ng mga nodes na nag-iisa.

Mga Pagpapatupad

• LND (https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd) (guide (https://dev.lightning.community/guides/installation/))
• Eclair (https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair)
• c-lightning (https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning) (guide (https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md))

Desktop clients

• Electrum (https://electrum.org/#home) (guide (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5259973.msg54732922#msg54732922))
• Zap (https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop)

Android clients

• Phoenix (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.acinq.phoenix.mainnet&hl=en)
• BlueWallet (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.bluewallet.bluewallet) (custodial wallet)
• Electrum (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.electrum.electrum&hl=en)
• Eclair Mobile (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.acinq.eclair.wallet.mainnet2&hl=en)
• Bitcoin Lightning Wallet (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lightning.walletapp)
• Wallet of Satoshi (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livingroomofsatoshi.wallet) (custodial wallet)

iOS clients

• BlueWallet (https://apps.apple.com/app/bluewallet-bitcoin-wallet/id1376878040) (custodial wallet)
• Wallet of Satoshi (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallet-of-satoshi/id1438599608) (custodial wallet)
• Zap (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zap-bitcoin-lightning-wallet/id1406311960) (LND required)

4. Mga nakaplanong features

• Dual-funded channels - dalawang users sa halip na isa ay pwedeng mag pondo ng isang channel sa pagbabayad tulad ng origihal na inilirawan in the Lightning Network Paper.
• Eltoo - eltoo ay magiging isang alternatibo sa kasalukuyang pamamaraan ng pag-ayos ng mga pagbabayad sa pagitan ng mga gumagamit. Ang mga pag-update sa Channels ay ginagawa sa pamamagitan ng pagbuo ng mga  chain of timelocked transactions. Kailangan ng isang soft fork para magamit ang eltoo sa Lightning Network (upang maiwasan ang pag-broadcast ng buong kasaysayan ng transaksyon sa pagitan ng mga gumagamit). dito (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4638321.msg44134955#msg44134955) makikita nyo kung anong opcodes ang kailangan baguhin.
• Channel factories - ang mga umiiral na Lightning Network ang maaaring gamitin sa paglikha ng mga bagong channels na hindi na kinakailangang i broadcast ng alin man sa Bitcoin network. Karaniwan, ang isang channel ay bubuksan sa isang tao lamang. Sa channel factories mayroon tayo maraming tao na bumubuo ng isang grupo.ng mga miyembro ng grupo ay nagpapanatili ng mga channel sa pagitan nila. Mas maraming interesadong gumagamit = mas malaki ang pagtipid. Kung ang isa sa mga kasapi ay hindi nakikipagtulungan, ang mga umiiral na channel ay hindi maaapektuhan - bagaman ang mga bagong channel ay hindi maaaring likhain.
  
  
  • Splicing In/Out - sa kasalukuyan, hindi posible na magdagdag o mag-alis ng mga pondo mula sa mga channel nang hindi muling binubuksan ang mga ito.
  
  Mayroong ilang mga bagay na maaaring mabago sa Bitcoin code upang mapagbuti ang privacy. Ipinapakilala ang Schnorr, MAST and Taproot (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-May/015961.html) gagawing hindi makikilala ang mga transaksyon sa pagbubukas/pagsasara ng channel mula sa anumang iba pang nakaayos na transaksyon.
  
  5. Mga panganib ukol sa seguridad
  
  
  • Improper timelocks - sapat na oras ay dapat ibigay sakaling makipag-ugnayan sa mga hindi nakikipagtulungan o nakakahamak na mga counterparty ng channel.
  • Forced expiration spam - pagsasara ng maraming mga channel sa halos parehong oras ay maaaring humantong sa pagpuno ng buong block. Kung ang spam ay tumatagal ng sapat na oras, ang ilang mga nai-timelock na transaksyon ay maaaring maging tama.
  • Data loss - karamihan sa mga kliyente ng Lightning Network ay hindi nagbibigay ng maaasahang paraan ng pag-backup. Ang ibang partido ay nag broadcast ng isang transaksyon na may multa sa ganitong kaso. Data Loss Protection (https://medium.com/@ACINQ/adding-data-loss-protection-to-eclair-598c62494096) is available in all implementations.
  • Coin theft - karamihan sa mga node ng Lightning Network ay gumagana nang 24/7 at nagtatago ng kanilang mga coins sa mga sa hot wallet na mas madali para sa isang mang-atake na nakawin ang mga ito.
  • Colluding miner attacks - Ang mga minero ay may kapangyarihan na magpasya kung aling mga transaksyon ang nais nilang isama sa block at pwede nilang tanggihan ang ilang mga transaksyon na ginamit ng isang umaatake. Ang pag-atake na ito ay malamang na hindi mangyari dahil sa mataas na gastos at pagiging kumplikado (lahat ng minero ay dapat rin makipagtulungan.).
  
  6. Mga magagamit at mapagkukunan ng impormasyon
  
  bitcointalk: The Lightning Network FAQ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5158920.msg51615708#msg51615708), Electrum Lightning Network walkthrough (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5259973.msg54732922#msg54732922), Lightning Network Discussion Thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4638321.msg41920502#msg41920502)
  
  Lightning Network explorers: 1ml.com (https://1ml.com/), lightblock.me (https://lightblock.me/)
  
  News: Telegram channel (https://t.me/lightning_network), bitcoinlightning.com (https://www.bitcoinlightning.com/), coindesk (https://www.coindesk.com/tag/lightning-network), Cointelegraph (https://cointelegraph.com/tags/lightning-network)
  
  

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  Original na thread ni @Rath_: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4940536.0
  

Newbies eye's here
 guys gamitin nyo to sa Thread ni Ognasty para mabigyan kayu ng merit follow nyo nalang ang guide
Note.  Copy nyo muna yung public key ni Ognasty then ready to encrypt na kayu .
Click this link nalang para sa thread ni Ognasty : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5289839.0




Ang topic ko ngayun ay tungkol sa pag  Encrypt and Decrypt ng mga mensahe gamit ang PGP key.
dito ay gumamit ako ng mga natural na text para e Encrypt sa asymmetric na uri ng Encryption

Ginawa ko itong Thread na ito upang ang mga bagohan dito ay matoto na mag Encrypt ng mensahe gamit ang kanilang mga cellphone.

Ano nga ba ang Encryption
Ang pag-encrypt ng mensahe ay nagsasangkot ng pag-encrypt, o pagkukubli, ng nilalaman ng mga mensahe sa email upang maprotektahan ang potensyal na sensitibong impormasyon mula sa pagbabasa ng sinumang maliban sa mga inilaan na tatanggap. Kadalasang may kasamang pagpapatotoo ang pag-encrypt sa mensahe


Kung wla pa tayong  Public key ay pwde tayong gumawa
At ang gagamitin natin sa pag gawa ay ang iGolder: https://www.igolder.com/pgp/generate-key/

Pero kung meron na tayong Public key gaya ng kay Ognasty ay copyahin mulang at dretso kana sa Encrypt a message

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DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A PROFESSIONAL WAY TO ANALYZE THE MARKET NOR PROVIDES A REAL OUTCOME. CRYPTO VOLATILITY MUST STILL BE CONSIDERED, AND HUGE RISKS INVOLVED IN INVESTING IN IT. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

Itong thread na ito ay gagawin ko lang straight forward. Gusto ko lang ishare yung technique na natutunan ko sa isang trader kung paano niya nalalaman yung possible price projections ng isang coins based lamang sa supply at Fully Diluted Market Cap nito. Maari niyo itong gamitin if ever na may makita kayong coins na nasa dip pa or gusto niyong maging holder ng isang coin instead of itrade ito.

Ngayon to better understand kung ano nga ba ang Fully Diluted Market Cap, ito eh nacocompute based lamang sa formula na:
FDMC = Current Price * Max/Total Supply

And kung mapapansin nyo, ang FDMC ay ang overall amount ng isang coin kapag nareach na nito ang kabuuang supply niya.

Then to know kung hanggang saang price possible na tumaas ang isang coin, Here's the formula:
Expected price = Fully Diluted Market Cap/Valuation ÷ Circulating Supply

Sa mga hindi masyadong nakakagets, Bakit nga ba ganyan? Basically kapag ka kinompyut mo ang FDMC, meron ka nang alam kung hanggang saan ang market cap ng isang coin if yung buong coins eh nabili na sa current price. Then idinivide ito sa current circulating supply kasi obviously ayun yung mga coin na tumatakbo ngayon kaya naabot nito ang current price.

Para malaman naman kung ano ang Fully Dilluted Market Cap at Circulating Supply ng isang coin, pwede mo itong tignan sa Coinmarketcap (https://coinmarketcap.com/) or Coingecko (https://www.coingecko.com/en).

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Here's an example, let's compute kung hanggang saan nga ba aabot ang price ni $GRT (this is never been a financial advice lol)
https://i.imgur.com/y7Vatfd.png

POSSIBLE PRICE = 13,867,408,541 / 1,245,666,867

POSSIBLE PRICE = 11.13 USD

Again, this is just a way to project prices based on its total supply. Marami paring pwede magbago. If you would compute BTC, you might have a result of 59k only kahit na umabot na to ng 60k. Gaya nga ng sinabi ko, price projection for future price. Maybe ATH, but some ATH can also be a start another future ATH. Useful ito sa mga IDO and malaking tulong ito para makapagset ng Target Profit. Madami pading ways para malaman ang price ng isang coin, most likely with Trading and Fundamental Analysis. TRADE AT YOUR OWN RISK.


Sana makatulong ito sa inyo sa mga future coins na hahawakan niyo. Ingat!

1. Kung ikaw ay baguhan sa forum na ito ugaliin mong magbasa. Para matuto at maging familiar sa mga terminologies.
Karamihan kasi sa atin gusto kagad mag-rank up and mag-campaign dahil nakakasilaw nga naman ang laki ng kita kapag sobrang taas na ng rank mo.

2. Unawaing maigi ang mga binasa. Kung hindi mo naunawan ang iyong binasa baka ito ay magdulot sa inyo ng false sense of security dahil familiar ka sa topic pero wala kang angkop na kaalaman. (Meron ka ngang impormasyon pero hindi mo ito nai-aapply)

3. Ugaliing i-search sa google kung hindi ka sure sa campaign or feeling mo sketchy yung rates ng campaigns. Suriing mabuting ang campaign na gusto mong salihan. I-background check mo. Tignan mo kung legit ba yung website nila, may mga additional information about sa timeline ng token, may support ba yung campaign at kung may red flags ka na nakita pwede mong i-double check sa https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0) kung similar sa mga nandito ang istilo nila.

4. Magpost ng mga kalidad. Naalala ko noong nag-sisimula pa lang ako dito sa forum karamihan sa mga kaibigan at kakilala ko ay nagpopost lang para masabing may napost dahil naghahabol. Magpost ng may sense at relevance sa topic na tinatanong, wag basta basta at bara-bara.


1. Kalkulahin kung magkano ang nalugi. Mahirap balikan at sariwain ang perang nawala na pero ito'y makakatulong para tumatak sa iyong isipan na dapat ito ay hindi na maulit at susubukan mo ulit mabawi ito.

2. Saan ako nagkulang? By the time na na-compute mo na ang mga nalugi sayo maiisip mo din kung saan ka nagkulang. Hindi ba ako tumingin sa chart bago magtrade? Hindi ba ako nagbabasa ng update ng holdings ko?

3. Ugaliing magcheck ng charts, update ng tokens at news bago magtrade. Sa simpleng pag-tingin sa chart or kung may update sa telegram ay maaring magdulot ng sure na luge or sure na panalo sa trade. For example,yung token mo is lalabas pala sa top exchanges within a week pero binenta mo kaagad dahil hindi mo nabasa. Check frequently ang charts ng holdings mo either app sa phone or widget sa pc.

4. Maging positibong ang pananaw sa hinaharap. Ito ang pinakamainam na maiipapayo ko sayo kapatid kung ikaw ay nalugi. Loss is loss pero may mga lesson ka na matutunan along the way. Dapat kang matuto at hindi maglugmok sa sulok. Maghanda sa susunod na pagpapala at tumulong din sa iba.


1. Magtabi ng para sa Savings at funds. Magtabi para may maidudukot sa oras ng kagipitan at pangangailangan. Subukan niyong ihawalay ang expenses account at savings para hindi ito kaagad nagagalaw. 2 Bank accounts [1 Savings, 1 Expenses, 1 Emergency Funds*(Optional)]

2. Sulitin or I-enjoy ang mga kinita. Kapag nakapagtabi ka na ng pera mo maipapasok mo din sa gastusin mo ang mga gusto mong gawin or bilhin. Mag-travel, mamili ng mga gadgets, mang-treat ng mga mahal sa buhay. Ang pera babalik lang yan pero yung mga experience at panahon mong magbonding sa mga mahal mo sa buhay, kaibigan or special someone ay mas mahirap palitan.
 
3. Tumulong sa mga nangangailangan.  I-share mo ang iyong blessings, anonymously or intentional as long as ikaw ay nakakatulong sa iba lalo kang pagpapalain. Nakikita ng Panginoon lahat ng iyong ginagawa at nilalaman ng iyong puso. Masayang tumulong lalo na kung nakikita mo ang pagbabagong naidudulot mo sa buhay nila sa simpleng pagtulong mo.

Maraming Salamat sa Pagbasa! Hanggang sa susunod sa muli.  8)

Marami ngayong newbie at ilang members ang hindi natambay sa local natin at ang ilan lang ay active so meron akong small amount of merits at gusto ko sana ito imapahagi sa local natin simple lang naman ang rules which is mag bibigay ka ng lima (5) quality post na nagawa mo at na post mo syempre open ang pag bibigay ng merit sa mga bukal na gustong mag bigay at meron din naman tayong merit source kaya magandang chance ito para sa ibang kaunti nalang ay makaka rank up na.

Follow this format na lamang

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Example:


Aasahan ko ang mga application nyo.

It's sort of catch 22 -  There is a less merit shared in Phillipines board because people write less, but then again people often write less when its harder to get merit.

Maybe it's time for Philippines board members to apply for merit source status.

Let me give fresh topics that I think are merit-worthy

and these are topics that are from this year.

That's been my plan for the past year or two ^{[refer to my "Merit source application folder in this screenshot (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5257313.msg54674014#msg54674014)"]}, but I always had and still have a hard time finding ten posts that would fall under the "theymos's (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)" criteria ^{[that's probably also the case with other Filipino users]}.

Dunno, maybe you are overthinking it, or setting standards way too high.

If you have troubles finding good posts that don't have enough merit, you might wanna check your board's most merited posts and topics (https://public.tableau.com/shared/K3KBFTX87?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link) via @DdmrDdmr Merit dashboard, so maybe you can find some good posts that can be used for application. It's set at the last ~8 months, but you can adjust it as you see fit.

Unfortunately, most of them doesn't fall under the following criterion:

One of them was from last year :P

@crwth
I forgot to mention in my previous post to update the first post with the new ones ^{[might increase your chances of becoming one (assuming that theymos only checks the first post in such threads)]}.
^{- I've seen others have done it before while also adding a "changelog" at the bottom of the main post.}

That's been my plan for the past year or two ^{[refer to my "Merit source application folder in this screenshot (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5257313.msg54674014#msg54674014)"]}, but I always had and still have a hard time finding ten posts that would fall under the "theymos's (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)" criteria ^{[that's probably also the case with other Filipino users]}.

Man, I can hardly believe that it is difficult for you to find ten worthy messages, not only on the local board, because for me it still remains a mystery how such an oldschool guy like you still has not become a source of merit. Although you yourself know this very well ... especially since about a year ago I already asked you about this (and offered to apply). So I hope you will overcome your laziness and still decide to take this step.  ;)

Man, I can hardly believe that it is difficult for you to find ten worthy messages, not only on the local board, because for me it still remains a mystery how such an oldschool guy like you still has not become a source of merit. Although you yourself know this very well ... especially since about a year ago I already asked you about this (and offered to apply). So I hope you will overcome your laziness and still decide to take this step.  ;)

In my opinion, it should be a post that is worthy to receive merit and yet no one give a single merit then I think that will give you a better chance of becoming one.

2. Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months by other people that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread. The point of this is to demonstrate your ability to give out merit usefully.

In Pilipinas local board  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=219.0) all we need is an active member who's worthy to became a merit source.  Spending at least 4-8 hours here and contributed already for the local board.

Man, I can hardly believe that it is difficult for you to find ten worthy messages, not only on the local board,
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So I hope you will overcome your laziness and still decide to take this step.  ;)

especially since about a year ago I already asked you about this (and offered to apply).

Spending 4-8 hours daily on the forum in order to become merit source? Don't you think that it is an overkill, making this position like a full time job.

Whenever you guys found the post(s) which deserve merits but didn't get enough then share your sMerits, if you have zero sMerits then you can have a thread like "Report good post here" so merit cycle will be still there until Theymos thinks that they are short of required merits.

No need to create a post like this anymore. It already exists.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5359448.0

You can't really merit your thread or post so I am talking about the merit deserving post created by others not by themselves so its entirely different if I am not mistaken.

What are you talking about? I'm saying that there's a topic in our local board that has that purpose Merit your own thread? I don't understand what you are trying to say. I thought you said that there should be a thread for posts that deserves it ^{assuming that you are talking about it in local boards} and in the Philippines local board, that's the one the post that collates good posts and I think there are old ones but not sure if it's still active.

Yes I went through the thread but based on my observation that thread is created with the purpose of collect your good post which deserves merits because two users posted there collected their own good posts and threads but I am saying that there should be a thread which is supposed to post unmerited posts created by others not by ourselves there is a difference in that right.

For reference a thread like this: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.0) which is used to report good post created by others so if someone wish to spend their sMerit then it will make their job easier.

Also, other fellow local members created good and quality content for the Pilipinas board.
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5368155.0 by Shamm (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3325792)
2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5370098.0 by skaikru (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1042015)
3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5368141.0 by Bttzed03 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1239188)
4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5366579.0 by Tanaka-Wun (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2752932)
5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5340570.0 by danherbias07 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=526910)
6. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5370065.0 by julerz12 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=950662)

Bumping this thread for an update in regard to crwth's application as a Merit Source on our local board.

Also, there's currently an active discussion about this on our local board as we lack a merit source which resulted in some of our local users posting on global boards such as Bitcoin Discussion or Economics about their topics and initiatives as they won't receive the credit or merit for their quality threads. We also, don't have a merit source on our local board as the only merit source we had is now inactive.

It would be nice to have a merit source on the local board but sadly the board is not that active. There are a lot of topics but they are not up to date. Maybe we should return to our local board and start being noisy again. I don't know if there is a merit source giving merits on the local board or busy giving merits on the international board.

Bumping this thread for an update in regard to crwth's application as a Merit Source on our local board.

Also, there's currently an active discussion about this on our local board as we lack a merit source which resulted in some of our local users posting on global boards such as Bitcoin Discussion or Economics about their topics and initiatives as they won't receive the credit or merit for their quality threads. We also, don't have a merit source on our local board as the only merit source we had is now inactive.

It would be nice to have a merit source on the local board but sadly the board is not that active. There are a lot of topics but they are not up to date. Maybe we should return to our local board and start being noisy again.

I don't know if there is a merit source giving merits on the local board or busy giving merits on the international board.

I fully support the OP's motives. As we can see right now all the local boards are actively engaging with their fellow countrymen, but our is a bit silent. I want to take this opportunity to call all our fellow Filipino members here on this forum to be active in our own boards, and also to bump this thread. Hopefully this will be noticed by our high-ranking members here and I also hope to see changes in the following weeks. Thank you and best regards.

Thank you for bumping this. It has been a while. I intend to put myself forward to get approved here since there's no activity left with the merit source in the local board that we have. I hope this can be noticed and approved.

I have been better at determining worthy merit posts hopefully, this would be enough to become one.

Very good bumb for this thread and we all know that Philippines board have a small amout of merit to be cycle and also  we are already noticed that our local board are not just active like others, maybe some of us choosing to post other board than in our local. And I admit that I am one of those users who choose other boards over us. It because when I make a tutorial threads about how to encrypt and decrypt a message using Igolder with our mobile phone and also I created a thread how to post an image using Imgur. but sadly no response.

I have been better at determining worthy merit posts hopefully, this would be enough to become one.

As much as I'd like for you to become a merit source, unfortunately, our words mean little to nothing ^{[in other words, you have to show it with your actions (replace all those outdated posts with the ones in the past couple of months and keep doing it until you become a merit source)]}.

Thank you for bumping this. It has been a while. I intend to put myself forward to get approved here since there's no activity left with the merit source in the local board that we have. I hope this can be noticed and approved.

I have been better at determining worthy merit posts hopefully, this would be enough to become one.

Just want to bump this, our local board badly needs a merit source, It's very inactive since the last merit source got tagged as a scammer. Hopefully, we get our replacement after years of being vacant.

After our merit source going to in active her in forum because of that isues. The merit circulation in our local board is draining and that's the reason why other local users  choose to post in global threads which is we are all know that we can get merits if we make a good contribution . But anyways there are some normal user in our country who made a post thst you can earn merits by sending your contribution in our local .
Hope that admin will give us new merits source in our local.

Local board members per amount of posts during February 2024

Percentage of merited posts across local boards during February 2024

Naturally, Pilipinas local board has by far the lowest percentage of merited posts and I really think that they could use help fo the external merit sources, assuming that they have enough quality undermerited posts.

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Thank you for bringing this up, maybe this time we can get confirmation with this and hopefully be accepted for the Merit Source for our board. Very helpful information that you have given. It's really surprising that the situation is like that now.

Our board is slowly become less active now because many users wants to hang out to global board for a chance to get merit for constructive post. Most of the local board even local threads with less post activity than us have a merit source that gives them the opportunity to cycle merit among members

Btw, are there more merit source applications from your local board, considering the fact that @crwth submitted his almost 6 years ago and still hasn't been approved?

I know its not the real solution for your problem, but have you guys considered using merit giveaway threads until you get additional merit souirces from your own local board? Other local boards that lack merit sources (like for example Nigerian and Indonesian) really profited from them so imho its worth trying. 

Btw, are there more merit source applications from your local board, considering the fact that @crwth submitted his almost 6 years ago and still hasn't been approved?

The problem with merit giveaway threads is that it's not really sitting right with a lot of people that's on the Pilipinas board, I don't frequent there because I know that the board isn't that active and as much as I like to think about posting there and talking with my paisanos, it's a bit off putting that replies and other posts takes a long time. I think that crwth needs to get his application approved, that way, it's going to revitalize the board and hopefully inspire other Filipino forum users to post more stuff there to make it more active.

If I remember correctly we have 1 active merit source 2 years ago while this application happened 6 years ago. I think this is the reason why @Theymos don’t consider this merit application but @cabalism13 becomes less active prior to his issue on his foundation thread.

He doesn’t fulfill his merit source properly after that issue and leave us on this current condition that has no new merit being distributed to local members.