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Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am now a Jr. Member. Congratulations to me!

The journey just began and I'm not looking back. I know becoming a Jr. Member is not a big deal and it doesn't mean anything to the senior members of this forum, having achieved that with ease many years ago. But it certainly means a lot to me. Therefore, I'm excited and I'm happy to celebrate this my little win.

30 days ago, I joined this forum with the plan to just hand around and try to learn one or two things about Bitcoin and Crypto in general. Then I made my first post and people started talking about merits which made me to understand how important it is to members growth. I can say for sure that this is one of the most engaging forum in the world, and by far the best Crypto community I've ever come across. I'm going to celebrate every milestone I achieve until I get to the Legendary  ;D

Spacial thanks to:

1. @LoyceV for assisting me in joining this forum. When the system held me back, he was the one that opened the door for me.

2. @Coupable for hitting me with the first criticism which lead to me understanding what Merit means in this forum and the important role it plays in taking up.

3. @Lovesmayfamilis and @Cryptoaddictchie for giving me my first merits and posting some useful links that helped me understand the forum the more.

4. @O_e_l_e_o and @LoyceV for giving me my biggest merits (4 each) till date.

5. All the fantastic guys who contribute invaluable posts and advices to help us understand and navigate the terrain.

Now, I'm getting gradually addicted.

Update 1: I'm happy to update you guys that I've become a member today, the 29th of December 2021, less than  two months of joining this forum.

Next stop is full member  ;D

Congratulations buddy. Today, I am glad that we see a newbie who is sincerely interested in cryptocurrency. We did not see any posts from you about ranks, merits, but we saw questions about wallets and lively interest. Let this be a showcase for all newbies.
Continue with the same enthusiasm. I will gladly celebrate with you the date when you become Legendary.

Congratulations Sir! Hopefully i would become a Jr. Member soon. As i have business to share especially in image. Congrats again!

Congratulations Dripstoil on your achievement!
In fact, I see that you will very quickly reach the member rank on this forum  :D
Your example is very good for other newbie members as well, because you have the right attitude on this forum and you show others how to progress on the forum.
I am glad to see that we have got a new, positive and constructive member of this forum  :D :D
Just keep going like this and you will quickly become a hero and a legendary member!

Congratulations on ranking up to jr. member. Right now, you are qualified to rank up to member when you reach the required activity points needed. I'm sure you know about this as I guess you read the forum rules when you join this forum for further knowledge about cryptocurrency. Good luck to your new journey and some fun along the way.

You don't have to be hopeful. You'll definitely become a Jr. member if you make at least one post in the next activity period as you already have the needed requirements for the rank.
Copper membership (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote) is also another way to enable posting on the forum without needing to meet any activity or merit requirement. You probably don't need it now, but some other newbies could use the info.

That's the ultimate goal or is it learning and discussing Bitcoin?  ???
Just kidding, they both usually come together, the more you learn and discuss, the more knowledge you get and the higher your rank.
Congratulations on your milestone, every little step counts.

Thanks for the kind compliments. I feel very motivated and hopefully, I'll keep on carrying on and keep improving. I still have a lot to learn in Crypto and there's no better place to learn than here.

You guys are amazing!

Thank you Miguel. As someone pointed out, I think you're almost there, it's just a matter of days and few more posts. At the end of the days, the goal should be to participate and enjoy the discussions going on here. Share as much positive and informative content as you can, and keep learning. Every other things should be secondary.

Thank you Daniel91. I sincerely appreciate you guys for the positive comments and for everything. Hopefully, I'll keep living up to your expectations.
The ultimate goal is to learn and discuss Bitcoin but you know, this is a post to celebrate my little milestone, that's why I had to talk about other milestones ahead. While ranking is important, it is by no means the ultimate goal of being here - I can assure you. There's so much to learn that I'm really feeling left out for many years. So, I'm learning and discussing as much as I can.

Thanks for the compliment.

First of all congratulations to @Dripstoil for getting to rank of Jr member. Seeing your merit record you are all set to become Member, you need more posts for that (probably around 70 posts and 10 merits make it Member). Just keep contributing and you will get to the rank of Full member which will be a big success. Congrats and party hard.

I am really impressed going through your profile you have shown you are ready to participate and learn alot from the forum. Keep contributing and before you know you willl get to the highest rank in the forum. Congratulations on reaching this milestone.

Congratulations to you on this great milestone of getting to rank of Jr member which should serve as an inspiration to other's that this is very much possible to attain despite  this is not an easy journey. I guess this achievement is not only personal but also for the crypto family as we have an extra person to share crypto information to others. Congrats once again!

Congrats to your rank movement it's just a single step for another rank try to chase some goals and achieve and create a good reputation to our form you already gained enough merits to be a member rank after that this is the real path you need to take coming to the Full member, Senior and Hero member. If you keep active and a quality poster for sure the merit will come and you don't need to pressure yourself to achieve those ranks. Good luck we will watch your journey.

Congrats mate! Although you become just Jr. Member your merit achievement is more than that. Because to be honest earning merits is the main challenge in the forum lately. If you can earn merit then it's just a matter of activity to achieve your desired rank. You need to concentrate more on contribution and reading forum threads. So that you can learn and spread your valuable knowledge. Hole once a day you will be legendary because today's newbies tomorrow's legendary. Best of Luck.

Members like you are needed by the forum. because it is very rare for a newbie to start from scratch consistently to provide useful threads and comments. The struggle is still long and you still have a lot to do. Congratulations to those of you who have reached the jr.member rank.

Thank you guys for such encouraging words and advice. Be rest assured they're well received and I'll do my best to always be a good member of this forum. I'm overwhelmed by your kind words even when the achievements is so little.

Thank you all.

Congratulations for the first step of forum rank you achieved, you are now one of us, i like your courage and your appreciations to those who you feel that criticism you or attacks you also, the observation and the way you adopted correction through the seniors colleagues is very nice, today you are a jr member with twenty one (21) merit earned, so follow corrections because we are here to learn more of what we don't know... congratulations once again and more congratulations is coming ahead you.. good luck dear.

Hey Brother . I have the same feelings what you have now . A few days ago I got my 1st 2 merit in my post in our local forum and after that I received more 2merit in this forum .  I'm also very excited for incoming future . I have a big dream in crypto industry and  I wanna make it reality  to give my best and hard work.

And  congrats for the achievement of Jr.member .
Best wishes  ;)

Congrats to you, but you must know that it takes far more than merits on the forum to be successful in the crypto network in general, you'll have to do a lot of research and study into the network, understanding all there is to, from the security protocols, to safe wallets to use and when and how to invest etc, the crypto network is really broad, so you'll have quite a lot of things to get abreast with, the forum by the way is a great place to get such knowledge and merits is also an integral part of the forum as it shows you're actually learning and making quality posts, so on that basis, well done and work harder.

To the OP, congratulations to you as well, take it one step at a time and you'll definitely achieve your desire, you're still relatively new, so it could prolly take you some time to adapt and grow in your learning, but if you put your heart into it, then you'll achieve it.

 :D ;D Since this is not in Reputation, for example, I was expecting to see somebody selling Jr Member accounts  ;D :D
I'm glad that I've made this mistake. Congratualtions!


The next ranks will be gradually harder - as merits - but since you are getting addicted it may come gradually easier to pass them, actually. The more time you spend (well) here, the more you'll learn, the more helpful you'll be, the more you'll participate and .. the easier you'll get the merits and the shiny new ranks. Good luck!

Thank you . I appreciate and loved your words . I know that,  it is more important  to be successful . Now I'm just learning and researching . I learn lots of new things from this forum and  got  very important advices from the senior members.
I will try to use them in my future .
Respect and thanks to all the members in the fourm who are helping newbies to growing up.

Congratulations on your success. Focus on quality you can reach your goal soon. I'm also trying to increase my rank.
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But it should be step by step. When I was in newbie I was think how to improve it. But I didn't give up . Everyday I  just learn something new and tried to help newbies and spread my little knowledge.

I hope we will meet soon on our race

I also ran through his post history of three pages and found out that he has made 54 posts till now but all of them are not any bounty submission or asking merit or how to rank up as you already said which shows the true representation of the forum or those who joins it for the purpose of learning only.

He has participated in cygans guess the word game and signature taxation and some others quality posts that has made him rank up to the junior rank on forum and yes we will see such members growing fast.

Congratulations to you @OP and keep up the good work and you will see next rank coming your way but don't deviate from your path and keep learning new things here sharing knowledge with each other.

Every rank up is a big deal. It really doesn't matter the level, except the user is trying to disperse days of little beginning. Quite alright, I know the merit thresholds for all the ranks differ but even stepping into Jnr rank isn't that easy. I've seen users with over 300 posts and activities, yet with zero merit. If it were easy they would've ranked up. Don't belittle your victory.

Yeah, I do think so too.

Enjoy your new achievement and continue to work harder for greater things ahead. There's a saying that the reward for hardwork is more work. So, you've to put in more work to keep up the pace and other ranks will expectedly fall in pleasant places for you.

Thanks for the incredible assessment. Even me have forgotten most of the places I've posted. ;D ;D

I just wish and hope this forum continues to be the best Bitcoin community on the internet. The simplicity and unadulterated nature and knowledge base is quite amazing. From the look of things, I won't be surprised if all the who is who's in the Crypto world are in this forum.

Your ranking is actually impressive considering the fact that you created your account last month!

By reading also your post history, you seemed to engage a lot on your conversations/discussions since you explain in-depth your point of view in topics that you chose. That is considered one of the sign of being a good poster and contributor- you literally deserve your ranking up! But the journey does not end here as you have five (5) more ordeals to reach!

Anyway, good luck posting and continue doing your amazing discussions OP!

Posting consistently and being rewarded with merits shows that you're contributing to the forum meaningfully. At times I keep thinking about how did the top members(senior, hero and legendary) get to the stage they are. Did they get there by magic? I get to find out that they have put their best in the forum that's why they're there.
If you are willing to learn and put up your best, time, knowledge and ideas in this forum, you'll be ranked up easily. It's quite unfortunate that newbies lose hope along the line, due to we don't understand what crypto is all about.
I want to rank up someday like you. At least to be a member

Congratulations. It may appear easy, but honestly it isn't anymore. More merits to your BTT and may you rank up really fast. I am still a newbie, but I sure know someday I will climb up the ladder.

So you came and posted these all in a bid to fish merits for yourself and also to acknowledge the people who you feel they supported you to get merits.
 It's very visible that most people seems to be favoured than some people maybe because of:
* Same ethnicity
* Same country and state of origin
* Maybe the probably have a particular telegram channel that they gather and distribute merits to themselves and their alts.
 Racism is changing so many people's mindset just to favour some part of the whites and purposely forsake some.
 I won't stop talking until things are done properly the way it ought to be done..
 What's the need of giving the Russians or the Chinese or people from any other part of the countries of the world I'll treatments simply because they ain't from your country??
What's it gonna profit you to do so?
Do you get paid for it? These is dumbness for Christ sake ?!!!
Y'all better come off these common ideology you have.....
 With all due respect, I'm not saying these to hurt anyone but these is how I feel and I think it isn't right .
Regards
Trojane
One love💖

Your quite a real deal at OP haven't been acknowledged and received comments from some of the forums critics like lovesmayfamilis
Which most of us have known to not be the type that just gives appraisal for the sake of it. I must say, it drove me straight to your profile and as expected, you've been putting in work by picking some expects that matters to you and also, bring some useful information and updates to the forum.
I must say, your most welcome here and so long as you keep faith with the form and tred the path you've taken now, your sure to archive your goals both on the forum and the crypto space. Your most welcome @OP.

I honestly don't get exactly why you posted this but I'm sure you may have your seasons. But some time, it's not just okay to make up stuffs and assume things just because we feel hurt.

1. Every posts and threads I've made so far were because I genuinely feel strong about the topics. None were because of anything else other than to lighting up the conversations.

2. I learned the importance of giving appreciation to whom it is due. That's why I mentioned the names of the people who contributed in one way or the other to make my first stage in this forum a memorable one. And I think it's a good thing to appreciate people who have influenced your life in any little way.

3. I do not belong to any Telegram group, not even one. Wether people make such in telegram group or not, I do not know about that. Perhaps you could just elaborate?

4. People naturally gravitate towards people of like minds and languages. I don't necessarily see that as racism. Though, I'm very new in this forum to tell if there's racism or not, but I don't think there is. So, I'd suggest you free your mind and enjoy this forum.

Chinese, Russia, Africa, India, Arab, The USA, etc. We are nothing but one Bitcoin family.

I will not agree with you, what's Op posted is even he is new here but in a small-time, he Ranks up easily and gets more merits. And he did not ask for merits do it's up to us to merit his post or not but reviewing the Op post so far he did a good job he contributed well and gathered more information about crypto especially bitcoin and I think he deserves to rank up to the next rank.
And I agree with you OP we are one bitcoin family here in our community all we need is to help each other to learn more about bitcoins.

You have taken the 1st small step on this long path. It is from such steps that the whole path is formed and each time it brings more and more closer to the legendary rank.

Congratulations Dripstoil on your 1st step and good luck in reaching new ones!

For the first time, when the merit was introduced on this forum, it upset me. At that time, it seemed to me that it was not fair.  People got high ranks just because they registered on bitcointalk earlier and wrote more, regardless of the content of the posts and their quality. I also got my current Full member rank in this way and my posts of that period were not distinguished by the usefulness of information. Later, receiving my next merit, my point of view began to change. I wanted to write more meaningful posts that might be useful to others. Frankly, the merit system began to motivate me to do this, and in the end for me it turned into a kind of mini-game. It's much more fun than just writing, and the rank will be achieved on its own over time.

I'm sorry that old users were deprived of this and could not feel the merit system. They were deprived of that long way with overcoming the levels of ranks and went an easy way, compared to what lies ahead for people like me. But I am not discouraged and see this as an advantage and challenge for myself. Difficulties allow us to learn something new, find something new and change us.

In general, I am pleased with the current situation, because my next rank depends only on my actions and how I contribute to the community.

I just updated the post to let you guys know that I've qualified as a member today. I'll keep updating the main post as I move up the ladder. It's a beautiful feeling getting accepted and getting used to this interesting community.

Thank you guys for being part of the journey so far.

Congratulations sir! I am now newbie and trying to change my rank. You are our inspiration sir...

There you go. Keep at it!
Now the next step is at 120 activity, so you have about 10 weeks to go. Don't get disappointed. We're both in the same boat. 8)

Congratulations on your success.

You will be able to reach your goal soon. I am also trying to increase my ran position. I did not give up, I will learn slowly. I think it should be done step by step.

In this way we will move forward.

You are almost there too. That's an impressive run, I just had to support you with a token. Thanks for commenting.


I ran through your posts and I feel like you need to be motivated too. Thank you for commenting and hopefully we keep growing and contributing positively in this community.

Thank you! Yeah, we're almost there. I know sometimes it's difficult, but it's worth it.
I'll race you to it! ;)

Thank you! Yeah, I'm so glad you inspired me?

Thank you so much for inspiring me. May we move forward with your inspiration. We can master everything well by completing the small steps well.
In fact, I don't do anything at once and I don't want to do anything. Follow the directions from people as big as you, and slowly move on from all threads. If you don't understand anything, I will tell you. This is how I am learning. In fact, you are not compared. I hope you will always to be my side.

Again and again Thank you so much.

Thank you for giving me a further push up. Maybe I can take you up on the challenge, let's see if I'd catch up with you  ;D

You're welcome. I appreciate your help also.  :)
Oh, I know you can. The race doesn't end at the next level. All the way to the top! ;D ;D
We'll make it. We just need to keep doing our best, and be patient. Good things come to those who bust their asses...! ;)

You are doing great too and I like your posts. I want to suggest this Ratimov thread where you can be helped to rank up to full member once you get up to 85 merits in case you have not seen it. Here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5275032.0

Thank you, I really appreciate it! :)
Took me a long time to answer because we have been under non stop rain since the weekend, and I have to walk 9 blocks to get internet access. Sorry.
But I wanted to let everybody know how important a comment like yours can be, especially when someone is learning. Itś very encouraging to be appreciated.
About Ratimov's thread, yeah, I'm waiting to get the merits, so I can go there. I must have read it a gazillion times already... ;D 

Wow! I can relate what rhe picture of this could look like, sometimes work takes me to a place of function where I go through this and its usually so bad. This tells you how appreciative being in a good weather condition with network access could be. Easy Internet, easy life.

On the part of OP, I knew I had seen this thread before when it surfaced and made some comments too. I must say, your really celebrating your wins and the idea that trips me is the fact that, you concentrated on updating this thread rather than create a new one. That's some move from a beginner and it's a really good initiative. Hope others could copy this!

Well, personally what it tells me is I'm about ready to move to the middle of the Sahara... ;D

For late Wise, But Your Position is great.

Congratulations on your success.

Looking at the post on the reasons for your success, I was inspired by your post. Hopefully we'll find something better for you positively in this community?

Thank you 😊

Been a while, but like the wise men say, congratulations are never too late to say, so I say a big congratulations to you.

Some few years back, this never meant much, and it wouldn't have meant much even up until now, if not for the introduction of the merit system and its defining power in member's growth here.
Alot of things on this forum changed since the introduction of merits, alot of members(shit posters) have no doubt left the forum due to their inability to get merit which will enable them advance in rank, and those who are still here have leant to make better posts, discussions have become healthier and more coordinated, and with every member trying their best to move to the next rank, we all have learnt to work harder and better.
Bitcointalk has become the most prestigious forum in the whole of the entire crypto currency sphere, bitcointalk is our own binance when it comes to crypto discussions.

Congratulation  buddy. You're now a Full Member and moving fast towards SR Member. You're indeed special and dedicated to your craft. You defeated me on the race but I'm so happy for you.

Family issues and other things took me off this forum for months but I'm back now. Hopefully, I'll pick up from where I stopped. Right now, I'm focusing to improve my trading skills at Binance and see how good I'd get. Congratulations once again @BernyJB


Thank you @Fivestar4everMVP.  I appreciate your post and what you said it indeed true. The introduction of the merit system is a good thing, although I don't know how the forum was prior to this time. But I believe the merit system is likely the game changer.

Congratulations buddy i acknowledge your passionate to be here, what you did is evidence that attest that you are ready to learn in all ramifications of this noble institution. But i will encourage you to not involve in plagiarism and paraphrase because it one of the criteria that brings down newbies. If actually you want to keep it up, don't hesitate to make research and place the evidence of your in link, i will not fail to applaud you.