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I am thinking to wait until I achieve legendary before posting this, but that is another 1 year plus from now, so I decide to post this now as it has been what I experienced on this forum. When I joined, many newbies were saying this forum is merit centralized, it was the other way around for me but I tried my best to know the norms on this forum (asking and contributing quality information, most especially about Bitcoin, but not limited to only bitcoin). I finally had to know that this forum is so helpful, helping to know how to make use of Bitcoin and even many other cryptocurrencies safely and securely, and in addition to knowing about Bitcoin, I have also participated in some signature campaigns.

Since I joined, there has been many helpful members which really helped me knowing more about bitcoin and ways to privacy and safety. I am using this privilege to appreciate many members of this forum. Cryptopreneurbrainboss and Upgrade for being an encouragement for me that I can also learn about bitcoin like my brothers. DdmrDdmr, for support during the process of me ranking up, I noticed he always read links posted in posts, reading it carefully, making quality posts about it and sometimes including the original link of the link included in OP posts. o-e-l-e-o, for guidance, I read some of his posts that helped me to know child-pay-for-parent, orphaned blocks and replace-by-fee, helped correcting me several times, but I really gained from his corrections unlike some other people that just want to criticize some posts without no good reason. pooya87, for letting me to understand keys and addresses and many more, but he may not know this because he did not know I am following many of his posts, I know about transaction input and output from one of his posts that helped me in a topic, and also about keys and addresses, his post helped me understand it while reading. LoyceV, for letting me to understand how public keys are used in multisig transactions, I was thinking before only signature (private key) counts towards transaction fee charges, I further understood how it is the keys that are aggregated in the upcoming Taproot which reduced the transaction fee. mocacinno, for how nodes can set different days for transactions, while it is 14 days in bitcoin by default while some transactions dropped almost by most full nodes can still get confirmed as it is possible some nodes still have it. The Pharmacist, using many of his posts to realize the need for me to also post the way I think it should be, that is why now I am only recommending Trezor as the best hardware wallet because it is completely open source and many more now that I post the way I think it should be, you people may not understand this, but it actually really helped me. Neuroticfish and hosseinimr93 in transactions. nc50lc, for Electrum wallet used as a cold wallet and signing with watch-only for making transactions. I also appreciate few other members, Heisenberg_Hunter, JayJuanGee, Royse777, vapourminer, ETFbitcoin, hugeblack and some other members for obvious reasons you can see in my merit history. DarkStar_, when I needed loan.

To be sincere, I enjoyed the days I was ranking up, only to become legendary remains, maybe it is going to be boring now, but that does not limit me to sharing useful information and yet gaining from other members. Newbies, do not believe in the saying 'merit system is centralized' on this forum, I knew no one when I joined this forum, your constructive and quality contributions and questions you are asking will help you in ranking up. I did not know pooya87 when he sent me the first merit I received on this forum, neither did I know many people sending me merit, they saw my posts are worth it, and they gave me. Good luck to upcoming members.

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Charles-Tim! Now a legendary (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5344403.msg60565444#msg60565444)

Congratulations! With the knowledge you have gained, and your dedicated help to many people on this forum, you absolutely deserve a Hero member, even a Legendary member  :D And sure enough, soon, you will be a legendary member in the near future when you have enough activity points  :D I am impressed with your extensive knowledge with BTC, there will not be many people who has understanding as much as you.

Congratulations Charles-tim, the wonderful class act of showing hardwork is reaching a particular rank by merit even before your activities can reach up to it, you had the merit for the hero membership before your activities even reached it.
I think you are a success story/tale, you already have the legendary merit status, I think it needless to tell you to continue doing the good you do, your contribution has enlightened me and I know someone or many out there. In line to your new hero rank, I know your contribution would be perfectly that of a hero, congratulations on this Charles-tim.

You have come a long way but why be bored after a rank up? I'm sure there will be more arguments and debates that will interest you. Bitcoin continues to develop and so will be the discussions. Keep it up.

No, this forum is not boring at all in its entirety, I only just meant the ranking up thing which is fun.

Congratulations Charles-Tim.
You deserved to become a hero member much sooner. You earned the first 500 merit only in 220 days and if there was no activity requirement, you could become a hero member on October 14, 2020. [1]
You earned 1195 merit in a short time and are now ranked 121st in the top-merited users table. Among the top 200 users of the table, there are only two users who have registered on the forum in 2020. You and bullrun2020bro. [2]

[1] Loyce.club (https://loyce.club/Merit/history/2776678.html)
[2] BPIP (https://bpip.org/Report?r=earnedmerit)

Great job on achieving your Hero rank. I'm glad to see more and more people mentioning "privacy" in their posts and threads. In fact, it'd be very interesting to see how much the number caring about privacy has changed in the last year.

I remember the day I gave you a few merits and PM'd you to let you know that you're on your way to becoming a very good member of the forum. If I remember correctly, you were the one to receive the most merit at the time from my experiment. For anyone else who's curious, I tried to give 1 merit to someone deserving a single merit. Next, the challenge was to raise that to two merits and give them to someone who deserves them. After that, 3 and so on..

Obviously, the more merits there were, the harder of a challenge it became. :)

Congrats. You've still got a long way to go so keep it up. And by that, I mean there is still a lot of room to advance through ranks. I am not the best member and there's so much room for improvement for me but I definitely see who's racing to the top and you seem like one of them.

See ya around! :)

Bitcointalk is a beneficial place if you take the time to learn and participate in helpful discussions. All of the wisdom of the crypto-verse is contained, and there are many opportunities to collaborate with other members and earn Bitcoins for your efforts. Congrats on Hero status and thank you for your contributions.  :)

Congrats @Charles-Tim! Well deserved. I really appreciate reading your posts. :)


I am pretty sure you know it already, since @DmdrDdmr merited plenty of your posts, but if someone is looking for additional Bitcointalk Merit statistics, check out @DdmrDdmr's Merit Dashboard:

https://i.imgur.com/yuz2uaR.png

Source: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ddmrddmr/viz/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/GlobalSummary

You will find all kind of statistics there. Pretty interesting tbh. Anyway, Keep it up! The forum needs people like you!

Many congratulations @Charles-Tim, there are few users who rank up effortlessly and going by your stats, you're definitely in that group, since you burst on the scene, your efforts keep getting recognized by other members cause they are really of pretty high quality, you'd have to wait sometime to get to legendary only cause you're short of activities, that's quite impressive to say the least.

Congratulations mate (Hero), your posts are clear representations that you have a keen interest in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, cheers to your new rank and to legendary coming in many months ahead :P.

Congratulations mate. That was fast!

Dont get bored even when you reach the legendary status. The forum is a good way to discuss and talk about cryptocurrency and you are in the top forum that has serious and good provisions.

Congrats again. Ive always reading some of your post and you are really good contributor here. See yah more often dude.

Every "level up" you've got was well deserved. You are active and helping the others. And learned a lot too.

And I think that it won't become boring. Even after becoming Legendary, you'll still enjoy the merits you'll get (although they may be less) and they'll keep giving you confidence. And oh, boy, how will you check your stats when you know that the activity counter increases, after you get to the minimum threshold for Legendary.  :D

Congrats and keep it up!

Congrats  @Charles-Tim, Hero rank well deserved, now onto the next one! It's nice to see a member that is improving constantly, and that is applying suggestion on how he can increase his posting quality.

Onwards and upwards, and may the gods of RNG be with you when you reach minimum activity needed for Legendary rank. :D

@Charles-Tim, I just want to congratulate you on what you have achieved and I know that you worked hard to achieve it.
Soon, you will be one of the legendary member of this forum. And this will be an inspiration for me and everyone here. Again, congratulations on your achievement buddy!

Congrats, Charles-Tim!  Hero Member is no small accomplishment these days, especially since you registered well after the merit system started.  In fact, it's quite the accomplishment; most members who started their journey on bitcointalk in 2020 will likely never have the patience and/or ability to write well such that they get to even Sr. Member, much less Hero.  And you've already got enough merits to hit Legendary once you get enough activity, so it's just a matter of patience for you now.

Giving a shout-out to all those members was an especially nice touch on your part, and it tells me that you value the forum highly.  That's nice to see.  Most newer members (and you are still relatively new, even though you breezed through the ranks) come here just to participate in bounties and don't read any of the valuable threads bitcointalk has to offer, and if they do post anything other than their weekly bounty reports, it's nearly always garbage.  You're a stand out, man!

I agree.  I've found many posts by OP to be very educational, and I believe I've merited quite a few of them (though I haven't checked).  Keep it up, Charles-Tim and continue being an example to newbies!

Congratulations Charles! How quickly time flies, I remember how recently you were honored with the rank of Senior, and now you have become a Hero.
This is quite worthy, and judging by your work on the forum, you are taking big strides. Thank you for being on our forum, I appreciate your friendship. I wish you all the best. Keep it up, now we're expecting Legend rank from you. My respect!

Charles-Tim, congratulation on your new rank. This is honestly a welcome achievement after 15 month of adventure on the forum. Currently the Legendary rank is only a matter of time because you only need to wait for sufficient activity because your merit gain has exceeded the required amount. You have to maintain all of this.

The Pharmacist, maybe not for those who don't care about knowledge and post quality. Even though we have dozen of active poster every day but it is very difficult for them to get 1 merit because they don't care about post quality. There are very few active and knowledgeable poster with their contribution on the forum from 3 million current profile in my opinion.

March 2020 is the beginning of your journey in this forum with great achievements with a new rank (Hero) I think it's a very short time you have done your best in this forum and know many friends who have been close to the tone, I am sure you will continue do your best like other seniors who have achieved great achievements so stay here and I will continue to know you on the Charles-Tim bitcointalk forum ;)

Congratulation, you achieved what you deserved. You deserve Legendary but have to wait for activity requirements. If I can recall exactly then your growth was faster than mine. Means you have been contributing your best. Although merit isn't centralized earning merit indeed isn't easier for noncontributors. All good contributors getting back something from the forum. And as you said and I admit it ad well, the forum members are helpful enough. Although sometimes a few users like to criticize, it's not countable. All user's behavior wouldn't be the same anyway. I feel happy when I see someone promoted to the next rank because I was a newbie once a day and I know the feeling. More contribution expecting from you. All the best.

I felt amazed also today as it turned out as supportive and caring, I really appreciate your kind words and comments about me. Although, I have time to learn about Bitcoin, but learning about it has been a big turn around for me which really favoured me and yet favoring me.  And I have never been on any forum before like this so amazing forum, Bitcointalk, not that the forum is just amazing, its members make it amazing. I appreciate y'all that made it amazing for me today.

Yes, I completely understand that, which is why I wrote this:

That's why Charles-Tim stands out from the rest of the pack, because he isn't just writing crappy posts as fast as he can type them out like most noob bounty hunters, in order to satisfy the character count minimum for whatever bounty they're enrolled in.  It's unfortunate that most newbies do that, but it's the truth.

Hey, you deserve it and have earned your rank and the respect of many, including me. 

You are doing exceptional. Enjoy the time, buddy. Next goal is Legendary. Remember the Barden you have to the community. We all are playing our parts.

Hi Charles-Tim, you deserve the respect of this community for your hard work contributing to the forum. The achievement of your merit is faster than the sum of your activity and that is really great. People appreciate you in the right way and congratulation on your new ranking.

According to the website bpip.org, there are currently 159 registered users who have contributed to your merit and that is proof that there are quite a number of forum users who appreciate your effort here.

Congratulations The intelligent Charles, you deserve this and every other goodies that follow this rank and even the ones beyond this. Your dedication is rare and needs rewards for it.
Likewise yourself, mate you have a lot of merits as well. ;)

I really appreciate all posts relating to members sharing their ranking experience. You can see clearly their dedication to the community and their constant contribution throughout all the threads in this forum.

You very much deserve everything that made you here. You did this with your hard work and patience. You belong to the group where you make a good example through the newbies here in this forum. You are also a living testament where anyone can rank up and reach their goals as long as they work upon it! Good job, Charles Tim!

congratulations. you are my role model.
In addition to learning useful knowledge, I also want to contribute my own strength.

Big congratulations to you Charles for this remarkable achievement in a short time, you've been here for 1 year 4 months and you've already achieved the Legendary merit rank that's crazy, it shows how much you've contributed to our forum positively, the Nigeria community is glad to have you among us... Keep up Man!

congratulations @Charles-Tim！！！

I set a goal from the beginning.

I have viewed a lot of posts by heroes and legendary members. It was observed that they would send 10 or more posts per day on average. So I also set a goal like this for me.

Recently I have been overwhelmed by some minor accidents. In the past few days, I have been sluggish, and I don’t even dare to reply to the forum.

I think now I should regroup, start learning knowledge again, and read and post replies in the forum with a good mood！

Charles-Tim! Now a legendary.

Today reminded me when I joined Bitcointalk, I had to learn hard to become one of the good members on this forum, I may not be that good, but this forum has been part of my life that I can never forget, it helped me in so many ways. I was a type of person that can easily fall into scam before, but one of my researches and that I created topics for on this forum were about crypto scam and how to avoid them. These have been helping me daily to avoid scam. It furthers to other types of scam to avoid that some other members brought up on this forum that someone or some people falled into or that people can possibly for into. This has been an important part of this forum that I cherish very well.

Know about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies can be risky for some people, but they have been of help for me. I have the time of losses and the time of profit, but overall, Bitcointalk, bitcoin and crypto helped my financial life. I could not think that could happen, that there could be a forum you can learn, contribute and earn little amount of money (bitcoin).

Thanks to good posters, especially those that saw my posts worthy.

That is a well deserved feat for you bro, you are an asset to the Bitcointalk community, and you obviously deserve to be in the highest rank possible, which is Legendary (for now). I have learnt from your posts in so many ways, and i am pretty sure that is the same for quite a whole lot of other users, continue contributing non-stop to our community and also in our local thread, newest Legend.

Congratulations Charles-Tim. Right from my newbie days till today, I have had eyes on your account and I admire it so much. You have a kind of cool passion for bitcointalk, always engaging in important conversations.
Another thing I admired was your prompt response to newbie questions in the B&H board. During those days, It wasn't so long I saw your merit source application, I don't know if you are one now.

It feels good to see you at the apex, congratulations and don't stop here.

Can you please edit Op and change the title to legendary, it nearly confused me.

@Coyster
I appreciate that. I will try my best to always have quality posts on this forum.

I appreciate that as well. The OP is about my hero rank, the reason I did not edit the title but I included the legendary link there.

Although Charles-Tim reached the highest rank a few days ago, for some reason, I only saw it now. In this connection, albeit belatedly, I express my congratulations to you. Undoubtedly, this is one of the nice moments in the forum - to reach the final goal in the ranking table.

You seem to have reached legenrady rank pretty quickly, considering the activity counter  (Activity: 882). But if you look from the position of merits, of which there are ~2800, then you deserved it a long time ago.

Continued success to you, "green club" buddy.

congrats on your progress.

I usually don't pay attention to these celebration threads, but now I see that you have become legendary with only 882 activities. you are really lucky, I remember that I was waiting for more than 1000 activities for the leg. rank

Finally, the wait is over! Your merits sum and Activity score speak volumes, I've been monitoring your Activity score for the past weeks now, too bad I didn't want to be the first to congratulate you, this was quick I had my head programmed at 900 Activity score for Legendary rank although I know the Legendary rank Activity is not fixed but the 800+ is rare. A win for the forum and the African community.
Is there a reason why some had to reach a 1000 Activity score to reach Legendary rank, or is it just random stuff like everyone else thinks?

Asking for a friend ;D

I would say it's random and pure luck.  ::)
tell your friend that after 1030 activity he will surely have a legendary rank  ;)

Heeey! CONGRATULATIONS!
Very nice and deserved achievement!

Of course, with such commitment, such activity and such great learning curve (and good answers), it was bound to happen.
Well done!