It is almost a year when I come to know about  bitcoin for first time. I started taking interest in bitcoin and large number of altcoins for investment purpose. Anyways within months I understood that most of the altcoins are scam and I put my full focus in understanding the bitcoin. Recently I understood how much of the facts that were hidden from us when we generally read the introductory articles on bitcoin.
I think most of us here thought that Satoshi was one of the first to create a crytocurrency so bitcoin become popular but it is not true. In reality Satoshi is first to create a Proof of work consensus method that can work in decentralized way and that is the real backbone of bitcoin and real genius of Satoshi. When most of the literature point to the anoynomus Satoshi in bitcoin development, they really writing off all the researches already done in this field by the people like  Hal Finney and Nick Szabo and numerous other with whom Satoshi corresponded. I am not denying Satoshi acheivement but I am trying to make emphasize on point that Bitcoin is not something that is got created on one fine day of 2009 but instead it is a result of decade of research of many .

Bitcoin in technical side solve the "Byzantine General's Problem" by the use of blockchain and Proof of Work consensus algorithim. Byzantine Fault tolerance or Byzantine General's Problem is a real challenge for any distributed system to work flawlessly.This is the reason that government/people who do not want bitcoin but still embracing the block chain technology.

CAP (Consistency,Availability, Partition Tolerance) theorem in distributed sytem put a limit that you can have only 2 out of these 3 available parameters. Bitcoin distributed cannot ovefride this theorem but it is designed is such a way that it is least impacted with the limitation put in by this theorem by the mechanism of eventual Consistency.

Bitcoin still functioning well to be used as to make your own bank, giving you freedom to transact without being restricted by countries boundaries and making it truly global in Nature.

So friends, when next time if someone ask you about bitcoin, try to tell them about some computational problems that bitcoin solves. Try to read some technical documents and books instead of relying on some random articles.

I hope Bitcoin will keep gaining popularity and its usage and might be Satoshi will be awarded  Turing_Award in future.


Refernces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
                 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
                 https://paulkernfeld.com/2016/01/15/bitcoin-cap-theorem.html
                 Mastering Blockchain by Imran Bashir
                 Mastering Bitcoin -  by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

That is now a different problem. I think might we should lower merit requirement for rank up. But in reality the question will come why you want rank up here?
If you say for gaining knowledge, then you do not need to rank up.
If you say for taking part in discussion, then again you do not need to rank up.
If you say for earning, you just frowned the community here and now community wants you to prove your worth.


In reality, those hard days never made me impatient. I am always  gathering hints and I become more refined .




That's the key, impatience will not help you to get get Merits.

 
No free merits should be given on basis of activity. It will again encourage activity based spam.
Those who got the desire ultimately find the way.

1 merit is really not that hard to find if you are really contributing in this forum.Newbies who are creating thread in Meta saying that 1 merit is impossible actually want free airdrop of rank/Merit.

Thanks for your words.

Bright Orange Bitcoin logo in Royal Navy Blue hat will definitely make  my day.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/File:BC_Logo_.png

Going by this logic, I will not pay anything in Altcoin Discussion then.
As a bounty manager you are supposed to not to count any post that looks spam irrespective of board.

@OP
Actually, It fully depends upon what kind of target audience that project is looking. Meta is generally for forum rules and regulations. 50% of thread in Meta are of banned user and some user complaining about merits. They do not make a good target audience for a project.

Will try.



I can get one by myself but I think the actual satisfaction will come if I get it here.
I think , I never posted here but I read this thread time to time.

Are you looking for participants that make 35 post in trading discussions only?
If you require all 35 there , then I am out. otherwise feel free to consider.
 
Bitcointalk username: r1s2g3
Bitcoin wallet address:  3ECKVvfFyc6aDX4by4TxgaHns4PMmG7ngS
Current post count:     894

All hat avatars look cool.

How can I earn/get a hat ?

My guess is $7043

Edit: I see contestant list is  already  locked and someone has guess of more than $22000. Interesting to see that guy win.

You have made a brilliant tool.

If you are able to add "ToUsername" and "Fromusername" in the Meritdata table than it will be great because we rarely recognize anybody with their userids (ToID and FromID).

I know, we can still get this data by joins but just a suggestion.

Mistake, nopes, Most of them are deliberate and it looks to me that create topic in Meta just to ask below in some different wordings in Meta.

"Hi friends, I copied pasted 100 of posts, now I get banned, I just need to know, which post you find it copied?
I will not use that website/source for copying now onwards in my newly created accounts. Do not worry, I will keep copy pasting from the sources that you have not discovered till now "

I do not know, every plagarist until given proof claim himself/herself innocent and they are caught in multiple posts.

If you are not comfortable in writing in this thread, then PM me. I will accept your request in PM too.

When the topic is of less than or equal to 25  page, you get option of "All"  (off course , you do not need All for one page topic).



Once the topic cross the 25th page, The option of "All" is not available.





Getting "All" for reading 25*20= 500 post is more than enough.
I think , if you try to put too much in "All", then it will take too much time to load and may impact your site experience.

Agree with Lafu, these thread help us to understand the history.


Interesting to know that we used to have 3 Administrator.
Actually signature of Sirius used to confuse me and now I understand why he has that signature.

Is it possible that whole ANN is trashed and all reports are marked bad?

Ban evasion, by own admission.

Do not share the links of profile , When you yourself  do not know  who are Admins. Surprised , that you did not recognize "Theymos" as admin.

Profile link of Theymos : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35
Profile link of Cyrus      : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=78147

OP, you can write your problem in this thread.
In reality, Theymos reads everything(and rarely reply) and if he think that your problem is worthy to be address soon, then he will do it. Alternatively you can PM him too.

Fixed that google form. Just need answer to any one of the question in less than 200 word. I do not want essays here. Post is just to make sure that you did the entry yourself instead of me getting tricked by someone else.

Hi Friends

In my initial days , I got motivated by the  challenge created by  BTCforJoe.

Unfortunately, this challenge is not available now. I liked the challenge as whole and the part where Joe review the post to give his honest opinion.

 I am not as qualified as Joe but users complaining about getting 1 Merit , when I am able to get 100+ inspire me to share some personal tips to the users.

Anybody who thinks that getting 1 merit is very hard,made 100+ post and member of this forum for more than a month  is welcome.
I will like to review your last 100 post and will try to give an honest opinion.

This is not at all a merit challenge , nor I am going to reward any merits and btc for participating in this event.(but may be in your post if  I find them good.). I will just provide my opinion and you are fully entitled to accept/partially accept or reject it.

Below is the google form to apply:
Google Form To Apply

Below is link to Spreadsheet:
Link to spread sheet


After filling the form , you can just post word  "Apply" and give your views in any of the topic in less than 200 words.
a) What do you find unique in this forum?
b) What is really interesting fact in BTC you know that most of people might not be knowing?
c)Which of the Altcoin (only one) you think worth to invest and why?
d) If you are not spending time in this forum then where you might be spending this time.

PS: I created Google Form first time, so let me know if any issue in them.

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