I keep weekly data in this topic. For the past weeks:
Total: 737258
Total: 743044
Total: 747592
Total: 752115
Total: 757074
Total: 761428
Total: 765913
Total: 770835
Total: 775831

And here's all-time sent Merit graphs for the users in the OP:
chimk

bones261

TMAN

Flying Hellfish

teramit

Alex_Sr

redsn0w

I'll get you a full list, selecting only certain months is more work:

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icopress
     1.      80 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Trading Discussion > Reputation
     2.      47 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Other > Meta
     3.      33 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Local > Русский (Russian)
     4.      13 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Services
     5.       4 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Trading Discussion > Scam Accusations
     6.       1 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Local > Русский (Russian) > Кодеры
     7.       1 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Local > Русский (Russian) > Работа
     8.       1 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Local > Русский (Russian) > Разное
     9.       1 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Other > Serious discussion
    10.       1 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Economics > Speculation
    11.       1 Merit earned in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Service Discussion
Total: 183 Merit earned

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icopress
     1.      27 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Trading Discussion > Reputation
     2.      22 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Other > Meta
     3.      12 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Services
     4.      11 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Service Discussion
     5.       4 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Bitcoin > Bitcoin Discussion
     6.       3 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Local > Русский (Russian)
     7.       2 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Alternate cryptocurrencies > Announcements (Altcoins) > Tokens (Altcoins)
     8.       2 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Local > Русский (Russian) > Разное
     9.       1 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Local > Русский (Russian) > Новички
    10.       1 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Other > Meta > New forum software
    11.       1 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Trading Discussion
    12.       1 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Economics > Speculation
    13.       1 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Service Announcements
    14.       1 sMerit spent in Bitcoin Forum > Bitcoin > Bitcoin Technical Support
    15.       1 sMerit spent in deleted topic
Total: 90 sMerit spent

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Mine shows the exact same number of posts for Meta and Reputation.

Deleted, see:

It feels like buying "paper gold". Weirdly enough, I am completely confident buying stocks through a broker in exactly the same way. I won't ever get them in my physical posession, and I can only sell them through the same broker I bought them from. Maybe I could get used to buying Bitcoin through a trusted broker in the same way, but it doesn't feel right to abandon all benefits it offers only to turn it into an investment.
For really long term purposes (like pensions), I'd like not to have to remember passwords or store seed key phrases.

I trust my normal bank or broker a lot more than I trust Paypal. But indeed, for long-term storage, I wouldn't trust a crypto exchange more than I trust Paypal.

If you have to rely on public Wifi, would it be possible to physically copy the blockchain from someone? Then, just to be sure, let your own Bitcoin Core check all blocks (I don't think --rescan is enough, but I'm not sure what would suffice).

I've done this before, and it works fine: just copy the blockchain, and change settings to pruning.

What do you mean by "WIFC"? Is that a compressed WIF?
If it's a more or less "standard" problem, using existing software is much faster than trying to create your own method to restore the keys.

How many characters are missing? I've used a C-program that could restore up to 5 characters within a few minutes, as long as you know the location of the missing characters. See elbandi's post.

There's also The FinderOuter, a bitcoin recovery tool that may help.

But why? I can only see drawbacks, no benefits. From Forbes.com:

To me, this looks like the worst of both worlds: Paypal is now an exchange that only lets you deposit and withdraw fiat. You can exchange it to Bitcoin, but you can only keep in on the exchange. Combine that with the fact that Paypal is well known to freeze accounts, and I wouldn't want to use this. But I'll follow your adventures with them anyway

If anything, it can only increase Bitcoin speculation. There's literally nothing else you can do with your Bitcoin on Paypal.

That's probably why Paypal doesn't allow you to transfer the Bitcoin to another account directly. It goes through fiat, so they can chargeback when needed.

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Further reading: Cryptocurrency on Paypal FAQ
It's not even correct though:

They had a great opportunity, and they blew it

It's as if this FAQ was written by different people who didn't read what the others were writing.

Wait what? First they say it's only Paypal internal, then they say it can't be reversed. This doesn't make much sense.

I can't reproduce this in my Tor browser (without extension). It'll probably be fixed when I add a title to the page. I was waiting to complete it until I choose a design, but that got delayed too waiting for something else to complete, which got delayed too.

From what I've seen, new Merit sources usually start with a lower amount than existing Merit sources, so this is not very likely.

No, you're talking about the average per Merit source. Some get only 10 per month, others gets hundreds to 1000+.

Some sources are always out of sMerit, while others have to send more at one to empty their source.

I can only speak for myself: I have 26.67 source sMerit per day to get rid of. On some days I send more than other days, so the amount I get replenished varies per day too. I always find myself short on time, and the work-from-home-thing only made that worse. I don't want to "look harder" to find more posts, that would mean I have to read much more posts than I already do. Being a Merit source doesn't get paid, just like reporting posts. I do both to support the forum, but you can't ask Merit sources to look harder just to Merit more posts. As of last Friday, I've sent 7495 Merit transactions to 1901 users. Sending them more than one at a time makes the "merit economy" ~ less top-down. As long as it doesn't end up on spammers, it's fine with me

Unlikely, Merit sources hasn't changed in a long time.

If your Bitcoin Core is still trying to broadcast it, that might actually happen. I've never waited this long, but I've also never seen Bitcoin Core stop broadcasting a transaction before it's confirmed.

First: backup your wallet.dat!
Then, use zapwallettxes:

I'm not sure if it fits all your requirements, but bitcoin-tool is probably a good start. I don't want to provide a link, because I'm not sure if the Github link I find is the official one. I downloaded my copy years ago. Just to be sure: run it in a VM to protect your (offline) host.

I assume you've sent the same message to many users, and if they choose to answer your questions, they'll also quote the questions from your PM and post them here. In this case, I don't think this requires confidentiality.

Whenever my wife and I are watching TV and the show is about time travel, cloning or multiverses, I try to find a loophole for which my wife agrees it's not cheating Most of the time she says it's cheating though, and unfortunately I forgot the rare circumstances in which I found an actual approved loophole! I should write a book

The transaction has 1 confirmation.

You got it all wrong. I'm counting on it

If you want the reverse of Tether:
Rehtet

The .com domain is available, how many 6 letter names can say that?

Thanks again! Your outages only caused a one second delay, I can live with that.