You don't expect a newbie to do a great job in this forum if they are not handled in a better way than just asking if they can't make topics or write posts? they can do all that out of choice. They own their gadgets and do what they wish. The earlier they are appreciated the better. People have different IQ and will need enough time to understand things like blockchain and bitcoin. Don't compare how easy it was for you to others.



It is the fault because the merit system is adored more than bitcoin in this forum that any new member that visits here must get to see or know about the merits. It encourage some and discourage some in other ways like can I do what it takes?

I know they can read as much as they want but can't contribute or ask questions on the topic of their choice, sorry I wasn't referring to those kind of people that don't have an account with us.

Don't you think that they is a way to track an already banned user that created another account just to come and spam again?

I think today is my first time of seeing a site that doesn't care about their Alexa ranking. Hmm, like you said "quality discussion" without enough readers isn't it a waste of information? How about the people that will be searching for this forum and what they will see is other crypto blogs that pop out on search engine. you can't be sure of that. Because you didn't leave this forum from the start doesn't mean you should show less care about the users that left the forum. I'm not worried about the merits, I'm worried about the people that left the community because they got no merit after all the time they spent on the forum.

You can't predict the exact reason why some people leave the forum. Most of them are not here to spam. I know how difficult it is to get to the top in this forum. That is one of the reasons people leave here, and most of them don't surf here enough to know that they is a sub-forum for their respective countries and continent that can welcome them and make them feel at home.

We need proper guide that's all

The best solution to this problem is to increase the number of bot moderators that will be available to check illicit moves on the forum and ban the accounts. Falling behind in ranks, from the age of the forum we may end up being the only users in this forum. Or does it mean you don't want more people to come and learn from the millions of posts in the forum?

Do you know how pogosticking can affect a site rank. I don't think with the nature of this forum today will stop the bots from coming and also account farming is still on the rise. Which is one of the reasons the merit system is not favorable to the newbies in this forum. Come to think of it, one person having more than 10 accounts. Once the merit source to those accounts gets Smerits the merit goes to their personal accounts first before giving it out to other users as well the merit might have finished.

You are getting wrong here. From what is said I mean how will a post that is not quality enough get a merit. Like you said "they can post as long as they're not spamming" some users are not like that, if they see they can't contribute they remain dormant. And for account farming how difficult does it look for a user with 150 Smerit to farm accounts on this forum?

My point here is; Instead of ignoring the message I think some corrections can be made on that same thread for the OP to learn how to put more energy next time. At least knowing that people read their article can motivate them to write next time.

I know their rank won't stop them from investing. But then a few among the newbies are here to invest or watch how the forum works before they can unleash their purpose here. If care is not taken on them they are likely to leave if the forum is difficult to comprehend.

I didn't in any way think that way. What i am saying is that they are a lot of arguments in this forum.

They should be a better way than tightening the forum, I don't think not looking at the forum rank is a good idea. We have to look into it from a better angle.

you can give it sometime or log out and login again

You are welcome, go through this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0 hope it helps. To be a useful member of this forum make sure you provide useful information and also teach us what you have learnt from reading this forum. As simple as that? don't focus on merits because you may be discouraged and leave the forum finally. Open your mind to knowledge (that is give and take). You can also set a goal of being active in this forum for 120 days and see how far you have gone during this period.

I took a look at this forum's rank on Alexa, it is not good enough; provided that Content is king which is a big tenet in this forum, and why merits were integrated for users who post quality content no doubt articles from this forum rank very fast on google but the number of visitors to this forum has reduced and it affected the ranking of this website.

In 2018 according to Wikipedia, this forum ranked 900 on Alexa Globally.

Later in 2018, it was announced that users without any merit will be demoted to Newbie regardless of their ranks. During this period, so many users left this forum and most accounts were sold out for a couple of dollars. People were desperately in need of bitcointalk accounts with merits so they won't be a Newbie and also for their several businesses in the service thread. (You won't trade with a newbie)

Now in 2020, the forum ranked number 11,525 in February and at 22,845 this month this shows that our forum is doing well in good content but performs very bad in traffic, some threads scare new visitors away, just like this one https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5220580.0

what is the actual aim of making the merit system very hard for users? This will scare some away and those who are not good at writing, it means they don't belong here?

An internet forum where people come to learn and share information on bitcoin is not just a personal forum for some users that have a good rank to suggest how difficult the forum will be. Also, it is clear that most threads from the newbies are not given much attention because of how they structured their article.

If you noticed well, you will see that the signature campaigns are getting closed because companies don't get exactly the kind of traffic they used to see.

The forum is now difficult not only for newbies but for investors who came as newbies and left because they couldn't understand the forum better. I like this section "beginners and guide" but I didn't discover it as a newbie.

I will say that this forum is easy if you have worked hard on it and it's part of you, But very difficult for freshers because of how old members treat them with merit.

What is the reason behind holding a Smerit without giving it out? Most of them will waste or expire. If we put more energy on how we make good articles and also make it easier to harbor visitors that turned to members. This forum will rank as before and we will get enough people that will make use of our signatures for adverts.

I know our moderators are working hard to reduce spam and scam here. But I will encourage users to make here fun, we are in a war forum of smart Alecks that counter every single thread that is published. How do you expect better learning if they are no fun going on here?

looking at the rank of this site do you think Satoshi will be happy? We can build a forum as famous as bitcoin.

link to Alexa rank on bitcointalk.org

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitcointalk.org
rank for 2018 below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcointalk#cite_note-alexa-1

I know she is trolling but they are enough knowledge shared on her replies and timeline just in few hours. No need to focus on her own aspect of it. It's about the opinions shared. Saying she is a beginner in Bitcoin because she is trying to learn other things she doesn't know about Bitcoin. And those things are basic but very useful. You can use them to refresh your memory on what you already know about Bitcoin. So I think that's same with what see doing right now. Did you see Justin Sun's reply where he said he can transfer 1btc to her that seeing is believing? That tweet got me though.

The world biggest writer J.K Rowling has been asking questions on Bitcoin and she is getting some fascinating Answers like

1. Bitcoin is something that exist but doesn't exist

2. Bitcoin is designed so that it eliminates the need for trust. It's backed by advanced math, you won't understand

3. It's just money. It works like globally accepted cash and a high performing stock because of it's finite supply

4. Bitcoin= Magic Internet Money, Where the magic happens is blockchakn it's where each Bitcoin transactions is recorded like at bank

5. Imagine money is like Alcohol. Everyday more and more is being printed so it constantly dilutes the alcohol. Bitcoin is like the purest form of alcohol that cannot ever be diluted. You can enjoy the same taste 5,10 or 100 year down the line

6. Joe Craig did a great job here! He said; when you pay with a card, the system pings the bank to check you can pay, it pings back to Ok the transaction, then your bank pings the seller's Bank to change the amounts in your respective acounts. The bank acts as a central place keeping score. They keep the 'ledger'.

Now there's a new way of keeping score every transaction is recorded on a vast network of computers across the world that all have to agree on the numbers for anything happen . It's a distributed ledger's. If they agree, they update instantly with no need to refer a bank.
They record every transaction in along chain of technology, adding the new one to the end of the chain in a new link, or ‘block'. A cryptocurrency is just  currency that uses this chains of blocks of blockchian to keep score. Instead of a central institution like a bank.

And. Bitcoin is just the most popular cryptocurrency.

7. Bitcoin is a Cryptocurrency derived from cryptographic encryption and digital currency. Bitcoin is a digital cash network that relies on a cryptography for security.

8. Digital money that cannot be tampered with. Doesn't require Banks to send it. Bitcoin has a finite supply, therefore is not subject to inflation like $/£

9. Bitcoin is like fire insurance you'd buy for your home but instead of your home on fire it's economic and government systems around the world.

10. Think of Bitcoin this way. We figured out how to do letters over the internet with email, Now we figured out how to do money over the internet with Bitcoin.

These answers came from her handle on Twitter @jk_rowling among all of them all Number 5 is something else, alcohol does alcohol dilute when added another alcohol? and also using alcohol to explain bitcoin to a newbie is amusing. Let me know the answers that got you. And also I will encourage beginners to check this thread before asking anymore questions. So our forum will not be filled with same question all over. Thank you all and have a good day.

We are building this forum together and you are making a suggestion that will weaken people that have done a great job in this forum without being recognized. I must say we are all friends and why would a friend suggest for a difficult ranking system because you are almost a High ranked member. They is a saying that the higher a monkey climbs a tree the more he expose his anus You don't care anymore for others that are finding it difficult while it's easy for to rank.

Jeff Bezos has made bank during this stay at home period, everybody get their stuffs from Amazon and it seems to be one of the active companies operating now. I have seen a lot of people complaining that he doesn't pay his workers well. Those it mean he is making a profit out from his workers salaries?

Elizabeth Warren tweeted:
Trying to end workers harzard pay is uncalled for, this people worked during this period of risk and death and what they are getting in return is cutting their stipends. This may be for a reason i don,t know about but workers should not be treated this way for personal gain or what so ever. 

what do you think.

May 22 2020 marks the Ten-year Anniversary of the first bitcoin transaction.


So it all started in this forum lol, they are lots of history to be found here. Any old member that experienced this transaction can give us more details though.

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-pizza-day-celebrating-20-million-pizza-order/

Correspondents of cointelegraph.com just published an article concerning a 52 year old woman that runs a fake digital currency exchange, that has been operating since 2017 and have transacted AUS$5million that is 3.23 million worth of bitcoin.



https://cointelegraph.com/news/australian-woman-arrested-in-cash-for-bitcoin-money-laundering-sting

I want to use this time and thank everybody in this forum for the love they show to Africans, It is a thing of joy to see a heart warming aid to the poor. @cryptopreneurbrainboss I will have to thank you for accepting to share those food items to the poor and needy in Port Harcourt but these people will not only need food during this hard time. Our old women and grand children need to be clean too, as i see alot of dirty children in the streets, I think they should also be a provision for Detergents, Soup, toothpaste and detols for them too. At least to wash and clean up their environments. My regards to Royse and Lauda also to @soldierswithlittlefaith your faith is very sufficient.

Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin
Dollar amount: $25
bank name: Eco bank Ng
Account Name: **sent**
Account number: **sent**

TxID: e46354183f98ebec73c261bf853e7e07487aaff40f221d2c8bacd057d84de1ff

Received the funds. Nice doing business with you

Can we ever get to the stars buddy it's too far. Although you made a great point but expecting bitcoin to get bullish just a few days after the halving is very early. We have to point at Next year 2021 just like 2016 halving and 2017 bullish run.

Is they any other way the Fbi can trace somebody for fraudulent act using blockchain without the help of the exchange?

They are lots of crypto paying games like cryptokitties where you will have to sell your cat for a certain amount of ethereum. They have their marketplace, where you will buy two cats to start with male and female, groom kitties, once they are grown you can list them on their marketplace for sell people will contact you regarding your cat some cats sold for 1 Eth like the gen 0 cats that is the parent cat. It's a nice feeling playing the game. they make use of dapper wallet to send and receive payment.