See:

BAKKT is delayed until January 24, 2019:

It's probably the other way around for most people: if it skyrockets, their financial plans are (positively) affected. It's one of the reasons to HODL.

Cool story. Please tell me: how many Bitcoins did you buy today?

I'm buying 100 Bitcoins at $200 if it comes to that. I regret I didn't do it 3 years ago, so if I get another chance, I'll take it.
Until then: I'm neither buying nor selling.

Added. Although I like theymos' original post better, you do link there and yours is probably more Newbie-friendly.
This reminded me an explanation of the DT-system is also needed.

Added, with a "Advanced" note.

Added.

The older thread didn't have HODL and FOMO on the first page, and is too long to read through, so I've added "more terminology".

And yet, I think OP is on to something Let me suggest the opposite: create a child board for large transactions. It's always Newbies who post crap like this:
[WTB] 1000BTC in cash, +3% gross
Selling 100.000 BTC 6% Discount
Buying 10k BTC
I can't imagine they aren't scammers, and I think any of them has a very good day if they manage to scam $200 "as a test". So far, I've never seen any evidence of owning any Bitcoins from any of the large "sellers".
Moving them to a dedicated board, kinda like Investor-based games, could clean up the rest of the board.

Here's yours:

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User mole0815 (full history)

• Received a total of 431 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 2 Merit (0.46%) for 2 (2.15%) of 93 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0215 Merit per old post).
• Received 429 Merit (99.53%) for 162 (9.92%) of 1632 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2628 Merit per new post).
• Received 0 Merit for posts that are now deleted.

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If you have the time, this could be interesting to do from the start of the Merit system. It's a bit of a pain to find the number of posts in a week, but it can be done by trial and error: Just select a spam thread on the Bounty board, browse to the date you're looking for, and you're likely to find a post close to the time needed. The post number gives you the number of posts per week, if you correct for the exact time of the post you'll get an accurate number of posts per week.

Not only that, it could be a long-term plan. I created Why is Bitcoin so stable in price after a big drop? back in September:
This stable price more or less continued until a few days ago, when the big price drop started.

I was reminded about this thread. The recent sharp price drop happened after a long period of relative price stability. This still supports my theory of someone waiting for full order books to cash in big.

There's Chopcoin, a Bitcoin-minded Agar clone. I haven't played there in a long time though, as it was always against the same few users, and teaming (which isn't allowed) made winning very difficult.
See chopcoin.io - The new interactive Bitcoin game! in Gambling or more recently [ANN] Chopcoin.io - Interactive Bitcoin Faucet Game in Micro Earnings.
I'm not sure what the current state of the game is, it complains about an adblocker

I assume you choose the default address by yourself, right? In that case it should be in one of your wallets.
If someone else owns the address, you've lost your coins.

Update:
I'm starting to be curious how much of this was the result of the new Merit requirements, and how much of the post reduction is caused by the crypto price drops. But I can't easily distinguish between posts made by higher or lower ranks, so I can't really answer my curiousity.

Thread archived, message verified and staked address archived.

We can't know, and that's one of many reasons why account sales are discouraged.

I'll leave red trust on the account, which I'll remove when either the real owner signs a message to prove he regained control, or when the account buyer can sign a message proving he bought the private key to the staked address with the account.
Reminder to myself: when removing the red trust, I'll leave neutral trust as a reminder the account was temporarily under someone else's control.

That does explain the different values for "Merit Received" indeed. As a more permanent solution, can you (@Vod) instantly parse each profile each time it gets merited?

I think d_eddie is spot on today, and my prediction is pretty close now. I haven't been able to find an official lowest (and I don't use Bitstamp), but financialcontent.com puts it at 5150 now.

Update: it seems to have completely skipped me But let's stay positive: my prediction was pretty accurate until now, based on this:

Now let's hope the rest of my prediction becomes a reality too:

Theymos said not to worry too much about merit abuse. This is a small group posting on boards I can't read, so I can't judge whether or not the Merit was deserved (probably not though).
They don't have paid signatures (yet), if they start spamming in English, report the posts (or check for plagiarism and get them banned).

I think thousands of users are abusing Merit, but in the end, it's only a small amount and at some point abusers will run out of sMerit. Meanwhile, the Merit requirements have stopped tens of thousands of spammers from ranking up, and reduced the spam on the forum.
It's certainly not something I'll tag people for, but if you really feel like it, you can of course post new feedback by yourself.

In crypto, the standard method of proving ownership of an address is by signing a message. Making a payment doesn't prove ownership, as you could ask someone to pay for you.
There are several threads on coinpot.co, for instance coinpot.co scam or not and [Unofficial] Coinpot.co - new microwallet. This post stands out:
I'm not sure whether or not they're legit, but I'm sure asking to send a payment to withdraw is weird.

It looks promising, but I'm not skilled enough to check the source code and don't dare test it on my own system. Therefore I'm just posting here for updates on reviews, so I can add your link to [overview] Recover Bitcoin from any old storage format.