This got me thinking: an "average Recognition score" could be developed over time. Imagine all recognition scores for all users are stored once a week. At any given moment, the "average Recognition score" can be calculated by adding up all weekly scores per user, and dividing this by the number of weeks stored. The result will be a value that includes past recognition instead of only current recognition. This will help recognize users with long-term involvement.
A large shortcoming will be that it can't be done retroactively, but long term (in the far future) that effect will subside.

Exactly! Satoshi's whitepaper didn't make a distinction between miners and nodes. The whitepaper mentioned "CPU power", thereby assuming all nodes are searching for new blocks, and all nodes can earn the block reward when they find a block.
Unfortunately, this financial incentive disappeared when ASICs made CPU (and GPU) mining impossible. One could argue all miners should run a full node, but most of them use mining pools, which means only the mining pool itself needs to run a full node.

Yes. It has arrived, and it's now up to the receiver to hold up their end up the deal.

The word "Unspent" often confuses people. It's used by Blockchain.info (or Blockchain.com now) and means the funds are still in that address. It's completely normal.

Think of it this way: You give me $10, and I put it in my pocket. That means you spent it, but I haven't spent it yet, so it's unspent in my pocket.

There's a more obvious explanation:
Short summary in English: we Dutch speakers easily join threads in other languages (mainly English), so we don't have to stick to the Dutch board.

That would mean a new user who doesn't speak English can't post anywhere, and thus can't earn Merit either.

I count 45 too, but only 8 accounts involved:
     1.hyiper1988
     2.hfkd84_3Y
     3.DerFogger_BR
     4.alenena_666_LH
     5.frostwolf_f_rm
     6.AleksVln_EJ
     7.AlexaKoro_lx
     8.AbortMozga_XH

Let me quote this guy:

To test if it works for Newbies, just post this:

That's .mp4 instead of .gif.

I tried your other .gif too, it didn't work. Maybe it's caused by using imgur.com, try tinypic.com and see if it works.

I wouldn't mind reviewing a few applications if you have enough of them. I'll do what I usually do:

• Good posts receive Merit
• Insubstantial posts get reported for deletion
• Plagiarism gets reported for a ban

On top of that, for this thread, I'll give my opinion too

There are some Dutch speaking Merit sources, myself included. I just don't visit the Dutch board very often, so I'm not much good to them.

You're welcome to apply as a Merit source

Mitchell used to be Mod on the Dutch board, but that ended a couple of months ago. I don't know why.

Shitty (it's okay to type that word here) projects are not against the rules.

I barely visit the Dutch board, but I assume you mean the Dutch bounty/altcoin boards, right? Those have heavy spam all over the forum, not just in Dutch.

The Merit system works on all boards, what do you mean by introducing it for local boards?

The following table is based on the current highest bids on respectively Bittrex, Binance and Poloniex. Please let me know if I made a mistake.

Sun Oct 28 13:00:02 UTC 2018 (forum time) (Dutch DST ended)

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|	Altcoin	|	Price	|	Value	|
|	0.98450454 GBYTE	|	0.00744000 BTC	|	0.00732471 BTC	|
|	58.50783037 PIVX	|	0.00021745 BTC	|	0.01272252 BTC	|
|	11465.51724138 SC	|	0.00000107 BTC	|	0.01226810 BTC	|
|	212.23404255 XRP	|	0.00007071 BTC	|	0.01500706 BTC	|
|	56.46348000 NANO	|	0.00030900 BTC	|	0.01744721 BTC	|
|	3.63636000 NEO	|	0.00249100 BTC	|	0.00905817 BTC	|
|	79.73019000 WAN	|	0.00015740 BTC	|	0.01254953 BTC	|
|	83.63362106 NMC	|	0.00009144 BTC	|	0.00764745 BTC	|
|	2446.07843137 DGB	|	0.00000346 BTC	|	0.00846343 BTC	|
|	0.67222271 XMR	|	0.01590754 BTC	|	0.01069340 BTC	|
|	Total	|		|	0.11318158 BTC	|

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Mon Oct 29 13:00:01 UTC 2018 (forum time)

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|	Altcoin	|	Price	|	Value	|
|	0.98450454 GBYTE	|	0.00743005 BTC	|	0.00731491 BTC	|
|	58.50783037 PIVX	|	0.00020503 BTC	|	0.01199586 BTC	|
|	11465.51724138 SC	|	0.00000106 BTC	|	0.01215344 BTC	|
|	212.23404255 XRP	|	0.00006935 BTC	|	0.01471843 BTC	|
|	56.46348000 NANO	|	0.00029420 BTC	|	0.01661155 BTC	|
|	3.63636000 NEO	|	0.00241100 BTC	|	0.00876726 BTC	|
|	79.73019000 WAN	|	0.00015850 BTC	|	0.01263723 BTC	|
|	83.63362106 NMC	|	0.00008929 BTC	|	0.00746764 BTC	|
|	2446.07843137 DGB	|	0.00000338 BTC	|	0.00826774 BTC	|
|	0.67222271 XMR	|	0.01592201 BTC	|	0.01070313 BTC	|
|	Total	|		|	0.11063719 BTC	|

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Tue Oct 30 13:00:02 UTC 2018 (forum time)

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|	Altcoin	|	Price	|	Value	|
|	0.98450454 GBYTE	|	0.00745315 BTC	|	0.00733766 BTC	|
|	58.50783037 PIVX	|	0.00020720 BTC	|	0.01212282 BTC	|
|	11465.51724138 SC	|	0.00000108 BTC	|	0.01238275 BTC	|
|	212.23404255 XRP	|	0.00007062 BTC	|	0.01498796 BTC	|
|	56.46348000 NANO	|	0.00029920 BTC	|	0.01689387 BTC	|
|	3.63636000 NEO	|	0.00243000 BTC	|	0.00883635 BTC	|
|	79.73019000 WAN	|	0.00016790 BTC	|	0.01338669 BTC	|
|	83.63362106 NMC	|	0.00008987 BTC	|	0.00751615 BTC	|
|	2446.07843137 DGB	|	0.00000333 BTC	|	0.00814544 BTC	|
|	0.67222271 XMR	|	0.01615713 BTC	|	0.01086118 BTC	|
|	Total	|		|	0.11247087 BTC	|

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Wed Oct 31 13:00:01 UTC 2018 (forum time)

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|	Altcoin	|	Price	|	Value	|
|	0.98450454 GBYTE	|	0.00738895 BTC	|	0.00727445 BTC	|
|	58.50783037 PIVX	|	0.00022600 BTC	|	0.01322276 BTC	|
|	11465.51724138 SC	|	0.00000103 BTC	|	0.01180948 BTC	|
|	212.23404255 XRP	|	0.00007039 BTC	|	0.01493915 BTC	|
|	56.46348000 NANO	|	0.00032400 BTC	|	0.01829416 BTC	|
|	3.63636000 NEO	|	0.00241100 BTC	|	0.00876726 BTC	|
|	79.73019000 WAN	|	0.00017340 BTC	|	0.01382521 BTC	|
|	83.63362106 NMC	|	0.00008935 BTC	|	0.00747266 BTC	|
|	2446.07843137 DGB	|	0.00000326 BTC	|	0.00797421 BTC	|
|	0.67222271 XMR	|	0.01651000 BTC	|	0.01109839 BTC	|
|	Total	|		|	0.11467773 BTC	|

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Thu Nov  1 13:00:02 UTC 2018 (forum time)

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|	Altcoin	|	Price	|	Value	|
|	0.98450454 GBYTE	|	0.00746501 BTC	|	0.00734933 BTC	|
|	58.50783037 PIVX	|	0.00022355 BTC	|	0.01307942 BTC	|
|	11465.51724138 SC	|	0.00000102 BTC	|	0.01169482 BTC	|
|	212.23404255 XRP	|	0.00007106 BTC	|	0.01508135 BTC	|
|	56.46348000 NANO	|	0.00030740 BTC	|	0.01735687 BTC	|
|	3.63636000 NEO	|	0.00242400 BTC	|	0.00881453 BTC	|
|	79.73019000 WAN	|	0.00017560 BTC	|	0.01400062 BTC	|
|	83.63362106 NMC	|	0.00008705 BTC	|	0.00728030 BTC	|
|	2446.07843137 DGB	|	0.00000331 BTC	|	0.00809651 BTC	|
|	0.67222271 XMR	|	0.01628522 BTC	|	0.01094729 BTC	|
|	Total	|		|	0.11370104 BTC	|

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Fri Nov  2 13:00:02 UTC 2018 (forum time)

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|	Altcoin	|	Price	|	Value	|
|	0.98450454 GBYTE	|	0.00746415 BTC	|	0.00734848 BTC	|
|	58.50783037 PIVX	|	0.00021500 BTC	|	0.01257918 BTC	|
|	11465.51724138 SC	|	0.00000102 BTC	|	0.01169482 BTC	|
|	212.23404255 XRP	|	0.00007206 BTC	|	0.01529358 BTC	|
|	56.46348000 NANO	|	0.00030760 BTC	|	0.01736816 BTC	|
|	3.63636000 NEO	|	0.00250100 BTC	|	0.00909453 BTC	|
|	79.73019000 WAN	|	0.00016860 BTC	|	0.01344251 BTC	|
|	83.63362106 NMC	|	0.00008552 BTC	|	0.00715234 BTC	|
|	2446.07843137 DGB	|	0.00000330 BTC	|	0.00807205 BTC	|
|	0.67222271 XMR	|	0.01658605 BTC	|	0.01114951 BTC	|
|	Total	|		|	0.11319516 BTC	|

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Sat Nov  3 13:00:02 UTC 2018 (forum time)

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|	Altcoin	|	Price	|	Value	|
|	0.98450454 GBYTE	|	0.00720230 BTC	|	0.00709069 BTC	|
|	58.50783037 PIVX	|	0.00021455 BTC	|	0.01255285 BTC	|
|	11465.51724138 SC	|	0.00000102 BTC	|	0.01169482 BTC	|
|	212.23404255 XRP	|	0.00007180 BTC	|	0.01523840 BTC	|
|	56.46348000 NANO	|	0.00030350 BTC	|	0.01713666 BTC	|
|	3.63636000 NEO	|	0.00250400 BTC	|	0.00910544 BTC	|
|	79.73019000 WAN	|	0.00016430 BTC	|	0.01309967 BTC	|
|	83.63362106 NMC	|	0.00008301 BTC	|	0.00694242 BTC	|
|	2446.07843137 DGB	|	0.00000341 BTC	|	0.00834112 BTC	|
|	0.67222271 XMR	|	0.01651500 BTC	|	0.01110175 BTC	|
|	Total	|		|	0.11230382 BTC	|

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You've tagged countless (I'm lazy this morning ) shitposters, they'll all recognize you

I don't recognize abhiseshakana either. He may be recognized in his local board, but not globally.

That would temporarily raise old users' Recognition Rank. Long-term, the airdropped amount shouldn't be a big part of the total Merit anymore (although at the rate Merit is currently being distributed, that's going to take a very long time).

Vod initially included all Merit, but changed is as previous contributions were already included in a higher Activity Rank:

Agreed, but it's not realistic. Old posts are read much less often than new posts, which makes it much less likely to receive Merit. I made this thread: Percentage of Merit received on old posts, deleted posts, and average per post, but since it requires scraping all posts for each user, I can only check selected users. I'll add your stats here.

I wasn't around when he was still active. What's stopping you from leaving Gavin Andresen trust now?

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User OgNasty (full history)

• Received a total of 391 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 130 Merit (33.24%) for 13 (0.20%) of 6226 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0208 Merit per old post).
• Received 254 Merit (64.96%) for 93 (8.01%) of 1161 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2187 Merit per new post).
• Received 7 Merit (1.79%) for posts that are now deleted.

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All valid points. I can't answer it though.

I have no experience using a Ledger, so can't tell you the details. If it's possible to select which inputs to use, you can manually select just the small amounts. There's no need to put all your funds in one output, you can keep several larger ones in different addresses.

It's just a normal transaction; it takes as long as any other transaction.
However, if you're not in a rush, it's worth using as low a fee as possible. It can take longer to confirm, but you pay less fees.

Just make sure to double check the address you're sending to, but that's a warning that applies to all transactions you make.

It's not dust in the sense that it still has/had value at high fees. Last December, fees went up to 600-800 sat/byte (and shortly even higher). If/when fees go up that high again, each input would cost you 0.001BTC or more in fees, which is 10% or more.
Let's say you have 10 small inputs of 0.01BTC. If you consolidate them now, you can pay 1 sat/byte and get around 0.09998BTC as output. If fees go up to the peak again, you would get less than 0.09BTC. That's why it's so important to consolidate your funds while fees are low, it makes it cheaper to use your funds later on.

How are you storing your Bitcoin?

• If you add small amounts to your wallet each day, you should read Fees are low, use this opportunity to Consolidate your small inputs!. Not so long ago, when fees were high, I've seen people who literally had worthless Bitcoin dust, despite it being worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.
• If you're keeping your coins at an exchange, you should get yourself a more secure storage method.

It's virtually impossible to time the market. I regret not selling most of my alts, only a few went up long-term. I still hold on to them, and sell a small amount once it goes up to a price I like.

I had another thought: one of the reasons the SEC didn't approve a Bitcoin ETF yet, was because of Bitcoin's volatility. What if "someone" is trying to reduce volatility until the SEC approves a Bitcoin ETF?

That makes sense too. I'm not buying, I'm not selling.

Then answer this:
You're the one making claims, prove it. If not: we've seen it all many, many times before.

You got that right!

You can just use any of the unused fields for it, but I prefer just leaving 2-way neutral trust.

I remember seeing a post from theymos saying exactly this. I can't find it back, but from what I remember he says he prefers someone to express his opinion from an alt-account instead of not daring to speak his mind.

As mentioned above, there can be legit reasons for wanting anonymity. As long as you're not untrustworthy on any of these accounts, I wouldn't call it illegitimate. Many users for instance left positive trust to their alts, which usually leads to red trust once discovered.

Until now, I haven't used LoyceMobile on anything else than my own phone, but I never trust phones. It's much easier to access than my home computer.

Although that's in general true for working on any computer system, I don't agree when it comes to forum use. Mods operate as Mods all the time too.

You still haven't left 2-way neutral trust. That's much easier to find later on than (old) posts.