You have one of the better post histories I’ve read recently. You are actively engaged in conversations, helpful, knowledgeable and support bitcoin. My opinion is that you should keep doing what you’re currently doing. 20 merit awarded.
Uh Oh, did you tap the "back" button. 20 became 40.  Good thing you have lots to go around, and that you like their posts. Thanks again for doing this you did help me start on my way, and I carried forth and got my "Senior Member" status. Yeah, I blew it. LOL Random bonus! |
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You have one of the better post histories I’ve read recently. You are actively engaged in conversations, helpful, knowledgeable and support bitcoin. My opinion is that you should keep doing what you’re currently doing. 20 merit awarded.
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Bruno, a couple of on topic posts of mine have been deleted in different threads where I called Brock Pierce a pedophile. Do you think the forum is protecting this fucking pervert for some reason?
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You will be working for 20 merit points. Good luck to all. I will announce when they’re gone and lock the thread.
Wow this is half a year old thread! But hey, if it's not locked yet then I guess I'm not too late, right? I'd like to take you up on your very generous offer @QuestionAuthority. I'm following the trend about a year now, but I created an account here after the merit system was implemented, therefore I worked my way from 0 merits to 29. The next step looks very distant and lately I feel like people have stoped being generous with their merits, maybe the users started to dry up? So as you requested, here are some of my latest posts BUT it's not all about BTC, I'm supporting BTC and 4 altcoins, I hope I'm not out of the criteria. A bit indirect, but the last sentence of the post kinda proves my plans to save up on BTC (and altcoins) in order to use them for purchases in the future, but I repeat it's indirect so moving on...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=825087.msg38048488#msg38048488My bullish analysis for BTC on 22/6 for a final price crash (and then bullrun) to bellow 6.000$ which was reached 7 days later and until now it seems to be the bottom.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg40643748#msg40643748Similar to the above with a humorous image (but written in greek),
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3288558.msg39870249#msg39870249Then some general, not-BTC-specific posts, Assisting people who might have been infected by a specific "fake" wallet by pointing them to a removal tool,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1649695.msg42293906#msg42293906Guiding someone to the information he was looking for,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1649695.msg42282866#msg42282866Minor technical advice to someone looking to build an FPGA mining rig,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3459858.msg42270670#msg42270670I reported to the devs of an exchange a bug they had on their front page, we then took the conversation off the forums where I provided them with chrome's console log files, but whatever,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1921439.msg42231207#msg42231207Nothing special, just informing a new users about a coin they were intrested in,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3238497.msg42018996#msg42018996I just remembered you asked for our posts that shows we're intrested in learning, so I guess posts like this,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3688965.msg42016883#msg42016883My personal tips about how to avoid scum projects,https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2353282.msg38499980#msg38499980You actually don’t qualify but are very helpful and participating so I’m going to give you a smaller reward. 10 merit awarded. |
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Very good thread OP. I still have mixed feelings about the merit system. I almost used up all my Smerit and sometimes I see very worthy posts which I would like to reward with merit but then end up only giving 1 or 2 points for the above mentioned scarcity. I think the drawback is also a tendency towards circlejerking/centralization. One thing I would suggest to consider implementing is a demerit system where unworthy merited posts (e.g. circlejerking, merit sales, loopholes, etc) can be downmerited by users sending their sdemerit points. Just my 2 sats. EDIT One good example of a thread where utterly useless and silly posts get merited in a shitfest of favours is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.0;topicseen90% of the posts are completely off topic or shitposts. A demerit system has its own problems. That would create gangs of like minded people that would crush individual thought. |
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You easily qualify, 20 merit awarded. |
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I found this authentic picture of god creating the universe. The picture was drawn on papyrus and found under a huge pile of camel shit inside a cave under Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi house (in between the rocket launchers and the Al-Qaeda collectible trading cards).  |
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Ok, this topic really looks creepy, anyway giving merits to potentially good users are a very kind on this forum highest people really need this support. Have seen that you have given the pretty large amount of merits to a lot of users. I will request you to kindly slow down your limits on each user so you can at least help the system so each user can just get encouraged and not get greedy over it. I mean we all want users to learn something and share it with all the other users but you can not just give 50 points to a single post. I mean it does attract everyone and I think you should give a highest like 5 merits to each user. I am not ordering I am just advising. no offense.
That’s easy to say when you don’t need the merit. Steamtyme is right, if you read the OP and some of the thread you’ll know what I’m doing. |
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She can’t allow or disallow it because god is a figment of your imagination. She can’t destroy me because she only lives in the mind of you, David Koresh, and millions of other nutters.
She has turned someone into rock salt, caused a flood that killed almost everyone, killed children, killed women, created plagues that terrorized her creations and generally shown contempt for something she created.
All blabber talk^^^. Why? Because you can't show any proof against the combined sciences of cause and effect, entropy, and complexity.  Why don’t you kill yourself so you can go see her faster and at the same time save the world from having one of you types around? |
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You might want to send an email to the IRS or the NSA. I hear they have some pretty good analysis tools they may let you borrow. LOL https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-25/bitcoin-really-anonymous-irs-moves-track-cryptocurrencies-new-chain-analysis-toolshttps://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-20/nsa-has-been-tracking-bitcoin-users-2013-new-snowden-documents-revealSpecifically, the NSA targeted Bitcoin through MONKEYROCKET, a sub-program of OAKSTAR, which tapped network equipment to gather data from the Middle East, Europe, South America, and Asia, according to classified descriptions. As of spring 2013, MONKEYROCKET was “the sole source of SIGDEV for the BITCOIN Targets,” the March 29, 2013 NSA report stated, using the term for signals intelligence development, “SIGDEV,” to indicate the agency had no other way to surveil Bitcoin users. The data obtained through MONKEYROCKET is described in the documents as “full take” surveillance, meaning the entirety of data passing through a network was examined and at least some entire data sessions were stored for later analysis. Civil libertarians and security researchers have long been concerned that otherwise inadmissible intelligence from the agency is used to build cases against Americans though a process known as “parallel construction”: building a criminal case using admissible evidence obtained by first consulting other evidence, which is kept secret, out of courtrooms and the public eye. An earlier investigation by The Intercept, drawing on court records and documents from Snowden, found evidence the NSA’s most controversial forms of surveillance, which involve warrantless bulk monitoring of emails and fiber optic cables, may have been used in court via parallel construction.
The timing of the Intercept's report is also interesting. We reported last year that a Russian national named Alexander Vinnick, the alleged mastermind of a $4 billion bitcoin-based money laundering operation, had been arrested following an indictment that levied 21 counts of money laundering and other crimes that could land him in a US prison for up to 55 years. And given the justice system's treatment of other cryptocurrency-related criminals, the notion that Vinnick might spend multiple decades in prison is not beyond the realm of possibility. Of course, if the case against him is built on illegally obtained evidence, one would think his defense team would want to know. |
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aundroid I respect your opinion and hope you do well on the forum. Based on your post above I suspect you will. I might tend to agree with you if I believed the “startup companies” you mention were something more than a kid in his basement using one of the below sites to make a worthless scamcoin that will further degrade the reputation of bitcoin. You need nothing but the desire to rip people off to create a coin or token today. These new “coin devs” know nothing about cryptography, nothing about coding, nothing about business, and (if they’re 15 yo like I suspect most of them are) nothing about life in general. https://coinlaunch.market/coincreator/?bing=1https://www.cryptocoincreator.comhttps://lifehacker.com/how-to-create-your-own-cryptocurrency-1825337462https://build-a-co.inhttps://cryptonotestarter.orgSignature campaigns and bounty hunting are not a good thing for the forum. They bring kids here that have absolutely no ability to contribute (because they know nothing) and they taint the opinions about cryptocurrency for all of the people that are ripped off. Those people worldwide will forever believe cryptocurrency is nothing but a scam. I would rather see this forum get one really good post a day rather than a thousand worthless bounty hunter posts from impoverished children that know nothing about life. |
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I'll give this a shot I guess. My history in bitcoin revolves around casinos/ gambling so I don't know if you consider that a good thing or a bad thing. I mean the dark web and gambling did help bitcoin become what it is today. I'm a bitcoin supporter but lately a lot of online casinos force me to use eth or ltc sometimes so I'm kind of stuck with that problem.
Yes I do support eth heavily so I don't know if you consider me a traitor. Right now eth isn't really considered an alt, the 2 main cryptos are btc/ eth.
You are a seriously diseased gambler. LOL I’ve seen your support of ETH and it does seem to revolve around gambling. Is there any function of ETH that you think cannot be solved by bitcoin? What is making you support ETH? Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Vitalik Buterin. He used to be Mr. Bitcoin back in the day. He wanted to be able to have single handed control and bitcoins open source hierarchy wouldn’t let him do that. He’s definitely a very bright kid and bitcoin would be better off without him as a competitor. I didn't mean I support eth personally. What I meant is that by using it myself, I'm actually supporting it. When I make payments online some people will only take ethereum now. The whole rollback with the Eth Classic situation really turned me off ethereum. Eth has such a large attack surface, hundreds of millions of dollars have been lost to faulty code. All of these "ICOs" (99 percent are scams) are on ethereum so it's not like its going away anytime soon. I think most of these token projects are pointless and it's really diluting the crypto space. People are putting shit on blockchain that has no reason to be there except for them to make money off the hype. I understand and obviously you are a bitcoin supporter. I see 20 posts that could have received one merit if the right person saw them. 20 merit awarded. |
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Really nice what you are doing. I dont qualify for this, but I will definitely come back once I become a full member. I have been in a lot of forums and I have never seen this merit system. It is kinda strange. I get why bitcointalk is doing it, and it seems fair. But I have noticed it is way too complicated to earn merits. Most people dont even care about it, so they see a good post and "forget" to give some merit. I have been even told "thanks a lot", but no merit Anyway, I hope more people like you would do this kind of "merit giveaway" Just enjoy being here and discussing this ground breaking technology. Earn your money somewhere else and you don’t need merit anyway. Don’t fool yourself into thinking there’s anything magical about being Legendary. Some of the biggest idiots on this forum are Legendary rank. Most of the real badassed scammers, crooks and thieves are Legendary and date back to the very first days of this forums inception. |
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I understand you’re a student trying to make extra money and I can appreciate that. There are lots of online ways to make money besides this forum. Those Twitter and Facebook campaigns are hurting bitcoin because they are making those companies stop allowing crypto advertising. I see that you have tried to be helpful (and were rewarded for it). That’s a good thing and you should continue that effort. It makes you feel good to know you’ve helped someone even if there is no immediate reward. Unfortunately, in your case the bad outweighs the good by several magnitudes. I’m sorry but I can’t help you. Thanks for stopping by. |
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I'll give this a shot I guess. My history in bitcoin revolves around casinos/ gambling so I don't know if you consider that a good thing or a bad thing. I mean the dark web and gambling did help bitcoin become what it is today. I'm a bitcoin supporter but lately a lot of online casinos force me to use eth or ltc sometimes so I'm kind of stuck with that problem.
Yes I do support eth heavily so I don't know if you consider me a traitor. Right now eth isn't really considered an alt, the 2 main cryptos are btc/ eth.
You are a seriously diseased gambler. LOL I’ve seen your support of ETH and it does seem to revolve around gambling. Is there any function of ETH that you think cannot be solved by bitcoin? What is making you support ETH? Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Vitalik Buterin. He used to be Mr. Bitcoin back in the day. He wanted to be able to have single handed control and bitcoins open source hierarchy wouldn’t let him do that. He’s definitely a very bright kid and bitcoin would be better off without him as a competitor. |
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I don't qualify for your rules, but I like what you are doing. You are helping to move around the merit points because you can and you have set forth a criteria. That would have been a better way for them to roll out the system. I hope more people like you launch these types of threads. I'm a BTC guy. Not 100% but it's really the only safe long play, as time has shown us all.
I gave you 5 to get you started. Your post history shows you’re a btc guy. Come back in six months and let me evaluate you again and maybe you’ll get more. |
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It’s not just one thing that caused the old timers to leave.
I would like to see a percentage study of why people left here. That would tell us the main reason and perhaps that one thing could be changed. Unfortunately, there is no one left around that does that sort of study anymore.
People that left the forum because of:
Spammers like sig campaign members posting one liners (discussion quality) =?%
Disagreements over forum operations like Goat =?%
Banned over disagreements with forum staff like MnW or MPOE-PR =?%
Respected members turned scammers like DnT or TradeFortress =?%
Respected members that lost credibly like Andresen or Zhou Tong =?%
The Silk Road scandal because of fear over their outspoken drug connection like MysteryMiner =?%
Were arrested and discredited like Shrem, Magical Tux and most of the early mining equipment manufacturers =?%
People who closed up businesses that ran their course like slush, Tycho or Jered Kenna =?%
Believe it’s more respectable to distance themselves from this forum like Tony Gallippi =?%
People that lost faith in bitcoin because their coins were scammed away from them = ?%
People that sold all for a massive profit and left =?%
Intellectuals that are beyond being stimulated by this forum like organofcorti or Meni Rosenfeld =?%
People with personal lives that take them away for years but end up returning like that johnthedong guy =?%
These are all the possible reasons that could have made oldies leave the forum. I liked the way you mentioned names with reasons. You must have been very active back then. The percentages doesn't matter much, but what matters is that they are no more here to guide us or inspire new people. Guess that's how the world runs. People find new opportunities and they move on. I don’t know if it’s ALL of the reasons but it is all of the reasons I witnessed. I was very active back then for the only reason that I didn’t mention - cryptocurrency was trendy, edgy, cool and it was fun watching it unfold. At the expense of seeming like one of those “old guys” romanticizing their youth, I’ll tell you the feeling bitcoin had in the beginning. I went to one of the very first bitcoin conventions held at the Hotel Kabuki off Fillmore (San Francisco’s Japantown district). I lived down the street at the time so it wasn’t hard to get there. I’m a horrible gate crasher (have been ever since I saw Led Zepplin play for free in Oakland in 1977 and began wondering why I ever paid). So, as a gate crasher I just walked in to the convention and shook hands with Tony Gallippi, Jered Kenna, and a host of the other power players of the early days. The excitement and energy in every conference room was electric and contagious. You literally felt like you were watching a historical moment that rivaled any in history. I’ve been to many conventions since and none were as awe inspiring and magical as that one. The next closest one was probably at the San Jose convention center where I met Erik Voorhees for the first time. The trendy, edgy, cool has left bitcoin at this point and those exciting energy filled people left at the same time. To it’s current users, bitcoin is no longer this world changing creation poised to destroy the financial stranglehold of big banking and government. Corporations, venture capitalists, profiteers, scammers, and all sorts of creatures of the night have taken over bitcoin. That initial energy has given way to business and profit. It’s been as sad to watch as it was to watch egalitarian hippies turn into well paid yuppies. I suppose it’s the natural progression that was always destined to happen. |
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Hello, for the first time I read the title of your topic me directly interested to read more detail, because I want to raise my rating, but after I read all,i have so doubt that you will help me because almost the entire content of posts I discuss altcoin and you are right that I have not understand bitcoin to much, I only have to know that here is pleasure place for WORK and than make the money,
You’re worse than just someone that supports altcoins over bitcoin. You are a bounty hunter that is here to destroy any semblance of normal discourse on this forum. |
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yep, China is the country who hold the majority of bitcoin available world wide! this firs big farms were born in China and USA!
so I'm not surprised to know that Chinese can control the price of Bitcoin!
China maybe is also going to rule the world in only a decade...
You may be right. The Chinese yuan is soon going to become the worlds next reserve currency. China FTW! Doubtful. It is obvious that the IMF is grooming the Special Drawing Right (SDR) as the new world reserve currency. There is also a quite compelling argument that Chinas massive purchases of Gold is in order to pull their gold_reserve/GDP ratio in line with that of other major currencies, such that the Yuan can be included in the basket that makes up the SDR. The G7/G20 act like the insiders are fully invested in these plans. Will crypto waylay their plans? Probably not in the near term. We can hope for the longer term. Perhaps. As long as someone bumps murrica out of the lead I don’t care. No one will ever accept SDR as the worlds reserve currency but the Yuan has been third in line in the SDR since 2015. |
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The Merit system is so unfair, Now I need to earn 149 Merits just to level up, But there are very people who give Merits. I am still hoping that this Merit system will change.
You came to this forum from the Philippines to make money because one of your friends told you about it. You’re not a coder so you can’t help with the dev&tech side of it, you’re not an investor or a startup business operator because you came here to make money, you’re not here to discuss your intrigue over this groundbreaking technology. The merit system is unfair because you’re not here for the right reasons. |
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