Number of active users went down a lot compared to the February 2022 when I first started tracking that. To be more precise, in February there were 1396 active members across local board that is ~25% more than the last month.


Yep, hard to change it the trend but maybe decrease could be slowed down though, with adding few more local boards.


I hope that you enjoyed while it lasted because no when King is back you will have to satisfy with the 2nd place.  

Well I am only checking the numbers and not the post quality there/amount of spam and that also may be one of the criteria for getting your own local board.


I see local boards an important part of the forum, even more so now than before when bitcoin is spreading all over the world and not all people are capable or willing to communicate in English. On top of that, each country has its own crypto related issues and where better to discuss it other than your own local board.


Hah I am not so sure that he even saw my post, let alone considering it. Regarding the wife thing, thank you for the offer but I am barely managing one wife, let alone two. 

I did few direct P2P trades with people I never met before and so far I had no issues whatsoever. You have to use common sense though and be careful when arranging trade with someone you never met in your life so of course you won't meet in some dodgy place in the middle of the night but instead at some public place like a bar or casino (this is a good place to do the trade as you can check whether bills are counterfeit). There are of course some other dangers of doing IRL P2P trades like $5 wrench attacks but as I said, if you are careful and take some precaution you should be OK.

Just to add that I live in country with one of the lowest crime rates in the world, so it may be safer to do P2P trades here than someplace else.

He may have stepped down, but he is probably still controlling thing from behind. Regarding Chapter 11, few days ago he changed the tune and now he says that it was a mistake to listen others telling him to declare bankruptcy and if he hasn't, people would get their money out of FTX in a month.  

That's just part of the Twitter thread as he first spelled "what happened" (each comment 1 letter for some reason) and then  explained in short his side of the story and how he plans to make it right by the customers and other usual bullshit. Thread is here by the way https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591989554881658880

No matter what's actually going on, anyone that still has many on any exchange/platform after everything that has happened is asking for trouble.



Holy fuck, he is talking about SBF like he is God's gift to crypto community and not just another scammer that mismanaged other's people money.

I guess it's much easier for ego to think about him that way, instead admitting to yourself and the others that as an experienced entrepreneur you failed to see who are you dealing with.

Keep up with those numbers and I am sure that you will eventually get what you deserve. Thinking of it, I don't remember your local board request topic in being bumped lately so maybe you (Nigerians) should be more active in that regard.


Hah, I still do slack and it takes me 3-4 days to finish this overview. Its just that in the last few months I have a little bit less hectic schedule (+season of swimming is over for me) so I am publishing these things in the reasonable time frame.


Yep, I expect this month's numbers to be higher than the last ones, mainly thanks to the shitshow caused by FTX downfall. Regarding Return of the King, he was sorely missed in the last few months and with him at the helm I think that we can climb up the ladder at least 1 spot, maybe even 2. 


At least some use of him. But I think that our guys managed to out troll him as he went back under the bridge he crawled from. At least until he resurfaces with yet another alt account.

Well there's still a week until Black Friday so there is some time for a discount.


Tbh, that's a small price to pay to sleep much better knowing that your bitcoin is safe and I can't understand how someone who has at least $1k+ doesn't want to buy one (and I know few of those). Hell, even a decent wallet where you keep your money ID/bank cards etc is not much cheaper, if any.


Few weeks ago Trezor had 15% discount for their One and T models that ended 10 days ago so who knows, maybe this year's Black Friday deal will be on the last year's levels. In the end, who cares about 15-20 dollars more or less if you plan to store thousands of dollars worth of crypto. As a matter of fact, I bought mine when I had only few hundreds of dollars crypto left as I lost 90% of my bitcoin due phishing. Lesson learned the hard way.


Biggest "issue" is that in a 2-3 years the whole new generation of people will enter crypto and for them all that has happened with FTX and other platforms will be a distant memory. And since people often don't learn from their own mistakes let alone others, they are bound to do them.

One of the common mistakes that newbies make is that they think if they can't invest big in bitcoin that it's not worth it (I made similar mistake back in 2013) to invest at all, or even worse to invest in altcoins instead as they falsely think that it will bring them bigger ROI.

My advice is to simply invest what you are comfortable with, but I would suggest for beginners to start with smaller amount first to get yourself familiar with bitcoin, how to properly store it etc and then when basics are covered move to bigger amounts. Remember, every satoshi counts.

The only one triggered here seems to be you. Especially when you use that infantile stuff like "new generations" while having no idea how old person that you are addressing to is and trying to discredit it that way.


I honestly don't care whether person I left feedback will be annoyed with it as its up to him to be annoyed or not.


Very bad analogy and its not what has happened here. The very first reply in this topic was me telling OP to come back with evidence as change of email/pass is not enough, and I only left neutral when I had time to check post history. Btw, have you even bothered to check his post history back in 2014/2015 and compared it to posts written during 2017? Either account changed owner, or more people are using this account as I don't see the other explanation for such a sudden change.

Exactly one month passed from the last monthly overview  so its time for the new one. Charts and table are made with the help of @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space.

Reminder that communities marked with * (Pakistan, Nigerian, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards yet, with the hope that will change soon.

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Post activity per local board during October 2022

After having decreased amount of posts written across local board during September, last month was a little bit better with 14084 posts (up from 13857). Increase is very little, but considering how situation is going on lately in terms of activity, i will take it as a positive sign.

No changes among the most active local boards as Russian remained the most active one, followed by Turkish, German and Portuguese and pretty much the same boards occupy the lower activity part of the chart. It is good to see that 2/3 (Nigerian and Pakistan) communities without local board are showing strong numbers month after month and are consistently in the top half.

@Cyrus, maybe its time to consider giving these guys their own local boards? Or at least give to one of them and see how it goes.

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Number of active members per local board during October 2022

After last month's decrease, this time number of active members went down significantly: from 1185 in September to 1101 in October. So far I don't remember having such big decrease on the monthly basis (percentage wise) but since I count all those who wrote at least 1 post during month period, I guess that should be kinda expected.

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Merit shared per local board during October 2022

Slight increase in post activity unfortunately wasn't followed by the merit shared increase as during 10/2022 5030 merits were shared which is almost 10% decrease from September's numbers (5487).That decrease is relatively evenly shared among majority of boards with no drastic decrease except French board that had 40$ decrease  while few other boards had noticeable decrease like German (- 28 %) and Portuguese (-27 %).

When it comes to the biggest gainers, two boards stands out: Arabic board with 145% and Croatian with 96 % increase (the latter one is more about the poor September results).

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Merit senders and receivers per local board during October 2022

Nothing much to say about this chart really other than reminder that local boards are ordered by the amount of merits shared. What is noticeable though is that number of senders and receivers are down, which is understandable given the ~10% decrease of the amount shared.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board for October 2022

And the last in this series of charts, merit/post one. As you can see, once again Arabic board really stands out with its 3.02 merits per post shared and Romanian is not far behind as well. Other boards didn't really have significant changes compares to previous month (at least none that I noticed) while some local boards like remained seriously undermerited month after month.

0.03 merits per post shared in Philippines board during last month (12 month ratio is not much better either which shows that it is ongoing problem) is on par with some of the least quality parts of this forum, like altcoin or off-topic sections. Imho, they need another merit source urgently, or at least help from other merit sources until they get their own because they are still among the more active local boards.

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The most active members per local board during October 2022

Now that we saw the overall situation in local boards, its time to mentioned the people that are keeping their local boards alive. Once again joker_josue from Portuguese board  with 244 posts remains the most active one among all other members active in local boards followed by two members of Russian board, Ratimov and Snork1979 that both written 171 posts in their local board while DdmrDdmr from Spanish board was not far behind them with 170 posts.

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Ratimov [171]	|	1. mole0815 [134]	|	1. wolwoo [118]	|	1. fillippone [135]	|	1. joker_josue [244]	|	1. DdmrDdmr [170]	|
2. Snork1979 [171]	|	2. 1miau [92]	|	2. mandown [102]	|	2. babo [79]	|	2. TryNinja [128]	|	2. Hispo [83]	|
3. The0ldl_lser [124]	|	3. sam00 [69]	|	3. Phoenix Anka [86]	|	3. hymperion [43]	|	3. bitmover [95]	|	3. Porfirii [74]	|
4. Vadi2323 [111]	|	4. -doubleU- [68]	|	4. kriminall [86]	|	4. bitbollo [42]	|	4. Disruptivas [83]	|	4. darxiaomi [50]	|
5. Olgacom [102]	|	5. willi9974 [67]	|	5. Red Pie [85]	|	5. Paolo.Demidov [41]	|	5. alegotardo [51]	|	5. famososMuertos [46]	|
6. Galina1006 [101]	|	6. Unknown01 [65]	|	6. judas [80]	|	6. Ale88 [35]	|	6. Lucasgabd [41]	|	6. Don Pedro Dinero [40]	|
7. klarki [101]	|	7. Lakai01 [64]	|	7. Retro Harmony [79]	|	7. Plutosky [31]	|	7. gagux123 [39]	|	7. seoincorporation [35]	|
8. xandry [99]	|	8. Soonandwaite [54]	|	8. ZekiBeyy [79]	|	8. duesoldi [29]	|	8. rdluffy [34]	|	8. d5000 [11]	|
9. Klyubov 86 [95]	|	9. cygan [53]	|	9. Bthd [74]	|	9. giammangiato [27]	|	9. Paredao [22]	|	9. Silberman [10]	|
10. lutik378 [94]	|	10. Buchi-88 [52]	|	10. RaltcoinsB [71]	|	10. alexrossi [20]	|	10. tg88 [11]	|	10. Finandy [7]	|

French	|	Indonesian	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. patrickus [28]	|	1. Antonas1 [71]	|	1. Fredomago [46]	|	1. Daniel91 [44]	|	1. wwzsocki [22]	|	1. Kavelj22 [30]	|
2. Saint-loup [24]	|	2. Husna QA [65]	|	2. Jemzx00 [42]	|	2. Pmalek [32]	|	2. Tytanowy Janusz [19]	|	2. GxSTxV [22]	|
3. Danydee [22]	|	3. DroomieChikito [47]	|	3. blockman [42]	|	3. Snowshow [29]	|	3. PawGo [11]	|	3. OmegaStarScream [21]	|
4. LeGaulois [22]	|	4. arimamib [46]	|	4. agustina2 [38]	|	4. Trofo [29]	|	4. cygan [5]	|	4. yhiaali3 [14]	|
5. Halab [12]	|	5. mamesso [45]	|	5. serjent05 [35]	|	5. Lunorael [27]	|	5. malevolent [3]	|	5. khaled0111 [8]	|
6. F2b [11]	|	6. blue Snow [41]	|	6. Baofeng [28]	|	6. FatFork [23]	|	6. CoinCasso Official [2]	|	6. marco_kinaa [8]	|
7. Rocou [10]	|	7. masulum [41]	|	7. danherbias07 [24]	|	7. cryptofrka [21]	|	7. Flangler1 [2]	|	7. Ulven [7]	|
8. elma [10]	|	8. abhiseshakana [32]	|	8. Peanutswar [22]	|	8. dkbit98 [19]	|	8. lokas0506 [2]	|	8. mikeywith [7]	|
9. GrosWesh [9]	|	9. Luzin [30]	|	9. bisdak40 [22]	|	9. BitGoba [14]	|	9. BonkTime [1]	|	9. albon [5]	|
10. fpelu [9]	|	10. joniboini [23]	|	10. acroman08 [19]	|	10. Rikafip [12]	|	10. CashWorldOfficial [1]	|	10. Bybit Arabic [4]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan*	|	Nigeria*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. GazetaBitcoin [7]	|	1. IIrik11 [6]	|	1. cryptosize [27]	|	1. Sayeds56 [43]	|	1. Agbe [28]	|	1. Dynamic Bounty [11]	|
2. NeuroticFish [5]	|	2. elevates [6]	|	2. BlackHatCoiner [7]	|	2. Morningstarr [31]	|	2. CryptopreneurBrainboss [28]	|	2. TOXIC-ZY [8]	|
3. IonCreanga [2]	|	3. pakhitheboss [6]	|	3. Dimitris [2]	|	3. UmerIdrees [30]	|	3. Maestro75 [22]	|	3. Review Master [7]	|
4. Razvan_BTC [1]	|	4. BGMI [2]	|	4. panosdada1 [2]	|	4. Rehan Zakir [26	|	4. RockBell [19]	|	4. musafar37 [6]	|
5. cfehyo [1]	|	5. burugcrypto [2]	|	5. Pakoha1 [1]	|	5. TOXIC-ZY [25]	|	5. uchegod-21 [19]	|	5. Learn Bitcoin [5]	|
	|	6. pawanjain [2]	|	6. Panselinos [1]	|	6. ThemePen [20]	|	6. Majestic-milf [18]	|	6. Crypto Star [4]	|
	|	7. sagarbansal21 [2]	|	7. chek2fire [1]	|	7. techptcl786 [17]	|	7. Marykeller [18]	|	7. AlphaEther [3]	|
	|	8. 100bitcoin [1]	|	8. citb0in [1]	|	8. Hamza2424 [16]	|	8. Coyster [16]	|	8. Ami0 [3]	|
	|	9. AccountsLegend [1]	|	9. dilaz [1]	|	9. MFahad [14]	|	9. knowngunman [16]	|	9. Little Mouse [3]	|
	|	10. Advio_Team [1]	|	10. lowbander801 [1]	|	10. MusaPk [12]	|	10. Frankolala [15]	|	10. Broken143 [2]	|

You are right, I stand corrected.

If there is anything good after what has happened recently is that it seems like people are slowly realizing that centralized exchanges and other platforms are not the place to keep your crypto, hence the drastic increase in the hardware wallet sales. Its still long way to go though. but it is a good news nevertheless and who knows, maybe this won't be forgotten (like in the past) and people keep with the habit of keeping their bitcoin by themselves.

Pa ja samo posaljem bitcoin sa svog walleta (Electrum) na Binance i to je otprilike to. Bitcoin sjedne na spot wallet i sa njega samo prebacis na karticu (to je isto besplatno naravno). Posto je slanje bitcoina dosta jeftino (evo mempool link da vidis trenutnu situaciju https://mempool.space/) radim to dosta cesto jer se ne osjecam ugodno imati vece iznose na ijednoj mjenjacnici, ukljucujuci Binance.

A ako me pitas kako jeftino kupiti crypto, onda je to ova Telegram grupa https://t.me/KriptovaluteTelegram gdje mozes u vecini slucajeva kupiti bez feeja, direktno P2P.

Ja bih ti savjetovao da izbjegnes crypto.com, dosta je bilo bilo price o tome da nisu solventni. Mozda je sve to samo fud, ali zasto riskirati kad ima drugih opcija.


Meni ne uzima nista kad placam sa njom, a fee je ~0.9% kad povlacim lovu sa bankomata (za to se ne racuna cashback). Sto se mene tice, i da uzimaju taj 1% fee po transakciji nastavio bi je koristiti jer mi cashback od 2% (drzim 1 BNB koliko je potrebno za taj level) to pokrije tako da ne gubim nista. Uglavnom, mislim da na trzistu ne postoji jeftiniji nacin za trositi kripto od Binance kartice.

If you are annoyed with my feedback left to cozytrade or think of it as unnecessary, you are free to put me on your distrust list.

Optimistic? Nope, at least not for all that DeFi shit that's going down one after another but I am not panicking and full of doom & gloom either (I do expect price to go down a little bit more though). Its just that with everything that has happened in the last six month. bitcoin price ain't that bad at all.

I think that people seriously believed that all that return is simply coming from the profit those platforms make when they lend the money. Few of my friends that had money in Celsius answered me that when i asked how the hell are they making those returns. They really thought of those platforms as banks.

Good point, this is a perfect time to do exit scam and disappear with money.



More lending services will probably go down but I don't expect them to affect bitcoin price significantly, if it affects at all. What could bring it downfew more thousands is if all those rumours about crypto.com being insolvent come true. Even though it doesn't maybe look like that, bitcoin price ain't that bad considering everything that has happened this year.

Why don't you raise the issue on their ANN thread as I seen OP has been active few days ago? I see that you left a comment there but no mention of the withdrawal problem.


Since you left them negative feedback you should have provided the evidence immediately because if you provide the evidence other members can jump in and possibly help to solve this issue.

Oh yeah, and the same thing will happen to FTX users as well.


True, that part was indeed weird and the reason is quite obvious. I just checked the situation it looks like they finally stopped deposits as well as few hours ago they announced it via twitter, almost 24 hours after blocking withdrawals. I guess they wouldn't even stop it yet if people weren't complaining under yesterday's tweet why is depositing still possible.
https://twitter.com/Liquid_Global/status/1592763572983324672