If anything, that should encourage you that getting merit ain't that hard and that you don't have to write bloated wall of text in order for someone to see your post as quality/helpful.


Just because you think that your own post is quality or helpful, doesn't mean that others do the same. One of the problems in this forum  is that members regurgitate what's already been said a couple of times before in the same topic, so naturally their chances of getting merit for that are slim to none.

Member LagOutLoud copied gmaxwell's topic word for word, for whatever reason (probably merit fishing). I am copying just a small portion of the text and that should be enough to nuke him since he is a brand new member with this being his first post.
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I think that risk of giving someone else the access heavily depends on the person you choose. In my case I would even say that it is safer with that person than it is with me as he lives in a rural part of country, and is ex-military who is very cautious and security oriented because of the job he did. On the other hand, if you give it to someone that is close to you and who you can trust not to steal from you but is not really cautious and doesn't care about safety, then you are asking for trouble.

Yeah those BPIP lists are updated constantly.


As @SFR10 said, you have to limit the voters in some way because if you go with a simple poll, someone will try to abuse it with bunch of brand new accounts. If there is any chance that something can be abused around here, it will be.

My suggestion is to make people vote by simply writing the name of the contestant they think it was the best, limit it to at least Full Member & above and eventually certain amount of merit earned.

Nah its not that much work (takes me maybe 4-5 hours overall) as majority is done by the others, its more slacking than anything else that stops me from publishing these overviews in a more reasonable time frame.


That means I am leading as I haven't started with anything yet. I planned though to spend today's afternoon chilling at my PC, watch some football and at the same time work on the charts but unfortunately wife had different plans (as usual ) how we should spend the day, so it is postponed for tomorrow.

Congrats to your dad, its a very good time to buy bitcoin for the first time.

One thing I don't understand though is how come you sent him USDT to Binance so he can buy it from there, instead sending your father bitcoin directly to his own non-custodial wallet. This way he would save some money when he decides to move bitcoin from Binance  (which he should do as soon as possible) and he would learn the proper way to store bitcoin.

Damn those are nice looking pumpkins and ideal for carving (from my limited experience with pumpkin carving, shape&look matters a lot). For some reason those type of pumpkins are kinda hard to find in my country as we don't really have tradition of pumpkin carving, but I'll do my best and if I find a couple of suitable ones, I will certainly join.


Imho, since this is bitcoin pumpkin carving contest only submissions with an actual carved pumpkin should count (OP mentioned that you could add drawing to that) otherwise this contest will be drowned in drawings, gifs, animations etc. But lets see what OP has to say about it.

Thanks for the heads up, as I am one of those that don't usually visit collectibles board and would certainly missed the announcement. Since I have some previous experience with bitcoin-themed pumpkin carving and had much fun doing it, I might join the contest (here is the entry that I made a couple of years ago for that 10th anniversary art contest).

Anyway, kudos for the initiative.

Thing is that an average crypto "enthusiast" doesn't really care about decentralization, "be your bank" thing & similar stuff, and those people are huge majority. As a matter of fact, I think that people even prefer to have someone over their head who can halt the blockchain and sort similar exploits, which is confirmed by people applauding BSC people how they handled the situation.


You said it yourself, you saw people applauding how CZ handled the situation, and that's the opinion of vast majority of people so that's another reason why price hasn't moved much. As a matter of fact, in the last 24 hours BTC went down more than BNB (2% vs 0.8%) and that says a lot.

In that case I wish them good luck as they will have a hard time getting people on board. Unless their ATM limits are much higher than of competition, but looking at how it is in US, it doesn't look significantly better. Competition is a good thing though for us customers so the more the merrier.


Then I guess its just some PR bullshit, to make them look better than competition.

As expected, FTX is expanding their business and after US, they plan to release debit card in ~40 countries, focusing this time on Europe, Asia and Latin America. Since I am pretty satisfied with my Binance card and I really don't want to do KYC on another exchange, I think I will skip this one. Will be interesting though to see the perks & fees as they would have to be really good to get people move away from competition.



One thing I don't understand from that article is this part : "Unlink other debit cards, this one would allow customers to make purchases without having to move their cryptocurrencies from the exchange". I mean, how is that different from my Binance Visa card as I also don't have to move crypto from exchange. Or I misunderstood that sentence.

Thing is, I am so slow when making these overviews that it usually takes me a week or two to finish it. I start strong, but then I get sidetracked with something and eventually forget about it. So its crucial I start early if I want to have it finished in a reasonable time frame.


Since today is the first day I could have published this overview, I still don't think that we are late. Days of me publishing overviews few hours after @DdmrDdmr updated merit dashboard are long gone.


Yep, if you did it last Friday you would miss the merit data for that whole day so its better to wait one more week.

According to Binance, its not that hacker took someone else's money, but instead BSC was exploited and attacker created bunch of BNB out of thin air. Then again, if someone can do that you should ask yourself how much is your BNB actually worth and should you even have any.


This is what BSC people said on the matter, no mention of rollback.

That list of Celsius users is definitely legit. I checked it earlier today and I managed to find a couple of my friends that I know have money stuck in Celsius. Even though addresses have been redacted, it sucks big time to find yourself on that list and I definitely wouldn't like to be in their spot. And it proves once again dangers of doing KYCs all over the place as you never know who and how its going to be leaked.

Why surprising? It has happened before to other popular altcoins before, so it was just a matter of time to happen with BSC as well. I just hope people will take it as a warning that BSC is not the best blockchain to keep your money on, but knowing how people tend to have short memory I doubt that will happen and soon this will be forgotten.


Of course they announced the funds are safe, I wouldn't expect them to say anything else.

Don't worry, your funds are SAFU.

That part of the CZ tweet about "asking all validators to temporarily suspend BSC" reminded me of the meme that perfectly explains BSC and how decentralized it actually is.

I do agree that people from some western countries are overdoing it (at least compared to us in Europe) and its not fair that some don't get tips (like for example people that work in McDonald's) but to simply put, you gotta be good with the people that bring you food! At least that's how I look at it, but maybe that's because food is very high on my priority list lol and I eat at the restaurant at least few times per week.


Don't know about you, but in 99% of the cases I tip both my barber and delivery guys (extra bonus if weather is shitty), even though I try not to order if weather is bad (like heavy rain).


Technology is adapting to that as well and in some apps (for example Wolt) you can simply chose the tip if you are paying with card. Whether delivery guys actually get the tip is another question and for that reason I am always paying with cash so I can be sure that they get the tip.


We live in the same country (AFAIK) and both me and all my friends usually tip delivery guys (unless they fuck up which is rare) so I wouldn't say that is uncommon around here, even before Wolt/Glovo and all the other 3rd party services that are popular now.

To be precise, he mentioned lack of threads, not posts so maybe he misunderstood the rules. But let's say for a moment that he meant posts - in that case Philippines board doesn't even need a merit source, which I seriously doubt given their measly merit/post ratio. I mean, even "Off Topic" board has higher 12 month merit/post ratio than them (0.1 vs 0.07).


I honestly didn't notice lack of support for local board merit source status as long as applicant is somewhat reputable and active.

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Edit: activity in this topic reminded me that I should start work on the monthly overview if I want it to be finished by the end of the month.  

While copper membership can give you few perks that are not available for newbie rank, there's no real need to buy one as you can engage in discussions and write posts normally with a regular newbie account. For me personally, it only makes sense to get one if you plan to advertise your business here, or if you plan to offer some services.

Yep, I noticed him few days ago and not only that he is making low value topics, he also looks like one of those fake newbies that sole purpose is to leech of this forum. In the end, what to expect from a member whose first post in this forum is altcoin bounty application.


Bar for a merit worthy posts keeps getting lower as number of new users keep decreasing, which leads to this situation where even a shiposter can earn decent amount of merit in a short time.