Good idea, 2 merit sources are definitely not enough for a local board of your size which is obvious from your merit/post ratio.


You don't have to be active in the general part of the forum  if you are applying to be a merit source that will be focused on your local board so I don't see that as some kind of a problem.

Cheers babo, glad to hear that you like the way they look. I tried many different tools and in the end Google charts proved to be the easiest and most elegant solution, with enough customization options for my needs.


I must say that it looks very good and easy to understand which is always important. Good job!

Since Portuguese board is one of the most active ones while you consistently month after month have one of the lowest merit per post ratios, has anyone from your board considered applying for a merit source as I think you could certainly use more of those.

Gotta agree with this. He for sure should have handled this situation much better, but was his intention to cheat anyone out of their money, or help someone doing that? I don't think so. So yeah, opposing the flag as well.

If what they are saying on their website is true and you maximum amount that you can have on card is only $250, that makes it very impractical for every day use. I also see that they are hiding their fees (did you maybe find out that info?) which from my experience usually means that they are quite high so combo of those two things would most probably make it unusable for me even if its available in Europe.


I am all up for trying to avoid rules and regulations, but I am also realistic about compromises needed to be made in order to use crypto debit card in an efficient way.

Judging by the amount of comments in this thread that are focused on Shiba INU, many didn't bother reading your post and that article you shared.


I've used ATMs in the past, but now with so many different ways to buy and sell Bitcoin, I don't see a bright future for them. Unless they lower the fees significantly.


As far as I know, owners of BTC ATM in UK have to own licence to offer financial services and since none of them had that, they had to shut them down.

That's what you always say but in the end you either finish at the top or 2nd. I have a hunch that it will be like that again


Yeah It suck when real life gets in a way of forum activity.

Yeah I saw that part, its pretty much standard thing when it comes to crypto debit cards, nothing new there.

It will be very hard for them to compete with Binance, at least here in Europe. Competition is a good thing though for us users, so I say bring it on.


Since regulations are only getting tighter, I think that a legit and usable non KYC crypto debit card with reasonable fees is unfortunately nothing but a pipe dream.

Its time for another monthly overview, this time a little bit sooner than the last month. Like in all previous overviews, all charts and tabled were made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space whihc I suggest to check if you want more in depth overview.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Nigerian, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards (yet).

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Post activity per local board during May 2022

Unfortunately we are continuing with the same trend; 17262 posts were written during May 2022 which is 6% decrease compared to month later. This is somewhat expected as summer coming so I guess people have better things to do than write on the forum.

Russian local board is by far the most active one while Turkish and German are holding their usual their usual 2nd and 3rd spots and its the same thing with 4th & 5th (Indonesian and Portuguese). Majority of active boards have somewhat similar numbers compared to previous one, except Pakistan that experienced huge decrease, going down from 863 posts written in April to only 315 during May. Dunno whayt happened there, maybe someone from their local can shed some light.

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Number of active per local board during May 2022

Even though numbers generally decreased, that didn't affect number of active users much as last month 1352 users wrote at least 1 post across all local boards which is very similar to April and 1372 active users. Keep in mind that this chart counts all users that wrote at least 1 post in that period so real number of active users is much lower than that. Its just that I haven't decided the threshold to determine that so for now I am keeping the minimum requirement

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Merit shared per local board during May 2022

As expected, decrease of post activity led to decrease of merit shared as well; from 5556 merits shared in April, local boards went down to 4809 merits shared in May, which is pretty noticeable 13% decrease. While majority of that decrease is simply due fewer posts being written, some local boards could definitely use few more merit sources. Hopefully theymos sorts that out soon.

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Merit senders and receivers per local board for May 2022

Self explanatory, everything is obvious here, with Indonesian board sticking out when it comes to amount of people that were part of merit system, despite the low amount of merit shared last month and similar thing can be said for Pilipinas and Turkish boards.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board for May 2022

And for the end of this series of charts, merit per post ratio. Standard names are at the top so no mjuch changes there, but it is noticeable that 12 month average is getting often higher than the last which hasn't been the case up until now and I expect that trend continues. As I mentioned before, I think that majority of local boards have enough merit to share, its just that members are not as active as they used to be. At least that's the case in my local board and its probably the same situation elsewhere.

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The most active members per local board during May 2022

Last but not the least, list of top 10 most active members per local boards. Even though I expected joker_josue (who was still great with 327 posts) to dominates this list again, this time Azrieli from Russian local board was the most active one with the impressive 359 posts written.

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	French	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
Azrieli [359]	|	mole0815 [136]	|	verbakalim [109]	|	fillippone [141]	|	joker_josue [326]	|	Danydee [45]	|
Snork1979 [248]	|	1miau [101]	|	Phoenix Anka [106]	|	babo [73]	|	TryNinja [122]	|	Saint-loup [35]	|
Ratimov [180]	|	bullrun2020bro [99]	|	execijutiere [106]	|	Ale88 [52]	|	bitmover [89]	|	patrickus [33]	|
leonello [140]	|	willi9974 [97]	|	Retro Harmony [102]	|	duesoldi [46]	|	alegotardo [72]	|	LeGaulois [20]	|
The0ldl_lser [136]	|	Real-Duke [94]	|	kriminall [101]	|	Paolo.Demidov [35]	|	Disruptivas [65]	|	CryptD38 [17]	|
light_warrior [115]	|	Lakai01 [90]	|	eightdots [92]	|	jack0m [35]	|	Lucasgabd [62]	|	elma [17]	|
~DefaultTrust [103]	|	sam00 [90]	|	mandown [92]	|	Plutosky [33]	|	gagux123 [40]	|	F2b [14]	|
crypto_trader#43xzEXrP [102]	|	bct_ail [87]	|	ZekiBeyy [91]	|	creep_o [18]	|	nikolaspaolo [30]	|	Rocou [14]	|
bonfire66 [100]	|	Unknown01 [86]	|	RaltcoinsB [88]	|	alexrossi [15]	|	rdluffy [28]	|	perl [12]	|
Julien_Olynpic [89]	|	cygan [72]	|	Red Pie [86]	|	gbianchi [15]	|	Paredao [20]	|	Halab [10]	|

Spanish	|	Indonesian	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
DdmrDdmr [171]	|	DroomieChikito [107]	|	inthelongrun [70]	|	Daniel91 [30]	|	Tytanowy Janusz [53]	|	Kavelj22 [54]	|
famososMuertos [69]	|	Husna QA [92]	|	bisdak40 [43]	|	Trofo [29]	|	PawGo [16]	|	Ulven [19]	|
Hispo [41]	|	abhiseshakana [61]	|	blockman [43]	|	slackovic [22]	|	lokas0506 [16]	|	albon [17]	|
danadc [29]	|	Antonas1 [54]	|	Fredomago [41]	|	casperBGD [21]	|	cygan [14]	|	OmegaStarScream [16]	|
Don Pedro Dinero [24]	|	Luzin [50]	|	carlisle1 [33]	|	dkbit98 [21]	|	wwzsocki [11]	|	Dalain [10]	|
MARK21 [21]	|	masulum [49]	|	Japinat [30]	|	Rikafip [17]	|	Flangler1 [9]	|	yhiaali3 [7]	|
darxiaomi [20]	|	Bobrox [43]	|	mirakal [25]	|	FatFork [15]	|	malevolent [7]	|	GxSTxV [5]	|
seoincorporation [20]	|	Oneandpure [42]	|	acroman08 [24]	|	Pmalek [15]	|	cryptovigi [6]	|	khaled0111 [4]	|
LUCKMCFLY [14]	|	erep [31]	|	harizen [23]	|	cryptofrka [15]	|	dwminer1 [5]	|	mRTHroo [4]	|
Wimex [13]	|	MonaLeeTracy [28]	|	Baofeng [20]	|	CroBoy12 [13]	|	Cashify [4]	|	badluckalways [3]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan*	|	Nigeria*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
GazetaBitcoin [19]	|	Frengki_cisco [16]	|	cryptosize [13]	|	Sayeds56 [54]	|	uchegod-21 [23]	|	Crypto Library [15]	|
NeuroticFish [14]	|	sagarbansal21 [14]	|	BlackHatCoiner [8]	|	galambo [44]	|	Maestro75 [22]	|	Blue King [11]	|
Rizzrack [3]	|	teosanru [9]	|	Dr1000 [4]	|	UmerIdrees [39]	|	BIT-BENDER [12]	|	wtsimis [7]	|
3dOOm [1]	|	wtfisbitx [7]	|	chek2fire [4]	|	ThemePen [26]	|	Proro [11]	|	DVlog [5]	|
Din116 [1]	|	ajaxtempest [5]	|	feisar [4]	|	Mariah20 [19]	|	Coyster [10]	|	HEART001 [5]	|
OlehBucuresti [1]	|	amicrypto [5]	|	IliasM. [2]	|	Morningstarr [19]	|	Marykeller [10]	|	naim027 [5]	|
Razvan_BTC [1]	|	pakhitheboss [5]	|	bmxakias [2]	|	shahzadafzal [18]	|	Anguwa [7]	|	sojib8292 [5]	|
Septi2001 [1]	|	pawanjain [5]	|	alexrev [1]	|	kaka_Shipai [10]	|	Pokapoka124 [7]	|	DEEBY3535 [4]	|
fillippone [1]	|	JSRAW [3]	|	bomberb17 [1]	|	Jastetad [8]	|	Rruchi man [7]	|	Little Mouse [4]	|
jon222 [1]	|	avikz [3]	|	ekatommyriouxos [1]	|	MFahad [7]	|	Agbe [6]	|	Review Master [4]	|

Europe doesn't have to 100% replace, but to have alternative and not to rely so much on Russian gas. That would be step in the right direction.


Same as we are doing now, and I don't see people traveling in donkey carts. And I don't see anything wrong in using firewood to heat your home, many people still do that in rural parts of my country.


I kept listening that in while growing up in socialist Yugoslavia back in the 80s, how rotten capitalist west will crumble and we saw what happened.


That is true, Russians are used to dictators running and ruining their lives and unfortunately there's nothing they can do about it, unlike Europeans. Then again, Putin is not so young anymore (he already surpassed average male life expectancy in Russia) so who knows what will happen in the next few years.

Not only cryptocurrency cards are affected with the relatively low limits, but the regular ones issued by banks as well (albeit withdrawal limits are higher). For example, card issued by my bank has 5000 kuna daily withdrawal limit (approximately 660 euro) so its a little bit more than a double of Binance card. Big advantage of Binance card is that daily spending limit is 8700 euro which should be enough for 99.99% users.

Its all probably about governments not liking the thought of us withdrawing money without them knowing on what exactly we are spending it.

As someone who is active on another forum where for each season we get a new thread, I think that is a better solution than having everything in one huge topic, like its the case with NBA thread for example. To me it somehow looks cleaner and more organized than having last 7-8 season in one thread, like its the case with NBA topic where I used to be active.


It's not problem at all if you write 100% of your posts in gambling board (or any other board for that matter) as long as you are genuine poster and know what you are talking about. Someone can write only 5 out of 25 weekly posts in gambling board and still produce useless spam and its up to managers to weed out the shitposters.


I hated those when I was active in gambling board and I think if more people report those, shitposters would post them less. I wonder if managers automatically disqualify such posts as that could be another way to combat those.

Hm I thought that Coinbase was the first exchange that release debit cards as IIRC one friend got his Coinbase card back in 2019 while Binance card  came to Europe in mid 2020 and I got mine few months after that. But Binance one is immensely more popular, at least here in Croatia.


So pretty much the standard stuff and its good to see how situation changed compared to 4-5 years ago when Wirex had fees for every possible thing making it very impractical to use. What i would like to see is debit card with high daily ATM withdrawal limit as Binance allows only 290 euro which can be quite restricting.

You think that Russia is any better in that regard? They would do the same thing USA is doing all around the world if they were capable of doing it. But since they aren't, they have to satisfy with conquering bunch of smaller neighbouring countries. Or you think that they became the largest country in the world peacefully?


While I am against sanctions as they are completely useless, Europe will eventually figure things out and find the replacement. It won't of course happen over night but it will in a couple of years. If this drags on (and it probably will), life standard in Europe will go somewhat go down, while Russia will crumble like USSR did since they learned nothing from that failed experiment.

So after FTX announced their card, Kucoin decided to go down the same road. Btw , where you maybe able to find any info about fees and withdrawal limits?

Since Kucoin is one of the rare exchanges where I don't have to do KYC I think that I will skip this offer. After all, Binance card works almost flawlessly for me (except some weird contactless feature issues every once in a wqhile), so no reason to give my data to yet another exchange.

Za slucaj da ovdje ne bude previse interesa, provjeri https://t.me/KriptovaluteTelegram. Samo upozorenje da iako je grupa generalno ok, uvijek se infiltrira poneki scammer tako da je najbolje izbjegavati online dealove i dogovarati primopredaju iskljucivo uzivo.

Who is kicking you out, what are you talking about? You obviously have reading comprehension issues and I ain't interested in pigeon chess. Kthxbye.

My country (Croatia) went something similar to what Ukraine is going through 30 years ago, with my hometown being completely destroyed (might wanna check "battle of Vukovar", its our version of Mariupol) so don't you think that I am not sorry or that I don't understand what Ukraine is going through. And yeah, I was old enough to experience all that, firsthand.


What you obviously don't understand is that freedom of speech is also freedom to tell lies and bullshits.


Because its a slippery slope. I like the forum just the way it as and if you don't like it, I am sure that you will find plenty of other forums where you will feel safe and protected.

I like to think that I am good at that, but I guess I failed this time. Gg  


True, 10 posts in gambling board is nothing for a genuine user due nature of discussions there, but problem is that there are not enough genuine gambling board users on the forum and that forces managers to enforce rules like writing certain amount of posts in gambling board. Its sellers market and shitposters are taking advantage of that.


When majority of campaigns have that requirement, what do you think it will happen? Average signature participant will of course adjust his posting behavior to meet the demands. Rest assured if we get some well paid campaign that asks people to write in lets say off topic (or any other board for that matter) you would suddenly get bunch of members writing there.

And look how they conveniently disabled the option to comment on their tweets, perfectly knowing what would happen. This is a very shady practice that is rarely used, especially not if you are offering some service like they do.





That's probably because you tagged their accounts for promoting 1xbit so now they want you to do the same with Royse.

Speaking of people who still trust these platforms, it was so cringy to see people who have money in Nexo gloating over their public offer to take Celsius, thinking that must mean  Nexo is solid AF and that their money is safe while not realizing it was just a PR stunt in order to get more users.

I used to think that after each bear period crypto market comes up healthier but after seeing everything that has happened during this bull run I became way more pessimistic. All this will be soon forgotten and people will continue to make same mistakes as before.