Even though majority do quote posts, that's not mandatory as  several members just shared links in their applications like @bill gator did and they were latter approved so all good there.

If I recall correctly it was at the beginning of July 2021, like July 5th or 6th so its been a while. And some of them not even applied for the merit source role but were instead just added.

From what I noticed, theymos usually approves merit source applications in batches and after merit shared drops significantly so good luck @bill gator and arm yourself with patience as it might take some time.

That just tells you how shitty other altcoins are.


I don't know if you know this, but 70% of the total Ethereum supply has been premined. Also, last time I checked top 100 addresses owned ~40% of all ETH which is a much higher number than BTC has (afaik its 14%). Given those numbers, Ethereum is still far from BTC.


That is also questionable. Remember the DAO hack from 2016 when Vitalik & co decided to rollback the network in order to negate $50 million worth of exploit? By the way I am not saying that ETH is shitcoin, but in all things that really matter it can't compare to Bitcoin, especially if you look at it from the long term hold point of view.

While it will be possible to pay school tuition in BTC, transaction will be done using a 3rd party so in the end school gets fiat. It's a good news nevertheless and step forward but I think that is important to differentiate using 3rd party and paying directly using Bitcoin as its a completely different thing. Additionally, other schools are already doing that so its not like Dubai is first that is implementing that, like someone reading your post might think.

I visited Dubai last year and while I wasn't impressed with the city at all, I was surprised to see how many crypto professionals decided to move there for good. It's like a crypto sillicon valley at the moment.


Why don't take your time, read the post again and check the link that was provided? If you did that you wouldn't ask questions like that.

That's one of the weird things, that no one is asking any questions regarding your platform. All I see are the same accounts that pop in every few hours, do their little conversations and go off again. I've been in enough Telegram groups to know the difference genuine members and fake ones.


You might think that we have no clue what's going on in your group, but we have a similar thing here on bitcointalk: project like yours are paying "marketing agencies" to create fake conversations inside their ann threads using sock puppet accounts,  in order to fake the interest and attract people. Can can see in this thread how many of those are busted by few others and me, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. As I said before, you may fool some newbie with this but no one with some experience will fall for it.

By platform he meant bitcointalk.


I can fully understand why you feel swamped and not having enough time on your hands. Thing is, signal to noise ratio in the crypto sphere is very low due high amount of altcoins and new trends (ICO, DeFi, NFT) that constantly keep popping out so newbies often get lost in all this. Add on that all the stories how someone got rich overnight via xyz altcoin and no wonder that people get lost, not knowing how and where to start. What I would suggest you is to ignore all of that and strictly focus on Bitcoin, both time-wise and investment wise and you will see that situation is not as bad as you might have thought.

Your friend definitely did a good thing by sending you here as you probably won't find a better to place to learn about Bitcoin than this forum. Good starting point is fillippone's 5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin.

And here we go again; BTC goes up a little bit and we get bunch of these  "experts" pulling out numbers out of their asses, who where of course nowhere to be found when it was hovering around 35-40k.


The best time to buy Bitcoin was yesterday, and the 2nd best is today. Unless you  know what you are doing (and judging by the topic you opened I don't think you do) I would suggest you to stop timing the market and instead use DCA method, or simply buy when you can. If you try to time the market and buy Bitcoin with the intention to hold it for only couple of months you may end up buying high and selling low, like many newbies.


I guess you mean PlanB's Stock to flow model? While I still like his work, he was also guilty of being a little bit too cocky. All these models and predictions are fine and dandy, but when you set it up in your head that BTC is here to stay and that short term price (and for me short term is 1-2 years) doesn't mean much, it becomes that much easier. I done that 4-5 years ago and to paraphrase the title of a very well known movie (that is very relevant these days), I stopped worrying and learned how to love Bitcoin.

I don't think that its the same as a PIN or password protection. While you can make it much harder or almost impossible for thieves to penetrate your phone/wallet by using a proper password, you can't do anything about your fingerprint. Phone scans it and that's about it, there's no way for you to make it more sophisticated and there lies the problem.

That's not necessarily true. For example, if you enable biometrics in some mobile phone wallets like Blockchain, it automatically offers it as way to log in into wallet meaning you just made it less secure.

Yeah I know about that template but that's not the one I was referring to. This is one the memes using the new one



Slapping a man is even more disrespectful than a straight punch. Also, real life fight looks nothing like a scene from a Hollywood movie, majority of people don't even know hot to throw a proper punch, let alone combos.

While actors are ready to do just about anything to get extra attention (Jussie Smollet is perfect example) I don't think that this was staged. Physical violence + cursing while we know how prune Hollywood has become? I don't think that Will Smith and Chris Rock were that stupid. Will Smith's erratic behavior after that just confirms that something was off the other night.

It's simple really: based on the numbers that you provided, you would profit 5.54% or $5.54 if you invest $100. Whats the number that you are getting?

So, I contacted CriptoDebit.com via Telegram (@criptodebit) and they answered basically immediately so kudos for that, but unfortunately I didn't get clear answers to all of my questions.

First of, they didn't want to explain how come are they offering debit cards without KYC when no other competitors like Wirex, Coinbase, Binance, Crypto.com can offer that, to which they didn't have an answer. Well, they did say that they are able to do it because "they given six figures deposit to the bank" which doesn't make much sense as I am sure that all those crypto debit cards issuers wouldn't have an issue depositing that amount of money if it means no KYC. Regarding the transactions fees when buying something, they said its 0 so at least one positive news.

@CriptoDebit.com people here tend to be more diligent and careful than your average user so you have to be prepared for some tough questions and people doubting your legitimacy. If you want to have any success here I suggest that you keep your cool.

When I read the news I thought it was a stunt to increase the ratings, but the more I watch and read about it the more I think that Will hit Chris Rock for real. This has to be probably the most bizarre Oscar thing I ever saw. The thing that really baffles me is how so many actors reacted to the incident by saying "oh he is from Philly, they are emotional ppl" or something along those lines, like wtf. I wonder what would happen if someone else hit Chris, someone like Mel Gibson who already has a  bad rep.

Looking from a bright side, at least we got a new meme template


This was entirely Will Smith's fault. Its a common practice on these awards to make fun of actors and they should be able to control themselves and if you think that what Chris Rock said was harsh, you might wanna check Ricky Gervais act while hosting Golden Globes.


I am one of those that don't mind seeing streaming movies getting awards, even though some (like Spielberg) argued that they should really be seen as a TV production, meaning they don't meet Oscar requirements of movie being played in cinema in order to be nominated. But then streaming companies sorted that by having movies being played in LA cinema for at least a week to meet that req.

As much as I love cinema and go at least once or twice per month, I think it's impossible to fight the trends considering billions of dollars that Netlix, Amazon, Apple and others are spending each year on production.

Movies lasting longer and longer has been ongoing trend for some time now. I don't mind character driven movies to last a little bit longer or some epic/history movie, but now we have shallow stuff like superhero movies lasting for two and a half-three hours and consisting  mostly of mindless action with no character development.

Regarding Dune, keep in mind that movie covered  only the first half of the book and sequel is coming next year so that's why you may feel its incomplete as it is. Unless by "incomplete" you mean that you miss something there. High budget (preferably HBO production) mini series would probably be the best format for something as complex as Dune, but its much easier to profit via movies.

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Regarding the winners, Dune kicked asses in tehnical categories as expected and I must say that I am kinda disappointed that CODA won Best Picture award, even though I generally liked the movie. Thing is, I don't think that its a good thing for film industry that remake win a Best Picture Oscar as it may only encourage studios to make even more of those, like we are not already swamped with remakes, sequels and prequels.

I had target prices several times in the past, but each time BTC reached it I realized that it worths to me much more than the current price was and set up a new one. Eventually I just stopped setting any goals and decided to enjoy the ride which so far proved to be an excellent decision.

While I do consider myself long term hodler as I hold for ~6 years now and would sell it all only in case of some emergency, I do spend part of my BTC at the regular basis because I think that its important to keep using it for what it was initially intended for.


I don't know about you but I wouldn't trust any centralized services with a few thousands of dollars, let alone one million. What's even worse, you would keep it in stablecoin that can be locked/freezed at the creator's whim. Combination of those things makes this tactic way more riskier than just keeping BTC in your own wallet and letting it do its thing. If someone wants to cash out and invest into something, real estate seems like a much safer choice anyway.


So many people got rekt by holding altcoins long term so if you don't wanna repeat their mistake you should consider cashing out and going into BTC; if not completely then at least part of it. Thing is, in the long run (and for altcoins 1 years is a very long time) BTC regularly outperforms altcoins, meaning its far more suitable for a long term hold you are talking about.

If you use it on top of the pin and password, then yes it will add one extra layer of security, but I wouldn't use it as a primary source of protection. I know it's more convenient and faster way to unlock the wallet or phone but the old school ways of protection (if you make a proper password which again is something that many fail) still beats the biometrics.

Beside using proper password, the best way to protect your crypto is by not having your mobile phone wallet as your main one where you keep majority or all of your crypto. It makes more sense to only use it as hot wallet and keeping there only the amounts you plan to spend in the next few days/weeks.

Fair enough. I watched all nominees except Drive my Car which I plan to watch in the next couple if days (not easy to find 3 hours) and so far Dog and Dune are ahead of the others for me. While I liked Dog more, I wouldn't mind Dune getting an Oscar too just to remove that stigma around sci-fi movies never winning the Best Picture award.


Same here, guessed the secret too as you could really "feel it", but my wife guessed the end as well and managed to spoil it for me as I really didn't see it coming.


Since I haven't seen Drive my Car yet its hard for me to say (another slow burner that I think I will like) but that one is not as hyped as Parasite was back in 2020 and even film's subject isn't something very attractive to the Academy which we all know is a very important thing. If I remember the odds correctly, Parasite was right behind 1917 so while it was a big surprise that foreign film won the Best Picture award, it wasn't a complete outsider like Drive my Car is. If it was up to me, non-English movie should have won the Oscar year before too as I still believe that Roma is a far superior movie and that Green Book won only because of it's subject. Regarding your 2nd sentence, I totally agree and it's been going like that for some time now.

Ah yes you are right, that was a total brainfart, we are talking here about virtual cards.



Yep, many questions about how this actually works and about potential issues. I see that they have telegram contact so in case he doesn't answer here soon I'll try to contact him that way. In his other thread OP wrote that they are live for only couple of days with several dozens of cards issued so far so I would be very careful with this.

Can you please point me that program in which Mastercard offers debit cards without KYC requirement? It would be also good if you can provide some proof about licensed issuer. AFAIK, it's possible to get prepaid cards without documents or verification but you explicitly said on the website that your cards are not prepaid but legit debit cards. Or you consider them debit as user has to have account on your website, from which funds are spent?


They do mention on their website that for PayPal, Sepa and Wire transfers you will have to go through KYC verification so I guess KYC-less withdraw  works only via ATM, if its available as I see no mention of that

This card service sounds very promising until you check the fees but I guess that's the price you have to pay if you want anonymity while using debit card. That is, if what they are claiming is true and this things works as advertised.

While these self-congratulatory threads maybe even had honest intentions at the beginning to sort of inspire new members that is not impossible to rank up after merit system introduction, over the years it mutated into merit-fishing ego trip. Everyone is still free to create those, as others are free to ridicule those that create one for every minuscule feat they achieve here.


Monkey see, monkey do. He is only doing this because he saw others showering similar threads with merit, so imho they as equally to blame as that those are actually opening them.


We have an interesting situation that people here are rarely willing to call a spade a spade like OP did and instead just go with the flow and keep repeating what others are saying or doing. I've been on various forums for many years and never saw so many people patting each other on the back, unwilling to say what they really think and eventually creating herd mentality.

Anyway, good initiative, I hope it picks up.

First of all, I don't go around telling people that they should invest in crypto. My close family and friends know that I am into all this, but I never suggested them to invest if they didn't ask me about it first. And even when they asked me what to do, I told them all pros & cons and explained them that market is highly volatile and that they should be able to forget about that money for at least couple of years. Some of them I even talked out of investing as I knew that they would panic at the first sight of a correction, let alone bear market and they would end up selling with a loss.

One important thing; if they really want to invest tell them to stick to BTC only and explain them how risky is to invest in altcoins, especially for newbie that won't know when to sell and will probably end up as a bagholder.

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