Not yet from what I can see, but just a matter of time.


Oh yeah, he is definitely coming back. He probably heard somewhere that he can make money via signature campaigns so he won't give up so easily. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed though and not learning from his own mistakes as he managed to get busted for plagiarism 2 times in these two weeks since he showed up with his previous account Edith1994.

Yeah I understand that, but we have so many things already at our disposal to make distinction between power user and just some casual forum member. Right there on profile you can see someone else's activity and merit, and then if you have that browser extension you can see bpip ranking, DT status etc so is another rank really needed? And what when many people reach that rank, should we get new ones, making forum look like some endless mmorpg grind.


You mean back in the good ol' days where all you had to do is write one mindless shitpost each day (might as well been one of those bounty authentication posts) and in a couple of years you got Legendary rank. Classic rose-tinted glasses case.


In what universe is 2-3 years short period of time? You can farm as much merit as you want, but you can't speed the activity.


It's not buggy, it just has some RNG element to it. AFAIK, activity number needed to reach Legendary is decided when you create the account. I personally wouldn't mind if its fixed number like for other lower ranks, but don't mind this either. What's the rush anyway, is there something that you can do with Legendary that you can't with Hero rank?

+1, while I would put "getting into the realm of bullshit" instead that bold part, as that's what making up new ranks just for the sake of it looks like to me.


This also serves as an answer to those asking for increased merit requirement for current ranks as they don't realize that very few managed to reach Legendary rank since merit system kicked in, compared to the amount of new members.


This sums it up really, its all about the ego and that's the one thing I noticed on all forums; after they spend a lot of time on some forum, some people start taking it way too seriously and even substituting real life accomplishment with the forum ones. I am not saying that all people asking for more ranks are doing that, but I've experienced that more than once in the real life.

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All these demands for the extra titles, ranks, badges and whatnot reminds me of the image below. Do we really need that? 

He did? Can you please point me to that post?

The only thing I could find about him commenting on adding the new rank after Legendary is when he classified suggestions in Community generated suggestions to improve the forum (+ eventual voting on them) post and that specific suggestion about new rank was in the "no" group.

Anyway, I really hope that there won't be any new ranks as I don't see who would benefit from it. Maybe only people that are taking this forum way too seriously and wanna separate from others more than it is possible now.

What you obviously don't understand is that I personally don't trust @smooki3 or that he has legit intentions here, but you simply didn't provide enough evidence for me (or any other forum member  that looked into this so far) to tag smooki3. As simple as that.

And don't you worry about me not being able to  connect the dots and see the small details here as I busted, tagged & flagged hundreds of scammers here on the forum but circumstantial evidence is not good enough. He may very well do what you claim. but there is absolutely no proof that he is behind this linzhi.cn.com just because he didn't make a thread about them yet. I mean, in one of his posts he even says that Linzhi.io confirmed him that they are the only ones selling Linzhi Phoenix miner.




By the way, is there any post where he said that linzhi.cn.com is legit?

Website looking like it was made in the 1990s without basic modern functionality, no social media presence, no info whatsoever about the exchange on the external sites are all big red flags to me. So yeah, avoid it like a plague or get scammed.

@OP how did you even found about this exchange, who suggested it to you? And why would you even considering using this completely unknown exchange and risk your money when there are so many well known exchanges with decent reputation.  

Looks to me like classic airdrop activity. I checked their website and they do have an airdrop going on at the moment (https://dashboard.flagnetwork.finance/airdrop) but comments on bitcointalk are not part of it, while I was pretty sure that I would find something there, some reason to get that thread nuked.

By the way, that Flag Network looks dodgy AF even without that thread bumping/whatever they are doing there, starting from most likely fake team.

It's not so much that people lost interest in writing/reading but now they have more options than before. There are bunch of people on Telegram and Discord despite the fact that those two platforms don't even come close to forum when it comes to possibility of quality conversation and exchange of ideas.


True, back in the day Bitcointalk was probably the only source of Bitcoin info, and later on that expanded to altcoins as well while situation is quite different now. Add on tha the fact that forums are not as popular as they used to be and this is what you get. Despite all this, bitcointalk is still very much alive and kicking so I am not worries about its future, at least not in the next couple of years.



You might wanna consider using Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source until you get another merit source. Not going into quality of posts there, but 0.4 merit/post ratio you had during January is pretty good, ranking you 7th from 19 boards in that chart, ahead many of the big boards. That of course doesn't mean that you don't deserve another merit source, just saying that situation in your board is not bad at all.




As i suggested to @uchegod21, you should consider using Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source if you think that some good posts are left without the merit. That topic was a big help to my local board before we got few additional merit sources so it might help you too.

Sell? I guess you meant mine.


Well that's logical, as if demand keeps going up while supply is limited of course price will go up.


What's even more important is that satoshi is the smallest Bitcoin denomination so 21 million BTC can be divided into  2,100,000,000,000,000 satoshis which should be enough for quite a few years. And who knows, if needed we may get even smaller denominations so no worries about "running out of bitcoin".

Yeah I read the whole topic and evidence that you provided in my opinion its simply not enough to tag him, at least for me and looking at that topic other DT members that were commenting there came to the same conclusion.

If you really think that he is scammer protecting his own scam website by eliminating competition, you should leave him negative feedback.


Yeah same here. All we got there is circumstantial evidence at best but nothing clar that would make me tag that user.

Zadnji dan mjeseca je tako da bi bio red napraviti mjesecnu analizu naseg boarda. Kao i svaki put do sada, podazi uz koje sam ovo napravio su preuzeti od @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboarda and @TryNinja Ninjastic.spacea

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Broj postova  u periodu 01.01.-31.1.

Tijekom 1/2022 napisano je 483 posta sto je povecanje od cca 7% u odnosu na 12/2021 i 451 napisan post. Svako povecanje je dobro, tako da je to svakako dobra vijest. Iako, nazalost i dalje smo daleko od noh razdoblja kad smo znali imati i preko 1000 postovaa s obzirom da i nema bas novih clanova tesko da cemo uskoro doseci te brojke. Mozda eventualno kad dodje bear market pa ne budemo imali sta pametnije radiit nego piskarati ovdje.





Kao sto se iz ovig grafova vidi, vec neko duze vrijeme smo ispod 500 postova te nam je untaoc ovom rastu prosli mjesec i dalje jedan od najslabijih uopce. Nisam sad isao tocno gledati ali ovako odokativno mi se cini da bi trebalo biti u top 5 naslabijih tako da i dalje trend nije bas najbolji.




Kad se uspredimo sa ostalim boardovima i dalje smo u gornjoj polovici tako da je to dobra stvar, iako smo do nedavbo bili blizu Talijanima i tim ostalim velikim boardovima a sad smo ipak dosta ispod th brojeva. Doduse, nismo mi tu jedini koji nisu vise toliko aktivni kao sto su nekad bili, dobar primjer su Francuzi i Filipinci koji su nekad redovno isli preko 1000 postova mjesecno a sad se vrte tu negdje oko nasih brojki.

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Analiza merita za period 01.01 -31.01.

Unatoc povecanju broja postova u odnosu na 12/2021, prosli mjesec smo imali pad broja podijeljenih merita, sa 202 na 144. S obzirom na nasu aktivnost rekao bih da je to i dalje prilicno solidan broj, iako je pad prilicno velik. Ono sto nam fali su clanovi kojima se da ici po veci rank jer sigurno da nasi merit sourcevi mogu podijeliti jos dosta vise merita nego sada ali za to ipak treba napisati dobar post.





Evo i liste onih koji su najvise primili i dali merit. Liste su nekad isle redovno preko 20 imena a sad je taj broj ipak nesto manji ai i dalje ok s obzirom na kolicinu podijeljenih merita.




Kao i na onoj drugom usprednom chartu, i ovdje smo negdje na sredini tablice. Rusi su naravno neprikosnoveni sto ne cudi s obzirom na njihovu aktivnost a vec standardno ih slijede Turci i Nijemci.




I za kraj ove serije chartova red je vidjeti i usporedbu nas i ostalih kad je u pitanju merit/post ratio. Ovaj mjesec smo na 0.3 sto uopce i nije los rezultat ali kao sto se vidi, to nas stavlja u donji dio sto znaci i da se na ostalim boardovima povecala prosjecna kolicina podijeljenog merita. Na vrhu liste strse Nizozemci koji su imali jako puno podijeljenog merita na dosta malo postova, ali takve merit/post anomalije  se dogadjaju kod tih slabo aktivnih boardova kao sto je njihov.

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Lista aktivnih clanova naseg boarda u periodu 1.01-31.01

Nema iznenadenja na vrhu, po ocekivanju. Dok je nama Slackovica nema zime za nas board.


1. slackovic [82]
2. casperBGD [42]
3. Trofo [41]
4. Daniel91 [39]
5. btcltcdigger [37]
6. FatFork [26]
7. CroBoy12 [23]
8. Stalker22 [19]
9. badger27 [19]
10. dkbit98 [19]
11. Pmalek [18]
12. cryptofrka [17]
13. Raketa2 [16]
14. 101st [15]
15. Domchi [11]
16. Bajpas [8]
17. Rikafip [8]
18. sbogovac [8]
19. ovcijisir [5]
20. Franczeck [4]
21. Gamefi Corner [4]
22. freigeist [3]
23. Branko [2]
24. Cinik333 [2]
25. examplens [2]
26. rkorade [2]
27. Atomicc [1]
28. Chel_v [1]
29. Dikka [1]
30. GabsterDog [1]
31. JustTryin [1]
32. Master Vegan [1]
33. Tonchi1982 [1]
34. aebvilin [1]
35. big_daddy [1]
36. cryptozeljko [1]
37. sub_zero33 [1]

Cheers buddy, good to hear that you will take my advice into consideration and that you will improve in that regard.


Yeah I understand that many are not aware of the proper text formatting when copying someone else's text, hence my advice. From my experience, majority of members that I warned about that actually improved and started doing these things properly so not all is lost.

Well, according to bitcointalk rules this is not plagiarism as long as he shared reference link (that he did), no matter how you format the copied text. Regarding paraphrasing, there is no need for that either, it's ok to verbatim copy someone else's text but as long as youformat it properly and share your own opinion on that matter and both of those things OP failed to do.

And yeah, I do understand that for many people this is the first time that they are active on some forum so they are maybe not aware of the stuff like that.

To be honest, he didn't eliminate anyone here, these scammers are still there and will continue to operate despite all this warnings that we write here. All he did is that he warned bitcointalk members of that site and that's about it. Unfortunately, not even that is enough to save some members for falling for these kind of scams.


If you think that OP is scammer as well and he is just doing this to eliminate the competition, I suggest you to open scam accustaion thread in this board and provide the evidence as from what I can see, he doesn't have any negative feedback yet.

Its all fine and dandy but what bothers me here is that not a single sentence in that post is yours, you just copy/pasted that guy Max Gagliardi's tweet thread without making it obvious to everyone that all this is verbatim copy. While you covered yourself by sharing the link at the bottom, that's simply not how these things are supposed to be done if you are to follow posting etiquette.

So, if you plan to create similar topics in the future, put all verbatim copy inside quotations and make sure to add something of your own instead just sharing someone else's thoughts without commenting on the issue.

Another plagiarism case

User: jhonalbert
Post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5387596.msg59382955#msg59382955
Archive: https://ninjastic.space/post/59382955

As you can see below, jhonalbert copy/pasted these two sentences word for word. Yet another newbie account that will end up getting banned due sheer stupidity, thinking that these kind of posts will get him merit.

Yeah it's nice to see Indonesian board among most merited ones as you are very active board. I do think that you still have a loot of room for improvement despite this increase as when i started making these overviews almost 2 years ago, you had pretty much similar amount of posts (~1200) and something like 50% more merits shared than you had last month. Then again, I have no idea whether post quality remained the same like it was before.

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Yeah its a general trend among forums (at least the ones I am pat of) so bitcointalk is not exception here.


To be honest I don't think that would reverse the trend, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't help to some degree to slow the decline. I personally don't mind not having mobile version, but from the experience on some other forums, I did notice that people prefer using those.

So you couldn't say all these things using your own words but instead you wanted to sound smart and just copy/pasted someone else's word. Punishment for plagiarism is ban, unless you can prove that you are behind the original text, which I doubt.

One piece of the advice from someone who has been active on various forums for the last ~20 years: grow thicker skin or you won't have a very good time here, or on any other forum for that matter. That's just how it goes on forums, like on real life; you may say some some things that other people won't like or agree with and they will respond. In the end, that's what forums are all about, exchange the ideas. In the end, you always have ignore option.



Yep, its pretty much obvious that he was behind Edith1994 as well. And yet again he is doing the similar mistake of rushing too hard to scoop the merit which got banned him in the first place.

No issues like that whatsoever when it comes to Kucoin (at least not yet) and I am from Europe, Croatia. Regarding Gate, they do ask for KYC so that's not a good option for you then. Another good option might be FTX as its reputable exchange (they are kinds what Binance used to be couple of years ago) but the only problem is low withdrawal limit of only 2000 USD per day. Find more info here https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027668192-Individual-Account-KYC