Nice find. And yeah, those are a little bit better than an average bumping service as they took some effort in appearing like a regular members since they wrote in general threads outside altcoin section, which is something that sock puppet accounts usually don't bother with.


Hm yeah, that is weird coincidence.  At first I though that maybe they got merit from one of his merit giveaway threads, but I don't see that. For example, Lunafox got merit from Ratimov on July 27th for the post that was written on  March 27th), and I don't see him applying to any merit giveaway thread around that time, or I simply can't find it.



This is even weirder; those 5 got merit from Ratimov in under 9 minutes, for posts written several months before, across 5 different threads. How the hell did he find their posts, since they were so scattered, assuming they didn't apply in merit giveaway thread?

It is also fair to say that among the most active local boards,  Indonesian (and Portuguese) are the the least merited ones. I haven't published this month's overview yet (should be out in a day or two) but I can say that merit/post situation in October  looks even worse than during September for their board; number of posts went up by ~30% and number of merits shared went down by ~15%. Combine that and you get 0.14 merit/post ratio, which is pretty low.

Another metric that is worth mentioning is amount of people that are part of the merit system in Indonesian board; you can clearly see that their board sticks out, among the ones with similar amount of merit shared. That number even went up in October, with Indoensian board having 28 senders and 40 merit receivers.



Based only on those numbers (and not going into quality of posts there as I don't speak Bahasa), I am not surprised that someone from Indonesian board opened this thread as we had very similar situation in my local board (Croatian) up until few months ago when we got few merit sources.

Ma nije off-topic, samo ti sheraj tako neke stvari, pogotovo kad je takav zanimljivi kombo. Za taj Mogul production nisam prije cuo, ali sam vec ranije znao nailaziti na slicne projekte, tj bolje receno pokusaje koji su bili fail.

Uglavnom zanimljiva ideja da se filmovi financiraju na taj nacin, budem ih malo popratio.

If everything happens according to PlanB's  stock-to-flow model (which was pretty accurate up until now) that could happen somewhere around next bitcoin halvening.


Yep, making these charts are fun to me. Someone might find it pointless waste of time, but I enjoy making them and that's what is important after all.



Good to hear that Indonesian board is slowly recovering as at one moment you went from one of the most to one of the least merited boards and all that in a couple of months. I see that you had a little drop in the amount of merits shared compared to September, but for sure looks much better than June when you had only 62 merits shared, which was your 2nd worst result ever.

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Working on the charts as we speak, overview should be out in the next 2 days.

That's how it goes, and that's how scammers usually operate; they find whatever is popular at the moment and stick to it. Regarding checking whether project is genuine or not, few simple things that you can do is reverse image search team members (if they are doxxed, which are often not), check whitepaper for plagiarism, lack of info on the site (especially tokenomics).

I glanced over their site and at first it seems ok, it's hard to say without more in-depth check up. One thing is weird though; on their twitter they keep announcing that token will be listed on PancakeSwap on November 18th, but for some reason it's already being traded there since last night.

To be fair, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham ditched them only after they have been contacted by UK Gambling Commission, telling them that they could end up getting lawsuits. ,otherwise I have no doubt that all those clubs would still promote 1xbit. Pretty much the same thing would happen here if people are not afraid of getting tagged.

Meanwhile, CZ/Binance is among those that don't have issues taking money from scammers, which is no surprise considering the kind of crap that gets listed there on the regular basis.

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That's pretty much my M.O (I am not merit source); when I see a good post I send merit. I don't think about keeping some just in case I stumble upon better post or anything like that. That way I am 99% of the time at 0 merit available (currently I have 1 but before end of the day I will be again at 0) and I help the merit to circulate.

Pa i on se moze ubrojati u te, njegov Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels je bio takodjer jeftin film, nije imao nista veci budget od ovih koji imaju nasa domaca (ne)djela, uz razliku da oni sami traže investitore a naši cuclaju pare od države.

Uostalom i ima smisla da se redatelji prvo dokazu sa nekim jeftinjim filmom, pa da tek onda dodju u priliku rezirati nesto vece sa vecim budgetima. Malo je onih kao David Fincher koji su odmah dobili veliki budget za prvi film (Alien 3, po meni nepravedno podcijenjen film, pogotovo director's cut), ali on je bio redatelj spotova velikh zvijezda 80-tih i  90-tih pa je preskocio tu prvu stepenicu.



Cisto da napomenem da to nisu akcijom (i specijalnim efektima) nabijeni filmovi, tako da ko ocekuje tako nesto bit ce razocaran.

Sa ovim boldanim si upravo opisao 99% blockbustera sa 150-200 milijuna budgetima tako da to nije rezervirano samo za filmove sa manjim budgetom.

Ja cu u svakom slucaju radije pogledati neki niskobudzetni film sa zanimljivim idejom nego viskobudzetnu hollywoodsku pizdariju u kojoj se scenarij prilagodjava tako da se svidi svima u rasponu od 7 do 77 i da se osigura dobar profit. Da ne bi bilo zabune, volim ja pogledati i dobar visokobudzetni film (kao Dune za koji ti stvarno  treba veliki budzet da odradis posao kako treba), samo iz mog iskustva budget nije bas mjerilo kvalitete.

Hrpa kultnih filmova je snimljeno sa malim proracunom, a pogotovo danas je to moguce zahvaljujuci napretku tehnologije uz pomoc koje ti vise ne treba skupocjena kamera za snimiti film nego doslovno mozes to odraditi sa malo boljim fotoaparatom ili cak i mobitelom. Npr Steven Soderbergh je snimio Unsane sa iPhone 7, Tangerine je snimljen sa Iphone 5s etc tako da je nikad lakse snimiti film, ako se ima dobra ideja.

Uostalom, dosta danas priznatih redatelja je upravo tako pocela karijeru, snimajuci kvalitetne niskobudzetne filmove: George Romero, Sam Raimi, John Carpenter, George Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Richard Linklater su neki kojih sam se sjetio, a sigurno sam ih dosta i zaboravio spomenuti.

Cisto za primjer, meni jedan od najboljih sf filmova u zadnjih par godina je niskobudzetni The Vast of Night snimljen za samo $700k sto je danas sica. Ili takodjer dosta dobar Monsters snimljen koju godinu ranije za samo $500k.

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Sto se tice Decrypted, pogledat cu ga sigurno cim uhvatim malo vremena. Ne ocekujem puno s obzirom na tematiku, ali ko zna..

Haha yeah I am slacking again, procrastination is a chronic disease.

Joke aside (though I am master procrastinator), I started making charts like week ago, but then I got shit load of work so after like 14-16 hours of work at the PC it's hard to find the time (and will ) to even post on the forum, let alone make this overview. Things should calm down in a couple of days so charts should be out by the end of this week.

Not really, as theymos clearly said that it you don't have to submit posts without merit, but those that didn't receive enough merit, as seen in the quote below. So there is really no need to complicate this; just find 10 good posts written in the last few months that could have received more merit and that's about it.



Spending 4-8 hours daily on the forum in order to become merit source? Don't you think that it is an overkill, making this position like a full time job.

This couldn't be farther from the truth, as there are  shitcoins in top 20, let alone top 100 which is filled with bunch of useless coins/tokens with no real use.

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Regarding some projects not being on reddit, one of the reasons is that it's much harder to shill your shitcoin there, compared to other platforms like Twitter. It is very easy to get banned there so many projects don't care much about establishing themselves there.

Good starting point is Polish local board  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=142.0 where you can get an answer to some specific questions about how to get Bitcoin in Poland.

It's simple really; you sell those coins for BTC right there on Binance exchange and then send BTC to your own wallet.


Here you can find fees for all the coins https://www.binance.com/en/fee/cryptoFee. Just keep in mind that withdrawal for some coins is more expensive than others. For example, BTC withdrawal fee is 0.0005 BTC, which equals to ~33 USD at the moment. So better to pay that fee once instead of paying relatively similar fee for each and every coin you have there. Unless of course you really want to keep those altcoins and in that case you will have to pay fee for each coin separately.

Blockfolio se sada zove FTX. Prosle godine je app kupio istoimeni exchange pa su mu nedavno promjenili ime.

Ja sam sve te appove za pracenje cijena (probao sam i Deltu i Blockfolio) izbrisao prije par godina i mislim da ih nikad vise necu skinuti. Ali dobro ja sam hodler i nemam hrpu altova pa mi i nije bitno u svakom trenutku znati cijenu.

Yep, you have to send various coins one by one, and for each you have to pay withdrawal fee so I suggest that your convert all of them to BTC in order to lower the fees. Unless of course you plan to hold them for longer period of time so you really want to keep those altcoins.

 

No. You have to exchange those coins for BTC by yourself, and then withdraw it to your BTC wallet.

Since I like to play it safe, I would go for cold wallet. And remember, even if you don't have a lot of crypto right now, it may be worth much more in a year or two.

Regarding Celsius/Blockfi,  I know couple of people that are using the former with one big differnece from what you are planning to do; they didn't send there all they have,  just a small percentage of their portfolio ( under 10% ). No matter how populatr some platform is, the fact is that if you don't own private keys, you don't own coins.

You can't exchange alts for Bitcoin on Paraswap as it's used only  for swapping ERC-20 tokens, meaning those on Ethereum blockchain. As @dkbit98 told you, best is to sell those alts for BTC on the exchange and then send that BTC to Ledger. But if you really wan't to hodl those altcoins for some time (which is always very risky), send them to Ledger rather than leaving them on centralized exchange.

Pridruzujem se preporukama, kvalitetna serija. Kad smo vec kod njemackih, Generation War je fenomenalna mini-serija.


Cisto iz znatizelje sam isao malo provjeriti i na koji god film da kliknem, dobijem 404 error.



Takva je situacija i kod mene; placam Netflix i Amazon tako da mi se ne da koristiti te neke nepouzdane servise. A niti su toliko skupi da se nemogu uzeti (sve skupa ~20 eura mjesecno sto je pickin dim). Nekad davno sam koristio takve streaming siteove; nema mi goreg nego kad pocnem gledati film pa mi zasteka usred gledanja. Tako da sto nema na Amazonu i Netflixu, skinem sa privatnog trackera u top 4k kvaliteti, iako i to sve rijedje radim jer su me ove smart tv pizdarije skroz ulijenile pa mi se ni skidat filmove bas ne da.

You think that this is comparable with 2018 when shitcoins are loosing 90% of the price left and rice, and not just them, but solid coins as well? Just take a look at CMC now; DOGE is in top 10, SHIBA ranked 11 and God knows how many shitcoins still in top 50 and they keep pumping.

So no, this is nothing compared to 2018.