All the thanks go to you @Brainboss, I know the feeling of going out during this pandemic, alot of people are afraid of contracting the virus whenever they go out, so they fear the worst if they leave home. But you fearlessly took it upon yourself, to go into different communities to distribute this relief materials, only someone who cares can do that, and I want to say a big thank you to you and congratulations for successfully completing this humanitarian task.

I hope you are safe and healthy, the bitcointalk community is proud of you, Royse777 and Lauda. cheers!

IIRC when I joined bitcointalk, I read threads of users asking if it's good to trade or invest full time with no job to do, but all the answers amounted to a resounding NO, so your friends do not have to quit their job or stay without working to still nurture and retain their interests in bitcoin (trading or investing etc)
When the btc halving was close for example, many people became more interested, only because of what they heard they could stand to gain (which may not all be true) if they invest close to a bitcoin halving event, it's the same for people only interested due to 'income doubling schemes', if they lost interest while trying to 'stupidly' double their money, then imo they did not have any real interest in the first place.

'my community' of friends interested in bitcoin is not so large, and since my country is a really populous one, I cannot make out the numbers still interested or who've lost interest in the larger picture, so I'll keep it within my contemporaries.
The opposite is the case over here, the pandemic has caused increased interest within my community of friends, we haven't had the opportunity to meet up like you did due to lockdown, but bitcoin has remained a hot topic of discussion between us over our social media handles, from what the effect of the pandemic will be, to the btc halving etc. It's impossible to suddenly become disinterested in bitcoin due to unfavorable prices (as the short term investors might put it) except you only want to get rich ASAP, but if we build a community based on real interest in the network (like mine) then it won't be 'ephemeral, but continuously lasting'.

Yes definitely every industry is affected, for example in my country, the educational sector is one area that the government promised to support financially, that was before the pandemic, large sums amounting to billions were to be disbursed to improve the educational sector over here which is lacking in necessary amenities.

But with the way things have panned out, I don't think that will be possible anymore, at least not after some years, money will be put in areas in need of urgent rehabilitation, the medical sector is one for example, thus the value of an improved educational sector is one of the things my country will miss out on due to the pandemic.

It's no longer news that the corona virus pandemic has rocked every national economy, it's lead to inflation, recession, economic meltdown, hunger etc. We have been discussing it's impact (mostly on the economy) for more than two months now and I beg to change the discussion slightly...

As the government seeks a way to reopen their respective nations, I've been thinking what is going to be the opportunity cost to ensure that this 'operation' goes according to plan, bearing in mind that there is little or no funds to be disbursed to all sections of the country. Opportunity cost can be defined thus:
The EU, World Bank, IMF and other world organizations have come out to aid various countries with loans, grants etc to raise fundings in their respective countries, so what areas of the economy or what sectors in the country do you think requires (and will likely get) more attention and what's going to be the opportunity cost.. Of course with less money, the more there is a need for a scale of preference, you can use your country, major world powers or developed/underdeveloped as a method of categorization; What sectors will likely be top and bottom (opportunity cost) In their scale of preference to propel the economy out of recession.

CoinldolNews newest Spam post in the press board that will be deleted very soon, a temp ban for this user to "chill" imo.
I put a direct link to coinldolNews' profile, for those who do not know the user.

I placed my bet for both Bayern and Dortmund to win, but of course I didn't get as much as you did, because I didn't forget to place my bets, I had them played long before the game started, I might purposely forget to place some bets next week, till the matches start
Since this will never happen, you can't be sure if they will win the league or not if it does. (imo, they will) Bayern can compete with any team in the EPL, the only team prolly better than they are in the EPL at the moment is Liverpool. I know Bayern is better than the other teams in the Bundesliga, but they are also one of the best teams in the world, and the last time they faced an English team (Chelsea) they beat them 3-0.

If you have the cure to corona virus, why are you advertising it on a forum, this isn't a hospital or a scientific laboratory, you are definitely living in a country that has a government, you should reach out to your government and propose to them your 'herbal' discovery on how to cure the virus.
How did you know you contracted the virus, AFAIK it's impossible to be certain without being tested. And you cannot recover from covid-19 in one day. Even if the WHO is to approve a cure, it would not cure patients under 24hrs, malaria patients do not even recover under a day, you definitely didn't have corona virus.
Do not just include 'bitcoin trading' to make it seem fine to post your thread here (trading discussion) this is still spam, and what your post is about is selling a fake or non-existent cure to corona virus and not trading per se

The odds on sportsbet is not giving any chance to Arsenal to win this game, they see city as clear favorites and I don't know why tbh. City were not in excellent form before the EPL stopped and even if they were, after so long without football, I cannot pick a favorite team to win between this two 'big' teams as this is their first match in two months. @7.40 odds on Arsenal to win is a good bet that I'm seriously considering

In the List of open merit source applications, the oldest application is from 03/01/2020, that's six months ago, Theymos prolly doesn't want to add new MS just yet, we would see if he will soon.
If that's so, this MS's 500 smerits allowance can be distributed amongst the most active merit sources to boost their own allowance, till theymos maybe picks a new guy, that's a way to beef them up on smerits.

If the coins are not going to be moved by satoshi, then I don't think they will be moved by somebody close to him, that leaves a question if there's even actually somebody close to him.

If satoshi had people close to him that could have access to his keys, there should have been a connection to him through them by now imo. I agree with the the researcher that satoshi would not spend his coins, but the reason why is what nobody knows, maybe cause he's dead, destroyed his keys, doesn't want to etc etc.

The story (situation in India) is not a tragedy Imo, if Alex was given the loan directly, he will sooner or later exhaust it and come asking for another loan, maybe from a different person and in no distant time, Alex will have huge debts to pay, with no work to do to earn money to pay his debts. But if the loan is given to Alex's place of work, then Alex can be placed back on a fixed income, while the company covers the loans; Alex then has his job back and the company is also up and running.

So if this is the idea the government is coming up with in India, then it's not a bad one. If this funds are distributed individually, the economy will likely not recover at a fast pace, but if loans are granted to small and large scale businesses, factories, companies etc to start business as usual, people will have their jobs back, their employers will start making money and there will be cash flow into the economy.

I have also checked on George Floyd's occupation before he died, none says he was an NBA player, George worked as a security guard in a nightclub, though after the breakout of the pandemic, he was laid off: https://www.vantunews.com/wiki/biography-george-floyd I think op made a mistake or got a wrong information.
The looting going on is worsening the economy of the US that is already not in a good shape after months of covid-19 pandemic, but at that it has no impact on the crypto market. Many of us wrongly believe that a bad economy means well for bitcoin and cryptocurrency, but it doesn't, when the economy is good, people will have their jobs and make money, and it's that money they will use to buy bitcoins; people will also be able to restart their businesses and continue accepting bitcoins for payment etc etc, that is more good than harm and of course more adoption.

Jose's style is different and I can even call it unattractive, many football fans love pep Guardiola cause of how he builds his teams around the passing game, playing possession football, dominating the opponent and winning trophies, Mourinho wins trophies, even as many as pep, but he does so with a different style. I remember Mou at Madrid, he changed Madrid into something else, they no longer played like footballers, but warriors , especially in the El classico and they still lost most of the time.

Spurs sacked poch and employed Mou because the white hart lane faithfuls need to start seeing their team win trophies, and imo there may be no man better for the job than Mou, but I fear his tactics are outdated and he may not be able to achieve the success they want him to.

Chelsea fans will be praying that Timo Werner signs for them, the only person connected to Chelsea that would not want it to happen is prolly Tammy Abraham it'll automatically make him a back up striker.

Frank Lampard and Chelsea have been linked to good and young players lately, I'd love to see few of them sign for the blues as Franky tries to build something new at the club, around young players aged 25 and below.

It's hard to pick between TT or MDT, both projects are not bad, if it was possible to vote for the two coins to get listed, then i would do so, it's just not possible as per the rules; so I just had to go with Thunder token and I hope they win this vote and get listed on Binance.
It is not because they got listed on Binance through community votes that made them depreciate in value (there are many other reasons for that). Binance are using this method just to get the community's popular opinion on a coin, the community would not vote for a project that is not good, bad projects wouldn't even vie for a spot to get listed.

The news you got is incorrect, not only that the officer Derek Chauvin who pinned Floyd down with his knee has been fired, also the other three officers on the scene, two of whom held him down have all been fired. While the main culprit has been charged for murder, the other officers await their charges, check this source: https://m.startribune.com/a-deeper-look-at-the-four-officers-fired-after-george-floyd-death/570885592/
Imo he did not mean to say Americans should do exactly this, since Floyd's death and protest is a 'hot' topic, he seized the opportunity to popularize bitcoin, cause it's impossible for citizens to do without (opt out of) the 'economy' which represents the national resources, markets, small and large businesses etc, without all this, we will just buy and hold bitcoins and have nothing to do with it.

Respect is not expected on an online forum, and definitely not on bitcointalk. Respect is more suited in homes or schools or in more real life situations. I understand your point, but respect isn't the word to use, you can admire users who have achieved higher ranks than you and also seek help from them, but I'll not say respect, that's the reason some users use the word "sir" which I personally consider absurd.
You can 'ignore' the reputation section if you want to stay away from drama on the forum, but it's also fine if you wish to get involved with your own accurate or correct take/comment on them.

IIRC when @Daniel91 started two merit giveaway threads in this board (i also merited some of the applicants) the participation percentage was very low, only a fistful of newbies were interested in submitting links to their good posts.

And in this giveaway also, it's the same case. Imo, no one is going to cheat, cheating isn't the problem, as you can see for yourself just how many Jr members-newbies have participated thus far. @op, since you want to give out 25 merits, and you've sent out 12, you can go to other threads/topics; you will see quality posts to merit.

Chelsea is a big club, Leicester City is not. It's impossible to put the both clubs in the same level, Chelsea are miles ahead of Leicester, both in terms of club success, club revenues, performances in Europe, the quality of players they can attract etc.

I know Leicester had a dream 2015-2016 season and are currently doing well this season, but when you list out Chelsea's success in the last decade or more, including their famous Uefa champions league triumph, it's impossible to equate the two teams. Even when Leicester won the league in 2016, their best player Ngolo Kante couldn't resist a move to Chelsea, he left the club and signed for the blues. A move from Leicester to Chelsea is a move to a bigger club surely, anyday, anytime.