Chill out bro, I have known about it. I see those badges, but I think they are a bit different from art contest badges.
Bitcoin expert, Bitcoin-Qt core developer, and the Glider deserve to be permanent (no doubt, surely). But I am not really sure about art contest badges if we consider the impact of their contributions on our forum. IMHO  

Oke suhu. Ane juga gak ngerti gimana caranya abuse, mau beli merit ane juga ya gak punya uang. Makanya ane punya merit standar aja dari dulu. wwkwk

OOT gan, izin report!! 

How do you know it will be permanent?
What other badges do you mean? Could you enclose the picture?
As far as I know, those are the first badges got from forum competition. CMIIW!!!!

Well, after reading this thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204528.0, and see the result : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204528.msg53245149#msg53245149. 5 membres are awarded with interesting badges. I am just curious about what are the advantages of wearing the art badges.

I thought about these :
- Is it only as of the appreciation from theymos to them? or It has special advantages like [get the priority to be accepted on a bounty campaign, or get a guarantee for something else]
- Will the art badges be permanent? or just given for temporarily and will be disappeared someday?



example : danny's badge

A good idea, it can motivate lower ranks like me. Then, not only to commemorate the history of when the merit system officially was born, but it also indicates a new phase of forum improvement. Well, Look forward to see a positive response from theymos and staff.  I hope your idea will be accepted.

Ya itu kehebatan Pak Anwar. Tapi tidak boleh juga menyamakan dengan yang lain, kemampuan orang beda-beda. Jangankan dapat Merit keren dari nullius, dapat merit dari hal umum/general aja belum mampu. Kalo saya pikir, entah dapat merit dari hal umum atau dari yang spesifik, semuanya sama baiknya. Keren atau tidak, ya itu subjektifitas aja.

Sorry kalo ane beda pandangan dengan ente!

Don't you know he is a global moderator? It is not a hard thing for him to find out a deleted post.  

We must know that it is possible but will theymos decide to apply it?
Now, the only thing we can do is waiting for his response. Let hope that some suggestions above can trigger the expected decision.  

Huobi Token (HT) is in the top 36 ranks on the coin market cap with interesting trading volume and circulation.
It is surprising when seeing the increase of this coin. So far, many altcoins follow the Bitcoin decrease. But what happened to this altcoin (HT) is that it meets the rising price. Today, it increases around 1.22%, the rate is at $4.61. I think it is a good chance to research more about this coin.

So far, we are seeing the progress of the altcoins following the BTC price, however, it only happens to some certain altcoins that have strong development and trading volume. Compared with BTC trading pair, some coins may increase when the price of the BTC is decreasing. However, not much, some other altcoins precisely follow dropping. It may need more moment or wait for the price of the BTC to be more stable.

Are you looking or some altcoins that have good trend and hype today to invest? If you are new here, it is better to analyze some top coins (as in 20 top coin market cap). Never only follow the trend that is happening right now. It may be so risky for you. Additionally, there are actually many good altcoins that will bring you more profits if you know the right time to buy and sell or hold.
Try to choose some coins such as XZC, NEM, XRP, BNB, and also ETH of course.

Do you mean converting BTC to certain altcoins?
Personally, it is rare to be done. But, sometimes, it is promising enough to convert the BTC into some certain altcoins such as Ripple, XZC, and also BNB. Of course, it may be useful when the pair of BTC and those altcoins are higher. So that we can gain more amounts of the altcoins.

ALready finding this kind of bounty projects, with the ETH or BTC payment. However, they are still limited enough and we can only find them on the service board in this forum. So far, the bounties prefer to use their own token or coin to pay the bounty hunter. They may not lead to dumping their token, however, sometimes, not all team have enough money to pay the participants with the BTC or ETH first.

Well, actually ICO with multiple rounds have ever happened and I found it, unfortunately, I participated in the bounty programs. Aside from it, ICO with multiple rounds may have been set on their roadmap, ICO round 1, 2, and etc. However, some teams also decide to extend more ICO rounds after looking at the progress and development of the fundraising and see their prospect in the market.

The reason why many investors prefer to choose IEO is that the token or the coin has been listed on the exchange. We will think that this coin will be interested, promising, or profitable or not seen by the progress of the trading volume on the exchange. However, it is not enough. It needs further information and research on the coin itself, the team, and also the exchange where they list the coins.

Complaining of the crypto volatility is nonsense I think. Before entering the crypto world, we must know that one of the most characteristics of the crypto is volatile. So we must be ready for the condition. The volatility may lead us to set the right strategy in order to get high profits, that is by learning more to make the best trading. However, of course, this is not easy. We must have certain experiences and research in order to accumulate the volatility to be high profits.

What amount did you lose on trading that makes you poor? In which coin? What kind of strategy?
Are you sure that you have decided the right ways of trading? The best strategy? Well, trading only will result in two things, profits of being rich, and loss for being poor. And to pick one of them will depend on your coins, stratgey, and way of trading.

For what conditions we should blame the crypto and blockchain technology? They have no mistakes. They will be worthy or not depending on the team developers that create, handle, and develop them. This technology is actually damn good developed. However, some of them become not valuable or worthless because they are not unique, not interesting, and also nit promising especially for future investment.

Well yeah, actually there are several platforms that are interesting to participate. So far, besides using the bitcointalk forum, I also sometimes research the new coins form another crypto forum such as altcoin talks, We can also find on Bounty Hive platform, or Bounty miner, and others. telegram group is also o=another way to get updated news of the crypto project and development. But of course, before investing, beware to research them carefully.

Actually, whatever the crowdfunding system used, as an investor, we must be more and more careful, smarter, and also wiser. Only because it is an IEO, we should believe at all? Not at all. We must still analyze the projects whole from their ideas, team, until what exchanges to be used for IEO. Beware of scammers. they are still around us.