Honestly, in all the years I've been into crypto I've tried many models to predict what is going on with crypto and how to know what is going to happen. Sadly, I found none, given the inner volatility of the crypto world.
Of course, you can analyse the market but only short-term.

But that is just my experience. If you find a way, I will welcome the insight

I still wonder... If they keep a lot of user's money, where is all this money going? Are they just to keep all the money of all those users whose accounts have been kidnaped? How much money does it imply>?

I just couldn't say it better, mate.
That's the true issue. To have nothing to hide doesn't mean we need to share everything. If every user has said NO  to the new poloniex policies (including the money kidnap) maybe they will stop and reconsider. but, as long as users allow this...

Man, I feel you. Maybe I have never been searching for earning some merits, to be honest, but I spend a lot of time in here and let me tell you, sometimes you just can't find anything of value.
Just take a breath. This is a difficult place. Every day I try to find a useful and meaningful post that, at least, can make me think or have a nice insight. But each day it is getting more and more difficult.
What has absolutely worked for me is just to stay away a couple of days, for anytime I come back I find something of interest. maybe this is time for you to chill out and just read for a while, or stay away, whatever.

Well... you are missing the Open Source part. Those developers who make the code just as you say
But let me explain how this thing work, if you see the soul of bitcoin you will understand why there are lot of wallets. When bitcoin born it wasn't a coin, it was a white paper and a piece of code called bitcoin core. The white paper explain how it works and the code does the magic (even you can see the download link from the core on the top of this sit.), now the network run the core version 0.16.0 and the question here is; what can i do with the core? or with that program called bitcoin? The answer is data manipulation. Bitcoin core have a lot of tools to obtain network data, and others to manage transaction.  If you take a look to this site, you will understand better the options you have https://github.com/ChristopherA/Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/blob/master/bitcoin-cli-commands-help.md

I will not give you a full lesson about bitcoin, but what you have to learn is that bitcoin works in a network, so if you run that network as a server, you can let other people run commands from bitcoin core, and that's how wallets work, is just a server in which you can install the bitcoin core and make a nice user interface to let the users manipulate their coins. some wallets give you limited access, other ones give you better access, but if you want to have a full access and build your own transactions by using commands you will need to install bitcoin core, at end that's the only way to guarantee no one will have access to your coins.

Yes, and also, your $20 plus the other people's $20 can make a significant kidnaped amount!!! So where is all this money going? Are they just keeping it if you don't accept the new policies? How can it be any legal?
I think all users with some money need to ask for their funds to be returned. I just can't understand how a big company as poloniex can broke the rules nicely and keep what probably is a big number of other's money.

That's my concern too.
Besides, the "kidnap" has not been resolved yet. I don't know if it is legal to change your policies and make the users unable to say "Ey, I don't agree, so I prefer to withdraw my funds and leave the service". Nop. They restrict your funds' access as long as you don't give them the information they seek due to their change, but it is even legal? When I agree with a service term and then they change them, I am supposed to agree again, don't I? Even if I have some funds on my Paypal account I should be able to withdraw them if they change their policies...
Sad. This is sad.

I was discussing the same last week, precisely because I find it to be a new way of extortion. If they change their policies, then you should be able to say "I don't agree" and remove all your funds. If not, it definitely seems an extortion to me.
They are asking even for a personal photo of your face. This is against many policies, but, still, they require this new information, along with all the commonly asked one.
So if you do not agree with that, then they will kidnap your fund 'till you give them the information required. This is extortion, kidnapping and it must be illegal.

Besides, giving such kind of private data can be dangerous, for they haven't even spoken about their last hacking attempt: https://themerkle.com/poloniex-users-suffering-from-frozen-accounts-suspended-withdrawals-and-disabled-markets/

Have the data been stolen?
Do the hackers have all the personal information of their users now, including how they look?

I've asked some lawyers friends and they all answered me the same: if you agree with a site's policies and then they change, you should be allowed to stop any relation (commercial, etc) with them, as well as they are obligated to erase all the data they have from you by sending a copy first. Of course, the law system depends on the country they are, but it should work this way, since Poloniex is now under the US regulations.

Some basics steps to rank-up:
- First of all: stop posting shits like this one:

Or this:

or:

Maybe stop writing like this as well:


or...

(Even when I liked the part of "greeding with someone", LOL).

The list can follow and follow, for it seems to be your common behavior.

- Second step: stop posting about ranking, for it has been answered many times. So: search before posting another junk and useless post.

Creo que, aunque muchos no lo vean, los españoles le han dado una lección al mundo esta semana. Gracias al esfuerzo de muchos implicados, pudieron derrocar un gobierno corrupto. Eso es espectacular en el mundo en que vivimos. Yo soy de México, así que imaginarás que acá es virtualmente imposible luchar contra un narcoestado asesino y corrupto, donde en cada nivel de la vida te encuentras con la corrupción: burócratas, policías, jueces, incluso personal de salud, ni qué decir políticos, todos una bola de corruptos y asesinos, impunes y descarados.
Me dio mucho gusto ver que España no quitó el dedo del renglón que comenzó a escribir Garzón hace ya sus años. Me alegra ver que aún existen países donde la bola de corruptos gobernantes y sus secuaces acaban entre rejas.

No olviden que han dado una lección al mundo esta semana. Podrán estar o no de acuerdo con el nuevo gobierno que se les viene, con todos los politicuchos que también andan peleando la carroña, pero la lección ha sido dada y deberían sentirse orgullosos por ello.

Mate just take a look at your English skills before writing such kind of stuff.
You have some posts like this one:

So, is clear you don't even get the rules in here (this kind of oversized texts are not well seen in here for it feels like if someone is screaming to you...)...

I think if you install Grammarly you can improve the way you write, maybe even you will understand the difference between "message" and "massage".

Regarding the proposal, I can't even fully understand what you mean by that: So I believe that if sign camp. disable officially from forum only for Jr. Members, it will help prevent spam permanently.
Do you mean the forum need to implement only Jr. Members as signature managers?
Or do you try to mean that Signature Managers should not allow Jr. Members to join a signature campaign?

So, you say the forum needs better posters?  WTF, man. Maybe you should start with yourself...


EDIT (a month later) This user has improved a lot since he wrote this post. I'm glad to see that one shitposter can become a good new user on the forum by helping others and creating good content. Congrats
I still don't agree with this post and also I don't understand why it has come back again to life, but whatever.

Ummm...
There are some many countries where democracy is just a circus. I can absolutely understand why people do not believe in democracy anymore and prefer to stay home instead of going to vote for someone they don't believe in.
Platon wrote "Democracy is the tyranny of the ignorant people", for he thought you can make people stupid enough so they vote for the worst candidates, and this is kind of true...
Anyway, look at the world. The common feeling I see in the people is dejection. Humanity is losing the hope in the future, for the present is chaotic and unfair. Maybe is just that: people can't see the point of going to vote anymore, for everything is a big circus and they have the feeling they can do nothing about.
Maybe they are right, perhaps they are wrong. I just understand the feeling.

Yep, I found one incomplete word in here: "These credits are rather special, as they are replaced 30 days after they have been awarded, and the replcement is added to his pouch."

Maybe you can make just two separates topics, one to describe just the merit system and another one to fully describe the coins and ranks.

Trust score is a decentralized and no-moderated system used for many users to alert others to one profile. For instance, you can get negative trust if you:
- Spam the forum by making useless topics again and again.
- Farm an account, or give merits to an alt. Some people find easy to make two accounts and give merit from one to another, but they eventually are going to get red trust.
- If you make transactions (money or crypto) and steal the people.
- If you encourage others to do so.
- If you use links to a phishing site or try to hack anyone...
- insulting, making some fake accusations to others...
- Using bots to post...
- PLagiarism can give you some red trust. Copy-pasting is not allowed in the forum, etc.
So, in sort, you will receive red trust (negative) if you spam, hack or do some harm to anyone or the forum itself. If you behave as a normal person, then you probably stay neutral.
The trust is given to you by other users, so it is no controlled by moderators in any way. So be careful and just use the common sense.

That's (sadly) not true, for the bounties accept newbies and even brand new. Maybe you're talking about signature campaigns and the avatar option in personal profiles.
Take a look at all the bounties accepting newbies and the posting activity they usually have as a result.

It will become a farmer party if the forum decides to introduce that.
Nop, this is far from being a solution, I'm afraid. Sadly, there are many users on the forum farming accounts, so it will make their lives far easier. The merit system can be unperfect, but, still, there is a number of users concern about spreading their smerit in good new posters. Your idea does not give a solution for the real problem here: there are too many spammers, useless posters and it is difficult to find out some good newbie that deserve merit for him/her posting activity.
A good idea regarding the merit system should involve that mean problem. And, yet, I can't think about a solution to that.

Maybe using words as "wallet" and "credits"   can be tricky, for many newbies already believe that the merit system is a kind of money, so they can just buy them. The reference to the "medals", can be misunderstood by newbies, as well.
Maybe this is easy to talk about how the merit system works if there is only explained the merits, instead of the merits and the medals. I think the part we need to highlight the more is related to how to earn merits, how the system works on the social plane, meaning how a post can become a merit receiver.
The medal and credit part can be confusing, for it gives the idea of seniors members sending some kind of money to others.
But that's just my opinion, trying to be in a newbie's shoes here.

There are some academical websites where you can find papers about bitcoin:
- Jstor.org. In there, you will find a good number of academical paper, but the problem is you will need to join towards an institution if you don't want to pay.
- Research Gate. This is like an academic-social media in which many academics and researchers upload their current work. You will find in there some good researchers about bitcoin going on, as well as some (and free) articles: https://www.researchgate.net/topic/Bitcoin
- Academia. edu. The same like Research Gate: this is a social-academic-media place with thousands of papers with free-download available. http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Bitcoin
- Cabra, another place with some good papers about bitcoin (i think this is fully dedicated to the crypto world, but I haven't look into it seriously yet): https://cdecker.github.io/btcresearch/

I hope it helps.

It was nice to read your blog, for I was feeling the same. It is curious we have taken the same path today (I wasn't seeking for a post to reward, but for a post to answer or learn from) and came to the same conclusion. In my case, the results have been: 2 reported post, 5 answered, 20 reads and, in conclusion, nothing new on the table, for, in general, the topics I've read are:
- Politics and society: nothing of interest. I can't expend my time reading a topic about meditation of the point of life.
- Meta board: newcomers asking about to change the whole system, so they can rank-up quickly and with no effort.
- Beginners: once more, it should be rebaptized as "begginers".
- Bitcoin discussion: the "BTCvsETH" daily post, along with the traditional "BTC in the future?", or, "BTc and Gold?"  "blablablas".

So, yes, I feel your pain, man.
 

I've neither been able to find you, even when I appear when I'm not so active in our local.
Maybe some stats are wrong.

Crystal clear, JC needed to become a merit source, he's active in many boards and active in the giving-away activity. But, still, some of the data seems to be missing.