I recommend for you to take a look of the BitcoinWiki, where the blockchain technology is explained and you will also find in there many other sections, as a small history of bitcoin, for instance, or different links into forums and chats related to the crypto world. This also contains useful books, as the one called "Mastering Bitcoin" (an essential reading), you can download it for free. Also, in the Bitcoin wiki you will find technical articles related to Bitcoin. You will need some patient in order to be able to explore all the contents published in there (is a huge place too): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page

Here in the forum, as it has been said, the Meta section contains many information related to how the forum works, so take a look. Besides, here in the "Begginers &help" board, you will find threads related to how to start here.

Remember always the gold rule: read, read & learn before posting.
Welcome!

Yes, sorry, the correct name is Wlingua (it is a mistake). Thank you for noticing it, I'm going to change the mistake now.

I agree, but to me, the most difficult part is to build a great team. Many people seem interested in a project, but when they need to work they just disappear or get lazy. In my experience, to get a great time to work with is the most difficult stage of every project.
Of course, you can try to work alone, and then you will be able to implement anything you think you are going to need in order to succeed. But, the truth is we all need somebody to work with, either for developing something we want to or simply we will need to move forward our project.
So: build a great team. Take your time in choosing your partners.

"Mankind has become tools of their own tools", Henry David Thoreau

Well, since the begging system (sorry, the Merit system) was implemented, every day we all see new threads asking, begging, getting desperate about how to get those appreciate numbers under the users' names. For those all that feel they deserve merits but, for some reasons, they don't get it, and with the purpose of helping to stop these kinds of threads, here goes some (useful??) advice:

1. When you enter into a community that happens to be there for years, you should be patient. I mean: just read, and learn all that you can about it before even trying to get your place in there. Show some respect for the work of the other users, for they have been in there for years, and you can't just be at the same level by a week of work. So, first advice: be respectful and humble.

2. Asking for some recognition is not going anyway. As much as you ask for something you don't deserve, the less respect you will receive, so, second advice: never beg for merits.

3. The forum is a very big place with a lot of hidden corners, so just explore it fully in order to find where you can be a useful person. Third advice, then: explore the forum.

4. I have done threads offering merits in exchange of knowledge, but most of the people didn't even read well the instructions, and they posted whatever they wanted, most of them off-topic. So, fourth advice: always read well before answering.and, of course, Don't post unless you have something to say.

5. The merit system is relatively new for all. It will need some time to be fully understood and well-implement. Also, many people here are just getting desperate for they don't receive merits, so, fifth advice: do not get desperated. The most you obsessed with merit, the less you will receive. Just chill for a while, relax and read.

6. There are some new users writing really constructive threads, and they have been rewarded. Explore, again, the forum, and learn from them. So, in the sixth place, learn from other users.One example: there are some users here trying to really help Newbies to improve their skills. This is the case of Jet Cash, who has created this website https://fittotalk.com/english-talk/index.php for you people to learn how to write good posts in English.


7. Take care of your personal posting activity. Before meriting someone, most of us always take a look at his/her posting activity in the users profile. This is because the merited people (at least under my consideration) must have a good attitude towards the forum. If your posting activity sucks, probably you will not receive merits as spected.

8. Never NEVER commit plagiarism. If you find something of interest on the internet, then share your thoughts, maybe a resume and then give the link to the original. Copy-pasting will never receive merits, and, also, you can be banned for that.
 
Of course, there are too many other pieces of advice I can think about. For instance, the language issue. I am not a native-English-speaker, so every day, I try to study and improve it a bit. How? By reading in English (newspapers, books, etc), by studying the English Grammar (there is some app, like Wlingua, really useful to learn a bit per day). If you want to write in another language, then you will need some study (Google translator doesn't work, folks, just try a bit harder). Hey, my English is far from being perfect, but, at least, I do my best!

The biggest problem most of the beggers have is money: they come here into the forum seeking to earn some bitcoin. Well, people, it will take a while, and you will need to work hard. You can't just go into a place and say "Hey, give me some money, I know nothing, I am not willing to learn nothing, but I deserve it!!!"... Um... nop, it just can't work!! So, if you are here just because you think this is going to be easy to earn money, then first learn about Bitcointalk, ok? For in here you have a lot of useful information about cryptoworld and, for sure, you will find your own path if you are willing to learn.

So, last advice: just LEARN. This is free, people, free!

Ummm... I don't fully understand what are you seeking... Maybe, if this is an announcement (as it appears to be), you should post it on the Altcoin>Announcements section. You can move it by yourself.

The people don't hate Muslims, for the most of them don't even know what it is. It is just a built enemy in order to legitimatize invasions and wars against some other people which aren't even Muslims, by the way.
If you point out something and convince the people for it to be the enemy, the worst thing in the face of the earth and then you describe them towards a religion, then the sheep will follow. The people need an enemy. They don't want to see their own rulers as an enemy, so they make another one. And, of course, if you convince a country's population about the idea of a thread, even when it is based on a big lie, or have no arguments, they will see the government as the great protector, and all the military spent as something "necessary"...
So no, people do not hate Muslims, they just have been brainwashed.

Yes, but I just have mentioned how difficult was for many people to achieve a high rank. Let notice I was talking about earning money here in the forum. In order to be able to work here with a good profit, it is usually needed an upstanding rank. In my previous speech, I was meaning how difficult has been for us all to become respectable members, we have been here for years, asking and answering questions and a big etc. Now, there are too many people seeking money instead of knowledge around here. And that's one of the reasons why the merit system had to be implemented. I was answering a person begging for some recognition before even making a research on this forum, being part, making good contributions and so. For, lately, this is the normal situation: people with no interest in the forum itself, but on the possibility of earning a few dollars.
Regarding your question, when the merit system was implemented it would be really unfair to put all members at the same level. You have a point, there are many members which occurs to be shitposted since the beginning, and this is going to be really difficult for them to rank up now (which is what the merit system was seeking). Of course, they are also legendary members with zero quality posts and tons of activity. Of course. But most of them aren't shitposting!!
There are too many respectable members here with tons of information, they are sharing all this knowledge at no cost to anybody, and they deserve each merit of their ranks. My example: I have a limitate number of sMerits  and I love to give away them in order to help and encourage people to make good posts. But I have to earn my own merits too if I want to give smerits to the people. So I try to work harder, much harder than before. To all ranks the merit system means a challenge.

The only thing I ask to those desperate newbies is tfor them to show some respect and to not be so obvious in their only goal: earn money. The forum is much more than a few coins or a place where you can earn a couple of dollars: is a community working on sharing their knowledge freely, and, between this knowledge, there is much information about how to earn some money by using crypto!!! Is not enough?? No. The people prefer to, instead of reading, to beg and beg and beg. They just seem to can't understand this is nor a charity website. If you want your place here, work. If you want to understand crypto, read.
If you just seek for people to give you something free, keep waiting and begging, for this is not going to happen.

I've been looking into your post history with the will of giving you some merit (because you said you made good contributions) and find anything of use. So just improve your contributions, try to make useful posts and to write properly (as much as you can) in English.
The forum is not a place where you can come and beg for something that implies true effort.
What I recommend?? Well, take a look at the most merited posts, and try to understand why are they succeeding and you not. Of course, you will find many merits unfairly given, because they are many farmers around here (cof cof ), but you will also see very remarkable posts from you can learn a lot.
Do not stay just in one section, explore the forum, for God's sake!! There is too much to learn in here, you've been here for a really short time, so just be humble and learn well how this works before coming and asking for rewards you don't deserve at all!!
Looking into your profile this is clear all that you want from this forum is earning money. Well, then you should know this is a really competitive place and you need time and constant effort to become someone in here (years!! like all of us have needed!!).
Before the merit system you needed years to become a legendary member, now it is going to take the same time and more discipline in the quality of your posting activity. Look around you, all of us have been here for years, years of effort, years of learning every day new stuff about the crypto.
Can you just appreciate it?? Our effort?? Our sleepless nights??

Given the big amount of scamming projects surrounding the cryptoworld it has become necessary those kinds of implementations. As far as I've seen, the platforms banning ads are not against the blockchain itself, but against the fraudulent use of it, as a scam, fraudulent ICOs, and not confidable investing sites. To me, this is a necessary evil, and I do not agree with the idea of good ICOs having a problem with that: if you have a confidable project you will not need to say "Ey, free money here!!! " as many spam sites do every day.
Besides, it will help for the people to take seriously the crypto world, for what kind of asset is announced on the internet as a sort of miracle?? None. And if everyone is, for instance, trying to sell dollars with "great profits", it will be treated instantaneously as a scam. So, what's the difference with cryptocoins? Again, none. There is no difference at all. If we want for crypto to be taken seriously our first move is to stop that kind of advertisement because it damages the crypto image.

You can escape from reality.
This is really sad how many people feel depressed nowadays. Many teenagers can only feel important inside a fiction as a video game, where they can be heroes, they can fly, they can rescue the princess and they can stop thinking for a while on the bullying they suffer at school, for instance.
In many ways, the increase of the video games use can be related to the society we are building, tied to a feeling of immanence and pointless style of life. There are not challenges enough for smart people surrounded by stupidity. For instance: a brilliant young man loving maths in a normal high school with glasses and quite fat, probably will feel really alone, for his companion's concerns are related to beauty, social recognition, sports, social media, clothes, shopping... and a big "BLAH". Imagine he's concern about the universe, about the future, about space traveling, he will be called "nerd" and become the focus of many jokes.
Then he can go home and play his video games where he receives points and recognition for resolving problems, for thinking...

¡¡Madres!! No, pues no me extraña, como decía, ni Orwel ni Huxley escribieron manuales y sus libros parece estar siguiéndose al pie de la letra, en lugar de servir de aviso para todo aquello que debemos evitar. Black Mirror le está dando una vuelta de tuerca a lo que sucede ahorita con internet y queda más que claro que, efectivamente, tiene mucha razón en demasiadas cosas.
Lo de China no sólo me sorprende, sino que me parece ya el colmo. No obstante, no es nuevo.
Comentaban por ahí que en US te piden tus cuentas de usuario, esto es cierto, lo he vivido. Cuando cruzas la frontera te pueden exigir que desbloquees tu celular y que les muestres no sólo tus redes sociales, sino también tu historial de navegación. Yo no tengo Facebook y eso me sirvió para pasar un rato muy desagradable en un cuartito porque no se creían que no lo tuviera. ¡¡Como si fuera oblogatorio!!
Acabé discutiendo con un soldado sobre black mirror y recomendándole que la vea. Por suerte no fue más allá, pero créanme que a otros no les fue tan bien como a mí.

Es vergonzoso lo que está sucediendo a nivel internacional, pero más vergonzoso e incomprensible me resulta que la mayoría de la gente entre voluntariamente al juego. Como mencionaban también arriba, muchos de los quizz de Facebook te piden datos personales, así como los de tus contactos. Aquellos que voluntariamente los otorgan por las ganas de que en su muro aparezca que son un  "Orco en el mundo de Tolkien" o mamadas así realmente no tienen interés ninguno en su privacidad.
Una cosa es un gobierno espiando al pueblo y otra muy diferente un pueblo que se espía voluntariamente y le hace el trabajo al gobierno. Algo así no lo hubiera predicho nadie de la posguerra.

Please read the instructions ahead: I specifically said no faucets, trading, bounties, etc, will receive merits, I just ask for people to be creative!! Sorry no merits for the moment, you didn't read the instructions!!!! be creative, mate<!!

Hell yeah!!! They are nice too!! Thanks, mate!

Under the Muslim law, usury is totally forbidden. Some Muslims countries are using that as an excuse in order to forbid the use of bitcoin, based on the possibility of BTC being used as gambling and so. Now, of course, this is just another example of how religion can be used as a way of legitimization of anything, due to the several interpretations a religious book can always have. Of course, in the Coran, there is a specific prohibition about gambling and usury, if I am not mistaken, this is called "haram". Bitcoin, as any currency can be used in too many ways. But, once more, the prohibition based on the interpretation of the religious speech is nothing but a political weapon of control and legitimacy.

It is better if you stay here in the forum for a while before joining a bounty, you will learn a lot and you will be able to choose those bounties suitable for you. Be careful, and choose wisely, just be patient and wait for a while.
There is never such a thing as "too late". But you neither need to be in a rush, so just wait, read, read and read; learn, learn and learn. And then you will be prepared for anything.

Por desgracia sí, como también lo fue Aldous Huxley con "Un mundo Feliz", pero ninguno de los dos libros estaban destinados a convertirse en un manual, caray.
Cuando veo a toda esa gente caminando con el celular en la mano, más pendientes de su cybervida que de la real, a veces se me hace un nudo en el estómago, pero es que no tienen remedio: les encanta ser vistos, les encanta su minuto de gloria al recibir un "like", como si fuera un pequeño trofeo en sus vidas... y ni siquiera se plantean que están vendiendo su privacidad, su libertad y la de sus conocidos a precio de Like.

Totally agree with you. Of course, it depends on the point of view of the affected ones:
- For those who invested on bitcoin when the bubble, for sure this isn't good.
- For the public image of bitcoin, this is regular, for many people still think this is a bubble, the public opinion will need a while until they see bitcoin again as something stable (this point is related to the first one, but in the opposite sense: those who didn't invest on btc when the bubble, are happy 'cause they didn't lose their money but, as I can see in my friends, they don't think about bitcoin as something  stable or safe).
- For those who earn directly in bitcoin this is great, for we get more bitcoin with our salary...
- For the people that truly know how bitcoin works, its story and so, this is good. A bubble does not make any good, and, even when many think bitcoin is too low now, I think this is a good price for the moment.
Many believe this is going to happen another pump, a big one. I can't predict anything, for I'm not a time-traveler, but even when I think bitcoin is never going to be something stable, somehow I believe this is needed if we want it to become mainstream. Nevertheless, it probably won't happen any soon, for this is not the nature of the coin at all.

It has been repeated many times here on the Begginers & Help board, so please, consider that the first step to earning merit is: Read before posting!!!! (sorry for the intensity, but, oh, man, every day we have at least ten new threads related to merits).
Do not despair, friend, as well as you can work on your English skills (something useful to many stuff in your life), you can chill and explore the boards here in the forum with the only goal of understanding how it works.
When you have achieved both pieces of knowledge about the forum and some English skills for you to express yourself freely and more comfortable, you will see immediately the results not only by earning merits here in bitcoin talk, but everywhere else, for you will learn the most important lesson in life: to be patient.

Totally agree. To me, Steemit is a very good option but, unfortunately, I don't have for now enough time. I've learned a lot from steemit, and for the moment I consider it to be a great payment!!!
Jajaja... and regarding your advice on starting my own business, I think we can design a place similar to steemit but based on another idea, I don't know yet, I've just thought about that for a while. Maybe we can create a place based on the idea of the rewards but where the people can make contests, as resolving issues of interest, researching about something... I don't know yet!! any idea!!

Thanks for your collaboration to this thread!!