The OP is a pure shitpost. He might have been lucky getting merit on his past whining but definitely this tactics won't last. Desist from this OP before your account gets nucked.

Onto a serious concern. Honestly, I am beginning to loath write-ups on the Merit system. These complaints here and there piss me off.

Yes indeed, it is foolish.

A little deviation since Theymos can easily be reached here. Please don't see it as a complete off track.

I think there should be a deviced way the sMerit can be reversed (undone) if given in error. Let's say double clicked or sent twice without realizing it actually went through the first time or when refreshing/reloading one's browser after sending the merit - doing this tends to send our more merit even without the benefactor's knowledge. Can Theymos please fix this?

I am not sure anyone has brought this issue up but I don't want to pile up on the Merit system this and that by starting a thread on this.

This has become my mindset too as ICOs have become a ground for easy Internet fraud this day. But I can do pre-ico once I find the project laudable and irresistible. At pre-ico, the coins or token are almost at giveaways.

Research don't seem to be enough this day. If you observed the Vionex ICO fraud, you wouldn't have known they would scam. Everything was carried out with clinical precision till the end. Got a whole lot of people deceived.

What are you blabbering about? ICO as used in this forum is all about crypto.

OP, are you by chance aware of this thread here with an allegation https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2947177.0 Is it dé javu?

Is the McGregor (from the link you supplied and I followed it to discover the OP of that thread) guy truly a member of the scamming team  as alleged? I am going over to draw his attention to this.

Report this to the moderator or to the Meta session so that the guys get their red painting.

Come on, don't be naive. An agreement is an agreement. It should stand that way except it is conditionally stated in the beginning that a reduction may occur later. Without that, changing rules if engagement at the end is a breach and should be seen as a scam.

Ouch! This is a heavy allegation. You make it sound like the campaign managers are accomplices in this spamming the forum struggles to eradicate.

Managers here express more laxity than their colleagues at the btc paying campaigns. I don't think they deliberately want to not be thorough but maybe the crave to keep the scarcely got jobs make them a bit relaxed with strictness to adherence to posting rules.

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I think the forums have enough moderators. They only need to step up their game and be top notch getting defaulters to face the wrath of the forum. The existing laws need to start getting enforced.

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Well done Joel. Your position can not be faulted.

As a noob, you are bound to take this position and tag what is happening a bubble. I don't have any issue with such stand. But have you heard of the word, "correction"? Good. Try to see what is happening as correction and price stability. Nothing rises forever without finding gravitational pull once in a while.

No doubt the Mt Gox sell off aided the further plunging of price as the news made a mess of technical analyses. Also, don't hurriedly forget that excess supply will always bring price to its knees at all time. And that was what happened with the sell off.

Scalping is a better option if you are a trader and know how to do it. Scalping is a skill not many can perfect. But if you are an investor you won't need it -only hodl.

The duration to hodl will also depend on the news surrounding the coin you are hodling. If news is favourable, you keep hodling and vice versa. So, there is no predefined time duration to hodl, for me.

The OP would do better if he put out the link to the source of this news. It helps to keep things in their proper perspective and prevent needless spamming. And as for Binance starting up a DEX while it has an already existing enviable centralized exchange will be a huge dream. I seriously doubt this.

Well, if we had to beat the OP's question into two parallel parts: Political arrest and (2) Criminal arrest, our verdicts may change. For me, I see the first kind of arrest as having strength of character while the second may be with having criminal intent and breaking the law of the land.

My respect stays with the first. And yes, I would trust such a person arrested because they refused to compromise their fundamental principles with a sitting authority.

Illustration: Bear with me as I give these two scenarios to support my position. Two lawyers get arrested. One, for refusing to give up his activism. The other for defrauding a client. Both are convicted. Served their respective jail terms. Came out but both don't remain the same. The first one remains a lawyer while the second is debarred. This is because crime will always manifest a character flaw.

I can bet my two upper incisors on the argument that the only reason you are so worried about Vod taking off the paint is so that you can easily get into Bitcoin paying campaigns. Minus that, I don't think you would be getting worried. Notably, you haven't shown any remorse for your misdeeds. If let off the hook, the concern is that you are likely to cheat again.

In support, I would strongly say, "ALL"

Payment received. Thanks.

Lol. Jet Cash is being hilariously sarcastic.  

Though he is right on the number of post this has created. If we look past the wall of amusement we would agree that the merit system is helping howbeit in its little measure in controlling spamming and draught of intelligibility in post constructiveness. It has also brought out a different dimension to the forum even with the "Joe's Signatureless Challenge" on board which encourages posters to up their game by increasing their post quality.

The Merit system is a good one.

You should know by now that noobs are mostly out to increase their post counts, not to research before asking already answered questions. They don't even have the habit of reading posts above them let alone researching the forums.

I would advise the OP to lock up this thread as the answers he seek have been provided him.

There is something wrong with post calculation. I guess it's either certain posts in the past are getting deleted or the forum bot has gone haywire miscalculating posts. I read many complaints on this so I decided to review my post count too. Behold, I am also affected. Lol...

From the spreadsheet my post count was 1195 as at March 5 cut off. I have counted 28 posts I made that were recorded (minus this one) since March 6 till today. 1195 + 28 should be 1223 from my knowledge of simple maths. But what I have on my profile is 1203. Meaning I made just 8 posts since then? Funny, right?

Perhaps Yahoo will know what to do here.

If this happens, we should count it a good thing. Facebook did it and the crypto community is still bubbling after that. It only goes to put a bit of sanity on the whole frenzy. Besides, ICOs have become scam ventures now with devs only out to steal public funds and then scamper to safety. I believe this should help put a regulation on ICOs. It's a welcome development, for me.

This is a sad truth. At the onset of the Merit system it used to bother me that my posts weren't getting merits (Of course I write quality posts). I would go back to check after posting if there were merits placed on them. And that wore me out. But not any more do I worry about that. I have been surprised on my posts that got merited after that.

I think the case with the OP is that of lack of depth in constructive posting. His posts history suggests that.

This argument about bitcoin being a bubble has gone forth and back with weak (and sometimes with concrete) standpoints. We are yet to see the end of it. But I know that what gives a thing its intrinsic value is demand and this is what bitcoin has been able to achieve. We may think its price is way too high but wait for it as the popularity around it continues to spread with its limited supply.

Says who?

Definitely, yes trading is worth it and of course there are traders here who make money off trading even in this bearish market. We really can't make a classical generalization that no one makes a headway in trading because of few failed traders around us.

You are right. I give the trophy to Coinomi but Freewallet is also good. While Coinomi does the same thing a MEW wallet does with erc20 enablement and still maintains a list of the regular coins, Freewallet does not list tokens. That's the beat there.

Eidoo does not have the advantage of Coinomi for it lists only Ether blockchain tokens.