It was typical match for Atletico Madrid. They scored first goal in a mid of first half and then they gave ball posession to Marseille. As usual, Atletico defended very well. After Payet got injured, I didn't believed that Marseille can win this final. In second half Atletico finished everything by scoring 2 goals. And as expected, Fernando Torres got his few minutes to play in his last final in Atletico squad.
Combine? No. Champions league would become more boring if we would more mediacore teams. Actually, I heard that big clubs and UEFA aren't happy that there too many weak teams in CL group stage and maybe they need to reduce number of teams participating. It's not very interesting to watch Real playing against teams like APOEL or PSG against Celtic.
I don't understand one thing - why EL matches are always played after CL games. After we watch exciting Champions league on Tuesday and Wednesday, it's difficult to watch boring Europa league on Thursday. Maybe UEFA need to organize EL matches on Tuesdays like warm-up before CL games on Wednesday and Thursday?
But for me Europa league become interesting starting with 1/4 final round only, where there areless weak teams left.

It would be best to bookmark original website and use bookmarks to reach it. Always check url on address bar. I would recommend to avoid clicking links one emails, personal messages which was sent by unknown senders. Be careful with links which are hidden under URL shortener. When you are using Google search, never click on websites which are shown as ads in search results.

Oh, that wasn't smartest scammers I've ever say. It's obvious scheme which are used by Nigerian scammers, so called Advance-fee scam - they will give you millions but before that they will ask to pay more or less money to cover fees or sth. Luckily, you lost only $60, other people loosing thousand bucks by giving it to scammers. It always hurts to lose money, but at least you learned from mistake.
But nowadays scammers are making more sophisticated schemes which can attract much more victims and more profit to scammers. Newbies and even more experienced people must be extremely careful in crypto world before investing.

As I understand, he gave you link to a phishing website? Good that you didn't tried to login. Otherwise I would recommend to change your password ASAP.
I see that this guy was already tagged as account farmer in past. I suspect that he is hacking accounts with help of phishing links. If victim tries to login on phishing website, he just collect login details, change password and later sell account.Scammers can't get ban on bitcointalk, but I think he can be banned for spreading phishing links. Report him to global moderator would be a good idea.

In general, it's not suggested to post in spam megathreads, not only when we talk about Merit. When thread have 10 pages of discussions it'snot likely that you wont repeat things which was already said by other users.
Forum users spending their sMerits on Meta board most actively, but IMO, it shouldn't be target for Merit hunters. Newcomers need to focus on Beginners & help board and other boards to educate themselves.

First of all, Merit like a trust system aren't moderated, but you can report Merit buyers/sellers to DT members and naybe they will tag them.
Merit abusers are risking to get red trust rating.
You can get merit if you have money - you're right. But I suspect that you need to have very deep pockets to buy enough Merits to reach Hero or Legendary rank. Maybe it would be cheaper to buy Bitcointalk account than 1000 Merit. And more merit you're buying - bigger risk that you will be caught.

Just a small correction. ANN posts are made using bbcode (bulletin board code), not html which are used to create websites.

To make eye-catching ANN you have to post images on it. In order to do that you need to be Jr. Member at least. I'm not an expert in design, so I can't say how perfect ANN should look. In general, there should be introduction of your project, roadmap, team members, advisors, links to whitepaper, your social media accounts and etc. I just recommend to luck ANN's of most successful ICO's, who collected biggest amounts of money.
If you need designer, I recommend to take a look at list of designers, you can see that some of them are making ANN's:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1610428.0

It's inside info or just your prediction?

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Now I see this message on Moon faucets.

http://moonbit.co.in, http://bitfun.co, http://bonusbitcoin.co, http://moonliteco.in, http://moondoge.co.in, http://moonbitcoin.cash/faucet, http://moondash.co.in/faucet

Same for me.

As I know, BitCaptcha (example that you've posted) is dead. It's not possible to access their site anymore and they weren't accepting new publishers in recent months.
And I heard that almost all captchas (except Google ReCaptcha maybe) can be easily bypassed.
But I support your suggestion. As I remember, now Newbies have to solve simple SMF captcha before sending PM's, but it can't stop @hypebtc bots. So, I think that only Google ReCaptcha can help to prevent bots who are sending PM's and posting on bitcointalk.

Which one faucet? If you are talking about Coinpot tokens, there are no faucet for these coins. You can get it by claiming from all Coinpot faucets.

Where did he asked about Twitter followers? He is asking, how much Medium followers he need to participate in bounty campaigns. Please read more carefully before replying.

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OP, I think it depends on campaign that you want to join. Before joining campaign just read their rules and requirements. If you can't find info that you neeed l, then you can try ask bounty manager about it.

I recommend to follow tutorial which was posted by user above and set up faucet yourself. As you can see it's not rocket science. If you can't do it, I think that you wont be able to run successful faucet. Because faucet owner need to set up advertisements, find best positions for, check which is most profitable, fight with bots and etc.
I would recommend to get a free hosting and domain, try to set up faucet on it without risks. If you will be able to do that, then get cheap hosting and domain and upload your faucet to it.

Barcelona lost to Levante 5:4 and experienced first loss in La Liga this season. Messi wasn't in squad today, but it's not reason why Barca lost. They just played on vacations mode and didn't wanted to get injuries before upcoming World Cup. And when Levante scored 5th goal Barca finally started to play and was close to amazing comeback. Barca played in not their main squad, but it was strange that most experienced players like Alba, Sergio and Suarez were most awful tonight.
It's sad that Barca didn't ended season without defeats, but Levante deserved to win, they are in amazing shape in recent weeks. And I can't remember when Barca conceded 5 goals in La Liga last time.

It's a great suggestion,  and not only for newbies, many more experienced members over-quoting posts. In past I also did same thing - I posted huge quotes despite that I only replied to last comment. I thought it's ok because I saw so many experienced members posting huge quotes. And only later I realised how it's annoying and not comfortable to read.
And small tip from me. When you're quoting post with image, delete tag and leave only link to image.

There was already hundreds of offers to implement 2FA, but it's not likely that theymos will add it to current forum software. Theorically, it's possible to implement it to current SMF version, but as I understand theymos has made lot of modifications to this forum and now it's far from oroginal version. Iplementing thing like 2FA can be problematic, I think.
Yeah, I also hear that there will be some kind of 2FA on new forum software. But when? We are waiting for it for so many years and I highly doubt that it will be realeased in this decade.

Mostly web miner scripts such as Coinhive are mining Monero and some other altcoins which are best for CPU mining. I don't know Ethereum web miners.
Maybe some faucets are saying that you can mine BTC, ETH, DOGE and other coins, but they are just using same Monero mining scripts. You mine Monero and these faucets are paying in other coins by live exchange rate. You can try to look at Faucethub mining faucets.
But web mining it's just not wort even if you have new powerful PC. You can't earn significant amounts by using web miners. Your PC just will use more electricity and it's likely that you wont earn enough to cover it.

First of all, please fix link that you've posted. It should be http://xt7577.000webhostapp.com/ , not http://"http://xt7577.000webhostapp.com". Secondly, it's not a good idea to start faucet with free domain and hosting. As faucet owner you will have very limited options to monetize your faucet because mostly ad networks don't accept free hosted faucets. As I see, now you are trying to monetize it mainly with affiliate banners of faucets. Also, using 000webhost your faucet will be in sleep mode for 1 hour everyday and users wont be able to access it. And your website name is too difficult to remember. I recommend to get a domain and hosting, it's not such expensive thing.
And some positive things - I like your clean design without many annoying popups and miner scripts and 13 Satoshis is a good reward.

Oh, people are still complaining about Merit system?
I can agree that now it's more difficult to rank up, but who said that it should be easy? Some people are buying Merits, but they are risking to get red trust rating, also I suspect that it would be every expensive to buy enough Merits to reach high rank. And these who are selling their sMerit sooner or later will run out of it.
I noticed that amounts of Merit that people are sending are getting smaller. It's most likely that they spent all their sMerit that their had. Maybe others are just become lazy to spend their sMerit.
And another thing - I saw stats somewhere that huge number of forum users still haven't sent any of their sMerit, I don't know, maybe they are still not aware about Merit system. If people would use their sMerit more actively we would see less people complaining that's too difficult to get Merit.
Merit system isn't perfect, but it's one of the best thing happened to Bitcointalk in recent years. It can be improved somehow, but I don't have ideas how.