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8041  Other / Meta / Re: [POLL] BTT - BCT - BTCT? on: March 20, 2019, 02:43:44 AM
It should be the best if we mention the forum as bitcointalk, the original, full name of it.
If someone are lazy to type down its full name, and if I have to make a vote, I will choose:
Bitcointalk forum, abbreviated as BCT forum.
I would prefer to spend a second to add the word 'forum' at the end.
In the future, there will be something, digital assets, or sites, or stocks, etc. that have its abbreviation, ticker as BCT, BCTT, BTT, so adding the word 'forum' at the end, after the abbreviation always make sense.

In short, I voted for:
BitCoinTalk forum ~ BCT forum.
8042  Economy / Services / Re: [OPEN] Africa Bitcointalk community hangout signature campaign. on: March 20, 2019, 02:36:11 AM
I'm really surprised the project doesn't got much attention. I respect all of volunteers who joined the campaign and hope my own work will not stay ignored or unseen to other users of the forum.
It is not strange, fella.
Users tend to have more interests and pay more attention on bounty topics, not merit challenge topics, or community topics.
It is due the the fact that there are a large proportion of users come there first with intention to earn money, not to get knowledge, technical advice, etc.
I opened my merit challenge more than one month ago (five weeks ago), there is very little interests.
More than 70 sMerits available to give away (high strict rules) [Members only]
8043  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Good books for beginners to understand Bitcoin on: March 20, 2019, 02:32:28 AM
You can try to pick some course from coursera.com

I searched, chose appropriate courses (in my opinion) and added them into my topic, there:
Available courses on Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology from colleges and Univers
Anyway, you gave good search strategy, that can be used to search by the OP to find what is relevant for his interests, not mine.
8044  Other / Meta / Re: Who and when will hit 10k merits??? on: March 20, 2019, 02:29:34 AM
Update:
CLUB OF ABOVE 2000 MERITS-EARNED

RankUser nameBPIP profileTotal Earned-MeritsTrust
Administratortheymostheymos4050202: 0 / +22
LegendaryLoyceVLoyceV216486: 0 / +14


Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5115154.msg50184337#msg50184337

CLUB OF ABOVE 1000 MERITS-EARNED

RankUser nameBPIP profileTotal Earned-MeritsTrust
SeniorDdmrDdmrDdmrDdmr19222: 0 / +1
As you can see above, in my clubs, by  now there are outstanding members, @theymos, @LoyceV, and @DdmrDdmr.
Both @theymos and @LoyceV have earned  more than 2000 merits, they are on top, but I think we should exclude @theymos from the list, that should focus on normal forum members, not admin.
Next, @DdmrDdmr have moved fastly and has come very closely to the 2000-earned-merits threshold.

They both earned around 2k merits (lower or higher a little bit around one year after merit system activated). Let assume the rate of earned-merits per year is 2k per year.
If both @LoyceV and @DdmrDdmr will maintain both their dedication to make contributions for the forum, and keep their good rate to earn merits, they will hit that 10k earned-merits finish line in the next four years (might be sooner or later a little bit).

For someone who hit that line, years from now (LOL), I think they should have a new badge, new name-calling/ rank, such as Myth.
8045  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Good books for beginners to understand Bitcoin on: March 19, 2019, 01:57:38 PM
Just wondering if you experts have any good books
I don't have a list of good books, but I have a topic on blockchain courses (most of them are free).
There you go:
Available courses on Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology from colleges and Univers
I don't know those courses are relevant for your interests or not, just left them here for you.
8046  Economy / Services / Re: [CFNP] BitBlender Signature Campaign | Up to 0.0003BTC/Post | Member - Legendary on: March 19, 2019, 01:52:51 PM
Round 8 Payments have been sent out!


Keep up the good work guys, no issues or worries on my end and it's a privelege to work with you all. No new spots have opened up!
Received my payments for the Round #8, manager.
I wish that I can move up to the group of Senior Members with higher payment rate.  Wink
8047  Other / Meta / Re: Stats on the Rank pipeline - How many are we on the way to ranking-up (II) ? on: March 19, 2019, 01:51:50 PM
This means =

%= 10/660*100= only 1.51% of potential legendaries has ranked up!
It is normal figure, I think.
Most of Hero Members (airdropped Hero members) from the old era (before merit system) will not be able to move up to Legendary rank.
Over time, we will see the difference in pecentages of Hero Members ranked up to Legendaries between new and old era.
Who can rank up with new era, to become Legendary will be different.
Of course, there are still Legendaries from old era are outstanding guys in the forum.
Over time, the four clubs in my topic will mostly contain totally self-made users (by mentioning totally self-made users, I meant who started from zero to higher ranks)
[CLUBS] Top Merited-Users Classified into 4 Clubs
8048  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Bitcoin Cash - Pro on-chain scaling - Cheaper fees on: March 19, 2019, 01:27:16 PM
You drawn the downward line, that has not found stop station, and said the growth will continue.
Which growth did you mention here?
In the chart, what I saw most likely support level broken, not resistance one.  Huh
8049  Other / Meta / Re: Merit & new rank requirements on: March 19, 2019, 01:22:34 PM
I forgot to give you last week abstract on merit analyses.
Time series plots:
Intra-day merits:
Intra-week merits:
Meris over days of week (outliers displayed with red circles):

And the abstract is available there
Intra-day merits:
Notes:
- The part of the asbstract describes figures of intraday merits over the period from 19/2/2018 to 11/3/2019 (truncated dataset);
- Days from 24/1/2018 to 18/2/2018 truncated due to highly potential outliers; and days after 11/3/2019 truncated as well due to incomplete week (the eleventh week of 2019, 2019w11);
- Statistics presented in the post are for truncated dataset.

(1) Potential outliers are days that have intraday total merits beyond 157 or 1129;
(2) Median of intraday merits over the period is 623;
(3) 50% of observed days have their intra-day merits range from 521 to 746 (the interquartile range);
(4) Friday [in GTM time] is the day over weeks has lowest intraday merits in terms of both median and mean, at 554, and 614, respectively.
(5) Monday [in GMT time] is the day over weeks has highest intraday merits in terms of both median and mean, at 666, and 742, respectively.
(6) There are 24 potential outliers in total, and there is only one potential outlier day happened in early weeks of 2019, on 09 Jan. 2019, at 1161.
(7) Minimum and maximum of intraday merits (full dataset) are 312 and 13018, on 11/2/2019 and 24/1/2018 respectively.


Intra-week merits:
Notes:
The part of the abstract use full dataset, only dropped last two days due to incomple week (2019w10).

(1)   The median of intra-week merits is 4507;
(2)   50% of observed weeks (59 weeeks in total), have total merits in the range from 3818 to 5487 (the interquaritle range of intra-week merits);
(3)   Minimum and maximum of intraweek merits are 3065 and 30949, in 2018w35, and 2018w4, respectively;
(4)   Six potential outliers [beyond 1055 or 8375], all of them occurred in the year 2018.
8050  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency on: March 19, 2019, 01:18:11 PM
Do DASH have comprehensive plans for ASIAN countries such as Japan and South Korea that will stimulate mass adoption and foster a digital revolution that includes it as it main protagonist?
Not yet, if I have not missed something relates to the community expansion strategy of DASH.
Anyway, you should wait for official reply from DASH team.

It is terrible for Venezuelian locals with the nation's blackout crisis.
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Venezuelan bolivar notes are now useful only for making handicraft gifts
Why are Venezuelans seeking refuge in crypto-currencies?
(Dash mentioned on BBC, that’s a first)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47553048
8051  Economy / Services / Re: ★☆★ Bitvest.io - Plinko Sig. Campaign ★☆★ (Member-Hero Accepted) (New2) on: March 19, 2019, 01:12:33 PM
This is such a difference when bounty manager is nice, cultural, polite, can say thank you and sorry, admits mistakes and is helpful.
It's the point.
Our beloved manager always open-minded to PMs, and very kindly answers questions, complaints from participants or applicants.
In general, he is a very kind-hearted one.
Of course, never should bother managers, not only Hhampuz, if we don't have serious things to make a contact.
I thank to Hhampuz for giving me chance to participate in your campaign.
8052  Other / Meta / Re: Account banned - Limx Dev - Reason is a one-year-old message on: March 18, 2019, 04:48:10 PM
It is too general message.
There are three possible reasons, as the message shown:
- sending personal messages (and got reported).
- Spamming.
- Plagiarising.
So, no one knows the real reasons if simply read the message.
Let's wait for comments of other prestigious, skilled users.
8053  Other / Meta / Re: Account banned - Limx Dev - Reason is a one-year-old message on: March 18, 2019, 04:22:03 PM
Permanent bans usually can not come back.
On the case of Limx Dev, I just felt curious that the BitSend project has run its weekly airdrops for years, not from recent days, recent months.
So, it's too strange to see he/ she just got permanent ban recently.
Which kinds of problems led to the ban recently?
- Forum rules changed/ adjusted
- His/ her violation for years, but still recently found.

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15. No on-forum altcoin giveaways. [6][e]

Most giveaway threads are no longer allowed in the Alternate cryptocurrencies sections. From now on, posting or replying to such threads could result in being banned. Existing threads will be locked.

Specifically, you are not allowed to give people any incentive to post insubstantial posts in your threads. You can't offer to pay people who post their addresses, usernames, etc. You can do giveaways off-site and link to the giveaway page in a thread, but you can't give people any bonus for replying to your thread.

Similar threads are already restricted to Games and Rounds in the non-altcoin sections, but the giveaway-related post volume is so high in the altcoin sections that I've decided to just ban them entirely here.

Anyone can confirm reasons for the case.
Thank you.
8054  Other / Meta / Re: [POLL] BTT - BCT - BTCT? on: March 18, 2019, 04:13:47 PM
Why not tracing back to the first topic of @satoshi, there:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5.0
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Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!
At first, the forum created only for bitcoin.

I like your ideas, @suchmoon.
BT will not have risks to be overlapped by any tokens, altcoins, I think.
Two words, "Bitcoin" and "Talk" => BT

Not BitCoin.
8055  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Inspirational stories from self-made promoted users on: March 18, 2019, 02:25:29 PM
Updated the OP with one more story, it is mine.
Promotion with merit system and new rank requirements. It's possible. (by tranthidung)

Promoted with merit system, yes you can!
8056  Economy / Reputation / Promotion with merit system and new rank requirements. It's possible. on: March 18, 2019, 02:16:34 PM
A STORY OF A SELF-MADE SENIOR MEMBER

Welcome all to my topic,

Today, I will tell you my second story and give you some advice (if you not need them, just skip) for your later time spent in the forum.
More than one year ago, I felt like I will never hit the Full Member finish line, but I actually hit that line on December 13, 2018, or even some days sooner, I don't remember.
New Full Members:

RankUser nameBPIP profileBPIP Merit RECIEVEDBPIP Merit SENDTrustStatusPersonal comment about yourself
tranthidungtranthidungtranthidungtranthidung0: -0 / +0activeInformation expected
I felt happily when I hit that line. After that, I move my next finish line to Senior Member rank, and felt that journey will take around one more year.
Amazingly when after around 3 months (a little bit more than 3 months later), I hit the line.
Congratulations myself to become a new self-made Senior Member.

RankUser nameBPIP profileBPIP Merit RECEIVEDBPIP Merit SENDTrustStatusPersonal comment about yourself
tranthidungtranthidungtranthidungtranthidung0: -0 / +0activeInformation expected
It is important to take a note here, do you see the image below?

My activity count is 406, and my merit points is 258.
With the old ranking system, to hit Senior Memer line, you should have 250 activity count.
So, the ratio between  my current activity count / the required activity count of old ranking system for Sr. member is:
Code:
. di 406/250
1.624
~ 1.6, it means that to hit the same line (Sr. member) I need to spend around 60 percent more time.
Personally, it's not too hard, not too long. It's acceptable, I thought.  Roll Eyes

To be honest with you all, I did not imagine that I could be promoted to a Senior Member within only three months.
It is a big, very big shocking journey for myself.

Now, my story stopped there, and I will start giving you some advice if you want to move up with merit challenge.

To promote with merit system and new rank requirements, you should do following things.

(1) Never begging for merits
Reasons:
- Doing this will highly result in Red Trust, it is just the matter of time. Sooner or later, if you keep begging for merits, you will get Red Trust, certainly.
- Doing this don't help you to improve yourself. In long-term journey in the forum, it's not good for you, generally.

(2) Spending most of your time to read and learn
Only start composing your posts when you have something extremely constructive to discussions, topics.
Reasons:
- You are noobs, newbies (lack of knowledge, and experience), so what you think are constructive most likely unconstructive in reality.
- When you actually have reasons to start composing your posts, after finishing it, please re-read again and again to check that your posts are good in grammar, vocabularies, and good enough to express most of your ideas. I wrote most of your ideas because sometimes it is difficult for non-native English speakers to write down and completely express ideas by words. It's a challenge for non-native English speakers, who don't have English as their mother tongue.

(3) Never copy and paste without links to sources, or without quotes
Reasons:
- It is plagiarism, and punishments on plagiarism is kind of strictest ones in the forum.
Plagiarists who got permanent bans almost won't be allowed to come back.
There are new changes by @theymos, that allow perma-banned users give proofs, evidence of their contributions to the forum to come back.
But, the probabilty to have second chance is very very low.
There's been no policy change. redsn0w wasn't permanently banned due to several factors which made me think that permabanning him would be a net negative for the forum. Nobody is banned strictly because of "the rules"; it's always handled case-by-case, but almost always, plagiarists deserve to be permabanned.

If you think that a ban should be ended, make your case in a new topic from a "good for the forum as a whole" perspective.
You should not expect that chance when perma-banned due to plagiarism.
- How to insert quote, please look at the image. It is very easy, click on the quote button at the upper corner on the right side of each post you want to quote.
You need statistics on perma-banned users due to plagiarisms? There you go:
How many banned users have you merited? (by LoyceV)

(4) Never mind of bounties, campaigns when you are noobs
Reasons:
- Campaigns are there, open then close, then others open and close, from time to time. You should never worry that you miss this chance, that chance, this campaign, that campaign, something like this.
It is the same as merits. Lots of users complain that merits are rare, I can not get merits due to it is rare. Nope, merits (more exactly, sMerits - sendable merits) are available, everywhere in the forum. There are so many merit sources, normal users, who have lots of sMerits readily to send out. They kept them partially due to quality posts are rare, not sMerits.
- Instead of paying too much attention, and time on hunting for bounties, especially bounties that have easy rules and joinable for low rank users; you should start learning, reading, and build up your accounts.
When you hit your finish lines, it's time for you to seriously think of joining bounties.

(5) Learn from inspirational stories. Learn from merited users, topics, posts
Reading and learning from most merited users, and most merited topics, posts are one of the best way to improve your post quality, coherence and cohesion when you compose your posts, topics.
I have a topic on: Inspirational stories from self-made promoted users

(6) Spend your time to improve your English, especially Reading and Writing skills
Reasons:
- If you can not read posts or topic in English well, can not get ideas of posts' / topics' authors, it means that you have nothing to do in the forum.
Remember that you have to get their ideas well enough to not misunderstand their core ideas.
- Next, after reading good enough to catch authors' ideas, it is time for you to express your own ideas in case you have something to ask for help, something to discuss, or something meaningful to help others. This is the time you need to have good enough Writing skill.
This is why I mentioned you should improve your English skills, step by step, from Reading to Writing. Of course, you can improve both skills simultaneously.
The forum is the place almost solely for discussions via Reading and Writing.
You can find available sources for English learning in the References at the end of this OP.


(7) Don't pay your attention on post-length  (Ideas that I took from theymos' Writing a welcome message)
If you make ten thousand posts in a week, your activity will be capped and you will still be a Newbie. If you make ten thousand useless posts over any period of time, you will gain zero merit and you will still be a Newbie. You can rank up only by making good posts consistently. It's quality over quantity.

When trying to write quality posts, a lot of people act as though they're writing a book report for school: putting facts that we already know into their own words. Nobody wants to read that, and you will not get merit for it. Moreover, the length of your post and the quality of your English are only minor factors. In trying to write a quality post worthy of merit, you should offer new ideas, personal experiences, or perspectives that other forum users will actually find new and interesting.



Remember that promoting with merit system is a challenge, but you can do make it.
And, when got promoted, you are different, different from airdroped users at the same rank.
It means you will become more competitive when applying to join campaigns.


Now, let's get started with your own journey that lead to your finish lines!


References:
The most fundamental list of guides, that you should spend most of your time to read.
Those guides are helpful not only for promotions, but also for your crypto lives in general.
GUIDES] on Bitcointalk. Index thread (until there is a dedicated subforum?) (by LoyceV)
8057  Other / Meta / Re: [POLL] BTT - BCT - BTCT? on: March 18, 2019, 01:32:56 PM
Totally agreed with you.
From what I've seen, "BTT" is only used by clueless bounty spammers. Real users refer to the site as BCT or just Bitcointalk if you're not too lazy to type Tongue
That is what we should name bitcointalk in abbreviation, BCT.
BitCoinTalk - BCT

Honestly, I have read some bounty topic, that mentioned about BTT, or even in telegram or Discord channels.
At that time, around more than one year ago, I did not know what it means, honestly.
As @LoyceV pointed out, it tend to be used as BTT by lazy scammers, who even don't care which kind of forum they join to spread their scam projects out.
One more thing, when abbreviation BCT use, we should use it as BCT forum to avoid misunderstanding with any kind of tokens, altcoins launched later. Real crypto enthusiasts will easily known what BCT forum means.
8058  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency on: March 18, 2019, 08:13:18 AM
Dash is starting to see the first signs of mainstream adoption in Venezuela and Colombia (Latin America)
(https://discoverdash.com/stats/) and just keeps expanding with integrations throughout the 2018/2019 bearmarket.
The last two year expansions of DASH communities in Latin American nations are very potential contributive components for next bull run of DASH.
I felt like the locals there widely accepted digital assets, including DASH, and when all blackouts go away in the future, recoveries occur, DASH will got significant boosting forces from those nations and digital asset enthusiasts there.
I think that DASH project decided smartly to determinantly maintain expansion efforts there.
8059  Other / Meta / Re: List of Bitcointalk stats on: March 18, 2019, 08:09:48 AM
1miau,
You known which things I like at most?
It seems that you updated the OP, contents and chronological orders of the list.
I like the update, such as list of topics published in 2018, in 2019, and so on.
I remembered that the first time you published the OP, lists have not been order in chronological oder like current OP version, right?

Anyway, I appreciated your works, then you successfully stole 1 sMerits from me, fella.
8060  Other / Meta / Re: Stats: Who sent merits to Deleted topics/posts the most times on: March 18, 2019, 08:00:49 AM
Hi @nutildah,
I did not check, but I believe that if you do double check, those two list might partially fit each other.
How many banned users have you merited?
Those banned users have high odds of deleted posts/ topics due to spams, plagiarisms.
Top users sent their sMerits to users who got banned later are most likely appeared in your list of top sMerits senders to deleted topics/ posts.

By the way, would you mind to edit the topic title a little bit?
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Who sent sMerits to Deleted topics/ posts the most times
It is better, and more correctly due to only sMerits (sendable merits) can be sent, right?
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