Why it would be hard to continue to use same name? By this logic Bitcointalk have to change name to altcointalk or sth similar because people discussing not solely about Bitcoin but also about all altcoins.
Freebitco.in is most known name when it comes to faucets. It has long history since 2013, it will be very difficult to make same success story with new name.

As fan of Barca, I always had mixed feelings about Neymar. I wasn't happy when he joined Barca. Yeah, he is great player and it was amazing to watch MSN trio, but I don't like him as personality - he is diving too much and all stuff outside the pitch makes him as Bieber of football. In Barca he always been in shadow of Messi. Without Neymar Barca changed their game style and they aren't really missing him. It would be really interesting to see Barca facing with PSG in UCL playoffs this season.
P.S. I wouldn't be surprised if one day Neymar will move to Real Madrid, maybe when CR7 will retire

I recommend to move this thread to Meta board:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0
And tell your username. Then someone from forum staff will be able to tell why your account was banned. If I'm not mistaken, only Admins can unban accounts.

No, newbies are still welcome here. Merit system was introduced mainly to stop Newbies from posting garbage to rank up and then participate in signature campaigns. Still, you can reach Jr. Member rank without any Merit points and you only need to get 10 Merit to reach Member rank. It'snot difficult if you will post good content.
Who gives these Merit's? By default, users starting from Member rank have some sMerit, higher ranks have more which they can send to other users. And for example, if you will get 2 Merit from someone, you will be able to send 1 sMerit. And there are 57 users called Merit sources who have huge number of sMerit to send. For better education, please read this topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0

If you held BTC through all these crashes, you are really lucky now. Well, HODLers benefited most from that.
I really can't understand all these panic sellers. What's the point to sell at much lower price than you bought, it's against the logic. Now it's easy to manipulate markets - just spread some FUD against Bitcoin and you will see the reaction. There are so many people in crypto world without much experience and they reacting to these news too sensible.
Yeah, now it's great opportunity to step into crypto world. Many people thought that they missed chance to invest into BTC when price was ATH. Now they can get BTC cheaply. When Lightning Network will be implemented it will be too late to invest. Maybe now it's last time to get BTC when it's under $10000

Stop spreading FUD! What's the point to sell at low price? If you bought at $19k, sell at $8.5k, right? You must be kidding
That's the only good advice that you gave. People always should use their head when making decision and we shouldn't blindly do what some unknown random user said on internet. Even if Bitcoin will drop to $4.5, it's not because that you said.

Well, Barca got enough momements to score more goals, especially in 2nd half, but Valencia goalkeeper made a good job tonight. And after bad start of the season, L. Suarez finally in great shape, he scored many goals in recent matches.
Looks that it will be very interesting to watch second leg games of both semifinals!

There are still some advantages. You can post images, time limit between posts reduced. You can add more symbols than Newbie/Jr. Member in your signature. You only can't add clickable links to your signature.

Very interesting news! It's brave decision to remove Freebitco.in name and change it to crypteer.com. Freebitco.in is probably the most popular website in crypto industry, more popular than blockchain.info, coinbase or bitcointalk.
Ok, it's great to hear that our old freebitco.in referral links will remain valid. But how about freedoge.co.in? If someone will join Crypteer via my freedoge.co.in referral link, will that referral will be credited to my account?
And it will be interesting to see new currencies integrated. As I imagine, we will be able to choose to claim only 1 coin each hour?
Will it be possible to gamble, buy lottery tickets with these coins? And will you continue to pay interest for BTC that we hold on your website?

I'm not Ahmet, but I can answer - it's not possible to add Coinpot withdrawal, because Coinpot microwallet is not open to faucet pwners. Coinpot is only for Bitfun, Bonusbitcoin and Moon faucets (coinpot and these faucets belongs to same owner), they don't accept 3rd party faucets.

If now I would be on your position, maybe I would talk differently than now. Merit system is much more beneficial for old members. But I consider it as analogy of early Bitcoin investors/hodlers. These who invested 3-4 years ago when Bitcoin was worth few hundreds bucks, have much bigger profits than these who invested few months ago. Same with Bitcointalk - these who joined few years ago now reached high ranks.
But you shouldn't forget that many people came here not to earn money. They just discuss, follow news, educate themselves or helping to newbies. For these people Merit system and Ranks aren't that important, I think.

Yup, it also not working on mobile for me, but I'm still getting referral commission. It looks that some people still can use Moon fauxets without these issues. Luckily, I've made some claims in first part of they day, so I'm nor risking to loose loyalty bonusses.

Well, that's not biggest transfer on this year Winter Transfer Window But it's great way to get attention from Worldwide media. Small club like this one have to do something unusual, new to become visible. How many people heard about this club before these news? Now their name was written in all main football news websites. Many even bigger clubs can learn from this story how to get lot of media attention without spending millions.

Not down, but seem there are some connection problems. I can't see "time since last claim" and "current claim amount", so, it's not possible to claim from Moonbit faucet.

Why you didn't posted in one of the many already existing threads about Merit system? Is it still not enough threads that you had to create new one?
When Merit system was introduced, I only had to get 19 activity to get chance to become Legendary member. Now I also will need to get almost 500 Merit points. I'm disappointed? No. Hero or Legendary member, it's not really big difference for me. But I understand why new members feeling frustrated. Anyway, if you will post good content, you will get more or less Merits and you will reach high rank one day. And don't forget to give sMerit to other users, there is no point to hold all your sMerit untouched.
 I general, this system have more benefits than disadvantages. Something similar has to be done in fight with spam. We only need to wait some time ti see, how efdective this Merit system will be.

Not exactly. With increasing BTC they lowered lottery ticket prices until it reached 1 Satoshi. When BTC price was near $20 000, price of lottery ticket was 1 Satoshi. But now Bitcoin price is lower 2x, but price of lottery ticket remains same.
Probably, if Bitcoin will start to rise again, Freebitco.in will have to consider making price of lottery ticket less than 1 satoshi (0.5 Satoshi). Otherwise, it will be to expensive to buy and there will be less interest in lottery.

Found this on another thread and I think it will be good to post it here to inform more users.
So, as I understand, EU based clients still will be able to use Mistertango card? Because I'm from EU and didn't got this notification.

There are several main reasons why there are so many hacked accounts. First of all, many users are using same short, easy to remember passwords on every website. It's convenient to use, but such passwords are very weak. Passwords should be more complex. It has to be longer, with random numbers and special symbols like @,#,$,฿ and similar.
People aren't careful. They clicking phishing links, downloading stuff from suspicious websites and they getting keylogger in this way.
Offcourse, lack of 2FA doesn't helps to protect accounts. But as I read in past, it's very difficult to integrate Google 2FA to bitcointalk. But even if 2FA would be implemented, I'm sure that there still will be many people who will not use because they think "it won't happen to my, my password is strong enough.
My account was also hacked in past, but luckily, admin restored it. I've used strong password on Bitcointalk but it didn't helped. The problem was that that hacker was able to login to my email account (I used really weak password and no 2FA). It was not problem on Bitcointalk side and I had to blame only myself that my account was hacked.

As some members already pointed out, this thread belongs to Altcoin Service discussion. Currently it's on wrong board, because this board are dedicated to Bitcoin related services discussion.

I bought quite many things with Bitcoin in past. Most recent purchase was website hosting. I also bought hardware wallet and many small gadgets like USB keys, cables, phone battery and etc. But now I rarely purchasing stuff with BTC, mostly due to price volatility. And I didn't wanted to pay bigger fees than thing that I'm buying is worth.
What I would like to buy with BTC? I don't know. It's possible to buy pretty much everything with BTC after loading Bitcoin debit card with it. Offcourse, now it's a bit difficult to find working BTC debit card