Around 8 months after your beginning day in the forum, October 30, 2017, 04:59:45 PM, you have not ever known how to use Forum Search Function (please take it easy because it's just my guess).

Here you go:
(Tips) Guide for forum search

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Additionally, I would prefer to give you bunches of other helpful topics, which are likely relevant to your current interests:
tbct_mt2's Guideline on some forum functions, English texbooks
One merit to rank up service. Jr. to Hero members are welcome
Different ways to earn merits
TMAN's guide to getting merits
Full Member thanks to merit system (iasenko)

Moreover, you can apply the tips on Forum Search to find more useful topics by yourself.
Another tip is you should follow prestigious members, then learn from their helpful topics, threads, discussions.

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Lastly, never begging for merits will help keeping you safely from risks of being added to Ignore Lists of other forum users.

Update on 24 September 2020


https://www.studyinternational.com/news/10-best-universities-to-study-blockchain-degrees/

Added the course site: Cryptodetail.com. There are many categories on the site, you should visit to discover it.

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Today, I would prefer to give you all crypto enthusiasts, especially newcomers, a bunches of courses (traditional and online ones) on Bitcoin and Blockchain technology.

In  my topic, I will split those courses into two types, one category for traditional courses, and another one category for online courses.
Now, let's kick off the topic with Traditional Courses.

A) Traditional Courses.
1. CS 5433 - Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and Smart Contracts
Cornell University.

2. Blockchain Executive Programme
University College London (UCL)

3. A blockchain center of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

4. 10+ universities offering blockchain courses



I will update this section with more courses later

Original source

B) Online Courses:
1. Cryptocurrency Investment and Disruption
The London School of Economics and Political Science

2. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
Princeton University
Taught by:  Arvind Narayanan, Associate Professor, Computer Science

3. Blockchain Basics
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Taught by: Bina Ramamurthy, Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department

4. Blockchain Platforms
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Taught by:  Bina Ramamurthy, Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department

5. Decentralized Applications (Dapps)
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Taught by:  Bina Ramamurthy, Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department

6. Smart Contracts
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Taught by:  Bina Ramamurthy, Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department

7. IBM Blockchain Foundation for Developers
IBM
Taught by:
a) Ant Cole, WW Blockchain Enablement, IBM Blockchain
b) Dave Gorman, Global Blockchain Labs Engagement, IBM Industry Platform

8. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
University of California, Berkeley
Taught by:
a) Rustie Lin, Blockchain at Berkeley edX Lead, Instructor
b) Mengyi (Gloria) Wang, Blockchain at Berkeley edX Instructor

9. Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications
The Linux Foundation
Taught by:
a) Ernesto Lee, CTO, Blockchain Training Alliance
b) Kris Bennett, Senior Instructor, Blockchain Training Alliance
c) Rosa Santos, Director of Education, Blockchain Training Alliance

10. Blockchain and FinTech: Basics, Applications, and Limitations
University of Hong Kong
Taught by: Siu Ming Yiu, Associate Professor

11. Blockchain Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Taught by:
a) Rustie Lin, Blockchain at Berkeley edX Lead, Instructor, University of California, Berkeley
b) Nadir Akhtar, Blockchain at Berkeley edX Instructor, University of California, Berkeley

12. Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme
University of Oxford
6 modules included, 6 week-period.

• Module 1: Understanding blockchain
  Module 2: The blockchain ecosystem
  Module 3: Innovations in value transfer
  Module 4: Decentralised apps and smart contracts
  Module 5: Transforming enterprise business models
  Module 6: Blockchain frontiers

13. Bitcoin: What is it?
Khan Academy.

14. Blockchainsfactory.com
Blockchains Factory


Other interesting courses:
Australian Primary School Students Explore Bitcoin
Wooranna Park Primary School in Victoria, Australia.

Helpful, informative articles:
In this section, I give links to interesting articles, which I found by chance.
Simply read and enjoy them if you don't know about those terms presented in given articles!

1) Decentralization: What Is It, Why Does It Matter, Can It Be Proven?


C) Topics on Crypto Terminology:
1) Terminology
The topic, itself presents its main objectives are to give full meanings of abbreviations, words, names and phrases on bitcointalk.

Dash Scholar Programs
1. https://www.dash.org/2018/01/18/asu.html
2. https://scholarships.asu.edu/scholarship/100296
3. https://www.dashforcenews.com/new-asu-blockchain-lab-research-shows-dash-can-easily-scale-near-paypal-levels/
4. https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-labs-making-significant-progress-on-enhancing-robustness-of-dash-network/

Horizen Academy
Links:
(1) Horizen Academy (Beta version): https://academy.horizen.global/
(2) Announcement on the Horizen's blogsite: https://blog.zencash.com/horizen-launches-horizen-academy/
Update!

Now, the academy is on Twitter.
(3) Horizen Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HorizenAcademy
(4) Twitter of Horizen Academy's announcement: https://twitter.com/HorizenAcademy/status/1230174294556073985

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Six topics, at three levels (from Beginner, Advanced, to Expert).

Some other sources:
Coindesk.com's information page
Lopp.net
Bitcoin.org (from basics to advanced)
Binance Academy
Andreas M. Antonopoulos:

• Mastering Bitcoin
• Antonopoulos' Youtube channel

       BTC Bitcoin Q&A (200 videos)
        BTC Bitcoin for beginners (33 videos)

Bitcoin Wiki
5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin.
Why Everyone Missed the Most Important Invention in the Last 500 Years
[BEGINNER FRIENDLY GUIDE] Launch your own TOKEN in a few simple steps!

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Helpful topics on the forum

• Start Learning about Bitcoin while Stuck in Quarantine!
• Bitcoins Related Books (Updated)
• Best Bitcoin Movies And Documentaries (Updated)
• Free Online Lecture on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency [Coursera]

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Acknowledgements:

I got some of these courses from these users, so I would like to give them deeply thanks.
1) iasenko
2) qwizzie


Notes:
I have plan to keep the topic be updated and I highly appreciate all your help with links to other courses which I have not shown in my topic.

Another side effect of merit begging is being added to Ignore List of merit sources.
Some of merit sources are really strict, and readily to put merit beggars to their Ignore List, such as @Jet Cash.

Today, I found this course by chance in another topic.
I would like to share it with Theymos, our prestigious admin.
Cryptocurrency Investment and Disruption (from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))

Hope this one is a helpful information for the ambitious topic.

I recommend @LoyceV to use box plots to show the distributions of merits.
The type of plot help readers easier to see outliers.
I also give you link to see how to graph box plots using R-software.
StatMethods to graph BoxPlots using R

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Boxplots are very relevant when you want to compare the average and outliers of merit distributions on different boards, ranks, etc.

Beside the topic gave by @mdayonliner, there is another essential topic related to the forum rank requirements:
Merits & New rank requirements, which published by the forum admin, namely @Theymos.

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Furthermore, next time when you have some thing want to ask for help, you should spend your own time to make a quick search first.
There is link to helpful topic on how to efficiently use forum search function.
[Tips] Guide for forum search

You should read these recommended topics by @mdayonliner more carefully because it is likely that you did not really understand what is merit system, its operational mechanism, its benefits to forum users.

Great ideas, Theymos.
I will strongly support bitcointalk online courses if you decide implementing it in the future.
Something like online courses in Coursera platform, and has different pay gates, BTC, LTC, Doge, ETH, etc. for learners.

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Weeks ago, I had a idea to make a collection (an ebook, exactly), which collect main topics of the forum.
I would like to create a textbook, or guideline, anything you think a relevant name for it, I order to help forum users can learn, get ideas, skills, experiences from others, especially from available helpful topics.
Of course, forum members can do it by themselves, but they can only do this if they have Internet connections on train, buses, during vacations, etc.
It is the main reasons why I thought of creating a guideline book for off-line situation.

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Nevertheless, doing this requires lots of time, and I am not sure whether this guideline will potentially violate both forum rules and copy rights.
Consequently, I didn't not make it.

Do you have any ideas or suggestions, Theymos.
If you claim that such guideline book will not violate forum rules, I gonna start doing this.

You can use search function of the forum to find where it is.
I don't remember but Theymos published merit data on monthly basis.
If you want to have your full merit history, you should download raw data from Theymos source monthly, then save those files for later use.
Link  to merit data
Note:
I will update the thread with link to merit data, but it might be good if you can find it by yourself.

Merit complainers talked about it repeatedly before you did it.
So, please stop this.
Crying, complaining, arguing on negative sides of merit system will not help you earning merits.

Where are evidence?
I need evidence-based judgements, not arbitrary ones.

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Thanks for link to the interesting topic, @mdayonliner.

Very detailed guideline for MONERO community.
Thank you for releasing this one, dBRYUNE.

I am waiting for the next version, which can directly support Ledger.
For now, simply enjoy this current version.

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Best wishes for MONERO community in the year of 2018.

Merits are reasons to spam the forum, really? I don't think so, mate.
Spamming, and showing your shits via shitty threads will never help you earning merits, regardless of abusing the merit system by merit exchanges.
Real users will definitely not give their sMerits away for shitshows.
I don't really understand what you meant, honestly.

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Personally, it should be. Signature campaigns should have pre-requisites for participants to apply, including merit points.
There are many campaigns which are managed by good, prestigious managers have such strict pre-requisite related to earned merits.
Agree with you, mate.
As @The Pharmacist wrote in previous thread, it should be earned merits, not automatically allocated merits at the launch day of merit system.
Earned merits mostly show that accounts which got merits are constructive users, but managers of campaigns should check all cases carefully to avoid acceptance for merit abusers.
Further careful screening procedure through post history of applicants is next essential step after looking at their merit points.

You should read this one:
What is a masternode

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Masternodes play important role to maintain healthy condition of blockchain networks, keep networks as decentralized as possible, prevent potential 51% Replay Attacks, and more interesting things, which you should discover more by yourself.

It's true!
Be careful with masternode projects and keep your money safely!

They have actually made it via their helpful threads and topics, which are abundant in the forum.
The problem is, newbies who are mostly joining the forum to get free money and dont' care about knowledge, skills, will probably not want to learn from those sort of helpful threads and topics.
The only thing newbies (most of them) care about are bounties and money.

It's true. Honestly, I joined the forum with the original purpose like this.
Fortunately, after the launch day of merit system, I knew that I will never rank up if I don't change my minds, my writing approach.
I also realised that how bad I did before the launch day of the system and new rank requirements.
For now, I strongly believe that I have changed and become a more constructive member of the forum. 

With merit system, I think we all should give newbies time to realize what they should do, should change.
Over time, some of them will change as original purpose of merit system.
Of course, some of them will never change, but it doesn't matter of the forum.
We, constructive members, just simply ignore all shitty members, add them to Ignore Lists if we don't want to see their shitshows anymore. They will be stucked at low ranks.

Wrong!
Merit system launched to aim at motivating forum users concentrate on their thread's quality, helpfulness as componental factors to contribute increasing the quality of forum threads, and reducing or eliminating (if possible) shitshows.
In other words, high-qualitied threads are main purposes of merit system.

Honestly, it is really hard to completely understand what you wrote.
However, I got some of your ideas, and these ones have been repeatedly written, complained by hundreds of forum members.
It doesn't make sense.
So, please stop doing this again. Such a complaining thread like yours is very annoying, and headache.
You - and other members - will not earn any merit by doing this. Hence, why not stop doing this repeatedly!

Oh, unbelievable.
The guy got around 140  merits for the ANN topic:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4438798.msg39657876#msg39657876
In addition, in another thread inside the topic, the guy got another 10 merits.
Looks amazing, but I have a feeling that something wrong here!

I suggest to lift up current merit requirements of lower ranks, 10 merits for Junior member and 25 merits for member.
Full member and above ranks remains current merit requirements.
This new lift-up merit requirements for Junior and Member rank will reduce spamming endemic, which has not stopped yet after the launch day of merit system.

I checked nullius's profile page and found that the last active day of nullius is April 24, 2018, 11:02:30 PM.
Honestly, the guy appeared as a shooting star in the forum.
As someone said, the account maybe an alt of someone in the forum. It is just a theory, but might be a true one.
I think the guy just wanted to troll spammers that they should stop complaining about merit system, new rank requirements by demonstrating newbies can get hundreds of merits if they can make good contributions to the forum.

'Start over again', what does it mean?
Can you explain a bit more about your case?
After the hack, your account's postcounts dropped and you had to collect activities again, or you actually lost the Hero-ranked account forever and had to start from zero with a Newbie account/
Which one is your case?

Merits are the hardest thing to get in the forum, much harder than money from bounties, campaigns, and knowledge, skills, etc.
You can make constructive threads, but only some of them can get merits.

So, I think it's time for you to lock the topics because there are dozens of recommendations before my thread, and there is no way to get merits easily.