Sexyscam, so how to scam with sex?
I think it is a big question for all, not only in crypto. 

I guess the team have been busy with their works, and their moods are not good during this year (bearish one year long).
For now, they have all been on holidays with their families.

Agreed with you.
Next year, I don't think so.
Monero will even can hit $1000 as DASH and ETH reached last year; but it is probably not happen next year.
I think XMR will fly in the year of 2020.

I have a doubt that Dogecoin might fall to around 40 to 45 satoshi before starting its new dramatical rises, might be to 100 satoshi again.
Do you have any ideas to discuss with me?
thanks.

It's unbelievable, honestly, when someone called Stellar as  a scam one.
I don't know which sort of stuffs led you to judgement that Stellar is a scam one.
Please remember that Stellar is one of top altcoins. 

The proportional distribution scheme of Horizen block rewards looks very fairly for all, Secure nodes, Super nodes, Treasury, and miners.
The most interesting thing is 70% block rewards will be allocated to miners, which somehow present the important roles of miners on the Horizen network operation.
This one also demonstrates that Horizen is strictly sticked to its original ideas to build up a PoW coin.

It doesn't make sense!
Why I think so?
There are two main reasons:

Firstly, limiting total post per day for each users is not smart option, because when people have ideas to discuss, to contribute, to help others, they should have right to compose and publish all their ideas via threads. Limiting total threads per day will seriously violate the basic rights of forum users.
Secondly, even spammers, they will not spam 20 or 50, or 100 threads per day. It is the fact because they spam only for getting postcounts in order to satisfy their bounties' requirements. So, it doesn't make sense for spammers too.
The example here is not equally treated all forum members, obviously.
I don't think that a Ledgendary or Hero always has better ideas than lower rank users, including Newbies.
There are many many trash higher rank users due to the old rank system easily allows them to rank up.
Those types of high rank users don't be able to contribute valuable ideas/ discussions/ contributions to the forum. They always collect postcounts for their bounties, nothing more.

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In a nutshell, I don't support your ideas because they are not a realistic, meaningful new rule for the BTT forum!

In reality, buying Copper Membership only give buyers priviledges to post images, showing hyperlinks in their signature codes even they are Newbies.
It doesn't mean that they can join bounty with Newbie rank.
I think the forum admin has made good decision to demote Junior Members who are not own any merit, and don't allow Copper Members to have all the same rights as real Junior Members.

It is interesting to see the topic, which has almost inactive since May, has started re-activating again, especially the new rank requirements for Junior Member rank implemented around two weeks ago.
Are there coincidence there? 
I believe that the topic will become more actively because demoted Junior Members, who felt hard to rank up back, will join it more.

It is reasonable figures, which obviously explain why there were 3342 more merits distributed last week than the previous one, from 3580 to 6922.
- 2000 merits proportionally allocated to help demoted Juniors rank up
- > 1.5k merits allocated to other ranks, rather than Newbies.

Can you spend your time to collect a statistic on how many demoted Junior Members have been back to this rank last two weeks?
If you can have the statistic, it will make a lot of sense because it might explain why merit distribution rocketed last week.

Of course, spammers will come back someday after getting one merit to rank up back to Junior Member.
I believe that some of them almost ranked up immediately after the activation of new rank requirement.
It is reasonable because the merit distribution raised significantly after that day. (@coinlocket$ presented it in another thread).

I don't know how the forum can manage it?
It might require a lot of time for forum mods to check, verify, then accept real projects and eliminate scam ones. Consequently, forum mods will have to word under massive pressure. I think they don't like it, and the forum has already been out of human sources by now (at least in terms of controlling spamming endemic in the forum, especially in local boards).

I don't have tools for this, but @LoyceV have made a great topic on this issue.
What do you need more?
List of demoted Jr. Members who were ranked up again

Did you want to get a case study?
here you go: Full Member thanks to merit system (iasenko)
Please read it carefully.

All ones have same rights to compose, then publish their threads, show off their ideas. All deserved merit threads will catch attention of forum users, sometimes got merits from readers, sometimes don't get them, but it's not too bad. At least, highly qualitied threads have higher odds to catch attention of readers. That's enough.

Nothing impossible in the crypto ecosytem, especially in the coming bullish market.
Personally, we have been in the early phase of bullish market over the last 3 months of 2018.
I wish that Litecoin might reach 0.01 BTC for each LTC sooner or later this year.

Just kidding, but it's really interesting to get tons of self-made Newbies due to the latest upgrade of the forum's rank requirements which requires at least one merit to be a Junior Member.
Furtheremore, @LoyceV managed a highly informative topic on potential new ranked Junior Members after the start of new rank requirements around one week ago.
List of demoted Jr. Members who were ranked up again

For the OP creator,

For now, one merit for Junior member rank has massively affected spammers. All of them turned to Newbies, and part of them exchanged merit (one point) to move back to Junior rank.
Of course, it's hard to discover how they abuse the merit system and also unfairly to judge their abusements base on only one merited thread.
Sometimes, forum users send their sMerits away for non-sense thread without merit exchange.

In another topic, I suggested potential solution in the future.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5039367.msg46269972#msg46269972

This is why I have the ideas that current merit system is not strictly enough to stop spammers showing their shit in the forum.
Of course, the latest update made by @Theymos have made great impacts on shitposters.
As one of side-effects of the implementation (1 merit for Junior Member rank), the total merit distributed last weeks raised almost twice as of the previous one.
Please check it there with the statistics on new era of merit distribution given by @coinlocket$

I really think that for long-term solution, the rank requirements should be updated with increased required merits for each rank.
For instance, over the next 6 months, the required merit should be something like this (just my suggested merit points):
- Junior: 5.
- Member: 15.
- Full Member: 110
- Senior Member: 270.
- Hero: 550.
If a member can not get any merit over 6 months from now (in total, 14 months after the beginning of merit system), it also means that they don't have qualitied, constructive enough for the forum, in general. It doesn't mean that they are all spammers, but the automatically increased merits for each rank should be implemented in order to keep the forum as fair as possible.

I suggest a solution to fight against slightly abuser on merit system, especially Junior Members who got 1 merit for non-sense thread to satisfy the new rank requirement launched several days ago.
As you all can see in the table and chart above, merit distribution has been almost double last week.
Very impressive effects of new rank requirements (and of course, more merit sources accepted and acted actively).

I also give the link to helpful topic which created by @LoyceV.
List of demoted Jr. Members who were ranked up again
As the author stated, being listed in the list there don't mean that those ones are abusers.

It is the important point.
As @coinlocket$ presented in his thread, the merit distribution increased more than 90% over the last week, since the implementation of new rank requirement, which requires 1 merit to be a Junior Member.
It's also noticeable that more and more Junior Members that have 1 merit after that day.
Before that day, I believe that it is hard to find a Junior Member with at least 1 merit.
Personally, I call it as one of side effects of the new rank requirement.

Anyway, thanks @Theymos by the latest adjustments on ranking system.

highly appreciated your guide to get current DT-members in the forum.
By the way, I would like to know and expect you or others can help me: How to check the locations, IP address of forum users?
I am not a IT guy, and have not learnt about deeply knowledge, skills on those issues.
Please help me when you have spare time.