Just a few words about captcha. Have you ever seen an entire Chinese (or another Asian, African whatever; it`s just for example) village solving captchas for bots? I have  $1 for 500 or smth it was. There are still services that provide such help. So I don`t think, this will completely solve the case. But indeed it can make a life more difficult for spammers. And for regular users as well 

I`m, afraid, it`s not what in their minds. That would be definitely not in English and you won`t understand a single thought
And a few words about "pathetic rewards" if I may. $10 is nothing for you, people, but there are places, where you can buy a food for a week for this amount. So don`t be quick to judge this "curious boy". I know that everyone hates sh*tposters and it`s natural. Yes, he is ignoring great opportunities this forum gives to everyone absolutely free. But it`s not the great opportunities you worry about, when you are hungry.
I`m not trying to justify sh*tposters, just offer you another point of view, so please don`t judge me.
P.S. Not a single capital letter in all post, for God`s sake... Would it stand for a new record?

Let me tell you something, my friend. There are places on this planet, where people earn few grands for year and considered to be rich. And mostly they work very hard. So, imagine that you can sit at home and make this money for sh*t posting and selling accs and you will get an answer for your "why?". This place is like an Eldorado for some.

That is great! Very useful information, thanks a lot. Don`t now how about TS, but I was really interested  The only thing should be added, as for me: to do so, you need to be Jr. Member at least or Copper Member (just in case somebody new to this forum would be reading this).

If this IP will be banned it won`t help a lot, really. It`s pretty easy to get proxy for now. So, the only hope is to set a password, strong enough not to be broken. Anyway, wish you luck with this case.

Please, don`t give up. You`re doing a great job, this forum needs you 
Back to the subject of discussion, personally I think, if you are planning to tidy up smb`s post and stuff like that it`s practically editor`s work. You`re taking part of creating this post too. So, an option 3 seems to be natural in this situation. And a guy`s comment will be pertinent also. But that`s just my opinion.

Guys, guys, guys! Why is it so much whining about merit? What do you need it for so badly? If you came to this forum to get a communication and to learn something new - you can have it with or without merit, no differense about rank. If you came here to make money - then it should be hard for you to get merit. Yes, before this system you could get rank up just for posting and now you can`t. So what? Life changes, people. There is no "free money" in the world. You want that rank up - you try your best to be useful to the community. And stop complaining, for God`s sake. I`m like 2 weeks on the forum and I got sick already. Noboby going to cancel it anyway, and thanks admins for that.

You can hear, that cryptocurrency market is a free market and crypo`s price is only determined by supply and demand. But unfortunately, it`s not 100% precise. Thing is, crypto market is a young one, so there is a number of distinctive features, few of which you allways want to keep in mind.
First of all, there are no fundamental market indexes. Second, there are no regulatory institutions. Third, most of market`s participants are not professional traders. Next one: inequality of market`s perticipants. Few features, that are caused not by makret`s youth but by it`s nature: there is no material outcome of it`s activity; there are no common experts.
So, what you can expect, considering all that, in terms of coins prices? THIS:
- pump&dump strategies by big players;
- huge news influence. Or maybe no news influence at all;
- no guarantees of not losing all your investments in half an hour;
- huge prices volatility;
- price falling/rising with no obvious (for you) reason;
and so on.
It`s not the whole list, not even half of it. I just don`t have enough energy to make a mini-article instead of post. But you can continue by yourself 
Other than that, it`s strictly fun 

source: https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/1662379-how-is-coinbase-insured-

Dude, it`s like first link in Google. I really think you should do at least a minimal research before asking stuff here.

It would be a lot easier for local communities to have a list of demands in this case (I mean, to know what exactly is needed, to open a local board). Like, number of users, that vote for this, several candidates for moderators etc. But for now we can only hope for luck or to bring an attention of forum`s "elders" to this matter. Because we can endlessly write here about pros and cons but what`s the point, if the right people won`t read it?

You just ignored a remark about hierarchy and money-making opportunities, didn`t you?  But it is important in this case. I don`t know, what forums without spam are you talking about, but I bet that they are either smaller or less famous that this one. Or there aren`t constituents, mantioned in the first sentense.
Part of me hopes that I`m wrong, though

Maybe, they just have a lot of other work to do. Let`s hope that once they finished, admins will pay some attention to this thread and our request 

If someone wants to improve his language knowledges, there is a plenty of ways to do it and not the only one is about posting something on specialized crypto forum. You can find tons of options, from watching movies with subtitles to finding a pen pal, who will guid you. I just don`t get why is TS trying to hammer nails with microscope.

Guys, it like an eternal problem  of forums Especially, it concerns forums with some kind of hierarchy, based on the number of posts/member activity, which is about 60-70% of big ones. Especially, if a member of high rank can get a money of an account. Nothing can be done here, except for rewarding reporting such type of activity and increasing number of moderators, for my opinion. But it brings another problems along. It just a human nature, you can`t do much about it 

I think, that would be a false for situation that we have now. As for now, blocks have ordinal numbers. Last one was 529759 at the time I checked.
But if miners mined Bitcoins and not blocks, Bitcoins surely would have some type of identificator.

OK, now I`m tempted to write about 51% attack and why one big mining pool sometimes need to split

Yeah, thought that way too. Except my account got banned (sorry, not the account, the IP), when I registered from home. For the first time. Not using VPN or TOR (wasn`t using last one at all). Didn`t even hear about this forum till yesterday. And I`m the only person using this internet connection. So you may just get unlucky. It may depend on Internet provider too, I think.
Now I`m using my friend`s wifi and everything is OK, though I had to register secod time.

Actually, you can lose you money investing in any type of business. It isn`t the case. The differense between ICO and IPO is still geat. When people launching an IPO they at least have a company, product, clients, stuff and other things. Now, when we are talking about ICO, in most cases all we have is an idea, site and whitepaper. And again, it`s not that easy to launch an IPO due to finantional regulations, stock exchange demands and all that. For ICO you generally just need some serious amount of money and you are good to go.

Thank you for your great job. It`s remarkable, that somebody gives new members a chance to get award just for posting some reasonable things and discussing interesting topics. I`m very greatfull and I think, that every fresh member should be as well.
Back to the question, though 
Miners do mine blocks for the Bitcoin blockchain. Only there is an award for completing the block, that goes to a person, who finished it. You can`t mine blocks and not get an award (only if you really up to do such way ) and you don`t get that BTC without mining blocks. It`s like mutually related I think, this is more about how you look at it. If a guy wants to be a part of a blockchain technology and that`s the main reason he is mining - so he mines blocks. But if one started to do this only with a goal to get cryptocurrency - he is mining BTC
It`s kind of a phylosophic one. I`m thinking back in the days, when Bitcoin just showed up, it was that way. BTC didn`t cost much, so people was interested in an idea of cryptocurrency. And they participated because of that interest and because they had a desire to change a wold a little bit.
But yeah, of course people are mining blocks and get a reward for this activity, they not like making crypto out of air.

So. To understand how blocks in Bitcoin`s blockchain are linked, we should look into a structure of block itself. Let`s imagine, that each block is a text document with a set of fields. Now, we can say, that each block consists of 5 components (5 fields) :
Magic number (value always 0xD9B4BEF9)
Blocksize        (number of bytes following up to end of block)
Blockheader  (we`ll look into it below in details)
Transaction counter (a number)
Transactions (the list of transactions)
In our case, we are interested in 2 of them (except Blocksize, Transaction counter (I just don`t know what it`s used for ) and Magic number (last one is constant, as far as I know)). Though the most important magic lives in blockheader, we can say that list of transactions are making connection between blocks too (mostly, because one of the key fields of header is formed on the ground of this list). Also list of transaction contains info about who had an honor to generate this block, info about transaction fee etc. and a little bit of stuff, nitrocryptonitro was writing above. It is very important field.
Let`s talk about header now. It contains of 6 fields:
Version             (Block version number. it`s about software, don`t really interesting for us now)
hashPrevBlock   (hash of the previous block header)
hashMerkleRoot (hash based on a list of block`s transactions)
Time                 (time of generating)
Bits                  
Nonce               (number, which value is set in a way, that hash of the block will contain a run of a leading zeros. As I understand, calculating this one is one of the most important things that miners do)
Anyway, we are more interested in those, painted red. As I understand, hashMerkleRoot of block #1 is becoming hashPrevBlock for the next one (#2) and it goes on and on. So, that`s how all blocks are chained one to another.
There is also Height of the block or it`s ordinal number. You can check current block`s Height here http://blockexplorer.com/q/getblockcount. Height of the block is a number of blocks, that was generated before it.
Now, lets explain what a hash is a little bit, just so you can understand what does this word mean. In simple words, it`s a function that can take an input data of any size and with the help of mathematical operations return output data of a fixed size. It`s something like ZIP archives in world of math, if you remember those. Imagine, how much info a list of transactions contains, and you`ll undestand why Bitcoin needs a special tools to ZIP it.
Hope It`ll help somebody to understand a little bit this complicated stuff.
P.S.I`m not an expert in this matters, so feel free to fix my mistakes if you find any.