Is any other alternative to grow your account here without having to go through the stress of earning merits?
From the view of things I get that it's not a easy job to gain merit here in the forum, can't I just increase my rank just by gaining activities?

I'm using Kucoin, so far there have been no issue.

I was hoping to find out if there was a program or system that I could use to guard against hackers accessing my bitcoin wallet account.