I have observed that some members on the platform have up to 3,000+ Merits and some have just none. Meanwhile some are in a particular rank for a long time. Mine is over a year and I am still a Newbie.

The question is,

Does getting to a new membership Rank dependent on Merits, or they are just two independent awards?

[Cryptocurrency]

Cryptocurrency is gathering momentum every now and then. Organisations and institutions are seeing the need to start accepting the new way to easy life. Now that Bentley University has accepted cryptocurrencies for tuition payment, as one of the first universities in the US to do so, what can we expect?