Sometimes, merits are easy to earn, sometimes are very difficult to earn.

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Merits and merit-received posts are quality enough and deserve merits or not are very controversy problem, somehow endless one.
We all know that sometimes merits used as a tool to show agreement. It is surely opposite to what theymos wanted merits should be used.
Anyway, it is the fact in the forum, and there are hundreds of posts received merits that way, but the important thing is nobody will judge such posts are merit-abusing posts.
To judge posts which received merits are merit-abusing, lots of things should be considered before making any kinda causal inference.
I know there are lots of users received hundreds of merits for their posts in WO (Wall Observer) topic, but I will never call them as merit abusers.
If you notice, most of them don't wear signatures (paid ones, I meant). So they don't get any kinda benefits, especially financial benefits from any merit they got.

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I can not disagree with you. There is nobody pointed out that Yobit already reduced the maximum of daily post-cap to 10 for Cryptotalk's signature campaign. They likely do this due to their limited funds for that campaign, or that forum basically achieved early results that they expected at the beginning or they really listened to complaints from the community.

Earned-merits or trust points are not determinant factors for post quality of posters. They are only one of componental factors and they serve as supplementary inclusive factors for poster's quality assessment. Generally, to assess post quality of one user, readers have to consider lots of things:
- Most important thing is average quality of posts: by checking post history. Without statistics on earned-merits. For example, if we assume that statistics disabled by admin, we all can assess post quality through post history.
- Total earned-merits. They are important, just behind average post quality over post history. Good posters tend to receive significant merits in total, over time. That statistic give us a quick overview on post quality of posters. Then next step will be checking whole post history or at least very recent posts.
I meant if there are two users with nearly same earned merits, we have to look at post history to see how different their post qualities are.  It is clearly that readers can flip between two things: post history and earned merits, in orders of priority. There is nothing wrong because at the ends, readers have to combine two things in order to have a final overview on post quality of posters.
We should not totally rely on earned merits.
- Trust points (that are a little bit unncessary because trust was initially designed for exchanges, not post quality). However, somehow readers can take a quick look at trust points, and feedbacks, and use them as supplemental factors.

Mining crypto or not, it depends on so many factors.
How much time do you ready to spend for your rigs ? To config rigs for mining particular coins; to test and discover technical issues, with risers, etc or with software issues; to self-maintain your rigs with small issues to save time and avoid to bring your rigs to stores for customer support services.
Lots of things that will take your time if you run your crypto mining farms, small or big, it will all do take your time.
I think investing directly in Bitcoin or good altcoins (if you want to expand your portfolio outside Bitcoin), is more time-saving and less required-resources.

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I experienced with mining, and honestly that is what I thought.

Regarding to consolidation, I have my topic on that method, too.
Bitcoin transaction fees - Everything in one
It is always better to choose the right period to move Bitcoin at low fees and shorter waiting time; but if someone don't mind about waiting time, they can set up transactions at 1 Satoshi/ byte and just wait for hours or days.
In Electrum wallet, users can choose a option (Use Replace-By-Fee) to increase fees later, just in case their initial setup-fees are too low and rejected by miners. Anyway, I don't think we can not move Bitcoin at 1 satoshis/byte; only people in hurry have to use high fees.

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This is why choosing good wallets to use is important. I would prefer to use wallets that can allow me to activate coin control features, and allows me to both receive from and send my bitcoin to Segwit address. There are some wallets that can only receive transactions from Segwit bitcoin address but are unable to send to same type of Segwit address. For all of the reasons, Electrum is my most favorite wallet, that is light and convenient.

I think you should move your topic to that board, Beginners & Help because your question does not relate to forum issues.
You can spend your time to observe annoucements there: Services; or sometimes there: Service annoucements.
If there are bounties for your rank, payrates will be low; but I doubt that there are bounties will accept newbie. At least you need to become Junior Member, that requires 30 activities and 1 merit (that you will receive from others if they like your good posts).
Ranks and merits: Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?)

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Please lock your topic when you satisfy with answers you receive.

First of all, let's go straight by mentioning about value of tokens you will receive from bounties/ airdrops. In my opinion, and I could be wrong, such tokens are worthless. Maybe someone argues that if people are lucky enough to join one bounty/ airdrop that pays in a token which will have price rocket weeks after company pays for all eligible participants. They, participants, will get a kind of 'fortune'. I want to emphasize that such lucky chances are very low.

Secondly, joining bounties/ airdrops will take lots of your time as well as inestimable risks of not being paid by companies. Participants might do have to join and keep wearing signature for months, then companies announce their ICOs, IEOs, whatever kind of funding-raising methods they used, end with failures. Then they reject to pay any bucks for participants.

Generally, I totally agree that spending time on bounties, airdrops are unnecessary and time-wasting.

Hi OP,
That post is mine. Honestly, it is my fault, because I posted that one on my phone, and there are something wrong with my phones, which trigger it automatically replace some words by default. I meant after I type wager or wagerer, for example, then when I move to next words, my phone will automatically replace these words with water or waterer, for example.
Honestly, again, when I made that post, I did not check it again and did not notice that typo. I got that issue months ago, and still don't know how to correct it on my phone.

Most of time, whenever I post on my phone, I reread my posts before posting, and after posting to edit if needed, but that time I did not check and forgot to come back to check. I made that one when I cradled my daugther when she slept after got fever. 

I decide to leave that post with its initial version. First of all, it is a typo, and not a serious one. I think readers can still guess what I meant. Secondly, I don't want to spoil initial evidence of that post. Just wait for feedback from the manager.

Anyway, it is my fault by not rechecking the typo after posting. I am thankful to you by bringing it here.
If you look at my post history, I am definitely not a shit poster.
Cheers

Sure, you can use the host-file for free, and if you find out any new phishing site, please let me know by replying here, then I will add them into OP.
Regarding to email security, you can use the following site: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
It is very simple to use: Typing your email address, then enter to see it has already been compromised or not. In case your email has been already compromised, it's your turn to reset your password and consider to enhance security and privacy for your email.
There are two types of results:
1. Bad: pwned!

2. Good: no pwnage found!
You should take action as quickly as possible if your email checking result fall into the first type.

Dangerous sites are not really dangerous ones, if people don't careless to visit, create and log in their accounts on such sites with same passwords on other sites. Generally, people can protect themselves from such sites by maintaining good web-surfing behaviors. It's key thing to self-protect from dangerous phishing sites.

The coming days will be important for Monero and its investors. Of course, it is not the end of the world if something unexpected happen next days, but people tend temporarily react negatively when things go opposite with what they do expect.
Fortunately, things will be changed when all things upgrade as expected and go back on right directions, as planned.
I think Monero has good chance to rally significantly till the end of this year.

What I saw from the image is winners and top waterers used more Bitcoin to water over rounds of Wolf.bet's wager contest. It is easily to explain if we look at the growth pace of Wolf.bet site during 2 recent months. Fastly grown recent months, that actually attract more new users and more waterers, that in turn triggered ea h has to use more money to wager to be competitive.

It seems that the Wolf.bet site has become bigger and bigger significantly over the last few weeks. The growth of Wolf.bet site has been shown not only through total active gamblers on the site, but also reflected through the amount of bitcoin used to wagger among top users. Those figures both have increased very fastly recent weeks, and in my opinion, they are very solid evidence for the growth of Wolf.bet.

You pointed out one of reasons why posters should not modify default font to their preferenced ones. There is at least one reason for not doing this: on mobile devices, a default font will be displayed, no matter which fonts used by posters.
Thank you so much. I edited OP with correctness for that typo.

We have been coming closer to the 10th anniversary of the forum (10th anniversary art contest), and now it is very good time to contribute keeping it as clean and informative as possible. From your decent posts, you can make your very minor contributions to help the forum, simply from your time, efforts and your dedication to help.

Using stop-loss orders to protect balance and potential serious losses in worst cases, but each person has to think of how to set up their stop-loss orders to avoid stop-loss traps that manipulated by whales on market. It is a very big question and valuable thing to learn. It takes time, experience and subtle observations from each crypto trader.
Stop-loss orders when used appropriately will do always show its good preventive effects for traders.

There are two Epochtalk-source-code-based forums:
www.cryptos-currencies
https://coinbistro.com
From what admin disclosed, the Epochtalk forum has nearly finished, but the biggest problems that hinder the transition from bitcointalk.org (SMF) to Epochtalk is data transition and potential problems with data transition. There is another problem that forum so far has been coded and managed by only one person, theymos, so if there are not new members join as core team members to code and manage the forum, I doubt that we will soon see a transition to Epochtalk

One of the worst mistakes that newbie traders usually do is don't use stop-loss orders for their tradings. Consequently, I suggest newbie traders to read that topic: One of the Best Weapons in Trading.
Of course, stop-loss orders don't help traders to correct their mistakes by entering at wrong price points, but at least such orders will do help them to avoid serious losses.

I know two sites:
www.cryptos-currencies.
https://coinbistro.com
There are announcement threads for two sites: Coinbistro.com; Crypto-currencies.com
The coinbistro.com is built and managed by Cryptios team.

The figure of active address on DASH network shows the fact that DASH has been popularly used, for most of the other altcoins. It just surpassed Litecoin recently but the figure for DASH's active addresses outweighs figures for BCH, BSV, for example.
Months ago, I read in the topic that in Venezuela the total transaction of DASH even outweighs bitcoin transactions. I am not sure, but that is what I remembered from my memory, so I could be wrong.

It is good to see the pre-announcement on plans to integrate new pairs on the Match365 platforms for gamblers. ETH will be the next one. By the way, I would prefer to propose the Match365 team to consider other pairs, Dogecoin in particular. I propose Dogecoin that is popularly accepted on casinos, and there is at least one plus point for Dogecoin is its very long history in crypto market. Both old and young casinos accept Dogecoin, we all can check that fact.