I thought that DT was something to do with alcohol abuse until I found Bitcoin Talk. Now I realise that it is all do do with sexual deviation. I want to be a DT1, or is that to do with onanism? Is there a DT69 rank, that sounds like more fun, or maybe a DT3 - troilism can be so rewarding.

The quality of posting is/should be the main factor influencing the generation of sMerits. Merit sources have their awards replaced in 30 days, and every sMerit awarded creates the potential for almost another complete new sMerit. If post quality is low, then awarders will not be giving out as many sMerits, and the merit growth will slow. So, if you want more merits in the system, the answer is simple, increase the number of interesting and useful posts and threads. This will encourage the awarders to be more generous, and it will improve the quality of the boards.

That looks interesting. If I find a block, do I submit it using the regular mail?

On a more serious note. I'd like to spend some time working through the article so that I can get a better understanding of the basics of Bitcoin. Thanks for posting the link.

We are into the festive season, and that may be more significant than the drop in the price of Bitcoin and other cryptos. It took me an hour to drive out of a shopping mall today because of the traffic, so people may not have so much time to spend on posting frivolities.

Scatological scribing could be elevated to an art form.

Camille Pissarro was a Neo-impressionist painter who died in the Virgin Islands. Was he the original piss artist?

If you use a strict interpretation of the Howey test, then they may well be securities, but then some may consider lottery scratch cards to be securities as well, if the same test was applied.

Why don't you use the more anonymous and free Google Hangouts for the interview. If you use the video option, it will help you to see if your interviewee is veracious.

If you are really from coindesk, then you should know the answers, or declare your affiliation.

If you aren't, then you should delete this account, and avoid running the risk of being accused of misrepresentation, or passing off.

The EU is insignificant, it is just an organisation to steal from countries and give money to the Rothschilds and other bankers.

They need countries like Russia and China to provoke so that they can con people into letting them waste billions on so called defence projects.

The ants that you see are the scouts, and there is no point killing them. They will just send more. As somebody has suggested, put stuff down like vinegar or paraffin. They will go back and tell the others that it's not a nice place to visit.

You don't have to be the first to make the money. Google wasn't the first search engine.  Microsoft didn't write the first operating system. Who remembers Netscape the first widely used browser. And what about the first browser - Enquire? It was written by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the internet.

I believe members should be circumspect in their elocution

Foul vernacular is not coruscating.

Of course it covers his own ideas, why would he want to copy other people's ideas. The guy is smart enough to think for himself, not like some of the spambies who don't even understand the stuff they are copying.

There are so many threads about getting merit, that any halfway intelligent guy can read them, and use the best ideas. If you can't manage that, then yo need to go back to school.

Love it. It's better than my current line - "I'm great at sex, I've read all the books. "

Don't waste the time of the mods and the members who actully read threads - Just ban the fuckers and stop them coming back.

Don't you just hate those people who have to include fornication and female body parts in their posts.

The sad part is that some great names have been registered and never used. That's a real waste.

The forum is awash with merits that are waiting to be awarded. Who cares if some of them get burned as the rubbish is chucked out.

Hopefully we aren't chucking out the babies with the dirty bathwater, and the new merits will help to build healthy new babies here.

The current merit system seems to have made a great improvement. The only thing I would change is to make awards of more than a certain number subject to mod confirmation, maybe 10 or 20 would be a suitable level. There are some good posts in Meta, and I think it should be possible to give the posters suitable merits.

Life's a bitch.