Merit is sort of like a point other members give to you, if they find your post content of a certain quality (dependent on them, not you). It's a requirement to rank up from newbie all through to legendary.

You don't get it, you're given it by other members for the above reason and you can in turn give other members merits when you've earned smerits.

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Further read: FAQ : Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit

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Good luck to everyone

Coinomi and trust wallet are pretty bad suggestions, especially as the OP is looking for open source wallet software options.
Both coinomi and trust wallet has been exposed to not be open source and there is other security risks which those platforms are susceptible to.

A hardware wallet might be expensive relatively, but for maximum security it is the best option, or you could single out each crypto you want to store and find open source alternatives for them.

The current value of Bitcoin and ETH is enough to attract devs to steal funds of customers, and we've seen that with many ce realized exchanges.
It's wise to avoid closed source softwares entirely as you are depending on the devs trustworthiness; in crypto, you verify, not trust.

I personally do not even try to convince people to buy Bitcoin. If a person does show interest, I crawl the internet looking for educative posts or videos which explains how it works as simply as possible and send this to them. Many people who have asked me about bitcoin do not pass this stage, this shows they were never willing to read or do any form of research. If they do happen to pass this stage, I then introduce them to the forum and answer any questions they may have.
You find it easier to communicate when the other party is genuinely interested.

The burden of investment lies on whoever is risking their capital, and they should not be coerced into doing that.

It depends on the usefulness of the content and the effort put into creating it. Merits is a huge part of the forum, and even though it's regularly advised that you do not chase after them, not everyone can completely ignore them when making a post; This doesn't make them spammers.

Every helpful post does NOT get merited. There's no guaranteed reward for quality contribution, well there is and that's contributing positively to the community.

Cold wallets are not limited to hardware wallets, it's simply a broad term to describe wallets which are meant for cold storage, in other words assets sent there are meant to be stored for the long term, preferably offline (hardware wallet or airgapped device). They can always receive transactions as it does not require internet connection, but should ideally only send out once.

Hot wallets are wallets which are used actively for sending and receiving, example would be a trader's account on an exchange.

Giving more people copies of your private keys creates several points of error, where the safety of your assets does not depend on you as anyone of them could be careless with it.
You can inform them (them being anyone you trust enough and you want to inherit your wealth) of where you stored a copy of your seedphrase or where you stashed up your hardware wallet. You should also teach them how to use it safely and properly.

Locktime transactions could work, but it would require monitoring as you would need to change the raw transaction from time to time and inform them of the new one.

The issue is far too many members of the public are not privacy conscious and many see seeking privacy as having a criminal motive. The more people who flock to privacy centered platforms, the harder it is for members who do not want to reveal their personal information to keep it private.

Depending on the location, that would be an attractive amount for one to give up their KYC documents for, especially when you do not see the worth of keeping it private.

The first rule of investing is risking why you can afford to lose. So you should check if $500 is an amount you can afford to lose, although, I would assume with the fact that you have a long term goal that it's an amount you do not need at this point (spare money).

Before you consider imvesting, you should do your research on how to invest;
• Safety is the most important aspect of investing, choose the right wallet software or hardware to use and remember to back up safely.
• You will also have to learn to browse safely and avoid scams

The age of the content does not matter at all as long as it is still relevant and accurate.

Just ensure the content is posted in the appropriate board and is done in such a way to create a room for discussions rather than just a wa to get publicity to your website.
Would love to read what you write, or wrote already.

Going through the link, I could not find any credible source to the claim, it was more of a claim.

Also, the article presents this as a problem, with Bitcoin being a threat to financial institutions. Whether this is true or not, individuals have the right to evade sanctions if they can, Russians in general have not done anything wrong and do not have to suffer consequences, if Bitcoin would help avoid those consequences, then it is working as it was designed.

This is a privacy centered forum so you can't determine who is a "big shot". But there are members who have been handing out loans for a long time on the forum, one of them is DarkStar, who doubles as the campaign manager of Chipmixer; which is the highest paying campaign on the forum.
Here's a link to their loan thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3243635.msg33783049#msg33783049

Have you considered visiting the lending section of the forum? There you can find loan offers from members of the forum.
Your best option if you choose to consider forum laons would be a collateralized one as your account is fairly newbie, despite the fact that it's old. Finding a laon offer which accepts BTC as a collateral might be difficult, but it's worth the shot.

I've not seen these sort of congratulatory posts around the forum for some time. Congratulations on your new rank.

I'm not aware of any benefits of being a legendary ranked member. The closest to any benefit would be earnings in signature campaigns, but that does not differ much between hero and legendary. Many projects group both ranks to the same cadre.

The difficulty level depends on how deep and expansive you would want the courses to be. An introduction into the blockchain world, majorly containing the basics would be fairly easy for an undergraduate to understand.

Students already are forced to take a lot of courses which are not directly relevant to their chosen field of study. Having an an elective course on blockchain and crypto would not be a bad idea imo.

Some would argue that safety protocols like trust feedback and trust flag serves as protection against scams.

The idea that the forum does not try to protect users could pass a wrong message to newer members. The forum puts some community oriented process in place to protect users especially newbies and guests from falling for scams. It is not just moderated, so there would be no action taken if you fall for scam.

I get this exact same result sometimes when browsing the forum on my PC using duckduckgo, where I have uBlock origin installed.
I've never had the same issue on my mobile device where I have it disabled (mainly cause I only access bitcointalk on that browser and no other website).

As has bee suggested, whitelisting the forum, or disabling uBlock on it should fix the issue.

Not just a plan, the project was already set in motion, the name of the new forum was decided and funds allocated to it about 11 years ago, when theymos created a thread looking for a software developer .

The beta for the new forum software was actually launched for testing.

The project is long overdue and there is some uncertainty about when it would be ready.

The data on the forum would be migrated to the new software.
And most of the forum features and layout would be the same, but where would be some major updates to it.

I was mildly surprised seeing '50T' reviews, which refers to 'Trillions'.
 I have personally not seen a website with trillions of downloads, that would be weird as we have only a couple billion people in the world.
It's actually '50K' downloads, referring to 50 thousand and 5K+ reviews.

In reality, those numbers does not sound perfect at all. Such amount of stats are very easy to fake, and I wouldn't use a website which is not very popular to get lots of credible information on it, especially if it's related to finance and assets.

And downloading should of course be done via the appropriate source. Extra marks if it can be verified.