Well, maybe it happened then as well (it was probably before my time here) but it also happened in summer of 2021 (which was the last time theymos introduced new merit sources) as one of our local board member got a merit source status without ever applying for one. So yeah, it is possible but it's definitely better to apply than wait for a miracle.

Even though it is (very) rare, that's tehnically not correct as few members got merit source status 2 years ago when theymos did merit "readjustement" without applying to be a merit source.

Beside that, what to say other than you would be an excellent merit source so good luck with your application!

Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think that Indonesia market is so big or influental that it could even start small pump, let alone bull run. I mean, just look at at the bitcoin price which hasn't move dat all after this news got released.

But generally, I don't like seeing countries getting into stuff like this because they are usually not good at handling the business.

Just because it happens sometimes, doesn't mean that there should be no local board merit sources at all. After all, local board merit sources rarely constrict themsleves to their own local board, at least from what I have noticed.

 
You should have reported those posts, even though just because you think something is a nonsense, doesn't automatically mean it will be deleted as I (and probably everyone that is active reported) had my share of bad reports even though they were blatant nonsesne shitposts.

Yeah it happened to me several times. Luckily I usually give only 1 merit so even when it happens, its not a big deal and it doesn't usually empty my smerit.



Is it something relatively new? I am asking because I could swear that I didn't see any message each time it happened (last time it happened was probably more than a year ago).

99% "random Joe" ekipe jednostavno nema drugi izbor ako hoce uci u kripto jer ce fee morati ostaviti nekome, samo je pitanje da li je to BATM, bitcoin store, mjenjacnica.hr, a da ne spominjem Bisq (koji se ovdje na forumu redovno preporuca) kod kojeg ces popusiti minimum 10-15%  ako hoces kupiti iole solidniju kolicinu bitcoina u razumnom vremenskom periodu.



Sve te stvari su postale neminovnost cim se bitcoin prosirio iz uskog kruga cypherpunkera u mainstream. Uostalom, drukcije se i nije mogao siriti i doci do danasnjih razina i cijena da nije bilo tih servisa koji su uvelike olaksali kupovinu bitcoina. E sad, dal je bolje da je bitcoin ostao na par dolara i da transakcije kostaju lipu te ekipa trguje p2p ili ovo sto trenutno imamo. Nazalost, najbolje iz oba svijeta ne mozemo imati.

Cestitke vama dvojici, nisam ni sumnjao da ce te upasti. Sada je Sinbad vs whirlwind rezultat 3:3 na nasem boardu, i dokaz kvalitete jer cisto sumnjam da se ijedan drugi board moze pohvaliti sa toliko clanova u dvije najbolje placene kampanje, pogotovo ne boardovi nase velicine.


Jedina razlika koju ja vidim je da whirlwind nema obavezu nosnje avatara za max isplatu. Ali posto vidim da je vas par u "Green Zone" a ne nosite avatar, mozda je tako i u Sinbadu samo sto nije navedeno u pravilima?  

I wish them good luck if they go for another moderator. We (Croatian local board) lost ours (Lauda) years ago and never got a new one and we are far more active than Polish local board.


But you can clearly see that's not happening in Polish board as they had a measly 0.04 merits per post in June which is equal to Off-Topic merit/post ratio, and we all know what kind of discussions are going on there. Hell, even Announcements (Altcoins) board which is known for spam and shitposts had 2x of their merit post ratio.

He was being sarcastic, hence the /s after "seems legit".


Why don't you share some more info about the project, so people won't have to guess about you being a pyramid scheme?

Local boards usually have members who prefer to be active only in their own local board and without merit sources it will be very hard for them to ever rank up. Therefore there is nothing wrong with having merit sources that will be focused on their own local board (btw, that doesn't stop them from sharing merit in other parts of the forum as they often do that).

That used to be the case in Croatian local board few years ago when it was almost impossible to rank up if you were mainly active there no matter how quality your posts were. Luckily that changed after we got few merit sources so now quality posts don't go unmerited.


The main idea behind merit system is to stop shitposters ever reaching higher ranks, and not to stop decent members from ranking.

While I do agree that based on merit/post ratio Polish board could use another merit source, that's not really how merit sorce application works.



My suggestion is that you talk among yourslf in Polish board who will submit application, and then support the one you choose.

Overview has been updated.

Cheers!

Thanks, but from what I can see that's only image so can you please share the link too so I can update the overview?


It was more about wanting to release this overview sooner than like it was last month because somehow I have a feeling when I wait for the end of the month to publish it that is less relevant due amount of time passed + I avoid people pestering me over it. 


Our local board overview should be out by the end of the week.

In one of the earlier posts in this thread you said that behind CZ and Justin might be chinese money (which I woulnd't be surprised is the case btw). So, let's say for the sake of argument that CZ is indeed backed by China, do you really believe that they will let him being arrested and sent to US jail? I honestly don't think so.


I know that you like to make an "interesting" predictions, but I wonder how often they turn out to be true?

I know some people that have money stuck on FTX and they all received email few days ago. Afaik, you are supposed to submit some info via https://claims.ftx.com/.

Naravno da taj conversion rate nije ok jer mi tu onda govorimo o 20% i da edo i njemu slicni uzimaju toliko, onda bih se slozio sa tobom. Ti si 3% nazvao lesinarenje sto ja mislim nikako ne stoji s obzirom na to koliki je inace fee kod crypto mjenjacnica.


Sta nije printanje novca? Barem po austrijskoj skoli.


Ali ne postoji drugi nacin da masa dodje do kripta ako ne uvedes u pricu i posrednike koji su spremni na redovnoj bazi trgovati. A oni koji su spremni će naravno naplatiti svoje vrijeme i trud. Lako je prodati/kupiti nesto sitno bitcoina, a sta kad hoces kupiti vece kolicine i to na redovnoj bazi?

Imam susjeda koji svakih par mjeseci od mene kupi 100 eura bitcoina i ja to odradim (bez feeja naravno) da on ne bi morao ici na BATM i tamo placati 6% fee kao sto sam ja godinama placao. Ali da on zeli na mjesecnoj bazi kupovati 1000 eura bitcoina ja mu jednostavno ne bih mogao (tj ne bih htio jer ne zelim prodavati tu kolicinu) to odraditi te bi on morao ici na BATM/mjenjacnicu/sta vec i platiti fee kao i ostala velika vecina koja nema pristup nekome tko ima dovoljno bitcoina za prodaju.  

You are actually right! Since the issues happened last week, this overview was not affected by it at all! I must admit that TryNinja confused me a bit and I completely switched off my brain, forgetting that only the next overview might be affected by it, but at least I won' t have to adjust current one.


I noticed that as well, that your board has very high amount of posts relative to the number of active members. As a matter of fact I even mentioned that fact in my local board,  as a proof that is possible to have a very active board without huge amount of active members as up until recently Croatian and Portuguese locals were similar in that regard (number of avtive members, not posts).


Some time ago I made that chart as well (posts per users) but then I kinda stopped making it as I thought it would be redundant and not many people would be interested seeing it. I might include it again, but  on the other hand I don't wanna make this overview too long as it was intended to be brief, as the name suggests and it already became much bigger than I initially intended.

A ako nitko ne nudi tu uslugu, kako ce itko kupiti ili prodati to zlato? Ili bi mozda netko iz ciste filantropije trebao preprodavati zlato bez feejeva i poslovati u gubitku kad plati sva davanja? Po meni je svakako bolje da ti preprodavaci postoje pa i nek uzmu taj fee, nego da ih nema uopce.


Jebote da ne znam mislio bi da pricas o 10-15% feeju a ne 3%. Da, naravno da bi bilo bolje da je fee manji, ali to ce se dogoditi tek kad bude vise konkurencije.  


Ajd mi pls objasni iz kojeg razloga je direktna P2P prodaja/kupnja kripta bez ikakvih dokumenata kontra kripto filozofije? Samo zato sto neki zaradjuju na tome? Nema mi to nikakvog smisla.

Naravno da bi bilo bolje da svi trejdaju bez feejeva (i to se da lako naci kad kupujes ili prodajes male iznose), ali netko tko se bavi velikim iznosima te je pouzdan, po meni zasluzuje nekakav fee za svoje vrijeme i trud. Kao sto ja ne radim za jabba, tako ne ocekujem ni da ce drugi.


A jesi se zapitao kakav rizik on preuzima svaki put kad odradjuje 100k eura deal, i koliko stvari moze poci po krivu, recimo sacekuse koje su realna opasnost.


Svi znamo da prijavljivanje poreza na kripto i nije tako jednostavna stvar kod nas te je to jos jedan od razloga zasto ekipa izbjegava odradjivati prodaju preko racuna (tu takodjer neces izbjeci fee).

A i da se ta kes lova na ruke lako potrositi, ako se ne prica o nekim enormnim iznosima. Npr, ja sam prije 2 godine prodao solidnu kolicinu kripta (direktno p2p za kes) i dao starom da kupi novi auto. On je u vise navrata stavio lovu na racun te kupio auta iz autosalona, bez da ga je itko jebao za ista. Ni iz banke, ni iz autosalona.

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Edit: u ostalim vijestima, Binance je napokon implementirao LN

Oh damn I completely forgot about that, your bot not being able scrape the forum due recent issues so number of posts appear a bit lower than they actually are.  You shoulnd't have mentioned that lol, ignorance is bliss.  

If LoyceV doesn't have the total post numbers, DdmrDdmr might have. Anyway, at least its the same for all local boards since they are all relatively equally affected.

After being late last month, I"ve decided to release this month's obverview a little bit sooner to avoid potentual complaints. Like in previous overviews, charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards yet but I do hope that theymos and Cyrus will do something about it soon because I think their numers are definitely strong enough to give them their own local board.

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Post activity per local board during June 2023

During last month 15319 posts were written acorss 18 local boards/communities which is ~8% decrease compared to May number (16641). Since its the beginning of the summer, I am not surprised with the decreased activity because pople have more fun things to do than sit at the computer. Due this overall decerased activity, no susprise that majority of boards had lower numbers compared to May, with no one really sticking out in that regard.

Regarding the most active boards nothing changed here: Russian board is stil far ahead of the others, followed by Turkish and German. As a matter of fact, the top 6 is exactly the same like in May, while situation at the bottom is also similar to previous months.

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Local Board post race

Animated local board post race chart, courtesy of bitmover.

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Active member per local board during June 2023

During above mentioned period, 1272 members wrote at least 1 post in their local boards which is very similar to May and  1270 active members. When I saw overall decrease of the amount of posts I epxected to see this number goind down as well, but for whatever reason it remained basically the same, with even 2 active members more. Bare in mind that I counted members who wrote even 1 post during last month so that may give a little bit skewed picture on how many active members each board actually had.



To get a little bit clearer picture of the boards activity and their member's posting habits, here is the "local boards members per amount of posts" chart.

When it comes to percentage of members of wrote only one post during June 2023, Arabic board is ahead of the others with 45%, followed by Greek (43%) and Bangladesh & Italian boards that both had 33% of such members. The lowest percentage of such members had Indian board (17%), followed by Nigerian (19%) and Romanian (20%) local boards.

In the 2-9 posts bracket Romanian board is ahead with 60% of such members, followed by Indian local board (54%) and Pilipinas (48%) local board. In the same bracket, Arabic board with 27% had lowest percentage of those members, followed by Turksih (31%) and Polish (33%) local boards.

Polish board has the highest percentage of active members that wrote 10+ posts during last month period ( 44%), followed by Turkish (43%) and Portuguese (42%) local boards. On the other hand, Greek boiard had the lowest percentage of such members (14%), followed by German (22% and French % Russian local boards both with 24% of such members.

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Merit shared per local board during June 2023

During last month period 6939 merits where shared acorss 18 local boards, which is a 6% decrease compared to May 2023 numbers (7376 merits). Since amount of posts went down by 8%, its no surprise that the same thing hapepned with the merit and it was kinda expected.

Once again Russian board had by far the most amount of merit shared which makes sense as they are more active than next few local boards combined, once again followed by Indonesian local board that yet again had very high amount of merits shared. At the bottom we can see the boards that are generally less active, which also makes sense, with the Pilipinas board kinda sticking out as I think they deserve more merit considering their amount of posts (assuming they don't have a lot of spam).

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Merit per transaction across local boards in June 2023

Since there was some demand for this chart, I've decided to include it from now in in this overview. As you can see, Greek local board has by far the highest tx/merit ratio, but that's only because they only had 1 merit transaction of 4 merits, which then made it so high. Generally, least active local boards will often end up at the top of this chart as its very easy for them to to have unusually high ratio, compared to local boards with high amount of merit transaction, like for example German or Indonesian local board.

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Merit senders and receivers per local board during June 2023

Self explanatory chart that shows the amount of merit senders and receivers in each local board, sorted by the amount of merits shared. Nigerian and Pilipinas board are yet again sticking out which could indicate that they could use more merit.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board for June 2023

Last but not the least in this series of chart, post/merit ratio. Spanish local board is far ahead the others with the very high ratio unusual for them (they generally do have high ratio, but not this high) followed by standard names, Romanian and Arabic local board and thanks to recent increase in amount of merits, Indonesian board as well.

At the bottom are two local boards that are not very active (Greek and Polish) and two (Nigerian, Pilipinas) that are very active but as seen in previous charts, they do lack merit.

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The most active members per local board during June 2023

And for the end of last month's local board activity overview, list of the most active members acorss 18 local boards and that are keeping their boards alive. joker_josue from Portuguese local board has yet again been the most active members with 275 posts written during last month, followed by two members from Russian local board, Smartprofit (234) and Ratimov (221). Keep it up guys!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Smartprofit [234]	|	1. Turbartuluk [121]	|	1. totti67 [127]	|	1. babo [63]	|	1. joker_josue [275]	|	1. famososMuertos [39]	|
2. Ratimov [221]	|	2. bullrun2020bro [103]	|	2. Jossque [115]	|	2. fillippone [61]	|	2. darkv0rt3x [111]	|	2. Hispo [37]	|
3. Julien_Olynpic [188]	|	3. Buchi-88 [98]	|	3. Mustang Shelby [109]	|	3. Ale88 [59]	|	3. Paredao [107]	|	3. Porfirii [35]	|
4. klarki [183]	|	4. willi9974 [91]	|	4. Silence Scream [107]	|	4. giammangiato [44]	|	4. tg88 [90]	|	4. DdmrDdmr [20]	|
5. jokers10 [174]	|	5. 1miau [85]	|	5. Phoenix Anka [92]	|	5. mendace [36]	|	5. TryNinja [89]	|	5. Don Pedro Dinero [18]	|
6. fruktik [150]	|	6. sam00 [80]	|	6. kriminall [86]	|	6. bitbollo [29]	|	6. bitmover [82]	|	6. darxiaomi [18]	|
7. bonfire66 [143]	|	7. Lakai01 [73]	|	7. mandown [84]	|	7. bastisisca [23]	|	7. Disruptivas [77]	|	7. ericonee [16]	|
8. Snork1979 [142]	|	8. Real-Duke [67]	|	8. Dzigie [72]	|	8. creep_o [20]	|	8. rdluffy [71]	|	8. Shawshank [14]	|
9. Inwestour [89]	|	9. bct_ail [64]	|	9. SUPERSAIAN [62]	|	9. HedgeFx [19]	|	9. Lucasgabd [42]	|	9. Cuenta Alternativa [10]	|
10. The0ldl_lser [79]	|	10. Soonandwaite [61]	|	10. gospodin [56]	|	10. conilmionome [17]	|	10. alegotardo [36]	|	10. Filicius [10]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Nigerian	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	___________________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	________________________	|	_________________	|
1. komisariatku [101]	|	1. iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2 [56]	|	1. bhadz [96]	|	1. slackovic [38]	|	1. Charles-Tim [76]	|	1. yhiaali3 [41]	|
2. Husna QA [65]	|	2. Danydee [54]	|	2. blockman [45]	|	2. Rikafip [28]	|	2. Mate2237 [54]	|	2. Kavelj22 [40]	|
3. Chikito [45]	|	3. LeGaulois [40]	|	3. Fredomago [26]	|	3. BitGoba [20]	|	3. CryptoHeadlineNews [47]	|	3. GxSTxV [23]	|
4. masulum [44]	|	4. patrickus [35]	|	4. serjent05 [25]	|	4. dkbit98 [20]	|	4. Doan9269 [44]	|	4. khaled0111 [23]	|
5. Sarah Azhari [39]	|	5. Becassine [33]	|	5. robelneo [23]	|	5. Pmalek [19]	|	5. Wiwo [41]	|	5. CryptoCuMan [22]	|
6. arimamib [39]	|	6. Saint-loup [31]	|	6. Asuspawer09 [22]	|	6. Daniel91 [18]	|	6. CryptSafe [36]	|	6. Ulven [19]	|
7. mu_enrico [36]	|	7. G.Seed [12]	|	7. Baofeng [22]	|	7. SirJohnVonSlotty [16]	|	7. CryptopreneurBrainboss [31]	|	7. abderrazak belkhir [11]	|
8. reagansimms [27]	|	8. F2b [10]	|	8. bisdak40 [21]	|	8. casperBGD [11]	|	8. Kelward [30]	|	8. albon [11]	|
9. PytagoraZ [26]	|	9. GrosWesh [9]	|	9. Reatim [20]	|	9. FatFork [9]	|	9. Hyphen(-) [25]	|	9. mikeywith [11]	|
10. abhiseshakana [26]	|	10. Melja [9]	|	10. abel1337 [20]	|	10. Trofo [9]	|	10. sokani [25]	|	10. OmegaStarScream [7]	|

Polish	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Romanian	|	Pakistan*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Tytanowy Janusz [22]	|	1. pakhitheboss [26]	|	1. cryptosize [11]	|	1. GazetaBitcoin [17]	|	1. UmerIdrees [38]	|	1. Learn Bitcoin [33]	|
2. wwzsocki [20]	|	2. elevates [22]	|	2. BlackHatCoiner [7]	|	2. NeuroticFish [9]	|	2. Cheema02 [37]	|	2. 2Pizza410000BTC [30]	|
3. pawel7777 [12]	|	3. Bureau [21]	|	3. chek2fire [4]	|	3. 20kevin20 [2]	|	3. Compromise me [32]	|	3. Bd officer [30]	|
4. adamvp [7]	|	4. pawanjain [11]	|	4. treliaris123 [2]	|	4. Rizzrack [2]	|	4. ThemePen [30]	|	4. roksana.hee [27]	|
5. cygan [7]	|	5. teosanru [9]	|	5. Dimitris [1]	|	5. Manciu [1]	|	5. JunaidAzizi [27]	|	5. BD Crypto [23]	|
6. GENRYUDINI [2]	|	6. IIrik11 [7]	|	6. btctuxedo [1]	|		|	6. MusaPk [23]	|	6. sj13 [19]	|
7. Rogovaw [1]	|	7. RajeshKarwa [7]	|	7. christ0fer-gr [1]	|		|	7. petulino [22]	|	7. Worsh [17]	|
8. buddha111 [1]	|	8. avikz [6]	|		|		|	8. Hamza2424 [20]	|	8. Poorman2 [15]	|
	|	9. cafter [6]	|		|		|	9. ITExpert [18]	|	9. tjtonmoy [15]	|
	|	10. libert19 [6]	|		|		|	10. ZAINmalik75 [17]	|	10. Crypto Library [14]	|