Couldn't agree more with this. This forum can be a confusing place for a newbie and local boards definitely help. I mean, I've been active on various forums for ~20 years, wasn't new in crypto and have no problem understanding English yet it was helpful to have group of people that speak my language in that first period when i was getting used to this forum. And now imagine how it is for someone who is new to crypto, has no previous experience on any other forum and struggles with English.


No worries about that, I haven't missed making monthly overview in last 3 years since I created this thread and certainly won't miss last month's overview.


Yeah you are right, I was too conservative and still thinking like I am making monthly overview and not yearly.


Things get more complicated when you have to include boards that very different in terms of activity. I am still checking things out but I am leaning towards making 4 groups: 1-9 posts, 10-49, 50-99, 100+. Eventually I may add one more groups for those extra active (500+) but I am still not sure about it as not many boards would have members in that bracket.


Keep in mind that even those who wrote a single post in a whole are counted, so that's why numbers are somewhat inflated.

That's exactly what I planned to do but then I scratched that idea due sheer laziness. Initial idea was to divide users into 3 groups: those who wrote 1 post, then group for 2-9 posts and 3rd for all that made 10+ posts. Does that make sense to you?
I might even try to do it today and if I can make it look good I'll update the overview with the new chart.

As I promised couple of weeks ago, here is the first yearly overview of the local board activity. Main reason for this overview is to be able to compare and follow the situation in following years. Since this month I have to make 4 overviews I will keep it brief & simple and if you have any other ideas what should I add, please let me know.

All charts and tables were made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space. Communities marked with * don't have their own local board (yet).

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Post activity per local board during 2022

During above mentioned period 193839 posts were made across 18 local boards/communities with Russian board far ahead the others, followed by Turkish and German board far behind them and at the bottom we have usual names that we see in similar positions in  those monthly overviews. It is also encouraging to see that one of the communities without local board (Pakistan) is so high on the chart, while I expect the one that recently got their own local board (Nigerian) much higher on the next year's overview.

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Number of active members per local board during 2022

Overall, 5960 members wrote at least 1 post in one of those 18 local boards. I thought about setting requirement much higher as if someone writes 1 post during a year it can be hardly counted as an active member, but since I set the same requirement for monthly overview, in the end I went with the same number.

Anyway, Russian board has by far the most members who wrote at least one post, while Germans and Turks changes the position compared to post chart and the only one that was somewhat close to them was Indonesian board, while all the others were far behind.

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Merit shared per local board during 2022

During 2022, total amount of 71009 merits were shared. I don't have the info from 2021, but since theymos introduced new merit sources last year, I am fairly certain that number increased significantly when compared with previous period. Once again Russian board is far ahead the others with 18226 merits shared, followed by Turkish (9735) and German (9621).

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Merit senders and receivers per local board during  2022

When we are looking at overall numbers for 2022, 1098 members send merit and 1963 members received merit across 15 local boards. Pakistan and Bangladesh are missing here as I only have that info for those with their own local boards and hopefully next year there will be at least 1 more local board on his chart. Another reminder that boards are ordered based on the amount of merits shared.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board for 2022

Since Arabic board was consistently if not the top then 2nd board with highest merit.post ratio in those monthly overviews, its no surprise that it is far ahead the others in yearly chart too and very same can be said about those that were at the bottom in monthy charts, namely Pilipinas, Greek and Indian that are very far behind the others. Beside those few local boards, I think that situation geenrally looks pretty good and probably much better than in previous years.

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The most active members per local board during 2022

Last but not the least, list of those who kept their boards alive and kicking during last year. Among all of them, the most active one was joker_josue with 3282 posts written in Portuguese board, followed by DdmrDdmr who wrote 2076 posts in Spanish board and Ratimov at the 3rd spot with 1998 posts written in Russian board.

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|
1. Ratimov [1998]	|	1. mole0815 [1767]	|	1. mandown [1214]	|	1. fillippone [1668]	|	1. joker_josue [3282]	|	1. DdmrDdmr [2076]	|
2. Snork1979 [1900]	|	2. willi9974 [1326]	|	2. Phoenix Anka [1082]	|	2. babo [906]	|	2. TryNinja [1616]	|	2. famososMuertos [698]	|
3. The0ldl_lser [1488]	|	3. 1miau [1157]	|	3. ZekiBeyy [988]	|	3. Ale88 [827]	|	3. bitmover [1268]	|	3. Hispo [605]	|
4. xandry [1119]	|	4. bct_ail [1093]	|	4. wolwoo [956]	|	4. duesoldi [546]	|	4. Disruptivas [809]	|	4. Porfirii [567]	|
5. klarki [1097]	|	5. bullrun2020bro [984]	|	5. MK-74 [920]	|	5. Paolo.Demidov [542]	|	5. Lucasgabd [639]	|	5. darxiaomi [361]	|
6. lutik378 [1056]	|	6. sam00 [901]	|	6. meser# [906]	|	6. jack0m [350]	|	6. alegotardo [598]	|	6. Don Pedro Dinero [256]	|
7. Olgacom [1054]	|	7. Lakai01 [894]	|	7. Red Pie [888]	|	7. Plutosky [346]	|	7. rdluffy [542]	|	7. seoincorporation [241]	|
8. Excimer [1024]	|	8. Unknown01 [877]	|	8. Bthd [885]	|	8. gbianchi [314]	|	8. gagux123 [430]	|	8. LUCKMCFLY [144]	|
9. Galina1006 [903]	|	9. cygan [806]	|	9. kriminall [885]	|	9. bitbollo [280]	|	9. Paredao [278]	|	9. d5000 [117]	|
10. Julien_Olynpic [867]	|	10. Soonandwaite [805]	|	10. Retro Harmony [838]	|	10. giammangiato [249]	|	10. tg88 [247]	|	10. Silberman [106]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|
1. Husna QA [949]	|	1. Danydee [503]	|	1. blockman [520]	|	1. slackovic [579]	|	1. Tytanowy Janusz [481]	|	1. Kavelj22 [531]	|
2. DroomieChikito [816]	|	2. Saint-loup [470]	|	2. Fredomago [447]	|	2. Daniel91 [414]	|	2. wwzsocki [240]	|	2. Ulven [265]	|
3. abhiseshakana [544]	|	3. patrickus [373]	|	3. bisdak40 [427]	|	3. Trofo [401]	|	3. PawGo [177]	|	3. OmegaStarScream [251]	|
4. masulum [505]	|	4. LeGaulois [302]	|	4. Baofeng [307]	|	4. casperBGD [281]	|	4. cygan [134]	|	4. yhiaali3 [222]	|
5. Luzin [470]	|	5. elma [228]	|	5. mirakal [299]	|	5. dkbit98 [273]	|	5. lokas0506 [114]	|	5. khaled0111 [170]	|
6. mamesso [442]	|	6. GrosWesh [188]	|	6. carlisle1 [266]	|	6. Pmalek [272]	|	6. malevolent [63]	|	6. GxSTxV [119]	|
7. blue Snow [396]	|	7. perl [153]	|	7. serjent05 [259]	|	7. FatFork [235]	|	7. Flangler1 [59]	|	7. albon [75]	|
8. erep [303]	|	8. Melja [137]	|	8. Jemzx00 [251]	|	8. cryptofrka [204]	|	8. pbies [24]	|	8. mikeywith [65]	|
9. Antonas1 [245]	|	9. Halab [135]	|	9. acroman08 [250]	|	9. Rikafip [151]	|	9. Rath_ [21]	|	9. Bybit Arabic [35]	|
10. Razmirraz [244]	|	10. F2b [123]	|	10. arwin100 [227]	|	10. CroBoy12 [109]	|	10. dwminer1 [12]	|	10. abderrazak belkhir [23]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan*	|	Nigeria*	|	Bangladesh*	|
____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|	____________________	|	________________________	|	____________________	|
1. NeuroticFish [206]	|	1. sagarbansal21 [147]	|	1. cryptosize [313]	|	1. Sayeds56 [556]	|	1. Maestro75 [225]	|	1. Little Mouse [90]	|
2. GazetaBitcoin [189]	|	2. pakhitheboss [86]	|	2. BlackHatCoiner [172]	|	2. NoorulHuda [516]	|	2. uchegod-21 [219]	|	2. Crypto Library [86]	|
3. Rizzrack [45]	|	3. teosanru [57]	|	3. chek2fire [53]	|	3. UmerIdrees [451]	|	3. CryptopreneurBrainboss [169]	|	3. Review Master [55]	|
4. PrivacyG [28]	|	4. Frengki_cisco [53]	|	4. Dr1000 [35]	|	4. ThemePen [223]	|	4. Wiwo [150]	|	4. wtsimis [50]	|
5. 1miau [11]	|	5. pawanjain [44]	|	5. HmmMAA [23]	|	5. galambo [221]	|	5. Charles-Tim [148]	|	5. shasan [44]	|
6. IonCreanga [9]	|	6. avikz [27]	|	6. bomberb17 [18]	|	6. Hamza2424 [218]	|	6. Agbe [138]	|	6. Cryptoworldman [41]	|
7. Palinca89 [6]	|	7. nestproclub [24]	|	7. Nikosbtc [10]	|	7. Morningstarr [213]	|	7. Coyster [134]	|	7. musafar37 [38]	|
8. flori70 [5]	|	8. ANKIT007 [21]	|	8. olesg13 [9]	|	8. shahzadafzal [204]	|	8. Marykeller [123]	|	8. naim027 [34]	|
9. 3dOOm [4]	|	9. libert19 [21]	|	9. Dimitris [8]	|	9. Mariah20 [162]	|	9. BIT-BENDER [113]	|	9. Teletalk.org [24]	|
10. Elvenland [4]	|	10. pihumehra09 [20]	|	10. scrab4ever [8]	|	10. ZAINmalik75 [160]	|	10. Davidvictorson [110]	|	10. sakil200 [21]	|

There are many non-custodial wallets around, but I would suggest you to get Electrum which is also open-source, meaning community was able to thoroughly checked it out to make sure there is no malicious code that could make you lose your bitcoin. Here is a good guide on how to use it and if that's not enough, there is also a dedicated Electrum board on bitcointalk and you can find it here.

Just to note that if you plan to store bigger amount of bitcoin, hardware wallet would be a safer option.

Many (read almost everyone) said that bitcoin won't go below previous all time high just because it never done that before, and we can see how that prediction ended up. Many things can happen to drive the price below 10k, like for example Binance or Tether going down (and there is always a chance for that to happen) which would almost certainly drive the price below $10k, and probably even much lower than that.

Well, something has been done already - TryNinja made ninjastic.space so for me search option is not a problem anymore. It is a 3rd party solution but I am OK with that, like I am OK with using Telegram bot for notifications instead waiting that feature to be implemented on bitcointalk (which probably never will, even on Epochtalk).

So I checked some of their reviews and in my opinion they can't be trusted and they are getting paid to write a positive review for an obvious scam, or they are making money via referral links. For example, they concluded that Lunofund is a legit while in reality it was nothing but a ponzi scheme hidden behind "bitcoin mining" that offered completely unrealistic 2% daily profit. They do write negative reviews, but it is justa  tactic to appear more legit, like they are really testing the sites.

Rule of thumb: any website offering you more than few % APY is a straight scam, that simply won't last for longer period of time. Instead of wasting your time and money with these dodgy websites, why don't you just buy bitcoin instead and store it in your own non-custodial wallet?

I can only imagine how it is for you to wait while not being able to move at all. I waited for my transplant for approximately two months while being home and it wasn't fun at all even though I wasn't bed ridden like you which makes situation worse. The most annoying part for me was that everyone around me was worried and scared and for some reason I was completely calm and 100% sure that everything will be fine. I guess survival mode kicked in and you have no option really other than psyche yourself into positive thinking. I hope its the same for you as this approach helped me a lot. Anyway, hang on buddy!


Oh lol, I sure hope he won't have the same experience with one of the nurses as did the poor James Caan in that movie.  

First of all, you posted in wrong board. Guides like these belong more to Beginners & Help or eventually Scam Accusations board (as this is a type of scam).
2nd, there are already several threads with the same topic being created in the last week so you might check that before posting.
3rd, vast majority of your thread is a direct copy/paste. Sure, you cover yourself from plagiarism accusation by sharing reference link, but everything that you copied word for word should be easily recognizable from your own words, meaning you should use quote option for verbatim copy.

I voted 3-5 and I personally know 4 of them in real life that have account here (just to note that I knew all those people long before I ever heard about bitcointalk). Even though they are all still very much in crypto and have been for years, unfortunately none of them are active here anymore. I tried talk them into coming back several times, but to no avail.

Let me check my crystal ball and I'll get back to you. 

Joke aside, no one knows the bottom (or top) and those who think they do (like those people you mention) are full of shit and you shouldn't listen to them. If you are asking about the bottom because you are waiting to invest, I think that you consider DCA investment method so you don't have to worry about tops and bottoms and instead focus on  acquiring more bitcoin. On the other hand, if you are trader and you came here to ask us where it is going, then I would suggest you that trading is maybe not for you.

Why would you have to change the address for every transaction when you can simply send bitcoin to the same one? I am doing the same thing with my Ledger, sending bitcoin to the same address for a long term hodl.

For vast majority of people hardware wallet is the way to go because beside hardware wallet being more convenient for use, its not so easy to properly make a paper wallet, without messing up one of the steps and that could have dire consequence.

Iako je trend smanjenja broja postova nezaustavljiv te ce forum u buducnosti vjerojatno prestati biti zanimljiv oglasacima, ne mislim da ce se to tako brzo dogoditi. Naime, velika vecina kampanja je vezana uz gambling a upravo taj dio foruma nema nikakav pad nego naprotiv cak i konstantno raste u zadnjih par godina. Dolje sam podijelio brojeve postova u gambling boardu cisto da se vidi kako se kretala situacija od 2016 do danas.

Velika vecina toga jesu shitpostovi napisani samo zato jer kampanje to zahtjevaju, ali ocito da stvar nekako funkcionira jer se broj gambling kampanja konstantno povecava tako da mislim da nema zime za forum bar ne jos 5 godina, a mozda i vise.

2016 - 453,827
2017 - 316,893
2018 - 135,614
2019 - 230,380
2020 - 259,272
2021 - 291,530
2022 - 422,852

Sto se tice smanjenja ukupnog broja postova (pad je ogroman), mislim da su cak i ovi na vrhu shvatili ozbiljnost situacije sto je vidljivo po tome kako se promjenila ban politika. Dok su nekad clanovi kao Regulus najebali zbog jednog kopiranog posta, danas jednostavno nema sanse da itko imalo veceg ranga dobije ban zbog takvog prekrsaja i generalno se puno vise gleda  kroz prste za svakojaka sranja.

If someone can't be bothered to write a half-decent post (as that's all that is needed in order to get merit) I really doubt that it will want to go around and report shitposts of others. If anything, meriting reporters will only lead to abuse of the system where people will use alt accounts to write shitposts and then report them on the main one. It would be a perfect system for account farmers, and that's something that is much harder now due existing merit system.

I already explained the (imho) reason for such a big difference between Golden Globe odds and Oscar odds for best actor award but here it is again.

First of all, Golden Globes have two different awards for the best actor: "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama" and "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy" while Oscar has only one, which automatically means that for example Austin Butler and Colin Farrel can't go against each other. 2nd reason why odds on Austin Butler were so low is because Brendan Fraser (his only serious contender) has serious beef with Golden Globes organization (he accused their former president of sexual assault) and said that he has no plans of even attending the ceremony so of course no one expected Brendan Fraser to win, which reflected in lower odds for Austin Butler (he did a good job in "Elvis" but I personally didn't like the movie much, mainly because Baz Luhrmann's directing style).

Regarding the bolded part, that was maybe the case years ago but situation now is completely different. There's way more spots in signature campaigns than there are quality members and that happened due combination of increased amount of campaigns and decreased number of active members. Result of that is that even shitposters can get into one and earn decent amount of bitcoin.

This is what all those political donations get you so that's why mainstream media was surprisingly soft on him while on the other hand they are usually very harsh with everything crypto related and can't wait to bash bitcoin. Good example of that was that shameful The Washington Post article from few months ago in which autor praised him for donating money for covid related stuff, forgetting to mention (or even hinting) that he used someone else's money to do that.


You maybe wouldn't, but if there's no lack of something in crypto that's ignorant suckers.

My advice to you is to just ignore forum search and instead use TryNinja's https://ninjastic.space/ which is much better for anything search related, especially if you are looking for duplicate topics. Here you can ask questions if you have any issues using this tool.

I am far from expert, but I find it interesting that after this pump you immediately changed your opinion and now you think that bottom is in. Wouldn't those who manipulate the market want people to think exactly that, in order to maximize their profit?

I would like to be wrong but somehow I don't think that we are out of the woods yet and I think that it is still possible that we go down more.