Hi, welcome to the forum

What is Merit?
Merit is a reward from other members who appreciate your post if they think your post is deserve to get merit. Your post should be constructive, informative and high quality. If you only spam, you will never get merit.

What is Activity?
Activity means how active you in this forum. You can only get 14 activity maximum for 14 days. The purpose of activity is prevent from burst post and spam to order in rank up only

To more understand about merit and activity you can read here FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit

Here are the rank in bitcointalk, you need requirement both activity and merit to rank up

For me, you don't need to think too much about the activity and merit. Just contribute what you can and what you enjoy to this forum. I believe your activity and merit can increase slowly if you keep create high quality post and contributing each day.

If you keep thinking about that, you only make it complicated and never start contribute. I really recommend you to read this What is Quality post really ? . Never forget to contribute and active in this forum


Unlike cryptotalk, only need 100 post requirement to earn 1000 satoshi on next post (maximum 30 post/day) this forum have signature campaign and bounty campaign. But signature campaign usually must in rank member or full member above, so you should rank up first. Or you can join bounty campaign (bounty usually accept newbies) but I don't recommend it, its not worth it, you only get shitcoin only.

You can also offering your service in service discussion to get payed in bitcoin or other altcoin