I am a merit source also, so you don't need to fell obligated to merit me back.   Also, some merit sources want to remain anonymous, so not allowing non-merit sources to merit merit sources would effectively dox people. Thanks for the merit, though. I'm sure that I will get around to paying it forward, eventually. However, I am sitting on top of a shitload of smerit, ATM.

Since most of the volume is leveraged on Bitmex, I wouldn't give much credence to that figure. To get a good idea of how much value is really being risked, I would divide that figure by 10. And I am being generous since people have the option to use up to 100x leverage. However, I do wonder what is going on with Bitforex. I'm not familiar with that exchange at all, and it states that it is a spot market.

Oops. Should have used Google.

Or perhaps not a guillotine, but Laura Bobbitt on the other end.  

Edit Lorena Bobbitt

With the new rule change, more merit sources were added and many of the established merit sources have more merits to hand out. It should get a little easier. I looked at your post history, and decided that I will throw you a bone.  

Old way employers used to keep track of your time.

You may also make money running a full node if you use it to run a mining pool. This probably won't work with BTC, since you would have to attract quite a few people to make it profitable, and many miners won't go to a pool with low hash rate. However, you could start running a pool that mines other alts.

How would that be much of a deterrent? Wouldn't that actually be good advertising for someone's merit selling business? I always thought the punishment for selling merit as a merit source would be to get stripped of the privilege and perhaps a ban on the account.
Edit: Now that I think about it though, I guess someone would have to be really bad at covering their tracks in order to have a sufficient case for the staff to implement such measures. 

I looked at your post history, and except for this post, it seems to only contain reports of your social media activity for bounty campaigns or signing up for bounty campaigns. You will never get a merit that way. All you need to do is get 1 merit. Your facebook profile indicates that you are from Indonesia. Perhaps this thread can help you get your 1 merit. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3315373.100 I'm not sure though, since I do not read or write Indochinese at all. There may be other threads in the Indochinese local board that can help you too.

Please don't. Although the guy is clearly pro BTC, he also claims to be "co-founder of BitCoin" https://satoshi-school.com/en/our-vision/ Anything that he writes should be taken with a grain of salt.

In response to the new policy, theymos has also increased the number of merit sources and also increased the amount of smerits at least some of the merit sources can give. They should be a little easier to get now.



I will try to be more selective. However, I am not getting paid for this service of doling out merits. I really don't think it should be expected of me to sift through a person's whole post history to hand out 1 measly merit. I either like the post that I am currently reading or I don't

Hey look, I wake up this morning and received a whole bunch of additional smerits to dole out. So, I got a little generous on that thread. When I was used to only getting 50 to dole out a month and now I have 250, I'm encouraged to be a little less stingy. Sorry, that I didn't take the time to review each and every person's post history before I decide to give out the merit.

PS: I will ignore any PMs sent to me from newbie accounts begging for their one smerit. I really don't have enough time in the day to be the Mother Teresa of Merit granters.

PPS:  Here are the instructions that I was given by theymos this morning. I thought that I was doing my delegated duty. Now I get accused of doing something bad. Whatever.

Meh, the next halving won't come until mid 2020. This might linger on until late 2019.

Ouch. Hope the mortgage company doesn't give you too much flack on exactly how you came up with the money for the down payment. Also, I'm sure the government is going to require their pound of flesh.

We all know that this particular thread doesn't remain on topic. It's part of the charm.

Do you think the impending news on the 30th of September will dampen any October rally, if it turns out rejected or delayed? Or do you think that this is already priced in?

Of course POS would be a good thing for Jihan and his ~1,000,0000 BCH.   However, POS on a limited supply coin is always less secure than a POW coin. All an entity needs to do is accumulate 51% of the coins and be in a permanent attack position. No amount of competition will ever be able to unseat them.

Well, if Jihan and friends have their way, BCH will never have the most accumulated SHA256 work. They are hinting around that they want to decrease the block times to 1 minute and perhaps implement POS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/99lj14/jihan_wu_pos_is_important_pow_is_flawed_rbitcoin/
If BCH goes POS, it will never be bitcoin, sorry. Better hope that Jihan's ass gets kicked in come November.

Meh, it's the middle of September. It should not be 90 F at this time of year.  I used to love September weather.  Not anymore. Or maybe I am remembering it all wrong.

Yes, all one needs to do is go to his twitter feed. Here is a recent tweet of his. https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/1039175734726680582 Pretty convincing evidence for me that when he is referring to Bitcoin, he means BCH and when he is referring to BTC, he calls it Bitcoin core.

And we already know his feeling on when people call BCH  bcash....