Provide information and receive merits from the most stupidest member.

[digaran]

At first this idea of mine made sense, not anymore. I'm not supposed to generate more workload, more posts, I should merit the posts of members as I read them. however if you have the step by step tutorial on LN, PM me and receive 17 instant merits. but this task and reward thing is over. why would I merit people for helping me? why should you get easy merits by providing me with information? I agree with the services with Bitcoin logo etc, but giving me information on LN is something I should find on my own. but I will find the user rajurathod18's posts worth meriting and will do my best to make it fair for him/her. since it was my own stupidity to promise 17 instant merits for this task. I will try my best to give him something deserving. I will post a quote of PM he sent me with the step by step tutorial on LN below the task.



Hello, I am one of the most reputable merit sources (I'm lying, with something public as merit stats, there was no reason for theymos not to give me hundreds of sMerits, any abuse from my part could have resulted in Deleted/Off-limits/Ignored, I would put it on theymos being busy and overwhelmed by the work and say that he didn't think about this too much).

Edit April/10/2018: I didn't know at that time that when you delete your post, it shows Deleted/Off-limits/Ignored. I assumed it was the moderators deleting those posts along with their merits.

We need a sticky in meta for merit, ranking up is now up to 80 people, they need one place to go to check for the members in need of merits to rank up.
How many stickies do we have containing all the rules and information about everything? and how many threads do we have asking the questions with their answers already in the stickies? either make a child board in meta for merits or a sticky.

I would like to ask any member of this forum in need of merits to rank up, have 30 posts more than your activity points, provide me with information, answer a few questions like how many walkers have you killed, or how many people have you killed and why? make sure to be connected with your real IP, so that theymos could call the police. lol.

How could I open a lightning channel? if you provide the information needed to open a channel, you will receive 15 merits just for that (I don't have more than 15 right now) I will then beg theymos for sMerits to send to you after viewing your posts (if they are merit worthy).
I could give you a task every week, anybody could reserve a spot, if you have 30 more posts than your activity points and need merits, reserve a spot by posting, then update your post with the information. everything about merits is public, I want to help @theymos, I would only help people if they know some basics of crypto. how many members I could help would depend on how many sMerits you would give me.

Disclaimer: I haven't yet merited anybody seriously as a merit source, because the initial source merit you gave me was considered as an insult, really it felt like an insult.  
Task: How to open a LN channel? step by step guide to become a node, and use the lightning network.

Reward: 15 instant merits. with the chance of receiving more, depends on administration.

Hello digarn,

I found some useful information from median about
how to open a LN channel? step by step guide to become a node, and use the lightning network.

Here is the link - https://medium.com/@dougvk/run-your-own-mainnet-lightning-node-2d2eab628a8b

Task: Post 50 links to sites and services with Bitcoin logo a.k.a any service accepting Bitcoin. not the ones already posted here.

Reward: 5 instant merits. and no chance of receiving more, I only have 11. I will create another task for the remaining 6 later.

You would make my day with some merits! This is the proper links from colleagues above:

1-buffered 2-join.nordvpn 3-cyberghostvpn 4-purevpn 5-safervpn 6-privateinternetaccess 7-blackvpn 8-beevpn 9-privatevpn 10-earthvpn 11-vpntunnel 12-slickvpn 13-privateinternetaccess 14-ironsocket 15-airvpn 16-torguard 17-finchvpn 18-shadeyouvpn 19-vpnarea 20-tunnelbear 21-windscribe 22-bulletvpn 23-ccihosting 24-vpsserver 25-vpsnine 26-libertyvps 27-qhoster 28-securedragon 29-crowncloud 30-v-sys 31-lunanode 32-vpsgod 33-orangewebsite 34-hostwinds 35-bitcoinwebhosting 36-Mint 37-mega 38-shopify 39-fancy 40-newegg 41-squareup 42-stripe 43-flypeach 44-tesla 45-okcupid 46-virgingalactic 47-overstock 48-Viewfinder. expedia 49-roadwaymoving 50-pizzaforcoins 51-gyft 52-uk 53-greenmangaming 54-destinia 55-abitsky 56-thisisground 57-gyft 58-mollie 59-betonline 60-casino. intertops 61-reeds 62-kaavwin 63-bullionstar 64-lanieri 65-bitcoin 66-bitgear 67-adafruit 68-strategylions 69-profittrailer 70-polyester 71-undieguys 72-shopjoy 73-coinjar 74-amagimetals 75-namesilo 76-cinfu 77-unihost 78-orangewebsite 79-store 80-misthub 81-hifimediy 82-hairlosstalk 83-theswisspharmacy 84-hempusa 85-somethinggeeky 86-aria 87-miniplanes 88-doubletapsurplus 89-overhangclimbing 90-vapes 91-cableandcase 92-slidestand 93-bitrefill 94-egifter 95-fogonthetyne 96-crypto-games 97-cocomatsnmore 98-strappingfellow 99-fasttech 100-openbazaar 101-uk.webuy 102-canadianbitcoins 103-bitfinderplus

Task: Find 20 hosting services where you could pay with Bitcoin, post 20 links.

Reward: Receive 5 instant merits.
Most of the provided services had Bitcoin logo.

https://www.qhoster.com
(via CoinPayments.net)
https://www.namecheap.com/
https://ititch.com/
https://www.hawkhost.com/
https://www.thcservers.com
https://hosterbox.com/
https://www.webhostingpad.com/
https://www.host1plus.com
https://www.hostinger.com/
http://besthostfree.com/
https://javapipe.com/
https://hostnesta.com/
https://www.limestonenetworks.com
https://www.xtraorbit.com/
https://bithost.io/
https://monovm.com/
https://www.geekshosted.com/
https://www.truehoster.com/
https://abelohost.com/
https://mightweb.net/
https://www.ccihosting.com/

Task: Find at least 500 empty blocks in Bitcoin's blockchain after block #500,000 and post the block number. E.g: block #459000 #459320 #462000. hint: the first empty block after block #500,000 is block #500,044 what I want is just like this: #500,044 #500,140 etc.

Reward: 4 instant merits. goes to the first person posting with the correct formatting.

#500,044 #500,140 #500,342 #500,374 #500,394 #500,929 #501,124 #501,252 #501,304 #501,588 #501,676 #501,726 #501,728 #501,853 #501,901 #501,915 #501,990 #502,051 #502,126
#502,197 #502,803 #503,016 #503,135 #503,136 #503,198 #503,259 #503,493 #503,606 #503,642 #503,705 #503,996 #504,027 #504,069 #504,079 #504,093 #504,229 #504,342 #504,452 #504,536 #504,655 #504,660 #504,826 #504,830 #505,040 #505,058 #505,126 #505,210 #505,406 #505,407 #505,432 #505,946 #506,123 #506,174 #506,326 #506,352 #506,370 #506,548
#506,726 #506,736 #506,840 #507,021 #507,202 #507,218 #507,250 #507,252 #507,308 #507,586 #507,780 #507,801 #507,838 #507,908 #508,175 #508,209 #508,553 #508,630 #508,667 #508,760 #508,766 #509,049 #509,278 #509,440 #509,623 #509,827 #510,098 #510,026 #510,240 #510,312 #510,441 #510,604 #510,853 #511,043 #511,053 #511,243 #511,255 #511,512 #511,595 #511,824 #512,048

From #500,000 to last block (#512,278), there are only 95 empty blocks

edit: there are 98 empty blocks

Task: Find empty blocks from block number #20,000 and #500,000. I want them sent to me via PM. I will put them on pastebin and will update my OP with a reference link.

Reward: 7 instant merits.

Note that, you'd need to reserve a spot and then complete this task, I don't want more than 1 member to do this, it would be a waste of your time since I wont merit 2 members for doing the same job. after completing this task, and sending the PM to me, feel free to update your post with the block numbers, for me to send 7 merits for it. if you don't know how to post something constructive, this is the next best thing to earn merits, even if you go posting garbage after getting merits from me, that's not my problem. you should be treated like any other member posting garbage. what is important for me is that I have given you merits for doing something and actually for doing it. if this data is already available somewhere, I'd appreciate it if you could tell me so that I could find something else to torture people with.

[Carisba]

"To set up a bidirectional payment channel, both parties involved must first agree on an opening transaction. This opening transaction determines how many bitcoins each deposits into the channel.

Let's say Alice wants to send one bitcoin to Bob. Since Alice and Bob expect to transact more frequently, they decide to open up a bidirectional payment channel, and use this to send the bitcoin. (Sending a whole bitcoin is probably a lot for a payment channel, as these might be more useful for micropayments – but it's perfectly possible.)

To open the channel, Alice and Bob each send five bitcoins to a 2-of-2 multisig address. This is the “opening transaction.” Bitcoins can only be spent from this address if both Alice and Bob sign a subsequent transaction.

Additionally, Alice and Bob both create a secret (a string of numbers), and exchange the hash.

Alice now immediately creates a subsequent transaction from the opening transaction. This is a “commitment transaction.” With the commitment transaction, Alice sends four bitcoins to herself, and six bitcoins to a second multisig address. This second multisig address is a bit funky. It can be unlocked by Bob on his own, but only after 1000 extra blocks have been mined after it’s included on the blockchain; it includes a CSV-lock. Or, it can be opened by Alice on her own, but only if she also includes the secret for which Bob has just now given her the hash. (Of course, Alice has no idea what this secret is – she only knows hash – so there's no way she can make use of this option right now.)

Alice signs her end of this commitment transaction. But she doesn't broadcast it! Instead, she gives it to Bob.

Meanwhile, Bob does the same, but mirrored. He creates a commitment transaction as well, from which he sends six bitcoins to himself, and four to a funky new multisig-address. Alice can unlock this address if she waits an additional 1000 blocks, or Bob can unlock it with Alice using her secret.

Bob signs this half, and gives it to Alice.

After all this exchanging of “half-valid” commitment transactions and hashes of secrets, they both sign and broadcast the opening transaction, to make sure it's recorded on the blockchain. The channel is now officially open.

At this point, both Alice and Bob could sign and broadcast the half-valid commitment transaction they got from the other. If Alice does, Bob gets six bitcoins immediately. If Bob does, Alice gets four bitcoins immediately. But whomever signs and broadcasts the transaction will have to wait 1000 blocks to unlock the subsequent multisig-address, and claim the remaining bitcoins."

Edit: Copied from https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-lightning-network-part-building-a-bidirectional-payment-channel-1464710791/

[TheQuin]

@Carisba Nice work copy pasting from https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-lightning-network-part-building-a-bidirectional-payment-channel-1464710791/

[Carisba]

@Carisba Nice work copy pasting from https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-lightning-network-part-building-a-bidirectional-payment-channel-1464710791/

I think if there is already a good guide,It's ok to use it . We,as users, need to help the others and it doesn't change if they are our words or guides posted on other sites

[TheQuin]

@Carisba Nice work copy pasting from https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-lightning-network-part-building-a-bidirectional-payment-channel-1464710791/

I think if there is already a good guide,It's ok to use it . We,as users, need to help the others and it doesn't change if they are our words or guides posted on other sites

Why didn't you credit where you copied it from? You were trying to pass it off as your own work.

[Joel_Jantsen]

I think if there is already a good guide,It's ok to use it . We,as users, need to help the others and it doesn't change if they are our words or guides posted on other sites

They do! When enrolled in signature campaign,you aren't getting paid to copy-paste articles.Are you ? Moreover,forum executes strict Plagiarism Policy. (You might just be banned for the above post)
If you wanted to use that post anyway,you can just stick it up inside the [ "quotes "] ? Or least given credits for the source.

[chubbyTubby]

@Carisba Nice work copy pasting from https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-lightning-network-part-building-a-bidirectional-payment-channel-1464710791/

I think if there is already a good guide,It's ok to use it . We,as users, need to help the others and it doesn't change if they are our words or guides posted on other sites

Why didn't you credit where you copied it from? You were trying to pass it off as your own work.

Because he doesn't know how to write proper English. Look at that grammar haha.

I think if there is already a good guide,It's ok to use it . We,as users, need to help the others and it doesn't change if they are our words or guides posted on other sites

[Carisba]

I think if there is already a good guide,It's ok to use it . We,as users, need to help the others and it doesn't change if they are our words or guides posted on other sites

They do! When enrolled in signature campaign,you aren't getting paid to copy-paste articles.Are you ? Moreover,forum executes strict Plagiarism Policy. (You might just be banned for the above post)
If you wanted to use that post anyway,you can just stick it up inside the [ "quotes "] ? Or least given credits for the source.

I didn't know that I can post link from other sites . I edited the post with credits for the source.Sorry

[ibminer]

I didn't know that I can post link from other sites . I edited the post with credits for the source.Sorry

You didn't know you could post links from other sites?  Give me a break:

Mi sono imbattuto in change. Una carta prepagata ricaricabile con le criptomonete.

https://medium.com/changefinance/new-whitepaper-released-3987db2c091d   Qui c'è il whitepaper e anche la possibilità di ordinare la carta gratis (per un breve periodo per aumentare l'adozione)

Lame ICO announcement with TONS of external links

Copy/pasting + lying == not trustworthy

[Carisba]

I didn't know that I can post link from other sites . I edited the post with credits for the source.Sorry

You didn't know you could post links from other sites?  Give me a break:

Mi sono imbattuto in change. Una carta prepagata ricaricabile con le criptomonete.

https://medium.com/changefinance/new-whitepaper-released-3987db2c091d   Qui c'è il whitepaper e anche la possibilità di ordinare la carta gratis (per un breve periodo per aumentare l'adozione)

Lame ICO announcement with TONS of external links

Copy/pasting + lying == not trustworthy

I didn't explain well. I wanted to say that I didn't know that a user could link sites of the same topic (crypto) that can steal users from this forum. I know that we can put links of facebook, twitter and others

[ibminer]

I didn't explain well. I wanted to say that I didn't know that a user could link sites of the same topic (crypto) that can steal users from this forum. I know that we can put links of facebook, twitter and others

You literally linked to a crypto-related forum in your lame announcement post. Keep tryinglying.

[Carisba]

I didn't explain well. I wanted to say that I didn't know that a user could link sites of the same topic (crypto) that can steal users from this forum. I know that we can put links of facebook, twitter and others

You literally linked to a crypto-related forum in your lame ICO post. Keep tryinglying.

Medium,such as twitter or facebook, aren't crypto-related forum . My lame ico post? You don't know what we are talking about in that thread

This is an italian thread where all prepaid cards are shown. That card wasn't on the list so I posted it. I have no connection with that ico. And as I said before, I didn't know that a user could link sites that can steal users from this forum, I know that I can put links of ico website

[digaran]

OK, let me beg you all to stop. I don't want you to explain the lightning network, I want to open a channel, provide me with links to any site where I can use lightning network. I only need the links, when I ask for 20 hosting providers accepting Bitcoin, I don't want you to tell me what is hosting.

If I ask where can I buy Bitcoin, don't tell me to find an exchange and buy, give me links to the major exchanges. I want you to earn my attention, because  you would have to be a high quality poster to get merits after completing the tasks.

[Wheelige]

I've seen a few things saying that https://torguard.net are lightning network capable.
Apparently they were involved in the equivalent of bitcoins 'pizza' purchase.

https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/ This link contains a really trippy picture, which may or may not be the LN peeps (I think it is as i see that TORGuard is on there).

Hope that helps.

[digaran]

I've seen a few things saying that https://torguard.net are lightning network capable.
Apparently they were involved in the equivalent of bitcoins 'pizza' purchase.

https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/ This link contains a really trippy picture, which may or may not be the LN peeps (I think it is as i see that TORGuard is on there).

Hope that helps.

I already know about lnmainnet, I need to know the steps in order to become a node, use a channel. though you could come back to me when you have 200 posts and 150 activity, you must have 50 more posts than activity. I could move this thread to beginners & help with at least 200 links to crypto related services, hopefully it could become a really helpful topic for newbies, with the support of theymos, I could make this work.

I would give this a week, if I have received sMerits by then, I will make it official, if not, then it means that my help is not needed.

[digaran]

Anybody up for *7 instant merits? give me the step by step tutorial to set up a lightning network channel, step by step tutorial to set up a lightning network node and have not 50 but 30 more posts than your activity (that means if you have 50 activity, you must have 80 posts to be eligible) and receive 7 merits instantly. note that, after getting 7 instant merits, you'll be somebody else's problem.

I'm a merit source with 500 sMerits every month, **theymos is going to give me more in 3 days, if you call me a dev somewhere, I will give you 100 merits in one go.


*Thanks to our angry little Pinoy and don hillary, and little fella, I have 7 sMerits now.
**Most likely, he is going to remove me from the merit sources, or give me a few more to shut me up.

[Jet Cash]

We need a sticky in meta for merit, ranking up is now up to 57 people, they need one place to go to check for the members in need of merits to rank up.

Actually we need a sticky to check for members who shouldn't be given merit to stop them from ranking up.

[digaran]

Task: Find 20 hosting services where you could pay with Bitcoin, post 20 links.

Reward: Receive 5 instant merits.

[macit800]

https://www.qhoster.com
Payment with:
Bitcoin (Via Coinbase)
Ethereum | Litecoin | Ripple | Dash | Monero | ZCash (via CoinPayments.net)
Bitcoin | Bitcoin Cash | Litecoin | Ethereum (via Coinify)

https://www.namecheap.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://ititch.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://www.hawkhost.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://www.thcservers.com
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://hosterbox.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://www.webhostingpad.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://www.host1plus.com
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://www.hostinger.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

http://besthostfree.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://javapipe.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin via bitpay

https://hostnesta.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://www.limestonenetworks.com
Payment with:
Bitcoin via bitpay

https://www.xtraorbit.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://bithost.io/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://monovm.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://www.geekshosted.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://www.truehoster.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://abelohost.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://mightweb.net/
Payment with:
Bitcoin

https://www.ccihosting.com/
Payment with:
Bitcoin - Ethereum - Dash - Litecoin

[digaran]

Good news for you all. have a lol for now. if you'd like to receive 5 merits from me, post 50 links to sites and services with Bitcoin logo a.k.a any service accepting Bitcoin. I know there is an easy way to do this, but you'd still need to copy and paste 50 times.
All of the services must have SSL certificate. you should post them like this: Bitcointalk. I will not accept any name with the extension like .org, .com etc.
Bitcointalk Bitcointalk Bitcointalk
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Post them just like me.
Task: Post 50 links to sites and services with Bitcoin logo a.k.a any service accepting Bitcoin. not the ones already posted here.
Reward: 5 instant merits. and no chance of receiving more, I only have 11. I will create another task for the remaining 6 later.
Requirements: you must have 30 more posts than your activity. E.g; if you have 50 activity, you must have 80 posts to be eligible for 5 merits.
I would like to merit dozens of posts, unfortunately I'm just a source with 11 sMerits. I would merit random posts from my own merits and not my source. (what was that? why am I taking this so serious? 11 or 11000. quality of my work remains the same. it is an honor serving you beggars).