😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎

[bitmover]

Hello, please take a look at this one.

I discovered bitcoin while studying about how to protect my privacy on the internet.

Crytpocurrencies and privacy and closely related. This way many people here care about privacy, however I still see many users in this forum who are not using basic privacy tools, like an ad block.

This simple guide is for those people.

Usually people who think they don't care about privacy say: "I don't worry about  privacy because I have nothing to hide."
When you go to the bathroom you close the door, even if you have nothing to hide.

While surfing on the internet here are a few tools that will help you protect yourself against tracking and privacy invasion.

• Avoid any Google product. They are not to be trusted as Google will track your data to ad services.
  
  
• Browser recommendation:
  Firefox / Brave browser / Tor Browser
  
  
• Browser Extensions: (works even on Firefox Mobile)
  UBlock (an adblocker)
  Decentraleyes (blocks content delivery)
  HTTPS Everywhere
  
  
• E-mail provider:
  Consider changing to a encrypted e-mail service, not U.S based
  ProtonMail / Tutanota
  
  
• Search engines:
  I know how it's hard to not use Google. The best private alternative is Duckduckgo .
  If you find very hard to stop using Google, consider using Encrypted Google  (I really don't know if it is truly encrypted)
  
  
• Encrypt your Android Device - Protect your music, photos, personal data that can only be read with a password.
  
  
• Fix Windows 10 privacy configuration, to avoid Microsoft data collection.
  
  
• Some good VPN (protects your traffic data and enables geo-restricted content):
  Proton VPN - Free version available.
  Tunnel Bear Free version available.
  Nord VPN - Free version available.
  To use full time you will need a paid plan on a good VPN service.
  
  
• Private cryptocurrencies:
  Monero (the most popular), PIVX, Dash, Zcash, Particl, among many others.
  

Important note: Privacy is a never ending task, as you can always do something more. Start doing what is easier for you. There are also many other useful add-ons, programs, etc. This is just a very basic guide, as I see many people who don't even use an adblocker

If you want more information about privacy, go to https://www.privacytools.io/

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[loicuagio1979]

Dear sir
I would like you to take my post into your consideration:

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not everything is about fees and how much you pay, it is about security of the network and the coin that you are using too. otherwise there are free coins like NANO (old name RaiBlock) that don't even have a fee.

As you can see, the payment channel is based on the HTLC protocol. For more information, you can track the wiki link: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hashed_Timelock_Contracts. In short, the acceptor/ receiver has to confirm that he has accepted/ received the payment in a given time and the sender has the sum automatically without having confirmation from receiver. Moreover, L.N has its own code of committed transactions. They are are security despite a sudden conflict or other party turn into unresponsive. To better understand why L.n is safe, you can track this link: https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=462

Regards

[Steamtyme]

There is always a right place for a topic.

I disagree. There are many times where the topic you are starting has already been started 100's of times. Use the search function, and do not ask things like:
What if 

Code:

BTC is 1 million
it moon
you lose all coin
government ban exchange
satoshi was named sayoshi
you never hear about bitcoin
bitcoin goes to 0
yadi yadi yada

Reply with relevance to the topic, never spam, try to give a quality statement that might earn you merits.

The reply you are about to type may have already been posted to the thread. A nice rule of thumb is if you can't take the time to read the thread then you probably shouldn't post in it. Do not just go out posting looking for Merits (unless it is a thread offering post review).

OP your post is well laid out, but seriously this is the last thing that should be taught to Newbies. If the only reason they are in this forum is to join a Sig campaign, then they are not going to benefit the forum, and are the reason the Merit system exists. You should start this post by telling them to go out and gain knowledge read up so they can be a valuable contribution to the forum, then maybe join a Sig campaign. This way there won't be another 25 post min. of garbage

As a side note glad you and hellfish, had that trip down memory lane. I'm like a crypto toddler, so I like seeing anything about the old days. I still can't believe some of the shit you vets have been through. I'm going to try and follow some of your mentions and quotes for some light reading during this week of nightshifts. If you have any more good reads post away. I've also been reading through old trust references sometimes you come across some Gems.

[theyoungmillionaire]

Hi, Gleb, can you please check these posts:

The Silk Road seized, and the downfall of Mt.Gox

Silk Road is the first modern darknet market. Derived from a historical network of trade routes, which started during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) between Europe, India, China, and countries on the Afro-Eurasian landmass. Started in February 2011, a booming online marketplace, and founded by Ross Ulbricht, a darknet market operator, known alias “Dread Pirate Roberts”. Ross as some article say American former drug trafficker, some people say he is a visionary who wants anonymity, maximize political freedom and independence, emphasizing freedom of choice, voluntary association, and individual judgment; they believe in every individual rights. He also has some business failures before Silk Road.
It produced millions of dollars in revenue, secret was simple: ensuring the anonymity of its buyers and sellers. You can access it through Tor, software that renders anonymous on the internet and as a tool for uncensored communication to Internet users. Primarily, buyers could register free, but there were a limited number of new seller accounts available; new sellers had to purchase an account thru an auction. Later, a fixed fee for each new seller account to mitigate the possibility of malicious individuals distributing tainted goods, the site had 10,000 products for sale by vendors see.
Bitcoin is the primary mode of payment, fiat to bitcoin then btc to Silk Road account, if there is a transaction the buyer’s btc will be escrow; when the buyer confirmed the legitimacy of the purchased, seller’s account will be credited. Despite its highly anonymous features, in October 2013 the U.S. Government shut it down. Intersection between the Bitcoin housed on the site, valued at tens of millions of U.S. dollars, and a key crime-fighting tool: the federal asset forfeiture program. As soon as the United States seized Silk Road, it also, by virtue of technological fiat (and, apparently, some clumsiness on the part of Ulbricht), seized the bitcoins housed therein.
This included Ulbricht’s staggering personal bitcoin supply (about 150,000 BTC), accumulated through the healthy commission Silk Road took from all sales, as well as all of the bitcoins held by its many users or housed in the aforementioned escrow accounts (about 30,000 BTC).  This meant that if a drug-seeking Silk Road user tried accessing the site after the shutdown, he would, to his likely dismay, be redirected to an FBI-generated shutdown notice. In addition, all of the bitcoins he may have stored on Silk Road would also be gone, seized by the government as part of efforts to forfeit all of the bitcoins held in Silk Road accounts. Short discussion by the federal asset forfeiture program, kindly see.

Silk Road Seize lessons: Ross was just clumsy: agreed to be interviewed by Forbes, under the show of the Dread Pirate Roberts, in the summer of 2013, revealing enough of himself to law enforcement to pierce Silk Road’s veil. As Michael Neilsen suggests, the claim that Bitcoin can be used anonymously—the claim that drove the very formation of Silk Road and other marketplaces that specialize in illegal goods—is a myth. “The block chain is public,” Neilsen argues, and “although Bitcoin addresses aren’t immediately associated with real-world identities, computer scientists have made a great deal of progress figuring out how to de-anonymize ‘anonymous’ social networks.
If FBI agents can trace the flow of the Silk Road bitcoins—or, simpler still, exploit civil forfeiture to make such tracing unnecessary—proponents of Bitcoin (particularly those who seek to use Bitcoin to facilitate criminal activity) will be forced to adjust accordingly. By virtue of the blockchain, the backbone of the Bitcoin ecosystem, Bitcoin may never be as anonymous or untraceable as it purports to be. Ironically, as Neilsen aptly suggests, Bitcoin is “perhaps the most open and transparent financial instrument the world has ever seen.” The Silk Road episode stands as evidence that existing legal structures such as asset forfeiture currently have the power to contain Bitcoin. U.S. Marshalls auction off the bitcoins from the Silk Road forfeiture, we are left to question whether this newfangled crypto-currency is any different, from a legal perspective, from an old fashioned pile of cash.

MtGox downfall.  MtGox was a bitcoin exchange based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, as the largest bitcoin intermediary and the world's leading bitcoin exchange. MTGox stands for "Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange” founded by Jed McCaleb, now the most controversial figure in cryptocurrency and hated due to its issue with XRP. The exchange handled millions of dollars’ worth of transactions a day, just like a traditional “forex” trading platform. When BTC is sent from one public key address to another (sender used private key), funds cannot be retrieved unless the receiver physically sends the funds back (using own private key). This feature of Bitcoin is the core of its almost-totally protected transaction system, while MtGox’s exchange system avoided this security feature for the sake of accessibility and speed. This arrangement, called a web wallet, is the similar as Silk Road, meaning the private keys is with MTGox, and the only thing keeping MtGox from stealing the funds was, ironically, the prevention of legal action on the basis of contract law or criminal law. It is considered “the worst of both worlds” since it joint the irreversibility of BTC transactions (once you sent your BTC to MtGox, only MtGox could ever send it back to you) with none of the highly developed regulatory protections of the traditional financial services system. Even though users “owned” the BTC they had sent to their MtGox wallets, their claim to ownership was secured only by a simple contract—the user agreement.
In early 2014 it dramatic collapse. In February 2014, Mt. Gox suspended trading, closed its website and exchange service, and filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors. In April 2014, the company began liquidation proceedings. The disappearance of more than $400 million worth of bitcoin from MtGox, and its subsequent collapse, many Bitcoin users left with no option other than to trust the traditional legal system for relief. Whether the collapse triggered by hacking or mismanagement, its effect on customers is the same: they are unable to retrieve their funds.  Mizuho had been trying to shut down MtGox’s account for months before the collapse, and now that it is theoretically liable for the exchange’s errors, other banks who deal with Bitcoin businesses are proceeding cautiously. Bitcoin’s largest exchange and its customers have become involved in legal actions is clear evidence that the traditional legal system will continue to dominate dispute resolution for Bitcoin users.
Like Silk Road case, it proves that current legal tools like asset forfeiture can be adapted to Bitcoin’s supposedly cutting-edge usage, and MtGox case displays that bankruptcy and class actions can be applied to Bitcoin denominated business disputes.  Some developers are moving forward with systems based on Ricardian contracts (“smart contracts”) and multi-signature cryptography, application of these technologies would be a peer-to-peer exchange.

Bitcoin, in order to continue its challenge to our old financial system, it must cope up with and react to our traditional legal structures; either that or it must progress beyond them. As Bitcoin grows in popularity, so does the law’s interest in being able to reach it just like Silk Road and MT.Gox.  

Your thoughts? If you have more knowledge about these historical event, kindly reply. Let us learn together.  

RSK is smart contract technology that can be used to bitcoin blockchain. Smart contract is a procedure that implements the terms of a contract; this is not unique to ETH alone, as BTC allows using smart contracts in building services to add suitable on bitcoin transactions. Even though these facilities use bitcoin, it is naturally centralize since their smart contracts should be present on a centralized server. RSK arises from “rootstock”, it is like a flat, underground stem that frequently sends off roots and shoots from its nodes”. It is the first open-source smart contract platform with “a 2 way peg to bitcoin”.
Bitcoin miners can also earn rewards thru merge mining, which allows miner to join in the Smart Contract revolution. RSK enables the execution of a smart contract(see Smart Contracts). Developers are attractive to these because they offer extra scripting opportunities thru the use of smart contracts. Bitcoin’s scripting system is limited on purpose (security).
The best thing about RSK, it can run smart contracts in a platform capable of scaling up to 2000 transactions per second on chain and 20,000 transactions per second off chain.
As the RSK.co official website explains, that’s how RSK is “providing the scalability needed for global financial solutions.”
Another edge is that it does not force users to choose between ETH and BTC when they want to take benefit of smart contracts, allows developers to implement smart contract solutions onto the bitcoin blockchain; it is BTC Friendly, does not compete with Bitcoin, security, scalability, instant payments. In non-technical language, means developers could issue an app into ETH and RSK similar to the way developers release an app into iOS or android, platforms are different, but work in a similar overall. It will greatly affect ETH and ETH enthusiast. See some of their comments:

killerstorm
RSK is essentially an Ethereum clone which uses federated consensus model (blocks are built by pre-defined authorities, not by miners) and uses Bitcoin as a currency. It really has very little to do with Bitcoin itself.

They can have "almost instant transactions" and "better scalability" because blocks are built by business nodes and they don't care about users being able to run nodes.

DiachronicShear
In addition to what's been said, one exists, the other doesn't. That matters when someone like MasterCard wants to use a blockchain in their business. They can either wait an undetermind amount of time for a politically tumultuous system to hack on a quick fix for smart contracts OR they can start now with a system that actually works and has leadership.

Ethereum is also not static. The longer Rootstock takes, the further behind it'll be. If it takes 2 years (as you postulate), it'll be competing with PoS and Sharding, not to mention Plasma chains.

Oh, also, IF BITCOIN HARD-FORKS, ROOTSTOCK STOPS WORKING. So any upgrade to the Bitcoin network will break RSK.

Read more:RSK vs ETH

Is it going to change Bitcoin forever? Or there will be something that will emerge from inside the Bitcoin ecosystem? Your thoughts.

Since we are the future of financial system, there are some issues with bitcoin scalability, why? Because, blockchains are slow & expensive. If you have notice, when you send some bitcoins to exchange, they would receive it like 10mins. or more & you have paid a high transaction fee just to speed it up. If you apply it in a real world, it will not work. I will just use my visa to buy then.  That is the problem of our bitcoin, and lighting network is the idea that can solve scalability of the blockchains. Its idea is not all of your transactions are recorded on the blockchain.
If you would visualized, we can bypass the recording process on the blockchain and help it by carrying them off the chain. In layman’s term, we will open a payment channel between us and record its opening on the blockchain. Imagine a SDB (safety deposit box) wherein two people deposited amounts of money “and” each put a lock (sounds like a “bank”, right? SDB plus joint account). After the account opening, we can transact anytime thru our payment channel, it will stay for decades, unless we will end our contract or close our channel (that’s the time we will touch again the blockchain).
By then we can write our final rights of transactions that happened thru our channel on the blockchain, we are bound with promise of ownership. So, we only go to the blockchain upon account opening & closing of our payment channel.

Simple example:
theyoungmillionaire bought a phone worth 1.7 BTC from Daboy_Lyle and payment will be done via BTC, since:
theyoungmillionaire & TMAN have a payment channel, and TMAN & Daboy_Lyle also with a payment channel. theyoungmillionaire can pay Daboy_Lyle thru TMAN.
TMAN will send 1.7 BTC to Daboy_Lyle and theyoungmillionaire will refund TMAN with 1.7 BTC.

By these, we can offload transactions on the blockchain, thus, we can release up the chain’s bandwidth. Transactions is going to happen at lightning speed (That is why it is called lightning network), By means of a network of payment channels, millions of transactions occurred, and that too without a heavy transaction fee (NO FEE FTW).  

Thanks.

[bitart]

Applying for a review, thanks for your time:
1.

I have an idea (again )
Maybe this would be just a kind of symptomatic treatment like the painkillers, but anyway painkillers also help, at least for a while...
Somewhere I have read to let users to ignore complete topics (spamming megathreads, etc...) to have an easier overview of the new topics and posts in this shitpost ocean, where the quality posts are as rear as desert islands...
So, my idea is the following:
If someone, someday will decide to start to ignore the spam threads and the spammer users, and works hard on it, after a while he/she will have a decent list of the topics/users to ignore.
In the current situation, each and every user have to do the same, search for all the topics/posts to ignore, if they want to have a clearer view in the end.
I would propose a kind of 'filter' which is similar to an adblock addon, like you can input a list of threads/users to ignore and that would apply for you only, and after the forum would list only the relevant topics, posts for you.
Everybody would be able to set the ignore list up for himself/herself, but there should be an option to 'load' a list from someone who you trust/agree with/like/etc... or from a central repository.
Just and example:
I know that e.g. JetCash has a quite long ignore list, so if some users are happy with JetCash's ignore list, they could apply that filter for themselves as well, and they would save the effort for themselves...
I know it's hard to develop and to implement, but this is only an idea...
If people would start to use a solution like this, this would cause that spammers and shitposters won't bother the majority of the forum, but only each other and the few remaining users who won't apply any kind of 'filter', because this would only be optional (I don't want to force anybody to do anything...)
Let me know your cons

2.

So, I had enough trying to locate a working neutrino compatible node for the LN mainnet (I don't want to run a full node on the raspberry PI, because this is the point of the neutrino node).
So I switched to testnet and voilá...

Code:

 lnd –bitcoin.active –bitcoin.testnet –debuglevel=debug –bitcoin.node=neutrino --noencryptwallet --neutrino.connect=faucet.lightning.community

It's running (OK, still "Catching up block hashes"), but at least there's no problem with finding proper nodes to connect to.
So I'll start now with testnet and later on with the mainnet...

[CarlosCorreia]

I didn't find anything in the rules against bounty posts...
So, here goes!

I have created a topic to gather the existing Steemit Campaigns.
I keep the topic up to date and with a good visual appeal.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3095567.0

Being built on top of a cryptocurrency blockchain, I'm really focused on Steemit!

We need to grow the community over Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc...

But all new projects have bounties on those platforms! It's very hard to find some Steemit Bounties.
So, I created this topic to find what Steemit campaigns are out there!

I will start with the few I know and will update the topic with your feedback.
Feel free to point out some information to add as well as new Steemit campaign that may start.

This topic can also be used to talk about the campaigns, good/bad feedback, doubts, possible changes, etc...

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STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@friendup BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2962099.0 VALUE: 125k FRND | ~5k USD END DATE: April 15th JOB'S: UPVOTE & RESTEEM REPORTS: After work on Bounty0x NOTES: Campaign moved to Bounty0x Platform. More info at https://alpha.bounty0x.io/bounties/host/FriendUP

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STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@spotcoin BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3173867.0 VALUE: 404k SPOT | ~202k USD (For All Social Media Bounties) END DATE: June 4th JOB'S: UPVOTE & RESTEEM & COMMENT REPORTS: Every two weeks on Bounty Thread and G0blin Form NOTES: Upvotes and Comments are valid for every post about Spotcoin, not only from official account.      Bounty campaign is being managed by g0blin. More info at https://www.g0blin.com/spotcoin/ LINKS: WEBSITE | ANN | REDDIT | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE | LINKEDIN | TELEGRAM

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STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@smartcontainers BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3211636.0 VALUE: 75k SMARC | 20k USD END DATE: ? JOB'S: RESTEEM REPORTS: Weekly on Bounty Thread (Week end on Wednesday) LINKS: WEBSITE | ANN | TWITTER | FACEBOOK | TELEGRAM | REDDIT | YOUTUBE

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STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@asuracoin BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3019383.0 VALUE: 8.75M ASA | ~175k USD (For All Social Media Bounties) END DATE: June 15th JOB'S: UPVOTE & RESTEEM & COMMENT REPORTS: Every two weeks on Bounty Thread and G0blin Form (Sunday) NOTES: Upvotes and Comments are valid for every post about Asura Coin, not only from official account.      Bounty campaign is being managed by g0blin. More info at https://www.g0blin.com/asura/ LINKS: WEBSITE | ANN | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | REDDIT | MEDIUM | GITHUB | TELEGRAM

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STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@countinghouse BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3392579.0 VALUE: 50k CHT | ~30k USD END DATE: ? JOB'S: RESTEEM REPORTS: Weekly on Bounty Thread (Friday) NOTES: All Bounty hunters must go through KYC in order to receive tokens. LINKS: WEBSITE | ANN | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | TELEGRAM | REDDIT

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STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@uncloak BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3384452.0 VALUE: 10.5M UNC | ~115k USD (For All Blog and Media Bounties) END DATE: May 20th JOB'S: FOLLOW & RESTEEM REPORTS: Weekly on Bounty Thread (Sunday) NOTES: US Residents are not allowed to participate in Bounty. LINKS: WEBSITE | ANN | LINKEDIN | TWITTER | FACEBOOK | TELEGRAM | MEDIUM | REDDIT

[Walang-kekek]

EDIT: 50 sM being giving away in the following thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3199334.0.

EDIT: Great! We have one outta four six following the rules so far - QUOTE YOUR POST!!! I'm no longer following links. Sorry. <this announcement was originally penned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055943.msg31466554#msg31466554>

The rules are simple. Quote in this thread what you believe is your best most current post on this forum, whereupon I, only, will judge if it warrants at least +1 sM.

Others, feel free to follow my lead including your attempt having a quasi-snazzy thread title.

Let's make maxing out BitcoinTalk's resources great again.  

Ready? GO!

Bruno

PS: Don't blame me if others opt to also give you sM for your scintillating prose thanks to this thread.

PSS: I might as well plug my sig while I'm at end, or visit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2580003.msg31607131#msg31607131.

Kind to review my thread. im helping raise voice to scamers project who lied to their communty by not paying their bounty.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3633576.msg36635105#msg36635105

[topkhai]

Maybe this can help newbie and others understand about merit system.
Flowchart diagram Guide to earning merits
How do you think ?

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[Get_Rich]

Hi, I have a question, how to get the next status - member?
I know that it is necessary to respond in detail, to help ... but who puts this status?

If you want to be a member you must have merits. This Merits is a new system that is applied in this bitcointalk world that aims to reduce one's spam. If you want to get merits, you must make a quality post and must be in accordance with the international language of English.

Can you give me merits ??

[acidburn14]

Here is my post regarding tips for the beginners who are trying to engage in crypto trading.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4326841.msg38790303#msg38790303

[bill gator]

I'm wondering if you have had any difficulties maintaining this thread, Gleb Gamow. I have a thread that was extremely similar, and it was moved to the off-topic, because apparently it didn't belong in the marketplace without a BTC transaction. There doesn't seem to be any BTC transactions taking place within this thread, and it appears that you've maintained your status within a reasonable board.

My old thread can be found here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2819141.0 , where it is lying dead on the floor, because off-topic is too rambunctious.

I might as well submit it in the format you are looking for, so here goes -

In spirit of the new Merit system that has been released and in an attempt to get a feel for the guidelines that have been laid out I am offering a new service to see how you guys feel about it.

Official Merit Announcement Thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0;topicseen

It seems to be the case that

It is not allowed for merit sources to sell their merit.

therefore, under the proper circumstances it would seem appropriate to offer this service. I do not have malicious intent and if there is anyone with any reasonable objections to this then I will cease or adjust accordingly.

I am willing to review posts that you link within this thread; I will look at the posts and if I see them as helpful/informative I will merit you based upon that. It's obvious that I cannot view every board/post, and therefore it would seem reasonable that those that feel their post is heavily under-merited should have a place for even a minor "appeal".

I do not have very much sMerit to go around, but I will be taking a look at the linked posts where you believe yourself (or others) to have posted helpful, informative, interesting or high-quality content that is undervalued merit-wise.


Please leave your posts, thoughts, comments, complaints and concerns below; I am very interested to see how this plays out. If this is not allowed, I will stop, but as I understand it this is acceptable and shouldn't be frowned upon unless my intentions are misunderstood.

Please submit your links similarly to :

Code:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2821849.msg29568566#msg29568566
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2879021.msg29577405
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2850347.msg29800445#msg29800445
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2843315.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2850321.0

You can write a comment, a request or whatever else, but leave the links plain, one per line, without any numbers, bullets or tags in front of them or behind them. If a link is on that line, nothing else should be.

Do not post useless comments or unproductive posts here; they will be deleted and go unanswered.
Are X posts eligible? : I don't know, link the post you believe to be helpful.
I plan to delete spam and posts that I have reviewed, however if I do grant merit I will leave your post for reference, comparison, etc.


* I will occasionally be meriting the threads I have already merited with more merit.* If I have spare merit and it seems to be the case that I can afford it with the pace of this thread, I'll slap a +1 on all those I've reviewed and accepted.

This is not a sale of sMerit, this is a review service offering the potential at sMerit to those that have earned it
Local-Rule : Do not format your links with tags, hyperlinks, lists or line-breaks. I will delete/reject your submissions instantly.
Local-Rule : Do not post more than 5-links in one post, do not post another submissions until I have responded to your first.
Local-Rule : Only submit posts written in English.
It is encouraged to send posts of another user, along with your own so we can spread the Merit properly and pay it forward.
I do not want Merit as a result of this, I simply want to use my sMerit as meaningfully as possible
3 sMerit currently available.

Very interested to hear your input, feedback and comment on my post and the situation that seems to be treating us differently.

[coly20032003]

Hi,

Could you check my below post? Thank you very much! 

I made some images regarding the rank system, activity, merit and some FAQ on bitcointalk. Hope can help new users a little bit.  

[zerosoul]

I would like to propose my topic for consideration at the forum. Only topic in Russian language.  Judging by the author's name and surname, he must understand this language . But maybe I'm wrong.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4050633

[JungleBadman]

So I decided to write an instruct-able blog post to try and help some bounty hunters to optimize their time and save potentially hours of searching through social media posts and saving links. I have been using this method for over a month now and it has saved me time and made the weekend less stressful (most of my bounties report on Sundays).

The blog post covers 2 methods for automatically tracking your social media posts and saving them in a spreadsheet in your Google Drive. Method 1 works for Twitter and Method 2 works for both Twitter and Facebook but is a bit more complicated. Both methods may also work for Linked In but since I don't have an account I haven't tried it.

This is copied from my steemit account and the original post can be found here https://steemit.com/bounty/@badman-crypto/badmans-tips-n-tricks-1-automated-bounty-tracking, and if you like this post go to the link and drop me an up-vote and follow (a little merit wouldn't be refused either ).

https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNg6LKzymVqJrsQtxEVgJvy7Exkar8vUpzWWvWNVZzyke/Badman%20Top%20Tips.jpg
Crypto Bounty Auto-Track
Crypto bounties can be a good way to earn some new ICO tokens for free and with the sheer amount of bounties available at the moment, it can be difficult to keep track of the work you have done and can be an absolute pain when it comes to the end of the week and you have to search through your twitter feed to get links for all your posts. Well, fret no longer my token loving amigos, as reading this post could save you literally hours over your bounty hunting career!

I am going to cover two methods that you can use to auto-track your twitter and facebook posts and make your weekly report a breeze! The first is more straightforward and simple to use but as far as I am aware, only works with Twitter and not Facebook (feel free to mess about with it and let me know if I'm wrong). The second method works for both platforms but has the drawbacks of being slightly more complicated to set up, and having a limited amount of actions per month unless you pay for an account.

Method 1 - IFTTT
IFTTT - an acronym that stands for If This Then That - is a platform that allows the development of automation apps to integrate with a whole host of different services. IFTTT is extremely easy to use to tract your twitter tweets (it also tracks retweets and comments as well) and all you will need are your Twitter account and a google account as we will be integrating Twitter with Google Sheets.

Step 1
Sign up for IFTTT, as we will be using our Google account for Google sheets it will likely be simplest to just sign in with your Google account, although you can also use your Facebook account or sign up with an email address and password.
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You will be met with the following screen and can either choose 3 or more applications that you use regularly and want to receive suggestions for or you can click the cross in the top right corner to skip this step for now.

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Step 2
Click the search option at the top of the page...

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...and type "Keep a simple spreadsheet of every tweet you post".

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Step 3
After selecting the app, turn it on...

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...and allow access to your Twitter account and Google account.

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Step 4
Configure - the applet only has 2 options and they are whether or not to track Retweets and Comments and this is up to you.

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The applet creates a spreadsheet in your google drive and auto updates it at regular intervals with all of your Twitter activity.

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There are other applets available through IFTTT that do the same thing but offer other options such as the location and name of the spreadsheet as well as another app that can track the posts that you "like" on Twitter. It is up to you to search around the site and find which applets are useful to your individual needs.

I mentioned earlier that this method does not work with Facebook, and although Facebook is supported by IFTTT, I have not yet been able to find an applet that tracks facebook posts and saves them in a spreadsheet. Please let me know if you find a way because method 2 has its drawbacks.

Method 2 Integromat
Integromat is an ultra customisable integration platform similar to IFTT and is a useful tool for many applications. The major drawback to using it to track your tweets or Facebook posts is that its free account has a limit of 1000 operations per month which can quickly be used up if you participate in multiple campaigns. It is possible to sign up for more than one account although I wouldn't condone that.

Step 1
Sign up for Integromat. As before, it may be easiest to sign in with your Google account but feel free to use any method you want.

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After signing up you can either take the tour of the platform or skip it and afterwards, you will be presented with your dashboard where you can click at the top right to create a new scenario.

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on the next screen press skip and you are ready to begin creating.

Step 2
Click the big white question mark and type Facebook (or Twitter) in the search bar and select it.

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Then select Watch Posts from the triggers options.

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Step 3
Create a Facebook connection by clicking "Add", "Continue" and then allowing access to your facebook account.

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You can then edit the number of posts that will be recorded per action and this number will depend on how many posts you make per day and the frequency that you want integromat to activate. For now, it can be set anywhere between 2 and 10. After clicking ok you will be given options as to when the scenario should start tracking and again this will come down to personal preference but can be edited later so just press ok.

Step 4
Log into google drive and create a new spreadsheet with headings for "Date", "Post" and "Link".

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Step 5
Go back to integromat and click to add another module, search for Google Sheets, select "Add a row" and then connect your Google account the same way you connected your facebook account in step 3.

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Step 6
Select your spreadsheet from step 5 in the file drop box and fill in the rest of the options like the screenshot below. The boxes for Date, Post and Link are multi-choice options when you click on them. Note that your link will be recorded in this format "https://www.facebook.com/1807123102689998/posts/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" where the "1807123102689998" in my case is my Facebook profile numeric ID. This can be replaced with your named profile ID ("Philios.Stephenios" in my case) if you want but the link will function the same either way.

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Step 7
Click the play button in the bottom left corner and your scenario should run, find a post, and store it in your previously created spreadsheet. Click on the clock button next to the Facebook logo to set the frequency at which your scenario will run in minutes. This will depend on how often you post, how many posts you track per operation (see step 3), and how quickly you want your operations to be used up. I would set it to run at least higher than once per hour but it is up to you.

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BONUS TIP!
To filter your posts on your spreadsheet, and make reporting your posts a breeze, select your "Posts" or "Tags" heading and press the filter button in the menu bar (Ignore my extra columns in the spreadsheet).

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Click on the inverted triangle that appears on the heading row to open up the filtering options. Click the clear button to deselect all posts and then search for your tag of choice and press select all.

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You have now filtered all of your posts and provided links that can be copied and pasted straight into your weekly report. Sorted!

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[wvizmanos]

I rarely write, but managed to compose some paragraphs to tell the crypto world how proudly I am in welcoming the development of our government's acceptance to fintech industries tring to invest in our country, the Philippines. Merit worthy for the message this tries to bring to the world, not the post itself. There you go.
Thanks.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4201774.msg38350336#msg38350336

[Team - gstar.ai]

Hi! Do consider this post of mine and let me know what you think of it 

I think the main problem is that many ICO projects care more about the hype, rather than the business model or the technology behind it. Nowadays, investors are getting smarter and they do a thorough check on ICOs before committing any capital. So, I believe the core business model must be good and have a good use-case first. When this is true, then you must care about the hype of your project. To me, a successful ICO would be determined 60% by the business model & technology, and 40% on the hype created for the project.

[mindmastering]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3355944.msg39575424#msg39575424
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3885454.msg38194860#msg38194860

[TheBeardedBaby]

Just wondering, who is giving merit now since Bruno is no longer in control of the account? Suchmoon/Gleb is this service still available?

[crypmike]

Hi Gleb!
Why Futures don't affect on Bitcoin price (explanation)
Portfolio management. Rebalancing.

[escalante28]

To admins, high rank members and members,


We should have the right to give negative trust to a bounty managers or rate their records. This must be the answer to prevent wasting our time and efforts. In that case this will push them to examine their project carefully before they're going to post their thread here. Or else they will put their name on shame. As what I had experienced as a newbie member here, I had wasted so much time and efforts creating and sharing those project just to promote them but it ended up on nothing. I like what I'm doing but it is very stressful when you ended up on nothing! Maybe some of the Bounty manager here really know from the beginning that their project was really a scam but because of the shares they will have they intended to make a newbie account or use their secondary account just to make money through scamming. For me it is acceptable if the project ended on not reaching their soft cap rather than ended up on a scam project that's hurt a lot!

NO TO SCAM PROJECT!!
PREVENT A SCAM PROJECT!!!
NEWBIE MUST NOT PUT THEIR EFFORT IN VAIN!!!!

There are so many bounty managers here but do we know who to choose? I am suggesting here that what if, bitcointalk.org must have an accredited "Bounty Managers" ? Those bounty manager must under go on,

1. Verification, the purpose of it is to know if that person really exist.
2. Capable,  in managing the project and has a complete team members because he/she can't handle it alone.
3. Membership, bitcointalk.org must set a requirements to become a "BM", rules and regulation to be among the most trusted and accredited BM in bitcointalk.org.

1. The purpose of this suggestion is to lessen the scam project so that no efforts will be wasted.
2. To prevent blaming the BM if the project will ended up on scam. ( The BM must face consequences, like for ex. He/she is not allowed to conduct a new bounty project for 2 weeks.)
3. Participant that put the blame to the BM must also face the consequence because of disrespecting.

I hope this will help us and notice by the Admins here.

Everything starts with the project’s whitepaper.

[/b]

Examine the Team

- Must be verified if that team really exist.
- A solid team will be composed of members with verifiable industry experience, both in business and blockchain development.
- I tend to look for teams with blockchain experience or experience building an open source community or platform on a large scale.
- It’s important for the project to have achieved some milestone to demonstrate the ability to execute.

The project must compliant with the law

-  Ask for legal opinions clarifying the token’s nature.
-  ICO’s token may be considered a financial instrument and could thus be subject to financial regulation.

Evaluate ICO’s market potential

- Analyze the entire plan, especially whitepaper as the project’s core document.
- Compare it with similar projects and determine what makes it so different from others, both positively and negatively.
- Never trust developers who promise you a huge return on investments. They probably just want to take the money and run away.

                        

ICO campaign has a different purposes, you need to learn how to recognize the ones that really have market potential

                             

I HOPE THIS WILL HELP