[Merits Giveaway]2019 in review. A big thanks to many forum users.

[fillippone]

2019 is going to end soon.

This thread from Hhampuz made me realise I had to stop for a moment to review how much it happened during last year, and thank all the users who contributed to the way I walked on the forum this year, each one of them in a different way, according to their specific capabilities and attitudes,

Just compile a good list, with a few words of thanks toward the user.

So I am posting a list of users who helped me during last years, and I encourage you to do the same.

I will pour merits (I won’t precommit like Theymos, but rest assured on this) on everyone who decide do compile the list, and also on the users more mentioned on all the list themselves.

I commit to reinvest every sMerits received in this thread on the final give out.

There are a lot of members I would like to thanks.
This has been my first year active on the forum, and 365 days ago I had 69 merits.
 
So I am going to take my time and thank a few users who helped me grow in the forum:

• Babo for his  fist forum guidelines and advices.
• Plutosky for his insightful posts and the endless conversations.
• Micgoosesens for his cheerful and always positive attitude.
• LFC_Bitcoin who provided me encouragement to move up with my engagement in the forum.
• VB1001 and LUCKMCFLY whose posts provided me thoughtful moments.
• LoyceV: more than once I used his posting habits and forum behaviour as  guidance for my acting on the forum.
• Ddmrddmr: a great user who uses number to separate truth from lies, and who gave the forum his DdmrDdmr BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard, one of the tools I used the most over the last year.

• o_e_l_e_o: I had a few really insightful exchange of views this years and made me even reconsider something I was very certain of: no matter how you think you know something, you can always learn from others.
• theymos: last but not least. This last November I became Merit Source, I think this is testimony of the effort I put in the forum, and this started a new phase as a forum user, not only contributor, but also promoter of good post quality.
  
  

Edit:
A little bit more than 200 merits later:



Most of them come from my merit source and personal stash, incoming merits have been lower than expected. This thread was about giving, not receiving. The balance is good, could have been better, but who knows, some belated donor might get the wheel spinning fast again.

Also I ranked up quite well on the merit sender chart!



@suchmoon is out of reach, for now!

[Coyster]

Coolcryptovator: Great campaign manager, and also one who has dedicated his time to make sure scam is exposed for all to see and be warned about them.
DdmrDdmr: Great forum user, his threads are always ever useful.
Suchmoon: 4 always giving out 4 smerits (helps rank up)

[TryNinja]

> sees Hhampuz thread;
> not mentioned;
> sees fillipone thread;
> still not mentioned.

RIP TryNinja (2015 - 2019).

[Upgrade00]

This is a very interactive community and there are lots if members who have aided my little growth on the forum.
I referenced DdmrDdnr in Hhampuz's thread. He has been an inspiration to my journey. Out of many also;

Hal Finney, he touched lots of people on the forum and by extension off it, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

Suchmoon: An overall level headed guy

Cryptopreneurbrainboss: A huge asset to the Nigerian community.

Also Welsh: Great mod
TryNinja? : A nice forum member as well.
I would also like to reference every member of the Spam Buster's club

[Findingnemo]

LoyceV: Bitcointalk's AI and the one who is the reason why I got motivated to rank up and he merited me more times than other forum members.

HCP: Most active member of  Bitcoin Technical Support and helping to resolve newbies and even veterans of technical related queries.

nc50lc : ANother active user of Bitcoin Technical Support and he deserves more merits than what he got at the moment,IMHO.

tranthidung: Stats creator of bitcointalk and helped many forum members to get stats related to anything.

DdmrDdmr: Another forum's AI and helping newbies on B&H with his knowledgeable suggestions.

iasenko: One who proved newbie could rank up to legendary when people start blaming about the difficulty of getting merits when the merit system was introduced,it seems still his previous avatar is more famous than others.

OmegaStarScream: Active member of service discussion and its child board.
Edit: xhomerx10: Amazing person and kind-hearted,one who created my amazing eye-catching avatar just like he did for other hundred users.

[skarais]

dbshck One of the best local moderators, and he also ranked second as a member of Most generous merit senders, all time with 14281 merit. He has helped many people get promoted to new rank, not only on the local board but also quite actively sending merit on the global board.

LoyceV, tranthidung & DdmrDdmr they are users who have high quality in terms of forum statistics and users, when I need data, so I visit their threads quite often.

[Last of the V8s]

VB1001 and fillippone - do good threads, fit in nicely, companionable
cryptotourist and Lambie Slayer - funny, helpful and nice
kurious and p_shep -still quite alert for such very old members
xhomerx10 and gentlemand - wonderful and weird
micgoossens and LFC_Bitcoin - get a room
HCP and krogothmanahattan - decent generous folk from 'outside'
LoyceV - person.


edit thanks for the merits, I feel dirty now.
edit II the crappy sequel: left boatloads of people out. tough.

[50 Cent]

tryninja have technical skill on the forum, I fan and learning how he solved anything here

[sheenshane]

micgoossens - admire on his BTCitcoin prediction contest quarterly, very supportive as well.
tranthidung - good contributor in the forum and regarding top merited users stat club.
LoyceV - making trust list viewer of all members in the forum, it's a great help.
DdmrDdmr - make Merit dashboard in all section of the entire forum, it's very informative.
DarkStar_ - A merit source who helped in our local board, also have a loan service that a great help to those who have a financial problem.
Hhampuz and yahoo62278 - a great managers in forum.
cabalism13 and crwth - they are both working on a charity program that really great help and more children has fed.

As always @theymos - I respect this admin especially the last 10th-anniversary contest he made. Everyone was happy at that time in participating.

[Mbitr]

There’s a lot of members I’d like to thank for my first really active year here on the forum . I want to pick members who I’ve felt have helped me personally -
frankbitcoin- for guiding me through my first ever buy in collectibles
miner jones and vizique - for their knowledge and level headedness in the collectibles section again.
micgoosens - for being a genuine and informative poster
krogothmanhattan - for spreading his knowledge and introducing forum users to interesting and historical collectibles
hilariousandco- for introducing myself to new forum members via football/ soccer discussions
These are just a few , but I love everyone on the forum who tries to be positive even when it can be very difficult. Thanks

[TryNinja]

tryninja have technical skill on the forum, I fan and learning how he solved anything here

LOL, thank you for saving me, dude.
(also Upgrade00)

50 Cent for his good will and help on catching ban evaders.

[VB1001]

This is also my first active year in the forum although I registered in 2017.

- Last of the V8s we all have a reference user, V8 was the first member of WO to welcome me and helped me a lot in my beginnings in the forum.
- bitserve for advising me from the beginning to learn and improve English.
- JayJuanGee always pending my threads and publications.
- micgoossens for his sympathy and collaboration with everyone.
- xhomerx10 for his work in the hats.
- DdmrDdmr your help in the local section was and remains perfect, apart from that it is a very objective and neutral merit source.

My list would be very long, an important part of LoyceV (txt) list would be necessary to compile my list, I end up thanking all the Wall Observer thread, my Local Section and Bitcointalk, we have a fantastic forum.
(I wanted to say this a long time ago. )

- fillippone you have become a very competent merit source, theymos made a right decision with you.

[The-Devil]

However, I like LoyceV contribution more. His loyce.club website is very informative and very useful. I try to follow his posts. Many others have also made many contributions this year. Many thanks to everyone for contributing.

Happy New year all.

[El duderino_]

VB1001 and fillippone - do good threads, fit in nicely, companionable
cryptotourist and Lambie Slayer - funny, helpful and nice
kurious and p_shep -still quite alert for such very old members
xhomerx10 and gentlemand - wonderful and weird
micgoossens and LFC_Bitcoin - get a room
HCP and krogothmanahattan - decent generous folk from 'outside'
LoyceV - person.


edit thanks for the merits, I feel dirty now.
edit II the crappy sequel: left boatloads of people out. tough.

Oooooooor super robot.....

[LoyceV]

LoyceV: more than once I used his posting habits and forum behaviour as  guidance for my acting on the forum.

You missed the "check the links you've posted" habit

LoyceV - person.

* LoyceV passed Turing test

RIP TryNinja (2015 - 2019).

This is all I have to say:

Merit received by TryNinja (Trust list) from January 24, 2018 until December 20, 2019 (source)

   772. Mon Dec 16 09:49:04 2019: 1 (1196) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: The Piggy disappearance and the Notification bot issues, discussion thread.
   768. Fri Dec 13 18:12:24 2019: 2 (1192) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Review for AtoBMixer www.atobmixer.com
   767. Fri Dec 13 18:12:23 2019: 2 (1190) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Review for AtoBMixer www.atobmixer.com
   764. Thu Dec 12 07:37:54 2019: 2 (1186) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: [ANN] Bitcoinmixer.org| New Mixer | Bounty Program
   759. Tue Dec 10 18:58:44 2019: 1 (1180) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: [ANN] AtoBMixer Mixer/Blender for 16 types of Crypto 2019/2020
   754. Sat Dec  7 12:20:43 2019: 3 (1173) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Review for AtoBMixer www.atobmixer.com
   709. Thu Nov 14 19:43:28 2019: 2 (1103) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for [Guia] Como utilizar o sistema de Trust (confiança) do fórum corretamente
   700. Mon Nov  4 13:29:10 2019: 1 (1091) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Are all BTC addresses really unique?
   694. Tue Oct 29 18:06:58 2019: 1 (1083) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Bitcoin Mixer 2.0 xxlmixer.com
   674. Sat Oct 12 09:12:12 2019: 4 (1054) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for [Guia] Como utilizar o sistema de Trust (confiança) do fórum corretamente
   659. Wed Oct  2 09:38:17 2019: 2 (1020) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: YoBit Signature Campaign (Bitcointalk)
   650. Fri Sep 27 09:12:23 2019: 1 (1003) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Phone broke and need to recover Mycelium Wallet
   642. Mon Sep 23 11:31:01 2019: 1 (985) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Forum changed a lot in past two years.
   622. Wed Aug 28 16:00:26 2019: 1 (960) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: [ANN] ChipMixer.com - Bitcoin mixer / Bitcoin tumbler - mixing reinvented
   619. Sat Aug 24 22:20:36 2019: 1 (957) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Need help to send my btcs from electrum with no SEED and no 2FA
   570. Sat Jul 20 12:41:41 2019: 2 (869) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: How do timelocked transactions work?
   560. Sun Jul  7 22:22:52 2019: 2 (853) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Vanity Cryptocurrency Address Generation | Any Currency
   559. Sun Jul  7 21:35:56 2019: 2 (851) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Vanity Cryptocurrency Address Generation | Any Currency
   558. Sun Jul  7 21:35:56 2019: 2 (849) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Vanity Cryptocurrency Address Generation | Any Currency
   530. Fri Jun 14 09:37:41 2019: 1 (795) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Struggling to recover wallet, are my coins gone?
   528. Thu Jun 13 21:57:46 2019: 1 (793) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: LoyceV's Trust Flag viewer
   471. Thu May  9 10:09:21 2019: 1 (712) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Hardware wallets on USB pendrive
   458. Fri May  3 22:58:19 2019: 1 (691) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Issue with Bither for iOS
   447. Wed Apr 24 19:24:47 2019: 1 (678) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Yobit spam on the forum
   425. Sun Apr 14 20:59:20 2019: 1 (641) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: bestmixer or chipmixer?
   399. Mon Mar 25 09:30:34 2019: 1 (599) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Help! Does this multi-sig plan work?
   390. Sat Mar 16 09:37:25 2019: 1 (576) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Users should be notified when being put on DT
   354. Mon Feb 18 10:14:35 2019: 1 (517) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Accidentally sent bch to btc wallet address
   349. Sat Feb  9 22:20:52 2019: 1 (508) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Coinmixer.es
   348. Sat Feb  9 08:37:43 2019: 1 (507) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: [ANN] ChipMixer.com - Bitcoin mixer / Bitcoin tumbler - mixing reinvented
   346. Fri Feb  8 08:18:54 2019: 1 (505) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Bitcoin Mass Payment
   339. Mon Feb  4 18:57:47 2019: 1 (495) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: What happened to my trust. Admins, help me please...
   302. Thu Jan 24 23:22:44 2019: 1 (432) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Generating .onion Anonymous domains with Private Key for FREE!
   271. Sat Jan  5 12:10:42 2019: 1 (386) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Blender.io - new mixing technology Madeamaze [iPhone X Giveaway | Enter to win!]
   267. Tue Jan  1 19:47:11 2019: 1 (382) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: my electrum wallet (NEW VERSION) has been hacked
   232. Sat Dec  1 09:23:56 2018: 1 (318) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for deleted post
   221. Wed Nov 21 19:41:20 2018: 1 (303) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Showing the price of "bitcoin" in the dashboard
   168. Thu Aug 23 14:39:45 2018: 1 (231) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for deleted post
   165. Tue Aug 21 22:02:35 2018: 1 (228) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Merit & new rank requirements
   155. Mon Aug 13 21:01:50 2018: 1 (212) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Merit & new rank requirements
   147. Sat Aug  4 10:16:06 2018: 1 (198) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for User using self-moderated thread to bypass 24h to delete post in altcoin board
   109. Sun Jun 17 22:06:00 2018: 1 (141) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Too many altcoin
   105. Wed Jun 13 21:52:20 2018: 1 (137) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: ✰ [ANN] BITMIXCOIN.IO ✰ High Volume Bitcoin Mixer ✰ SCAM PROTECTION/SUPERLIST
    24. Tue Feb  6 11:02:07 2018: 1 (33) from LoyceV (Trust list) (history) for Re: Great times to buy

tryninja have technical skill on the forum, I fan and learning how he solved anything here

Great mentality! I can't read most of your posts, but you seem to be a decent poster and I don't think you should be held back by Merit.

[Rengga Jati]

My list

@fillippone, @Hhampuz: Nice members to share giveaway Merits to others on Meta (recently).  
@LoyceV, @dbshck: Two best Merit senders.
@Hhampuz, yahoo62278: Legit bounty managers.
@DdmrDdmr, @tranthidung: Make important data for forum stats.
@theymos: Cool admin.
@All people who support me: kind members ever.

Thank you so much @fillippone to make this Giveaway event. This must be very helpful for all members. I am sure both Hhampuz and you want to show to others that many high-rank members do care to others.

*@TryNinja: I don't know you, but I guess you a good man with a great sense of humor.  

[AirdropNotifyer]

Every time you support me very much, I am  member today because of your support, Thanks for your continues support.
@LoyceV
@tk808
@Daniel91

[Bttzed03]

• DarkStar_, cabalism13, crwth - similar reasons with sheenshane
• Baofeng, asu, finaleshot2016, Darker45, inthelongrun, mjglqw, GreatArkansas - we've had some good discussions in our local board the last few months. I also learned from their posts.
• tk808, CryptopreneurBrainboss - for their valuable contributions in the Altcoins board
• LoyceV and DdmrDdmr - we're all too familiar with what they are good at
• Piggy and Maggiordomo - for obvious reason
• LoyceV and giammangiato - for the notifications as alternative to Maggiordomo
• hugeblack - for asking this
• yahoo62278 - I was really impressed with how he handled the latest issue on yobit signature campaign
• 1miau - thanks to his table format I was able to present my topics better
• Vod - bpip

[El duderino_]

But damn I’m on my phone so this post can get messy......

First of all it’s gonna be a long list but I have got so many positive moments coming from BTCT for this last year.....

VB1001: remembering his WO entrance pretty well, posted so nice things but as I remember good he had some difficulty in the beginning and thought some WO’s insulted him, what of-course wasn’t so, his help around the WO with knowledgeable post as with fun and HAT history and etc is maybe becoming one of the most reliable WO posters from the last year..... would love to meet this person as well IRL (soft person with a heart for animals, always a win-win kinda person)

Last of the V8’s: From the whole forum absolutely the best man with words and where and when to place them, if you didn’t meet this man IRL then you will never know which kinda character his all about, I do know and for me his a true gentleman I wanna stay connected with as long as possible (previously he helped me with some English, I just don’t know why that has stopped....—-> am I a lost *cause?)

HairyMaclairy: The only one I put my all in live saving on when it comes to TA and charts ... my unicorn.... a kind person as well, coming very lose after some wines, a person that’s always in for some fun moments

Kurious: One of the persons I met more as ones, broke bread with on several occasions and a man when sitting together I can only listen and learn not try to add something ..... very bright and extremely well structured person, if he plans something then please just follow and it can’t go wrong ...

P_Shep: Very old account but younger looking when I met him .... he’s the perfect person to have on the tip of a boat when punting and makes a lot more noise after a few drinks as when he’s sober

Globbo: I don’t know why but I think he’s one of the persons supported me the most and always has my back, he writes in weird sentences but they always fits the topic, I met with him and his fiancé both where very kind to me and invited me for whenever I’m in the country, damn I did lose in a game of pool/biljard..... Never will forgot the first line he said when I saw him.... “I’m clearly over dressed”

Gentlemand: Interesting character that I do loved for winning a game of mine, if he didn’t then I would have been sending to sgbett that’s something no BITCOINER would wanna do, also a guy talk in weird sentences for a non perfect English person but a very kind man I have seen him helping a lot of people, sending papers and stuff

600watt: the person I met with some other WO’s and a person that doesn’t matter to put some effort into traveling, he would do the distances to just meet with some friends, and as we have done, the persons that really had to travel for the first meet not knowing where to end is admirable THX

LFC_bitcoin: Sorry this name has to come in other letters, I could start writing but it will not stop, so gonna keep it short cause everyone knows we are real brothers, I don’t know If there is some one I text more with as with LFC, thanks for supporting me from the start and helping me around, also lucky we both have a GF that likes the other ones GF as well ......

Xhomerx10:Probably one of the most kind persons of heart from the entire forum, if someone needs somekind of help or whatever, xhomerx is always just a few letters away, THX for starting the HAT mania that just has its own place on this amazing forum, there is never been a trend as the HATs that I know of, amazing and I will never forget the help you gave me with the writing of my merit source application!!!

Boblawblaw: Amazing black gay guy just don’t think his from outter space but his like me a big fan of the dude and I think (know) his the first person that gave me merit, I think more as for he appreciated me as a person as it was for knowledge but I did like as a very fresh member how he always was around and gave me some nice talking, also I always like his bob and rick stories, never change your attitude!!!

Filippone: A kind person that creates good threads and overal a positive person, I like the moments when someone as him a determined person on the forum but still a bit fresh comes towards me PM’s me for some words or help/thinking while his better in every part of the forum as myself still I think I have helped him even he surely didn’t need my help, he’s one of the newer but reliable WO’s that creates the WO-hand sign

r0ach: For just showing me how not to be

Mitchell: Extremely helpful person, not a WO .... pity I would love to see him there sometimes maybe something for later, but for sure one of the best members on the forum that talks Dutch where I can ask help if I need some ....

Minerjones: Thanks for being a so trusted person, I have had some items stored at your place worth more as a few bucks and I never doubt that anything would happen, thanks for being so trustworthy and for inviting me to the Amsterscam meet up where I did meet a lot of fine collectible members And pity I missed you on that meet, sorry I was a bit late

Bitcoinpenny: Same as minerjones thx for being so trustworthy  and helpful, we did have a nice raffle thx for organising as you did....

AT101ET: Gentlemen younger person that I met and helped me out with a RL deal and probably busy on our next one, very very trustworthy

Chronicksky,micromen,minifrij,vizique,actmyname,yogg, Hhampuz and some other collectibles I regret I didn’t mention: But I have met some IRL and played alcohol/card games with no more need to say, just thanks for inviting me in some places and I just have seen where the collectibles group is all about, I think I have never witnessed the charity/generosity as I have seen from you guys especially with the advent stuff

Bitserve,d_eddie,jojo69,JJG,lambieslayer,cryptotourist, jimbofromtoronto,elwar,PAASHAAS,JSRAW,Hueristic,sheenshane,nuthilda,LoyceV,biodom,lightfoot,AlcoHoDL,Phil_S,ivomm,ludwigvon,Icygreen,bitconaire ..... just all of you awesome WO’s that are keeping the WO colorful  and a part of BTC history!!!!!

Sorry, have to separated thank theymos as well! I can imagine he’s a guy with tons of PM’s and still he always responded on those I have send him and helped me out, made me a merit source etc THX!!!

[AakZaki]

in this forum I found many great people, at least have changed my mindset to be more enthusiastic and creative in this forum.  a lot of knowledge that I found from this forum.  maybe I want to say thank you

• dbshck which has been a source of merit for my good threads in the local forum.
• pandukelana2712 with bright ideas that motivate all members of the local forum.
• roycilik someone who is full of criticism and I know that in order to advance one's mindset.  I really appreciate it.
• masulum he became the IT team on my website, so my website has grown.
•  DireWolfM14 from him I understand the meaning of honesty in this forum.
• yahoo62278 and Hhampuz are great managers that I know of, because I have participated in campaigns that he manages.

and many other great people, hope I can be like them in the future.