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

[fillippone]

- Hal and Paraipan, who will never be forgotten and I hope their souls found peace.

Am I wrong or Paraipan disappeared with a good amount of forum funds, that have been moved after his death?
I know coinlocket$ digged into this story a little bit.

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[Oyarebu]

It's been late here. Remembering the year achievement and helping other forum users to grow make me think you have an exceptional insight towards humanity, fillippone you are an inspiration to me and hope I can do likewise in the nearest future if the human race would not be wape out of the surface of the earth. Suchmoon has be my able mentor on how things can be done in cryptocurrency world.

[XCANA]

- Hal and Paraipan, who will never be forgotten and I hope their souls found peace.

Am I wrong or Paraipan disappeared with a good amount of forum funds, that have been moved after his death?
I know coinlocket$ digged into this story a little bit.

Absolutely correct fillippone, but life has to move on. Hopefully one day we get the justice we clamor for around the world.
I could go on and on to mention names but will just summarize and be brief: satoshi was the giant, my hero alongside sirius for haven a better forum setting from inception. These two guys made it possible for us to be here today and forever if possible. Kudos to management and your kind hearted individual like you fillippone, wishes you a prosperous 2020 in advance.

[GazetaBitcoin]

Am I wrong or Paraipan disappeared with a good amount of forum funds, that have been moved after his death?
I know coinlocket$ digged into this story a little bit.

You are right indeed. See more info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1577411.0. Also, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5135232.msg50739072#msg50739072.

However, besides being a forum user, paraipan was also a Romanian. I wanted to say a word for him also as being a conational.

[Bthd]

Satoshi, Hal, sirius, Theymos and others which works/ed hard for the community.
EFS: hard working moderator, s/he helped me when i was a newbie.
LoyceV: For great and important datas.
Julerz12: one of the best bounty managers, s/he always checked spreadsheets well and s/he fights cheaters.
Arteezy.rtx: another very good bounty manager.

Special thanks to Turkish local members. I'd love to making more friends on global forum but my english level is not very good for writing and its hard for me. But i can understand, so i'm only a reader for general forums. İs it ironic ? No, its general problem of our education system.

Happy years to everyone.

[fillippone]

Temporarily out of sMerits. OP edited.

[coinlocket$]

Side note.

I slowed down my cheater detection activity after I had been promised 2 small payments to find scammers, obviously never paid since that time, I almost stopped.
Let's see if with the new year I feel like to "reopen the activity".

Goodbye 2019 and I wish for a better 2020.

Spend your merits wisely.

[babo]

Is a great pleasure for me read your words (i mean first post of course)

You grow fast and strong, a good member of this awesome community

My apologies for my english, happy new year

[Welsh]

It's the year of the 10th anniversary of Bitcointalk.org, and coming up to the new year. Therefore, you get the limited edition of soppy Welsh here. Although, its always awkward doing these as I couldn't possibly thank everyone of the forum. Therefore, I present you with the blanket statement of; First of all thanks to everyone that is part of the forum, you've made this place something special, and will always be remembered in Bitcoin history. In all seriousness, I do thank everyone for being part of this great community, and making it what it is today.

However, I do have some users that I'd like to mention that were significant community figures that I've either respected, frequently enjoyed reading their posts, or had an impact on me throughout my journey.

• Vod, and Tomatocage were the figures that I looked up to when I joined the forum. They were the most prominent figures fighting scams not for merit or for trust, but for the community. Both have had a significant part of the community outside of their scam busting abilities, and have provided the BPIP project, and the staked address thread respectfully.
  
• DannyHamilton is another user that I followed during my early days on the forum. Danny was posting some of the highest quality content back then, and still is to this day. While also providing a good role model for merit source distribution, and providing a public policy of how they distribute merit.
• SaltySpittoon this is the moderator at the time that I looked up too. Provided excellent information in their posts, and was a superb moderator. I probably annoyed Salty in the early days as I messaged them a few times about the rules of the forums, and how best to report posts. I owe a lot of my early knowledge of the forum to Salty. Hence why I included them in my poem.

• Badbear the big bad global moderator at the time that you shouldn't piss off. Again, provided great insight to forum rules, and seemed to be a pretty level headed member of staff most of the time.
  
• DeathAndTaxes despite the recent accusations which is a real shame. DeathAndTaxes provided some of the best quality Bitcoin posts in this forum. Most of his posts were interesting, and I found myself reading until late at night when I was newer to the forum.  
• hilarious&co I remember Hilarious&co taking the forum by storm, and seemed to explode onto the scene with their high amount of posts everyday. They were good posts though, and Hilarious established themselves among the community as a user with a very high work ethic who has been a global moderator for quite some time.  
  
• DdmrDdmr is another user who seemed to burst onto the scene with his highly valuable data, and insightful posts. While reading the Spanish section as a educational aid as I learn Spanish I've come across their excellent language skills in Spanish, and that has definitely made the process of learning a new language more bearable with reading discussion I'm actually interested in.
• o_e_l_e_o Hasn't stopped providing great information to newbies, and answering technical questions on Bitcoin. Definitely, one of the better posters here on the forum, and you could probably spend a night or two reading some of their informative posts.
• JetCash has been trying to help the community in many different ways, and although I might not agree with their stance on everything you can't argue that they put an incredible effort in their posts. Probably seen as the grandfather of the forum looking out for newbies, and always trying to ignite some inspiration for discussion.
• LoyceV has always been an exceptional user of the community, but they've recently been unleashing informative data on the forum only rivaled by a few users. Also, provided me with the drawing that their daughter did well wrapped in a "huggies" if I recall diaper box. Will always appreciate that.
• suchmoon exceptional user of the forum, and provides a laugh or two in between very good quality posts. Also, has helped the forum in more ways than one.  
• Cyrus for being the silent ninja that you are, and personally thanking me for reporting posts. Also, for the work that you do behind the scenes in account recovery along with the rest of your team.
• Hal Finney has truly cemented himself in not only forum history for one of the most hear wrenching stories, but also one of the most heartwarming histories in computer science. Hal Finney is an inspiration to many.
• Mitchell also another staff member that provided great informative posts, and some noteworthy threads in their history. Also, has the bot that watches our forum, and prevents bots from running havoc. Also, likes to beat me at auctions.
• mprep Someone who I've also picked their brains about forum rules. However, in the early day I've always respected them for managing the near impossible moderation of the altcoin sections....look how that turned out
• Gmaxwell obviously, has fantastic knowledge about Bitcoin, and generally has very good advice to share. I could probably go through their post history, and merit more than 50% of it. An exceptional user of the forum, and an asset to Bitcoin.
  
• Grue lurks in the dark, and you probably shouldn't piss them off. Again, someone who I remember reading a lot of their posts, and enjoying it.
• Gavin Andersen has a lot of history in this forum, and Bitcoin. Although, many consider his involvement controversial I've always enjoyed reading his blogs, and posts on the forum. I believe Gavin to be an important part of Bitcoin's history.
• jgarzik obviously a Bitcoin core developer, but has also had some exceptional discussions here on the forum. Jgarzik has a lot of history within Bitcoin, and the forum.

I think its worth noting theymos, Cobra, and Sirius for looking after the forum in one way or another over the years. You guys have done a fantastic job so far. As well as all the staff members, as they truly put in some incredible work. As well as all the active users looking out for the community spotting scams, and calling projects out. As well as all the merit sources which actively look to reward high quality users, and keep the cogs spinning. We've got an amazing community here.

[ShowOff]

Yahoo, Hhampuz and darkstar_ are very good and trusted campaign managers, unfortunately until now I still dont have many opportunities to join their campaigns. But they are worth mentioning by many people.

[Findingnemo]

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Good list, few names are unknown to me. I will watch those new names and will find more about their contribution to this forum.

Yahoo, Hhampuz and darkstar_ are very good and trusted campaign managers, unfortunately until now I still dont have many opportunities to join their campaigns. But they are worth mentioning by many people.

Limited spots on BTC sig campaigns made impossible for every quality posters to enroll,keep watching the service section there might be a new campaign at any time.

But no one stops you from posting good content without wearing sig.

[o_e_l_e_o]

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Ooft. That's an illustrious list of names to be (undeservedly?) included in. Thanks for the kind words.

[rat03gopoh]

Satoshi for creating this great forum
Admin, staff and moderators especially mprep who listened to a lot of my prayers(reports) on the Bounties board and Theymos who chose me as one of the BTC winners in the art contest.
And finally, the scammer catchers who took the time to expose the cunning and warn us about attempted fraud. They saved many people's assets.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

All of user who wears Chipmixer's signature.

Yahoo, the best manager ever. It been over a year I'm wearing signature who managed by him.

dbshck moderator indonesian forum, always provide appreciation for members who make positive contributions, especially for local forums.

tk808 encourage many users to make a good quality post, especially on the altcoin board.

[fratoshi]

Thank you to fillippone for being so nice to all users of this amazing forum

[mu_enrico]

Thank you @ryzaadit and @kawetsriyanto for your kind words about me, much appreciated.

I want to give thanks to all constructive members in economics, local Indonesia, and gambling section, who can laugh at my jokes. Without you guys, this forum feels sad.

I wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[kotajikikox]

of course Satoshi for creating Bitcoin to help us all having alternative against Governments interference

Theymos for managing this whole forum and all the Mods and DT's that helping Him each steps of the way.

@kroghotmanhattan for being so generous giving away so many tokens (though i have not tried once to join)

LoyceV for His all time help in everything in this forum as i can see him all over the forum giving honest and fruitful posts

Coolcryptovatorfor helping the forum clean from scam and spam.

and last but not the list to Op fillippone for this generous merit sharing and for being one of the fastest ranking account since merit system was implemented ..

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Fillippone, Heisenberg_Hunter & cabalism13, (for been my pals & motivators)

And I still remember you being in 150 merits and how you really became knowledgeable in the forum over the period of one year.

Its been 10 years since this forum was created and right from the beginning of my registration I admired many of the old accounts in this forum and how good they were in their knowledge, forum aspects etc. Some made me to realize how generous one could be in an online forum and some had special mentions in my book of records. I had never ventured into collectibles space last year but somehow made into it this year at the start and that was one such thing which will be remembered forever whenever I visit this forum.

BitcoinPenny - The first person on this forum I have traded with and have sent my money first before receiving goods. Their piece of collectible coins were outstanding, beautiful and that made me to buy more and more collectible stuffs. They have taught me how generous one should be when it comes to this forum and they have proved the same by giving away some coins designed specially for a forum member who was dead.

erikalui - They have helped me in bringing out fake translators and with their help our whole local board is back from being dead. The board has regained the state of sensible discussions and has become one of the better local boards without a moderator!

chronicsky - Another collector from whom I have learned a lot regarding collectibles and other stuffs related to bitcoin in general. They have always encouraged me in bringing out new initiatives to the local board from behind the scenes. These were really important in paving a better local community.

micgoossens - Very generous and the one who helped us in upliftment of our local board by donating funds.

krogothmanhattan - One who introduces collectibles in the form of daily raffles to newbies...  

Each and every Technical Support board poster - Without them, the very purpose of this forum would become meaningless. satoshi created this forum to discuss about bitcoin and to help newbie users if they have any problem in using bitcoin. This forum was not created for online political fights/scamming for bitcoin etc. I would always be thankful for them and I am honored to be a minor part in the Technical Support board (not so recently).

98 merit sources and generous merit givers - Without you people, we can never distinguish good posters from shitposters and good posts from bad posts.

All scam hunters and DT members - Since the forum is related to money, DT members and scam hunters are the ones who act as the police and prevent people from losing money for scams.

Lastly theymos and Cirius - While the latter is a silent Ninja working behind the scenes, theymos is the one who keeps running the forum smoothly for all these years.

This community has got so much of worthy users to mention (LoyceV, o_e_l_e_o, Ddmrddmr, fillippone, suchmoon, welsh,nullius,mickeywith,steamtyme,The Pharmacist, Jet Cash, TMAN, hilariousandco, mprep, Mr. Big, minerjones, brainboss etc etc) and a single post isn't sufficient!

Happy Holidays and have a great year ahead!

[gunungkembar]

although at this time I was only a silent reader for a very long time I saw the development of the forum to be better, all of that would not be easy to do but by working together everything would be able and easy to do,

very grateful to the supervisors of this forum such as LoyceV, suchmoon, o_e_l_e_o, YOSHIE who have tried hard to make the forum better.

of course theymos as the role of the Administrator and other staff that complement each other so that the bitcointalk forum can survive and prosper until now, 10 years is not a short life because what I know is difficult to make forums still remain active like this.

[gentlemand]

It's far too Miss World to name names. Each and every one of you will be at the receiving end of my very personal attention some dark day.

I would like to throw kudos at the moderators of each section and many a campaign manager too. I have no real conception of what madness is swilling under the surface here but I can imagine it's a hurricane down there and this place would be intolerable without their attention.

Perhaps along the lines of Proof of Keys one day a year should be totally hands off here to show us what true horror looks like.