Best Topic Contest for the Indian Local Board

[pakhitheboss]

Starting today we are launching a contest for only active Indian members on our Local Board. The contest is extended to the 15th of January and prize distribution will be done after the 15th of January 2024. I and @Heisenberg_Hunter will review the content and decide on the winner.

Rules:

1. Unique content would be accepted for this contest.
2. Plagiarised or AI-written content won't be considered. You will receive a Neutral tag from a DT member if caught.
3. You can create as many topics as you want but it should be of minimum 250 words.
4. News-based topics would be accepted but they should be related to India.
5. Posting on the wrong board/subboard would automatically disqualify your topic.
6. Please do not create multiple replies on this thread while updating your topic link. Please use the below format.

Format for submission.

Code:

Your BTC Address (Segwit):
Link:
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Winning amount:

0.000966BTC at the current rate of 1BTC = $37,137.90 it is valued as $35.88.

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[pakhitheboss]

Reserved for updates.

[pakhitheboss]

Haven't received any link as of now. Please submit your topic links here.

[Bitcoin Smith]

No submissions yet still we are only a day and few hours left for the deadline, @pakhitheboss, Perhaps extending the contest is an option.

1. Beware of fake trading apps!
2. Future of Indian Economy
3. Indian Supreme court rejects PIL to establish regulations for crypto trading
4. India trained 3,000 police officials on crypto investigations in 2022–2023
5. Hindustan Petroleum Launching Blockchain based POs

[Parvati_j]

Hello guys

What did I miss? I have been out of he forum for a while now, do to the complexity of work. Wow,  a contest of the best topic in India board, oh men, I could have participated, assuming I was active for more than a month.

[pakhitheboss]

Bitcoin Smith is the only individual who has submitted his topic and also requested an extension. I am going ahead and extending this competition till the 15th of this month. I am not sure why no one on this board is creating topics as they used to be. When you have a chance to win Bitcoin before the bull run for free, you should participate in such a competition. @Parvati_j you have still time and for others who are active on the local board you have this wonderful opportunity. None of the other local boards give such an opportunity.

I have updated the OP.

[dderekwalcott]

This is really a wonderful unique and interesting initiative of this board. I have seen various initiatives in other boards before,like Fillippone is working on Merits in Bitcoin forum at 'Beginners and Help' section that is very important and helpful initiative for everyone to work forward.But Bitcoin will be given to the winner as reward in this Indian local section, this is the first time as far i known.I think this initiative will be good and profitable for all the participants.I wanna participate in this party .

[amishmanish]

Bitcoin Smith is the only individual who has submitted his topic and also requested an extension. I am going ahead and extending this competition till the 15th of this month. I am not sure why no one on this board is creating topics as they used to be. When you have a chance to win Bitcoin before the bull run for free, you should participate in such a competition. @Parvati_j you have still time and for others who are active on the local board you have this wonderful opportunity. None of the other local boards give such an opportunity.

I have updated the OP.

If lack of merits is the factor then that should not be a problem here on. Let people show a little bit of activity with well thought out and useful posts.

I also sent some merit to you @pakhitheboss so you can have sMerit top-ups. Lets get this wagon rolling. Would love to see who bags the prize. i would say that keep extending the competition till we have some good traction. I can help top-up the prize pool when this one ends.

[pawanjain]

Bitcoin Smith is the only individual who has submitted his topic and also requested an extension. I am going ahead and extending this competition till the 15th of this month. I am not sure why no one on this board is creating topics as they used to be. When you have a chance to win Bitcoin before the bull run for free, you should participate in such a competition. @Parvati_j you have still time and for others who are active on the local board you have this wonderful opportunity. None of the other local boards give such an opportunity.

I have updated the OP.

If lack of merits is the factor then that should not be a problem here on. Let people show a little bit of activity with well thought out and useful posts.

I also sent some merit to you @pakhitheboss so you can have sMerit top-ups. Lets get this wagon rolling. Would love to see who bags the prize. i would say that keep extending the competition till we have some good traction. I can help top-up the prize pool when this one ends.

It doesn't make any sense meriting OP in this case. Although I am not against meriting OP but the reason you stated is conflicting with the purpose of this thread.

1. If you want to merit useful posts you can do it directly by giving merits to useful posts instead of meriting OP and then hoping him to merit others.
2. This topic is for identifying useful posts and rewarding the author with BTC and not merits (as mentioned in OP).

[Bureau]

It is good to see the contest has been extended, I have a few topics that I am planning to publish. I was not aware that this contest was in place in December, I might have missed this topic. Now that I have seen it and know the award it carries I am going to come up with some new topics from tomorrow onwards. This is the only board that has so many contests that run now and then. Lucky to be part of the Indian local board on Bitcointalk.

[pakhitheboss]

Bitcoin Smith is the only individual who has submitted his topic and also requested an extension. I am going ahead and extending this competition till the 15th of this month. I am not sure why no one on this board is creating topics as they used to be. When you have a chance to win Bitcoin before the bull run for free, you should participate in such a competition. @Parvati_j you have still time and for others who are active on the local board you have this wonderful opportunity. None of the other local boards give such an opportunity.

I have updated the OP.

If lack of merits is the factor then that should not be a problem here on. Let people show a little bit of activity with well thought out and useful posts.

I also sent some merit to you @pakhitheboss so you can have sMerit top-ups. Lets get this wagon rolling. Would love to see who bags the prize. i would say that keep extending the competition till we have some good traction. I can help top-up the prize pool when this one ends.

@amishmanish thanks a lot for again being active on the local board. Yes, lack of merits is a big issue to keep this small crowd of active members motivated. You can check the stats of the local board posted by Bitcoin Smith every month. November has been very bad for the board and I am expecting the

[UPDATE] November 2023

Insights

1 Number of posts : Decreased from 369 to 236.

2. Active users (atleast 1 post) : Decreased from 86 to 31.

3 Merits shared : Decreased from 318 to 61.

4. Merit per post ratio : Decreased from 0.86 to 0.26

Credits: Rikafip

November has been very bad for the board and I am expecting the same outcome for December, which will be out by the end of this month. What we need is an active merit source who can spare some time and spread the merits on posts or topics that are up to the standards of Bitcointalk. If not them I can be someone who can send you through DM the list of posts/topics that are suited for merits.

When @Heisenberg_Hunter was active we did see a rise in activity here and we were very happy as a community. I am aware of the reason why he is inactive now and in the meantime, you can look into the situation of merits on this board. I have tried my level best to get the child boards also active apart from the main board.

[Parvati_j]

Bitcoin Smith is the only individual who has submitted his topic and also requested an extension. I am going ahead and extending this competition till the 15th of this month. I am not sure why no one on this board is creating topics as they used to be. When you have a chance to win Bitcoin before the bull run for free, you should participate in such a competition. @Parvati_j you have still time and for others who are active on the local board you have this wonderful opportunity. None of the other local boards give such an opportunity.

I have updated the OP.

If lack of merits is the factor then that should not be a problem here on. Let people show a little bit of activity with well thought out and useful posts.

I also sent some merit to you @pakhitheboss so you can have sMerit top-ups. Lets get this wagon rolling. Would love to see who bags the prize. i would say that keep extending the competition till we have some good traction. I can help top-up the prize pool when this one ends.

It doesn't make any sense meriting OP in this case. Although I am not against meriting OP but the reason you stated is conflicting with the purpose of this thread.

1. If you want to merit useful posts you can do it directly by giving merits to useful posts instead of meriting OP and then hoping him to merit others.
2. This topic is for identifying useful posts and rewarding the author with BTC and not merits (as mentioned in OP).

In my opinion, what Mr amishmanish did there is not a bad one. Since the op is the host of this contest, giving some merits to either have smerits to share isn't a bad idea. Besides the op deserves even more for stretching out a generous hand of giving from his own pocket, just to increase or help the activities of our local board to grow. However adding merit to the contest would even make it more fun.
Op thanks for this generous act.

[pakhitheboss]

Guys! I am still waiting for some of you to post your topic on this thread. Kindly do it ASAP, I am not going to give any more extensions to this contest and I will wait till the end of this week for you guys to submit your topics. If you guys fail to do it then I would choose the topics myself and then decide. There will be another contest that will be starting soon and I have already got a sponsor for the contest. Please stay tuned to the local board for more information.

[Bureau]

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I have updated my list of topics. Sorry about the delay as I was caught up with some issues.

Your BTC Address (Segwit): bc1qqufv8dyxtxhk2twys6rpeq3yc9mn6wka6lx09q
Link:
1. 12th of Jan 2009 when the first Bitcoin transaction was made.
2. Apple removes Binance, OKX and Kucoin from App Store in India.

[Parvati_j]

Guys! I am still waiting for some of you to post your topic on this thread. Kindly do it ASAP,

Sorry for the delay sir.
Here is my application

BTC Address (Segwit): bc1qcden2nqjvldunk77axtd3rajjhgkfzw6hkuxgz
Link:
1. Security tips and reminder
2. Bitcoin the future of currency
3. Now is the time to buy bitcoin

[cafter]

I am late too..

Your BTC Address (Segwit): bc1qs03kwx4jf7mhsc0p59f9qphrf75tu4uw5lv2zr
Link:

1. do you want to learn about bitcoin from gary gensler? Will update it soon with a summary.
2. Discussing about Bitcoin to Friends and Relatives.
3. do you want easy money ?
4. Stay away from this scam site

[pakhitheboss]

Thanks a lot for all three being part of this competition I and Heisenberg_Hunter appreciate your efforts. Although the campaign lasted approximately one month and a few days your incredible effort to win the contest was amazing. As I said in the ANN our first preference will be to reward someone active on the local board before this campaign starts. We found out the winner and the topics created we felt were relevant to the community and engaging to the crypto sphere.

Congratulations! Bureau on winning this contest and those who have lost please wait for the next contest. It won't be similar but it will be engaging. As I informed you earlier in my post Heisenberg_Hunter will be paying the winner. Thanks to everyone for their participation.

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

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Congratulations @Bureau on winning this contest and @pakhitheboss for conducting them in a flawless manner!

[Bureau]

This is the first time that I have won a contest in the forum. Thanks pakhitheboss and Heisenberg_Hunter for choosing me as a winner. I confirm that I have received my reward. Waiting for the next contest