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Well you all know my friends crypto is difficult. To be honest it was because I was fed-up of the losses and if remember correctly that bitcoin was ~40k and swinging along with the whole crypto. And When I cam back bitcoin touch ~100k$ for the second time and you know that was enough to bring me back

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Well I do not want to restrict my self to one board, if I became a merit source I would love to distribute merit across the forum that is the idea.
Yes, indeed, barely any posts from 2023-02 until about 2025-04 (more than two years) and it looks a bit odd when he had about 50 posts per month before this gap and a significant rise (around 100 posts per month) after the gap.
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I explained the reason above mostly I was due to staying away from crypto after some losses. Also some family related personal thing which kept me busy elsewhere do not want to explain those here but again mostly crypto losses and I took a break from everything that had crypto in it

It could mean anything and personal life or whatnot in it can always eat up time. I also stumbled over this gap as it really stands out and raises questions. I didn't look if OP was in some signature campaigns before and after the gap...
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Well again same, when you get interest and you enjoy a lot now main motivation was becoming legendary for that I put more effort and was exciting to achieve this rank and to be fair I have scene people here respect the rank. I realize this during my early struggles so yeah I starting posting more to reach this rank faster and I did it

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I did not have any plans to be a merit source. Since I participated in pizza contest and was excited so naturally have to give merits to all the pizza that I liked, becuase I know how time consuming it is and how much effort it takes to bake a good pizza. So definitely worth a merit. But after going through pizzas and give merits I realized I need more merits.
Yes that is the reason when I applied for merit source. And gathering good posts is part of the application that is when I started digging and finding the good posts.