REGISTRATIONS FOR ROUND 1 ARE NOW CLOSED!
All applications from this point forward (until Monday, March 12) will be added to Round 2.

In total for Round 1, we have 19 participants. Good luck to all of them, and thank you for taking the initiative to help make the forums a better place for all.

A huge thank you to all of our sponsors for helping to make this on ongoing challenge. I'm extremely grateful and pleasantly shocked at the overwhelming positive response that this has received.

Quote from: Toughit on March 05, 2018, 10:56:46 PM

BitcoinTalk Username: toughit
Starting Post Count (including this one): 219
Current Rank: Full Member
BTC Address: roll it over this week

I just donated .003 btc. e942dac9023cbcd5fb20dc026ea70a842f66cfd8b793ef085f8100b3761a4ca4

If possible can you award it to the first full member or less that can beat nullius in a week where he is entered and has at least 7 posts

If it looks like the contest is going to end, then award as you want..

Edit, if the terms are no good, use as needed,

Awesome! Thanks so much for donating towards this challenge! I will make sure to add you as a sponsor for this challenge, including your requirements. It's great to see so many people stepping up for the community in order to try and it make it a better place; I'm really pleasantly surprised that this challenge is gaining so much attraction. Thanks for doing this! And welcome to the challenge; best of luck to you! I also see that if you place in this challenge, you'd like to roll over the reward towards the next round. Kudos to you!

Quote from: noodlearm on March 05, 2018, 11:08:34 PM

BitcoinTalk Username: noodlearm
Starting Post Count : 6
Current Rank: Newbie
BTC Address:3PCrvHDQswkMrmXH4mk1FrJ4gENohXgonT

Welcome, and best of luck to you.

Quote from: GC2263 on March 06, 2018, 03:53:52 AM

A great challenge. I'm all for it.

BitcoinTalk name: GC2263
Post count: 47 (including this one)
Current rank: Junior Member
BTC add: 1MwxL1kdGgCNttfbNM5S3uwHhLyY7oNQ3x

Thanks for your interest in participating, but you have missed the cutoff by about an hour, but I have added you towards next week's round. I will update your post count information in the spreadsheet at the start of that round.

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on March 06, 2018, 04:52:36 AM

Hi BTCforJoe,

I'd like to be Backup Merit sponsor since i have lots of unused sMerit(s) and usually i only give merit for posts about technical knowledge. Just PM me and i'll send merits to the winner.
Also, i think it would be better if you use the Signature to encourage SegWit adoption as well.

Another member that is committing to become a backup merit sponsor? I'll take it! Thanks so much for doing this. I'm a huge fan of SegWit adoption, and if the challenge gains more attraction, I will definitely include a clause that requires all participants to use a SegWit address. For now, I think I can lead with a few weeks of fair warning to let participants research and create SegWit wallets and addresses. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll also see about including a line about SegWit in the signatures for future iterations of the design.